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RR2, Haven't we in the past known who the candidates were? When CCRI replaced their President a few years ago we knew who the candidates from early on, including the narrowed down group. Is this unusual to now know at all? I think we'll at least know the final two before the weekend. I imagine a lo...

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The search committee is down to two finalists to replace President Dooley. There will be meet the candidate sessions on Monday and Tuesday from 5:30 to 7. As of now that is all the information available, but I guess it's time to have a dedicated thread now that more information will start to come out

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rambone 78 wrote: ↑3 years ago Good news on Sheppard, but agree we need more...if we get more, then there are no more excuses.

There are already no excuses, this is Cox' roster. If the roster isn't good enough that means he hasn't done a good enough job in recruitment, retainment, and development

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https://twitter.com/mlbergman_/status/1373301852129857541?s=21 And there it is. Slick Tony gone, can't say I am surprised There goes the Woodstock pipeline. This is an excerpt: Bergeron, a Springfield native, is so close to Mitchell that he is engaged to the player’s mother, Erin Tortorice, and liv...

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Have to be honest, 18 feels a little soft. Go on the road and beat the number 6 team, land just outside of the top 25, ok, guess they want to make sure it wasn't a fluke. Follow that up with beating number 18 on the road, it feels like we should be ranked somewhere between 10-15

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Yeah with a $3B net worth, Benny could fund a new grandstand/press box with his pocket change. There’s been crews working on the bleachers at Meade the last few weeks. At this point, its like putting lipstick on a pig. We could’ve used some of that $50M+ the state ok’d for the performing arts build...

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Good points rudder Delaware has been dominating. This will be a very tough for URI, even playing at our own Meade Stadium Looking at the 4 remaining games Delaware should be the toughest game from among New Hampshire, Maine and @ Stony Brook Mar 27 Delaware 12pm Apr 3 New Hampshire 1pm Apr 10 Maine...

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We clearly have talent... But Delaware has crushed Stony Brook and Maine... Those teams were tight with Nova and Albany... Rhody was in OT with each. This game is not a guaranteed dub, just cuz we beat two ranked teams on the road and this week is at home. Reality is there are four more freaking wa...

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No sympathy from me on that, that's the kind of coverage he signed up for

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We won the second game of the doubleheader 6-3. Both games were played in Truist Field, home of the AAA Charlotte Knights. Today at noon they'll be at Hayes Stadium on Charlotte's campus

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I still stand by my opinion, that if Cox isn't fired, he still should not get an extension. If he earns it next season, he'll get one then. Or he will be fired for sure. I think by now, Cox is well aware of what he has to do next season to keep his job. Rambone I think there is no choice but to ext...

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Folks should look at this as a win-win. Fatts was a great Ram who gave us his heart and soul for four years. He should be keeping all options open at this point - good move by him. I will root for him no matter where he goes (just not PC, please). Cox now has an opportunity to coach without some of...

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I'm sure people are going to look at this two different ways, but I'm not looking at it like he left the program under Cox (as weird as that may sound). This 5th year is a gray area / weird thing for everyone. Fatts easily could have transferred after Hurley left, chose to stick around for three mo...

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Hahaha add Fatts to the list of players that left our program under David Cox. Imagine if we had a top 25 program loaded with potential next year and Fatts announced he’s coming back? If we had a coach and a team that could make a run in the tourney like Dan’s last year there is no way Fatts goes. ...

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So Cox let Fatts do whatever he wants for three years, we underachieve for three years, then Fatts leaves anyway? So what has even been the point of all of this? Also, I don't have as big of a problem with players transferring as many posters here, but you don't get to kiss the logo at center court...

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So Cox let Fatts do whatever he wants for three years, we underachieve for three years, then Fatts leaves anyway? So what has even been the point of all of this? Also, I don't have as big of a problem with players transferring as many posters here, but you don't get to kiss the logo at center court ...

