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Ashcat

A row of about ten seats just opened up at face value. Rhody fans should grab them. Lets be loud. Our time is now! See you at 1:00. http://www.ticketmaster.com/basketball-hall-of-fame-tipoff-uncasville-connecticut-11-20-2016/event/1D0050A3D0B82EA8?artistid=1585156&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid...

Ashcat

Yet another Top 25 accolade.

http://bustingbrackets.com/2016/06/28/n ... -top-25/5/

Ashcat

The Tip-Off Classic Website indicates that there will be a “School Pre-sale” starting May 11th. Does anyone know if a Pre-sale password will be available for Rhody fans to purchase tickets early? If not tickets don’t go on sale until September 9th.

Ashcat

Anyone who believes that Coach Hurley will change his sideline demeanor during their lifetime is dreaming. Nothing better than watching our point guards being more interested in receiving sideline input practically every time we inbound verses getting his own head into the flow of the game. Last nig...

Ashcat

At the conclusion of non-conference play 11 of the 14 teams in the A-10 posted winning records with LaSalle, George Mason and Saint Louis being the exceptions. We are facing a Billikens team tomorrow that is coming off a four game losing steak and having lost seven of their last eight game. Most rec...

Ashcat

Let me see if I understand Coach Colley’s insistence that the annual URI-PC match-up should be played at the DDC. This statement would seem to contradict his bellowing foul play and moaning adnauseam when PC were sent to the Nationwide Arena in Columbus to play Dayton two days after the Flyers playe...

Ashcat

Nice news to wake up to this Mother's day. Looks like only upside with Nikola's youth and talent. Adding McGlynn, Iverson and Akela and we should be light years better from the outside. With Butts and Thompson, a SG, also on-board and its now looking like a good off-season. Now comes the task of mel...

Ashcat

As long as we are talking pets, I also have a pound cat we adopted. Her mother and all of her siblings were eaten by dogs as she gave birth outside. She survived on formula hand fed from a syringe. She's sweet. The Nebulung breed is an off-spring of the Russian Blue and ours is an XXL Bressler. We t...

Ashcat

Damn. The e-mail I got a few days back from the NCAA made it sound like the tickets were not yet available and that an e-mail with the-presale was forthcoming. Sounds like lots of tickets are being held back for the schools that actually make the tourney and the "host team" which one has t...

Ashcat

As long as we are off topic....Ashcat is my 22 lbs. pain-in-the-ass Nebulung....Quite a rare cat. He's big, but not tall enough to play five for us.

Ashcat

Just got the season tickets renewal information in the mail. Status quo for this year. Love my seat.

Ashcat

There will be 1st and 2nd round tourney games held at the Dunk this coming March. In the past, NCAA has charged the same price for lower level seats as for upper so if you’re planning on attending and have purchased tickets directly from the NCAA in the past, the presale will begin mid-May. Be prepa...

Ashcat

I'm impressed TP that you in fact realize. That we indeed need a real five. Oh and a bench that needs shoring up. Oh and a replacement for coach Murray who can bring some recruiting skills with him

Ashcat

I'm starting to get nervous. Roster emptying, loss of Luke Murray, no real news on the recruiting front. I did get the email from URI Athletics' regarding the season tickets renewal though.

Ashcat

Seven Kentucky (rev.) players are projected to be wearing NBA uniforms next season. Nice to see player development win over one, or two and done. Anyone who does not think at least one big isn't necessary to compete with at the upper echelon on CBB must be watching a different NCAA tourney.

Ashcat

Do the two-year, in-conference decomitment/transfer rules still apply when a head coach departs a program?

Ashcat

It should be interesting to see what happens to the VCU roster. As we all know, the NCAA does not require a player to sit out a year when a Head Coach departs. All the Letters of Intent can also be ripped up.

Ashcat

Thanks Rambone and please don't get me started on the General Assembly. With very, very few exceptions they are an embarrassment to the state. I got to say the vibe at PC games is so different then at the Ryan Center. Well at least in 205. I got invited to the PC vs. U Mass game this year at the PCC...

Ashcat

Actually I do have ties to PC. My sister was in the first class that admitted females. I grew up close to PC and as a high school student hung out there quite a bit. I can’t even guess how PC games I watched or attended. I got caught up in the Ernie DiGregorio, Marvin Barnes, and Kevin Stacom amazin...

Ashcat

My last words to those who do not accept how all expenses and salaries related to our sports programs are integrated into University’s Budget no matter where they are allocated from. First off, I’m thrilled that the University President and URI Foundation are willing to use creative budgeting to fun...

Ashcat

Why Nike Ace? Please share what you know.

Ashcat

Kudos to President Dooley and Thorr Bjorn for some creative accounting as well as President Smith for stepping up. I hadn’t looked at our endowment for some time and was surprised it was $133 million (+/- 400th in the country). I attended Graduate School at a University that has an endowment of $9.3...

Ashcat

Hopefully bringing the #5 FT shooter in CBB will become infectious. Remember watching Jimmy B when the FT’s were almost as automatic as a Gostkowski XPA? Bringing McGlynn here certainly raises some very interesting roster/scholarship questions. With Butts, Iverson and Thompson in, others must go. No...

Ashcat

Lets hope we will not have to have this discussion again for the foreseeable future. Does anyone know when we can expect to see the details of the extension? As an aside (sorry) does anyone know when our obligation with Adidas expires?

Ashcat

To belabor the budget discussion, URI allocation of the $1.7 Billion State Higher Education Budget is $734 million which is recommend by the Governor as part of her Annual State Budget. This State Budget must be enacted by the Legislature to become effective. Within this budget is a specific line it...

