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Brown lures Bryant Coach James Perry to the eastside. He is a former alum Brown QB. Went just 12-10 in his two seasons with the Bulldogs.

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He was right to put a hold on accepting the Charlotte job. ECU is a much better gig.

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Rhody15 wrote: ↑5 years ago Another week off in between games.

Have we ever had this many week long gaps between games before?

I can't recall anything similar. I also however can't remember ever going 35 days without a home game or just one home game in 49 days.

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The current stretch of the schedule is not helpful for a team such as URI with so many new pieces. Only one (MTSU) of eight games will be at home. Home Game #4 11/24/18 Stony Brook Home Game #5 12/30/18 Middle Tenn State Univ Home Game #6 01/13/19 George Mason Not very likely to have a winning recor...

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Related to attendance on the road: From McNamara and Koch in the Jourrnal: From a box office perspective, Cooley’s comments last year somewhat downplaying his program’s rivalry with the Rams seemed rather tone deaf. Games with URI represent the last six non-conference home sellouts for Providence. ...

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ramster wrote: ↑5 years ago In a game of interest at 1pm today Arizona is at UCONN on ESPN2.

We do not play either so I have ZERO interest.

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Perhaps another additional reason Hurley left URI was that he knew he did not have things in place for continued success this season without a dip and rebuild. The team you have seen in the last six games save for Omar was entirely put together by Hurley. This is truth so far, time for Dan to money...

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Hurley was leaving for UCONN regardless - one of his dream jobs, they could always offer more $, large fan base, practice facility, tradition/4 national championships etc. Perhaps another additional reason Hurley left URI was that he knew he did not have things in place for continued success this s...

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Last Year PC vs URI Fatts Russell - 20 pts, 5 rebounds, 7-14 from the field Makai Ashton-Langford - 12 pts, 6 rebounds, 3 assists This Year PC vs URI Fatts Russell - 6 pts, 3 turnovers, 2-13 from the field Makai Ashton-Langford - 3 minutes, 0 pts, 0 rebounds, 0 assists #regressing PC is however no ...

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I am not giving up on Coach Cox or even Fatts. Both need to figure things out. We lost our coach and a ton of talent and experience from last season. Many of us felt that our freshmen would make an immediate impact and other players would automatically easily elevate their game. That has not been t...

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I am not giving up on Coach Cox or even Fatts. Both need to figure things out. We lost our coach and a ton of talent and experience from last season. Many of us felt that our freshmen would make an immediate impact and other players would automatically easily elevate their game. That has not been th...

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I’ve had season tickets for 14 years and that is the worst game I have ever attended. Happy the Froars won obviously, but what a shitshow. Poorly played on both sides, coached by both benches, and officiated. And because of all that, the crowd was terrible as well. I couldn’t imagine having less en...

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Taylor Swift wrote: ↑5 years ago The amount of shots that didn’t go in tonight infuriated me to the core of my soul.

Tonight however was not really out of the norm for this team. This is what they are.

I give them credit for the most part playing defense and playing hard. It is not a lack of effort.

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Fatts is turning into Akeem Richmond. Unfortunately that is who I have been thinking of as well. Akeem had a great percentage from three his freshmen year and looked like he might have potential to challenge Jimmy Baron's career numbers. It completely disappeared his sophomore year and his time shr...

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Fatts style of play cannot be allowed to continue. Cox has got to get Fatts to completely change his game and sit him on the bench if he refuses. It is not working. Fatts Russell Shooting through six games: 21-89 0.236 FG 7-43 0.163 3FG 19-28 0.679 FT I could forgive some offensive issues if he play...

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TruePoint wrote: ↑5 years ago If you can’t shoot, you can’t win. That’s the story tonight and will be the story for this team all season.

Which then means there won't be a high number of wins come March.

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Per my unofficial numbers, these are URI's shooting figures through six games: 149-386 .386 FG 27-130 .208 3FG 82-127 0.646 FT This team just can't put the ball through the hoop. Can't even make free throws. I am afraid that this cannot be chalked up to a slump or a bad game or two. It has basically...

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Analysis: We are not very good. You can't win many games when you can't put the ball through the basket. This team just cannot shoot. The worst three point shooting team in the nation. We basically have two players (Dowtin and Langevine) that can play at a high level. Freshmen need more time to dev...

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I am sorry but Fatts is just killing this team. Gets beat on defense and has ZERO offense. Cannot even hit free throws (1-6 so far today). He needs to see far less time on the floor until he can get some game back.

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Horrible shooting continues into this game. URI offense in the first half:

11-27 .407 FG
1-7 .143 3FG
4-9 .444 FT

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Not going to win this game if this poor ft shooting continues. 4-9 thus far after the last missed front end of 1and1.

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Unfortunately Fatts has played thus far today as most of the earlier games. 0-2 from the field and even two straight misses at the ft line.

URI needs to find its mojo or this game will be over early. Down 11.

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......Reynolds again today suggested this game be played twice a year, I don’t agree, use that slot for another OOC game with a major, once year with alternating sites keeps it very active rival.....No? Reynolds trots this suggestion out every year in early December. The days of playing one another...

