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Category: Summer updates

  • May 2025 update

    A few new signees (along with one unexpected departure) round out May and leave the roster nearly finalized. Updates on the roster changes, along with how our recruiting strategy has shaped our roster in the past five years, are below.

  • 2024 Summer Issue: Transfer portal success

    Richmond has added multiple portal additions in each season since Coach Huesman’s first year in 2017. Despite not being a program known for stockpiling transfers each season, we’ve seen them be impactful every year. For this post, I’m only talking additions from the portal and how they’ve played in part in their season(s) at UR.…

  • June 2024 update

    Another quiet month for the Spiders (disregarding any conference affiliation news) but still some updates heading into the summer.

  • 2023 Summer Discussion: Is the 4-2-5 back?

    With the additions of multiple safeties via the portal this spring, along with the departures of Phil O’Connor and Xavier Marshall at linebacker, Richmond looks on track to play the 4-2-5 more in 2023. What does that mean for personnel and what seasons can we look at to get an idea of what the Spider…

  • 2023 summer discussion: Trends under Russ Huesman

    Still roughly five weeks away from fall camp getting going, so let’s look at some trends the Spiders have gone through under Russ Huesman. 2022 was the first season we saw some real progress so I want to highlight the areas where things really turned around, and where we’ve still got plenty of room to…