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Where did you see this? It hasn't seemed to hit the ole Google News wire yet, or his Twitter account. Not everything happens on twitter lol. Sometimes you just know a guy. Blueman is rarely wrong. He's given me plenty of info before it was announced. For example, he told me we had Jermaine Harris l...

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Kolek transferring... c'mon home kid. (PC, Iowa, and Seton Hall already in on him - so go and prove you can get a local kid DC) Where did you see this? It hasn't seemed to hit the ole Google News wire yet, or his Twitter account. Not everything happens on twitter lol. Sometimes you just know a guy....

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https://dailycollegian.com/2021/03/sources-three-to-five-more-players-set-to-join-tre-mitchell-in-the-transfer-portal/ Sources: Three to five more players set to join Tre Mitchell in the transfer portal More transfers to follow Mitchell decision By Joey Aliberti, Assistant Sports Editor March 15, 2...

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https://dailycollegian.com/2021/03/sources-three-to-five-more-players-set-to-join-tre-mitchell-in-the-transfer-portal/ Sources: Three to five more players set to join Tre Mitchell in the transfer portal More transfers to follow Mitchell decision By Joey Aliberti, Assistant Sports Editor March 15, 2...

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Unpopular opinion: Have TJ step back into DBO, take Preston Murphy Jr as a player and PM Sr as a coach (if they both are looking to be together which I have knowledge if they are) I would get rid of Carrol and or Sutton before TJ. Sutton was responsible for the Aris thing, that alone is a fireable ...

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To even compare Harrick and Murphy to Pitino is a joke in the first place

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Daniel McKee's first capital budget is out. Some highlights: Ballentine Hall expansion: The Governor recommends $17.8 million in private funding in FY 2022-FY 2024 to renovate 13,600 sq. ft. of the existing space in Ballentine Hall and build a 7,200 sq. ft. addition onto the building. Together, the ...

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If Rick Pitino is ever hired to be head coach for URI, my following the program is over forever. Any school that would stoop so low would show it has ZERO integrity and would not merit any support. Mine wouldn't be over forever but it would be over as long as Pitino was here and maybe as long as th...

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I love all the drama about Slick. So if URI hired Slick and we got a couple of A10 titles and a few NCAA births, RF1 and a few others would be watching championship curling on espn 17 instead? right. Some people actually love the University and not just the basketball team. Those people would be ou...

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If Rick Pitino is ever hired to be head coach for URI, my following the program is over forever. Any school that would stoop so low would show it has ZERO integrity and would not merit any support. A man can't redeem himself? He hasn't admitted wrongdoing or apologized and has been dirty at every s...

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If Rick Pitino is ever hired to be head coach for URI, my following the program is over forever. Any school that would stoop so low would show it has ZERO integrity and would not merit any support. Mine wouldn't be over forever but it would be over as long as Pitino was here and maybe as long as th...

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Dowtin struggled playing off the ball. That was obvious, and it didn't help the team either. It was done to help Fatts. And keep him here. It definitely hurt the team but that doesn’t mean Jeff didn’t get better because of it. Jeff was a very consistent PG and good distributor but his offensive gam...

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Went over to the UMass message board. I can't believe how many people seem to be advocating firing McCall and making Bergeron the head coach to try and keep Mitchell. That would be a level of the inmates running the asylum that would make the Jerry D years look like the most buttoned up, successful ...

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PeterRamTime wrote: ↑3 years ago
Sweep The Leg wrote: ↑3 years ago
PeterRamTime wrote: ↑3 years ago Highlights

Did #75 flash Villanova double birds at the end of the game?
He did.

I'm down with it.

Screw Villanovas feelings.

We'll see how down with it the CAA is

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There have been recent concerns on the UMass message board about rumors that key players might transfer out. It would seem they may have been well founded. https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/1371458272478253062 https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1371457728250572800 I fear the new transfer...