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Limited action in Friday night games. In the A-10 : Mississippi State at Dayton , 7 PM. On CBSSN. Duquesne versus Pitt in the City Game at PPG Paints Arena, 7 PM. On ACCNE. In games involving URI OOC opponents : Central Michigan at TCU , 7:30 PM. Dayton Flyers lose at home to Miss State 65-58 after...

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Elorza is one of their biggest cheerleaders, and after Googling him I see he has his undergraduate degree from URI?! How did I not know this? I feel only his JD from Harvard is discussed. Then I see this: https://www.uri.edu/features/jorge-elorza-98/ URI alum Elorza was introduced and honored at ha...

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I don't have high expectations as a Rhody fan for the outcome of the game tomorrow. Body of work thus far does not give me cause for a lot of optimism.

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Holy Cross is promoting the game with URI December 8th at the DCU Center in downtown Worcester.

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You can even UConn to that list because the Huskies in a Tuesday game versus UMass Lowell drew 5,507, some 54% of their arena's capacity. Huskies however have no concern for how they will draw in true road OOC games - they have none. Nine home games (4 Storrs/ 5 Hartford) and four not too far neutr...

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A trip back through the years:

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Lol. Some fool on Twitter a couple of years ago was trying to tell me Cooley was never an assistant coach at URI. I sent him the proof and he deleted the tweet. He couldn’t even own up to being wrong. Cooley was one of several that were on Al Skinner's URI staff that went on to be college head coac...

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Jimmy has been all class. Even with the family implications surrounding his father's departure, he has continued to be supportive of the program.

I would imagine he will be in the URI Athletic HOF some day in the not so far future.

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Wow, there were less people at the Brown game than there were at the Stony Brook game when the students were on break? As mentioned, Stony brook was a Saturday. There were also many ticket promos and community groups at the game. URI did a good job to find ways to make up for the loss of students o...

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At Amherst, MA, UMass beat Quinnipiac before 2,478 hardy souls who rattled around an arena 28% occupied. UMass is averaging just 2,458 through six games. Every one of their games have drawn in the 2K range. URI, with an average of 5,087, has drawn nearly 6,000 more in total attendance with two less...

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A-10 results Wednesday VCU had a 17 point lead late in the first half at Old Dominion. They then got totally dominated in the 2nd and lost 62-52. St Joe's pulled away late to beat UIC 89-75 SBU with Stockard back (19 pts) in the lineup beat Canisius 70-55 Richmond loses at georgetwon 90-2 to fall to...

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Does this win tonight make URI the state champs? Rhody is the only team to play all the others. URI at 2-0 with the PC game next. Brown is 1-1 with no games left vs RI teams. Bryant is 0-2 with no games left vs RI teams. PC only plays URI at home with the game to come this Saturday. PC at best can o...

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Fatts has another horrendous shooting night vs Brown with the following line:
2-13 FGA | 0-7 3FGA | 0-1 FTA

For the season, per my count, he is at:
19-76 FGA 0.250
6-38 3FGA 0.158
18-22 FTA 0.818

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Our freshmen class, while being the most touted, is near the bottom in production thus far. Let's hope this four game sampling of our Rams is not what portends for the future.

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Texas Southern beats 18th ranked Oregon at Oregon. TSU was only 1-4 and a 25.5 point underdog. TSU had lost 4 straight all on the road. Underdog Wofford defeated South Carolina by an astounding 20 points at South Carolina Was Oregon on the "who do you want to have the worst season?" poll?...

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Worth noting our first Diamond Head Classic opponent Bucknell won at Vermont 69-61 on Saturday. They have won their two road games at St Bonaventure and UVM. Strangely they have lost their two home games to Canisius and Fairfield. This is likely to be a tough first game in Hawaii as the Bison seem t...

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The Koch blurb on scheduling: No firm plans have been announced for the holiday next season, but URI’s nonconference schedule is already filling up. The Rams have home games with Providence, Alabama and Western Kentucky and road games with Florida Gulf Coast, West Virginia, Brown and Middle Tennesse...

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ramster, I think a school has to be clever and thoroughly understand the nuances of scheduling. I always thought UConn did a good job in this area compared to URI. Little things do count. For example, with a young teams like URI why play an exhibition game so early and then wait 14 days to open the...

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Fatts is a volume shooter who will be streaky. He’s still the best player wearing a Rams uniform. As he goes, go the Rams. He needs to take better shots, but there will be growing pains as he goes from spark plug to the Man. Fatts Russell is in no way, shape, or form, close to being a better player...

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Fatts shooting from the field is killing this team right now. Making matters even worse, is that he has made more attempts than any other player. Even Dowtin who has logged more minutes (20m more YTD thus far) has less shot attempts. Fatts Shooting: 17-63 FGA .270 6-31 3FGA .194 18-21 FTA .857 The p...

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A very decent crowd of 5,016 today to see a putrid display by the home team. Looks like the lack of students on campus was made up by all the game promos. There were a lot of families with children there. YTD attendance is actually slightly ahead (+2.4%) of last year through three games. It may very...

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Lot of people leaving early today.

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Stony Brook is the better team. Not even close.

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Cannot keep settling for long attempts with plenty of time left on shot clock.

Foul variance hurting.

Decent crowd for no students on campus. Lots of families.

Second half about ready to tip. Need better effort.

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