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No, nobody knows for sure. But just put 2 and 2 together. He wanted to play for a better team (fact, VT is a better team), in a better conference (fact, ACC is a better conference than the A10) for more money (not a fact, but pretty obvious.) He was getting national attention all season receiving c...

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Common sense? Isn't that what they're all looking for now? It certainly isn't for playing time. And as I've said, I don't blame him. He should get as much as he can. It could be. Or it could not be. Unless they come out and explain their reasoning we have no idea. I'm going with this..."we hav...

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Billyboy78 wrote: ↑58 minutes ago
NYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑1 hour ago Why'd he pick Rhody in the first place and what made him change his mind?
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Best of luck at Va. Tech….but if it doesn’t work out we’ll be here!

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Welcome to Rhody Drissa!

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Is there a clause in the contracts for these guys who are making $250,000 and up that if they are academically ineligible or get in trouble that they don’t get the NIL money. It seems like no one has academic difficulties any longer or is ineligible because of this. The NCAA went from way to strict...

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Ok, here is my conspiracy theory for the day...our friend RV has heard who the new assistant is, and it will fall in to category 3 listed below. He's putting this tweet out now to get out in front of it so he can say it was a bad hire once it's announced. :lol: https://twitter.com/RhodyVault/status...

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Cunningham played for Mack at Louisville. It may have just been a case of him wanting to go back and work for his old coach.

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Hopefully, Adam, when we get good and have P5’s tempting our players, we can beat them off with a big stick - like the meme of beating a dead horse - from a core group and just between a starting/rotation spots. Hopefully! Obviously it won't be realistic to keep them all every year, but the dream i...

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Doesn't that show what a poor job the staff has been at evaluating talent and bringing players in? It does, I don't think anyone would disagree that there have been some recruiting misses, but there were also some extenuating circumstances in play the first year at least and to some extent the seco...

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Hopefully, Adam, when we get good and have P5’s tempting our players, we can beat them off with a big stick - like the meme of beating a dead horse - from a core group and just between a starting/rotation spots. Hopefully! Obviously it won't be realistic to keep them all every year, but the dream i...

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Now that the portal has closed, it feels worth mentioning once again that despite all the talk about losing players to P5 schools and players leaving for more NIL, we still have lost only one player (Ish) to a P5 school since the transfer rules changed and it doesn't look like any of the players we...

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PeterRamTime wrote: ↑4 days ago Maybe some of these trips were booster funded?

Oh yeah, that could make sense, if it's just a matter of redirecting your fundraising efforts. The way Goodman worded it made it sound very different!

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They ALL were let out of it, if the recruit asked for it. The team and coaches don't really want a player who doesn't want to be there. Besides if the school doesn't, that creates potentially bad vibes and not a good look with future recruits and their prep coaches. The NLI did mean more when the p...

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I wonder if Goodman plans on releasing the names of the schools that told him they are paying players. Seems like that would be a pretty big story! It is looking like the NCAA will soon be allowing all member schools to participate in contributing to the "Collectives". Yeah but until that...

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The NCAA should do away with the National Letter of Intent. It means nothing now. It never really meant much anyway though. The vast majority of schools would always let players out of their NLI if they requested it before to. They ALL were let out of it, if the recruit asked for it. The team and c...

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I wonder if Goodman plans on releasing the names of the schools that told him they are paying players. Seems like that would be a pretty big story!

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The NCAA should do away with the National Letter of Intent. It means nothing now. It never really meant much anyway though. The vast majority of schools would always let players out of their NLI if they requested it before to. I think more kids honored it in the past than they do now. The mindset n...

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It's funny how people here were saying he's not that big of a loss, yet now they're saying he could be a starting PG in a P5 conference and a top 20 school by his sophomore year. Most of us said he's not a big loss for NEXT year. As a freshman. We also said that many players like Ben tend to leave,...

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How does that even make sense? Schools aren't putting money in to NIL as of right now. Is Goodman implying that schools are still cheating and paying players directly?

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Now that the portal has closed, it feels worth mentioning once again that despite all the talk about losing players to P5 schools and players leaving for more NIL, we still have lost only one player (Ish) to a P5 school since the transfer rules changed and it doesn't look like any of the players we ...

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He really sounds like the type of guy this team has been missing for a couple years.

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Oh its for sure the same person. I'm just dying to know who it is.

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Yeah Zeigler would be a perfect guy for Hammond to learn from for a year. That dude is a stud. Good call PRT.

