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- 4 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Archie Miller Coaches Shows
- Replies: 197
- Views: 39353
Re: Archie Miller Coaches Shows
- 4 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Games of Interest - 2023-2024 MBB
- Replies: 2339
- Views: 142222
- 5 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: 12/2 | Providence | 7:30PM (FS1)
- Replies: 656
- Views: 103512
Re: 12/2 | Providence | 7:30PM (FS1)
Still waiting for the results of the investigation into the attack on Rhody.section(105) wrote: ↑5 months ago Always my concern taking the bus to Providence, and the players first in your face hostile environment in the PCC/Dunk/Dump/Amp/Cooley Center . No time for weak knees. Gotta respond to the first punch.
- 5 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: PC Tix
- Replies: 56
- Views: 9419
Re: PC Tix
There is a watch party if you're in Jupiter, FL Alumni Game Watch in Jupiter, Florida Come out to watch the much anticipated URI vs. PC men’s basketball game with fellow Rhody fans at Duffy’s Sports Grill in Jupiter, Florida! https://www.alumni.uri.edu/events-reunions/event-calendar/ Mrs. Red and I...
- 5 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: 12/2 | Providence | 7:30PM (FS1)
- Replies: 656
- Views: 103512
Re: 12/2 | Providence | 7:30PM (FS1)
Hate 'em. Hate 'em. Hate everything about 'em. Eff that school. This x 1,000,000,000 100 . Beat the mental hospital! LOL! How did you get that ^100 in there? I've never seen that before. :lol: If you use the full editor, you'll see an icon that says "T 2 " on the toolbar. That gives you t...
- 5 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: 12/2 | Providence | 7:30PM (FS1)
- Replies: 656
- Views: 103512
Re: 12/2 | Providence | 7:30PM (FS1)
This x 1,000,000,000100.
Beat the mental hospital!
- 5 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Dan Yorke Has To Go
- Replies: 305
- Views: 23798
Re: Dan Yorke Has To Go
Where have you gone, Ted Doherty?
- 5 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Games of Interest - 2023-2024 MBB
- Replies: 2339
- Views: 142222
- 5 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: 11/18 | Northwestern | 2:30PM (ESPN+) | Hall of Fame Tip-Off
- Replies: 353
- Views: 44332
Re: 11/18 | Northwestern | 2:30PM (ESPN+) | Hall of Fame Tip-Off
This tournament was a blast back in 2016. I would recommended it to anyone considering it. In 2016 I ubered from my house in Noank to Mohegan with a group of buddies, so we could really let loose. Those were the days. Hoping to be able to make it to at least one of the games this weekend with or wi...
- 5 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: 11/14 | Wagner | 7:00PM (ESPN+)
- Replies: 344
- Views: 51202
Re: 11/14 | Wagner | 7:00PM (ESPN+)
NYG, Any idea what all the fire trucks, rescue squads by the TLC Coffee Shop and the creek when I was driving home? Hope everyone was ok. Yeah 3795 is an awful number and I saw on IG Alwsys and Tyson passing out flyers It is what it is , we keep winning and eventually the attendance will pick up bu...
- 5 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: 11/6 | Central Connecticut | 7:00PM (ESPN+)
- Replies: 335
- Views: 37115
Re: 11/6 | Central Connecticut | 7:00PM (ESPN+)
Which is better than playing with yourself.ramster wrote: ↑5 months agoYep. And it's worse when you are playing against yourself.theblueram wrote: ↑5 months agoYou can call it whatever you want. We played an intersquad D1 scrimmage and looked like poop.
- 6 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: NIT Postseason Tournament Selection Process Changes to further benefit top leagues
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2861
Re: NIT Postseason Tournament Selection Process Changes to further benefit top leagues
Andy Katz @TheAndyKatz Some context on the NIT announcement: The changes (guaranteeing two bids for the power six leagues and no more automatic bids in the 32-team field) were made as a direct result of the competitive threat of a Fox postseason event for 2024 or '25 with the Big East, Big Ten, Big...
- 6 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: 2023 Coaching Carousel
- Replies: 1906
- Views: 87903
Re: 2023 Coaching Carousel
I was even squirming watching this guy squirm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm49wSy6W1A Grasso must be on drugs or something, with his rambling and conspiracies. He's a bad liar, and Patrolman Switzer (and everyone who watches this) can see right through his BS. Wow, he’s a weird dude. There’s d...
- 6 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Jeff Dowtin NBA Player
- Replies: 429
- Views: 55331
Re: Jeff Dowtin NBA Player
Jeff got waived by Toronto Between their refusal to give Dowtin a guaranteed contract, unwillingness to sign him to a proper NBA contract at the end of last season despite the fact he was getting rotation minutes, and general inability to reward him for his play, Dowtin would have every right to be...