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Ranked 18th in the poll that came out today

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We're 28th in the STATS poll, Villanova dropped to 14. Albany, our opponent Saturday is 18th

http://www.fcs.football/cfb/polls.asp?div=fcs

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Micah Shrewsberry going to Penn State. Purdue fans are sad and Penn State fans are extremely happy. Matt Painter has apparently delegated some in-game X and O responsibility to Micah. Sounds like he could be one of the success stories of an assistant moving to the big chair in a power conference. I...

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URI_05 wrote: ↑3 years ago Archie Miller out at Indiana. I'd swap Cox out for him any day. Proven winner in the A10.

Thorr or an intermediary should be on the phone already to see if he has any interest in our job

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I've never understood the people that strap themselves to trees and whatnot to prevent something from being torn down. Now I do

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You need a voting system people can trust and believe is not fraudulent. And if people don't trust the election process why even have elections? I would not trust sending cash in the mail to pay my property taxes, I certainly would not trust sending a mail-in ballot to a State-Run operation that is...

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Nice preview article from Will Geoghegan in the Independent

https://www.independentri.com/sports/ar ... 84a46.html

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Brian Forster wrote: ↑3 years ago Would like to see someone with connections to the state house.

I hope not. We need a qualified candidate, not some lap dog that gets handed jobs for being connected

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mention a RI HS kid to a URI coach and they will look at you like you are growing 3 heads. Records couldn't help them either. . Keegan Records had 11 points, seven rebounds and three blocks for Colgate (12-1). After Colgate outscored Boston University, 34-26, in the first half, both teams scored 43...

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This has probably already been mentioned, but if Cox gets fired eventually, then I think you have to start looking at Thorr as being part of the problem for hiring the wrong person. But, Thorr did hire Hurley, so I guess Thorr gets a mulligan. Hiring Cox was not only completely defensible, it was p...

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He was also recruited by Richmond and St. Bonaventure, so it's not a case where only one school thought he was an Atlantic 10 level talent

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To me, the bubble consists of: Last Four Byes Last Four In First Four Out Next Four Out At the end of the regular season, we were not on any of those. Right, that's literally how everyone describes it Why so hung up on whether or not we would of been on the bubble, depending upon our A10T results i...

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Retain your key players. That has to be number one. If you lose one of Ish, Mitchells, Walker, Martin, I think short of a miracle NCAA appearance and win you have to dump Cox. If he can't retain the talent he recruits, what does it matter? NCAA at large at a minimum. Cox did not walk into a rebuild...

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If it's true that the money is there from boosters to drastically improve the program, that tells me that they don't want someone [Cox] holding back progress on the court any longer than they have to. What I mean is, URI could make a change now if they want to. I still think they will keep Cox anot...

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So here's a question for the good of the group --- The program basically has to poop or get off the pot with Cox after next season with an extension or a termination. What do you think it would take for Cox to earn an extension? NCAA Tournament? Top 5 but with promising core/recruits? Top 7 but wit...

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DFF, that's a nifty link and site - thanks! And yeah, it's pretty strong revisionist history to say that we were on the bubble last year. We were in the sense that at some point in the 2019-20 season, we were on the bubble, but we were off it well before the Atlantic 10 tournament was scheduled to ...

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DFF, that's a nifty link and site - thanks! And yeah, it's pretty strong revisionist history to say that we were on the bubble last year. We were in the sense that at some point in the 2019-20 season, we were on the bubble, but we were off it well before the Atlantic 10 tournament was scheduled to ...

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Jeff is a winner. he was +27 in 23 minutes last night. YES he was on the ball most of the time. He just makes everyone around him better. Always calm directing people where to be. So the only guy who couldn't see that was David Cox. He has to go just for that offense. Can we fire Cox and hire Jeff?...

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reef wrote: ↑3 years ago I wonder if Grasso takes Fordham job if offered ??

He shouldn't. That job will be a dead end until they move down and with what he's got coming back he can have another good year at that level and should be in line for better jobs

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