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Jeff Goodman @GoodmanHoops I miss the days when a terrific recruiter was so valuable in college sports. Now it doesn't really matter. You can be a terrific recruiter, but if you don't have any NIL, you aren't getting players. And you can be a shitty recruiter, but if you have NIL you'll still be ab...

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What was Christen's role? Was he a full assistant? Do we have room for someone like Tyson or is this more of an entry level assistant/GM role we'd be backfilling? He started as director of player development but was elevated to an assistant before last season I believe. I think that move coincided ...

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Billyboy78 wrote: ↑5 days ago

That's pretty nice! I'd wear it.

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When it comes to 7 footers I am still traumatized by the memory of Blake Vedder...

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In his bio, it says one of the things he's known for are his defensive schemes. Would that be the packline? I know he coached under Sean, so I would assume it is. Does anybody know what kind of defense he ran at Ball State? Yes it appears he is a pack line guy. Came across this with some of his not...

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Now official. I'm intrigued by his past recruiting success as an assistant. Hopefully he can continue that here.

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This signing does not move the needle for me at all. If this is the best we can afford then we are truly screwed. Of course it might not be all about money. Could be Archie just can't close the deal for better players. Either way, not good. Archie has already brought in better in Lawrence, so sayin...

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23% of transfers are using the extra covid year. It'll be interesting to see how that correlates to a drop in the transfer numbers next year. It's going to drop, the question is how much. https://twitter.com/CBB_Central/status/1785300440613023748 https://twitter.com/CBB_Central/status/17853015083235...

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No Rhode to Excellence store, no emails updating with transfers we have gotten "Thanks to your contributions to the collective, we have secured ______ from _____ school" no upcoming events announced, no nothing. Simply just give us your money, we're not telling you if it's going to men's,...

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Lots still to be ironed out but an interesting development for sure.

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I’ll be shocked if Traore is not an upgrade over Rory (and probably Tyson to). Different game than Rory and Tyson. I hope he does bring something but hasn't shown it yet in the last 3-years. He did RS in 21-22. Yeah, to be clear, I'm not expecting huge things from him. Just more that I don't think ...

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I’ll be shocked if Traore is not an upgrade over Rory (and probably Tyson to).

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More on Whitford from his Ball State bio...some big time experience as an assistant and some very good recruiting classes. https://ballstatesports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/james-whitford/849 Whitford served four years on the staff at Arizona, including his final two as the associate...

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He would seem to fit the criteria discussed last week...

EDIT: Also, I see STC threw out this name last week to. So shout out to them for potentially nailing this one!

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Like...are we even URI fans? Some of you are so God damn miserable that I'm not sure you'd know how to be happy. If Archie gets us back to the tournament most of you should keep your mouths shut because you'll just find ways to explain how we should all be miserable regardless. Holy shit find anoth...

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If he can rebound, play some defense, and be the hard working type player that Pitino described then that's good enough for me. Still more work to be done to finish off the roster.

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Obviously he hasn't played much so it's hard to know what kind of an impact he'll have. But seeing stuff like this is at least encouraging. We need a couple of these types of guys badly. “You need one, two or three of those types of people on a basketball team, and Drissa is the consummate culture p...

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So, this was our first trade. Specifics of the deal. March 2023: Rhode Island acquires Jaden House from High Point for a player to be named later. April 2024: Rhode Island's deal with High Point is completed as Jeremy Foumena is the player sent to High Point in the Jaden House deal from March 2023....

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But I was told on here he was leaving to go P5 and chasing the money!

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Being a Falcons fan never gets any easier! The worst part is I'm not even from Atlanta or anything, I actually chose this life. It was perfectly put years ago by one of my favorite Falcons related twitter accounts. https://twitter.com/TheFalcoholic/status/648199926770499584 It's kind of wild that t...

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Being a Falcons fan never gets any easier! The worst part is I'm not even from Atlanta or anything, I actually chose this life.

It was perfectly put years ago by one of my favorite Falcons related twitter accounts.

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Hate to interrupt the daily doom spiral, but there is absolutely no reason to believe that it will or should be impossible for A10 programs like us to be consistently good. If you have the program infrastructure in place, the right coach, and can become a winning program that is attractive to player...

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Haha I'm just in a conspiracy mood today I guess. Being fitted for my tinfoil hat as we speak...

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File this info under "paying way too much attention to Twitter follows"...but Brian Gregory is followed on twitter by...Ben Hammond...

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