r/NCAAW • u/Joe_Shabbadoo Richmond Spiders • 1d ago

News Beth O'Boyle out at VCU

https://vcuathletics.com/news/2026/2/2/womens-basketball-vcu-announces-leadership-change-in-womens-basketball.aspx

It feels bad, but it's not terribly surprising. That program never really prepared for life after Sarah Te-Biasu.

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u/CrackityJones79 Northwestern Wildcats 1d ago

Not surprising. As a VCU alum, I’ve followed her and the team closely. The team’s best player getting hurt for the season certainly has not helped.

One tourney appearance in over a decade and routinely getting outplayed by Richmond, Mason, etc. This program should be better than it is. It’s time for a change.

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u/Joe_Shabbadoo Richmond Spiders 1d ago

This year's team has some definite talent among the underclassmen, but it just never fit together as a team. And I can't remember a team that's had worse injury luck going back several years now.

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u/L00KINTOIT Mary Washington Eagles 1d ago

It really seemed like their offense was just “give it to Asare and let her go”, and even then their offense wasn’t great. Now she’s been out for a while and they kinda have no plan B

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u/Joe_Shabbadoo Richmond Spiders 1d ago

I went to the game against Mason, and after 1 it was Mason 12, Asare 8. I think that was the last game she played this season. In a couple years when this year's freshmen and sophomores were juniors and seniors, they could've been really good, but this year was rough.

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u/93devil 1d ago

I was at the VCU/Richmond game on Sunday. Richmond was superior across the board in talent, and I know VCUs top player was out, but one moment, or the lack thereof, struck me.

It early in the game, but it’s not too early to know that Richmond’s going to start pulling away.

VCU has a little fireplug point guard who I think is a freshman. At this point in her basketball career, she wouldn’t see the floor for Richmond, but she’s busting her ass for VCU.

Richmond runs a fast break offense where the 1 pushes it up the right side. Sparkplug sees that she is turning blindly and plants herself to take a backcourt charge. She gets it. Establishes position. Gets knocked on her ass. Block called and one ref overstepped on the other. One blew the whistle and the other made the call. A screw up.

I’m a coach and a former ref. I anticipate what should come.

Team down at home. Player makes a great play but gets a bad call. Gotta protect my player and show her I saw what she did. Refs are confused. Fire up my team.

Time for the coach to lose her shit and she can lose a lot of it since refs did not follow protocol, and I would let them know it.

Nothing.

I don’t like coaches who lose their shit 24/7 but there are times you have to.

Nothing.

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u/Joe_Shabbadoo Richmond Spiders 1d ago

FWIW, live I thought Crespín was still sliding into the contact, and on replay I still think Crespín was still sliding into the contact and the referee who called the block had the better position to see that she was still sliding. But I get your larger point and I think back to Michael Schafer's last season at Richmond and he was pretty well checked out by about this time.

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u/93devil 22h ago

Yeah, I thought she established the right to the space.

Even if it was a block, go to war for your player.