Ashcat

Sweet. I'm so pleased.

Ashcat

Connaughton, 16/10, was on fire down the strech versus the Shockers. Not so much last night (8/9) and you need every cylinder firing to beat the Cats. Zach Auguste great offence’ was unfortunately offset by Towns inside. Nice to watch Calipari squirm a bit though.

Ashcat

DPS: Have you attended a URI Board of Trustees Public Hearing? I have on matters totally unrelated anything discussed on this Forum but none-the-less monetary in nature. The University Administration does not have carte blanch control of URI’s Annual or Capital Budgets. Please provide an estimated l...

Ashcat

I have to imagine that whatever loopholes under the control of the URI internal budgetary process were exercised last time around. Is URI an institution of higher learning or a want to be to be sports franchise? According to Dr. Dooley, the University is operating as lean and mean as possible. So le...

Ashcat

Coach Hurly and his predecessor were and are the highest paid State employees ever. How much leeway, President Dooley, and not Thorr Bjorn, has in any renegotiation is very limited. We are State not in fiscal turmoil but in fiscal Armageddon. To expect Capitol Hill to ante-up in any significant meas...

Ashcat

Regarding Coach Hurley’s demeanor during the Stanford Game (and for that matter most others): First off I’m a fan. I was there to welcome Dan to the University and believe him to be a wonderful hire. However, more and more his name and antics seem to be congruous in CBB circles. I watched a national...

Ashcat

Rod: I meant to say Butler "one and done." Thank you for your correction. I still stand by my opinion that Coach Cooley or any other coach flipping, tossing or sliding any object while standing near or on any court, field, pool, rink or pitch should pay the consequences. I'd say the same h...

Ashcat

RB, Perhaps Gina will can her aspirations to become POTUS and succeed Bernadette and make everything alright?

Ashcat

The NBE’s relevance is being shored up by the money FOX is dumping into their FOX Sports 1 Network as a result of FOX taking on ESPN in a no-holds-barred war. Only time will tell if Fox will get a return on its 12 year, $500 million investment with the NBE. Some games, ex. St.J v. PC in February dre...

Ashcat

The spread is putting Rhody at a 4 point underdog with an over/under a somewhat high 137.

Ashcat

I don’t care if the game is played on the dark side of the moon. High caliber, post season tournament experience is something to be relished especially with a team sporting two freshman and two sophomore starters. A win brings us back to the Ryan Center and that much closer to scratching and clawing...

Ashcat

OK WN, then let’s have done with it and just totally disrespect the game: hurl lugies on to the court so opposing players can slip, bend the opponents hoop in the second half or simply turn the beloved game of college basketball into the WWF or even worse the NBA.

Ashcat

Number one line-of-week in Bill Reynolds’ Commentary column in today’s ProJo says it all to me; “LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Dan Hurley on his URI basketball program: “What comes next is going to be big, and it’s going to be beautiful.”

Ashcat

Regarding last nights’ Coach Ed Cooley’s chair toss; I initially thought it was an overzealous call by the referee but the more I watched the replays (after muting Gottlieb’s rantings) I saw the point. Anytime, anywhere, any person affiliated with a team commits an action that can damage the court, ...

Ashcat

Now that I have had a bit of time to decompress from our loss to Dayton and elimination from the A-10 tourney I'd like to bring up a question we bantered about last night. That is, what's the story with Mathew Butler? Is he that valuable as a practice player as Ifeanyi Onyekaba is purported to be? B...

Ashcat

Bleacher Report has put out their regular season awards. E.C. Matthews was named first team A-10.

Ashcat

My prayers go out to T.J. and his family. When we hear about a child in distress it puts everything in perspective. As RF1 stated it takes a special person to remain devoted to his team at such a trying time. We wouldn’t be in the fortunate position to be a program on the rise without the best damn ...

Ashcat

As psyched as I am for tonight’s game, Joe Lunardi managed a buzzkill during this morning’s bracketology analysis of the A-10 conference. He has Dayton (9 in the Midwest) in, citing the Flyers’ big win on the road to a ranked team last Saturday as well as their strength of schedule. He maintains it ...

Ashcat

I wish I could agree with you TP but my discussions with Coach Carr differs. Scheduling next year is going to be bitch and will depend on how much we are will to give away both in $ and home/away away/ scheduling.

Ashcat

We simply don’t have the strength of schedule when the selection committee evaluates the bubble teams. A win in Dayton will help us close in but, when push comes to shove, only an A-10 tourney championship will put us in. As its playing out, our loss to Davidson, at home, was the nail in our coffin ...

Ashcat

By coincidence my son was on the same flight back from Philadelphia with the team yesterday evening (kudos to Ashcat’s kid receiving a full scholarship to grad school begining next year). I had the opportunity to chat with a few of the players at the luggage carousel and their spirits’ were high. E....

Ashcat

Rod...George's is perfect. After moving back to South (Washington) County ten years ago I now shy away from venturing "north of the tower".

Ashcat

That was then. This is now.

Ashcat

I wish I had the common sense to sync 920 with the A-10 feed. After the "absence of rebounding on the Rhode Island team" comment I figured we were in for a long afternoon of less than mediocre commentary. None-the-less $4.95 well spent. Going into the home stretch of Coach Hurley’s third s...

Ashcat

For the first time in many, many years, I walked out of the Ryan Center into that lovely snow with nothing to moan, groan or bitch about. I am so Happy.

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