- 6 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Homecoming Hoopfest - MBB Scrimmage
- Replies: 116
- Views: 6269
Re: Homecoming Hoopfest - MBB Scrimmage
Demon Muskrat, begone!RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑6 months ago No Carothers banner! The Ryan Center has never looked so beautiful!
- 6 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: 2023 Coaching Carousel
- Replies: 1906
- Views: 87903
Re: 2023 Coaching Carousel
For whatever reason Shanley was willing to pay off his coach who had something like 3 years left on his deal. Gtn wasn't interested in Rick. SJU was prob' his only shot at getting back in the BE. Shanley apparently has no honor or ethics ..." Which is why he was a perfect fit for the mental ho...
- 7 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Morey Hershgordon Leaving WPRI 12 - Latest in Series of TV Departures
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3150
Re: Morey Hershgordon Leaving WPRI 12 - Latest in Series of TV Departures
Looks like we're losing another guy who covered URI. https://www.independentri.com/sports/article_adc36ee6-47ed-11ee-b061-cff254ced034.html Without knowing anything about his financial situation, he's lucky to be able to be a full-time dad. Mrs. Red and I both hoped we could make that work with Lit...
- 7 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
Which is shame because Oklahoma/Oklahoma St are only 80ish miles apart, Kansas/KSU are also only 80ish miles apart, Stanford/Cal are only 45ish mils apart, Oregon/Oregon State are also 45ish miles apart, and USC/UCLA are 10ish miles apart. They seem to thrive in the same conference (until Oklahoma ...
- 7 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
- 7 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
Exactly.RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑7 months agoI don't know, take a look at our conference schedule this year. Any interest in that?Rhode_Island_Red wrote: ↑7 months ago How much more can they dilute this league before interest completely disappears?
- 7 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
How much more can they dilute this league before interest completely disappears?
- 7 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: RIP Tiara Wheeler
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2166
Re: RIP Tiara Wheeler
Ugh. And she's the spitting image of her father.
- 8 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Morey Hershgordon Leaving WPRI 12 - Latest in Series of TV Departures
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3150
Re: Morey Hershgordon Leaving WPRI 12 - Latest in Series of TV Departures
Bartenders all over the state are still mourning his loss.
- 8 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: RIP Ramblin Rose
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1761
Re: RIP Ramblin Rose
There's a memorial concert / fundraiser next month:
https://www.newportri.com/story/news/lo ... _vnkgrjJwE
https://www.newportri.com/story/news/lo ... _vnkgrjJwE
- 8 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Practice Facility
- Replies: 678
- Views: 52304
Re: Practice Facility
I drive into providence everyday and see that welcome to friartown billboard and I’ll be honest, that is a great marketing tool. Thousands see that everyday. If URI had one similar as you drive Into south county, that would be awesome. It’s promoted the brand and the local culture. Mrs. Red and I s...
- 8 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
Cal and Stanford can do better than the ACC. Academically and athletically they fit into the Big 10 really well.
Arthur Lee is still a punk.
Arthur Lee is still a punk.
- 8 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
Since football and media are the key drivers of realignment, here is a look at the US media markets from a football perspective. The Big Ten doubles up on SEC in this metric. The Top Fifty Media Markets in US 1. New York Big Ten 2. Los Angeles Big Ten 3. Chicago Big Ten 4. Philadelphia Big Ten 5. D...
- 8 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
The Pac-10 messed up by being on the west coast, making its TV rights worth less because of time zones.ramster wrote: ↑8 months ago Assessment of how the PAC-12 messed up.....
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/pac-12-med ... 19979.html
- 8 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/sport/or ... index.html
Don't be surprised if Cal and Stanford jump next -- academically they're a perfect fit and their presence will make those western trips more bearable.
Don't be surprised if Cal and Stanford jump next -- academically they're a perfect fit and their presence will make those western trips more bearable.
- 8 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
Big 12 Commish really wants UCONN https://www.ctinsider.com/sports/uconn/article/big-12-expansion-basketball-football-connecticut-18274399.php The members not so much. I think the commish and UCONN are in the minority here. They're the only ones who are trying to sell this. I don't think the rest a...
- 8 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
I’m of the belief that FBS football becomes 1A. All schools without big time football will become 1AA. This will filter down to basketball. Two different basketball national champions. Been saying that for years. One day, the Cartel will break off from the NCAA and suck up all the college-sports ox...
- 9 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Asleep at the switch (again?)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1970
Asleep at the switch (again?)
Anyone else notice this story in the ProCoJo? [Mental hospital] license plates nearly ready to distribute https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2023/07/19/providence-basketball-friars-license-plate-ready-to-hit-the-streets-rhode-island/70433050007/ The last two grafs killed me: So if the [men...
- 9 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Phantom #Gorhody TBT team
- Replies: 218
- Views: 18521
Re: Phantom #Gorhody TBT team
Sounds like the old North Providence summer "league" -- you don't know who's playing until you see who shows up.
