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Ok. Sorry. I like you're idea

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The Globetrotters are a clown act with players not good enough for the NBA.

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You should want a student pit close to the action ....like Cameron. URI never gets that.

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Is Kevin Ollie in trouble? What did I miss? Gen wouldn't have to work harder. Just differently in dealing with a different player mentality. I remember how rude, entitledand sloth like the URI players were under Jerry D. And none of those guys ... lows like Me bury and TBell ...did much after URI. U...

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Pissing off the press is always a good idea. Would be another great URI PR move like putting the students on the stage at Keaney.

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I'm getting old when I saw his father play...one of the most brilliant players, no weaknesses.

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Gen is smart enough to enjoy what he has. If he switched he'd to the men's team, he'd be expected to replicate his insane success. Maybe he could. But a 25 win season would be treated as a disappointment.
He is the best ever where he is,

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I don't remember him as a wrestler. That would make sense. Randy game would not work out today in more finesse times. I remember the Rich Hunger business. Never knew what hit him. Randy was from Miami. Considered a pretty good recruit. Yes, he had a bad knee and got huge. You're right about knees th...

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Randy was our version of a hockey goon. He was 6-9 and maybe 275. He split time early on with Vic soares. Didn't play as much after Irving Chatman arrived. You know how today's giants like to fire from the three point line. Randy was the opposite of that.

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Munford was a long shot to make the NBA. Hare might be the all time longshot. Sad, really. The kid had a chance to be something and just didn't seem to care, for whatever reason. Imagi me putting Munford's heart in Hare's body.

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UCONN is a top tier program. Top coaches will line up. New England is not going to go wild over URI because UCONN has an off year.

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If Dan turned into Brad Stevens ...with a title game in college .... that would be fine with me.

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It really is encouraging. The D League is the dregs. And most players don't get to the NBA. X could have gone to Europe but stuck it out.

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Stephanie Curry choosing Under Armour raised its profile big time.

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For God's sake, Rod. The man isn't Jesus and Abe Lincoln rolled into one.

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I wonder how Harrick would have handled APR.

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Bunky is still going to be writing 9 years from now? Sad part is some of these kids arrive at college with few life skills. A friend of mine tutored some URI players as a grad student in the 1980s. Her job was to help them academically. But she helped them with basic skills like endorsing a check, o...

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Lamar is getting a great second chance at life. Not sure he'll get another shot at the NBA. Not sure the LA party scene is the way to go. But it seems as if that's his life these days.

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I'm big on seat belts, too.

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You wonder if a non-athlete would have survived that crash.

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URI shoukd recruit a Connie Hawkins type? Sure, they're everywhere.
Some would tell you Hawkins was a shell by the time he got to the NBA, that his be test years were in the ABA ...very little captured on film.

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Bobby Hurley and Jay Williams ...two Dookies who suffered life changing accidents.

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Earlier I was focusing on NBA only. I'm told that Steve Chub in could have played in the NBA but was a head case. I believe Ernie Calverly and Earl Shannon also played together at Pawtucket East maybe? I think Martin and Matthews may have NBA potential. Need to see how Matthews responds after blowin...

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Similarly, the Celtics signed John Holland to a contract. He graduated from BY in 2011 and has knocked around Europe since then. Played recently in the D League.

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Technically, URI is still a state school. But Rhode Island is terrible on higher ed. And most residents don't care. They hate funding URI. I hear it a lot, sadly.

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I think most athletes are like Munford, pushed by a desire to succeed and compete. He's close to the bottom rung of pro sports and has worked hard to get there. Pablo wqs benched in the 2010 World Series because of his weight. He's not some specimen who let himself go. The Sox knew this before signi...

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Is X the seventh URI Ram to play in the league? Claude English, Sly Williams, Tommy Garrick, Cuttino Mobley, Tyson Wheeler (one game), Lamar Odom and now X. Did I forget someone?

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I bet Pablo could really set a pick.

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The visits are good PR for the program. And it's easy for players to get stuck in their own bubble, so nice to see them in the community.

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Those are great clips. No rookie jitters here.

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This gets silly. The Big East is still a quality conference. It will never be what it was one the 1980s. It can't be. The A-10 does OK for itself ut is not of the same caliber. That's just the way it is.

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What an underdog story. He had a very good short career at URI and then to the D League ... the place of 10 hour bus rides, empty arenas and crap pay. Now his ship has come in.

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Rod. You're right about Kraft. Excellent coach on the verge of more great things at URI. Had to retire before his time. Linc ides with the Zarchen mess ...one of the biggest drawbacks to URI hoops. In came Claude and Chuckran. It's in the program ... bad days until Penders. Kraft win ig at Nova and ...

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A mid-major wins it all. Now UNC gets to learn its fate. Ramster glad you figured it out. I never listen to the Homer versions. I too like Raftery.

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Wow. What a game. I was rooting for Villanova. But I was mainly hoping for a fun game. And it was.

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People keep wanting Geno to move to a men's team. Why would he?. Anything he does would seem disappointing compared to his UCONN career.
He's comfortable coaching women and doesn't have to worry about players bailing after a season.

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"Never thought I'd day this..."?

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Did anyone see that he scored 25 in his last game?

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There was talk of hiring Jay Wright when Jerry got canned. He wasn't interested and it ended there.

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Sad for Pete that he retired in camp with the 1980-81 Celtics, who won the title that year. He could have given them 10 to 15 minutes off the bench, even in his worn out state. Pete played in a difficult era for the NBA ...low box office, rampant drug problems, shaky TV contracts. The Pistol bio ref...

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Can't remember a Final Four blowout like that on ages ...maybe the Tark era at UNLV.

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I had put Nova in the nice little team category early on. Much more than that now.

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Wonder how Hurley would've handled this.

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That day was devastating. And I never would have imagined no Dance for the next 17 years. Harrick's hiring changed the culture of URI basketball. Al was a good coach but never wanted to do the glad handing to promote the program. Harrick did a lot of that. All of a sudden we were a national story wi...

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Wasn't Mount an ABA star but not NBA? Actually not even a star. I remember him on the cover of SI in high school.

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Walker and Pete Maravich were my favorite players in my early days watching college hoops.

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I was hoping he'd stick the rest of the season. He's played well.

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Back to earlier discussion, Eric Murdock, Kevin Stacom and Michael Smith were better players than Cotton. So was Joey Hassett. Eric Wilkiams, too. And you start with Walker, Barnes, Erie D., Lenny Wilkins. John Thompson is in there someplace. Cotton just doesn't strike me as Top 10. But I would put ...

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These CFL contracts are becoming the norm. We suffered through one. At schools lime PC and URI, administrators have to sweeten the pot when bigger schools sniff around their coaches. These contracts make coaches unfireable. Who's to say Cooley is as successful six years from now? It's a risk for the...

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Farrell can't win the close games. Oh, wait ...

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