- 9 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Local college basketball player being investigated by PPD
- Replies: 123
- Views: 14535
- 9 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Local college basketball player being investigated by PPD
- Replies: 123
- Views: 14535
- 10 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: A10 Outlook for 2023-24
- Replies: 1257
- Views: 107455
Re: A10 Outlook for 2023-24
The NCAA Tournament tells a different Story in recent times . Many teams from the so called minor leagues have surpassed many of the so called Major leagues in their tournament performances . And as recently as 2020 Dayton would have been a one seed and one of the favorites to win. The A 10 had a b...
- 10 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Phantom #Gorhody TBT team
- Replies: 218
- Views: 18521
Re: Phantom #Gorhody TBT team
Or James Life, who I'm sure is still a punk.SmartyBarrett wrote: ↑10 months agoOnly thing that would make me hate them more is if they added Matt Glass.
- 10 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: RI State Funding and URI Facilities
- Replies: 266
- Views: 70010
Re: RI State Funding and URI Facilities
Dreams by some of URI operating FBS football and men's and women's D1 hockey programs is a good illustration of how many people are completely detached from the financial realities in Kingston. I think for the most part FBS football is a pipe dream, but we do have to worry about the possibility of ...
- 10 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: RI State Funding and URI Facilities
- Replies: 266
- Views: 70010
Re: RI State Funding and URI Facilities
I think they see the University as a side business. They do not connect the dots of greater supporting of the university as a build business locally as an economic opportunity engine for the state. Nice cute little farm town community in south county. Each recent URI President sees URI as fertile g...
- 10 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
Our conference has gotten so bloated by seemingly panic-driven expansion that the percentage of quality basketball games has shriveled. I wouldn't blame any of those schools for jumping ship.
- 10 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: RI State Funding and URI Facilities
- Replies: 266
- Views: 70010
Re: RI State Funding and URI Facilities
It is incredibly frustrating and disappointing to me - as it is to everyone else here on KB - how the populace and legislative leadership of this state continually misperceives, undervalues, disrespects, marginalizes, and stunts the growth and potential of the state’s flagship university - especial...
- 11 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Conference Realignment
- Replies: 1588
- Views: 133388
Re: Conference Realignment
Good questions, RR. It is a frustrating time in college sports. Not only are a small percentage of schools (SEC & Big 10 connected) outpacing most others from a relevancy and financial standpoint but the college sport of football itself seems to be widening the gap on all other sports on the P5...
- 11 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Phantom #Gorhody TBT team
- Replies: 218
- Views: 18521
- 11 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: The Men's Basketball Transfer Carousel 2023-24
- Replies: 1855
- Views: 115258
Re: The Men's Basketball Transfer Carousel 2023-24
All you have to do is look at professional sports. Pre-free agency fans knew the team, knew the players, and were invested in "their" team. Once free agency hit, it became a free for all. I can still name every starting player on the 1967 Red Sox. Today's Sox - I look at the roster and wo...
- 11 months ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: RI State Funding and URI Facilities
- Replies: 266
- Views: 70010
Re: RI State Funding and URI Facilities
Politicians don't mind doling out money for new or massively-renovated facilities. They love ribbon-cuttings because they get to take credit for this shiny new whatever.
Money for maintenance is a whole 'nother story. There's no ribbon-cuttings for brooms, wrenches or buckets of paint.
Money for maintenance is a whole 'nother story. There's no ribbon-cuttings for brooms, wrenches or buckets of paint.
- 1 year ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Local college basketball player being investigated by PPD
- Replies: 123
- Views: 14535
Re: Local college basketball player being investigated by PPD
Of course he'll play. This is a self-described Catholic institution that once let a walking, talking violation of the First and Second Commandments wear its uniform for four years.
- 1 year ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Good column in Globe about Rhody hoops
- Replies: 8
- Views: 979
Re: Good column in Globe about Rhody hoops
That is the culture we need to change but as a STATE University with the highest paid STATE employee. Nothing will change. IMO The two highest paid state employees in Connecticut are Auriemma and Hurley [/quote] That is such crap. The percentage of "state" money in their paychecks is minu...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: RIP Ramblin Rose
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1761
Re: RIP Ramblin Rose
Wow -- I had no idea he was Rose. We were undergrads together at URI, he was in our wedding ... Wicked sense of humor that he would break out when you least expected it (or when you expected it, for that matter.) He came from nowhere with a wisecrack one day that caught me so hard whatever I was dri...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: NET Rankings
- Replies: 138
- Views: 22434
Re: NET Rankings
Ken Pomeroy@kenpomeroy2h Schedule who you want. Let's have a selection process that isn't based on Quad 1 scheduling opportunities that aren't available to many teams. It's 2023 and we know the quality of any win on a team's schedule without having to resort to Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4 shortcuts. Somewhere, obv...
- 1 year ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Phantom #Gorhody TBT team
- Replies: 218
- Views: 18521
Re: Phantom #Gorhody TBT team
Is he Four McGlynn's father?