KeaneyBlue - The URI Basketball Forum

RIFan

Remember, improvement isn’t linear…if at all.

RIFan

The far from finished product, work in progress and wait til conference play talk was what we were saying at this point in the season last year. The fact that we are doing it again this year is disappointing. The season is basically a third over…

RIFan

While the overall talent level of this team is greater than last year we still do not have a star player, our current best players should be our 2nd, 3rd or 4th on an actual good team. The FT issue may be a big problem for a while as most of this team is projected back...I thought I read somewhere t...

RIFan · Re: 12/6 | Brown | 7:00PM (ESPN+) This sucks

This sucks

RIFan · Re: 12/6 | Brown | 7:00PM (ESPN+) Let’s pull a Fatts steal and 3!

Let’s pull a Fatts steal and 3!

RIFan

Instead of being down 2 we should have won this by 4-6 and game is over…just hit your FTs

RIFan

Not including miss opportunities because of missed front ends of 1 and 1

RIFan

We are not good enough to win consistently if we are going to leave 10+ points a game at the FT line.

RIFan

Get used to the new normal…gone are the days of developing a team. This maybe a very frustrating year, where we will be saying, “if they just hit their FTs” a lot.

RIFan

Maybe schools like us can be D1 in Basketball, FCS in football and D2 for everything else and that could get you around the $30k issue? There has to be a loophole. Or you chop a bunch of sports…which would be very unfortunate. That would be the necessary impact- either cut sports or allow schools t...

RIFan

Maybe schools like us can be D1 in Basketball, FCS in football and D2 for everything else and that could get you around the $30k issue? There has to be a loophole. Or you chop a bunch of sports…which would be very unfortunate.

RIFan

And emptier than now. Will be able to move back to Keaney and get rid of the Ryan to expand the football stadium. We will be in the equivalent of FCS for basketball! No thanks. It’s basically the real division 2.

RIFan

NCAA proposes rule to let schools, athletes enter NIL deals

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... -nil-deals

Suggests creating triers in D1 and letting the big money schools/conferences create their own rules.

RIFan · Re: 12/2 | Providence | 7:30PM (FS1) FTs killing us…ours and theirs

FTs killing us…ours and theirs

RIFan

I hope the team is looking to Oklahoma as well.

RIFan

Now that’s more like it! Nice comeback win against a quality team. Just need to figure out how not to dig ourselves the big holes to start against good teams.

RIFan

I find it interesting that the first 10ish minutes of the first game were a disaster and the last 10ish minutes of the second game were a disaster and we played reasonably well for the 60 minutes in between. I finally brought myself to look at the final box score and on a positive note we shot FTs w...

RIFan

I believe Archie is a good coach, but nobody is really a proven builder/winner at this level in this new portal/NIL error (play on words to explain how I feel). He was a proven builder/winner in the old system. This is new territory and I hope he can do it. I think success will be much more uneven a...

RIFan

True the portal gives and takes. Well, I guess we don’t expect to have that kind of success again(Hurley). If we wont be able to keep our best freshman…how many people think Cam will make it to his junior year here?

RIFan

Thankfully I missed the second half meltdown. You can’t compare Hurley’s timeline to success with Archie’s. Archie has the new portal and was able to purge and add 9 new players, some with college experience. If this weekend is indicative of what we are in for this season, I’d say we are way behind ...

RIFan

Yes, we could beat them. For some reason we were not ready from the start

RIFan · Re: 11/18 | Northwestern | 2:30PM (ESPN+) | Hall of Fame Tip-Off It’s a game

It’s a game

RIFan

Tied if we hit FTs

RIFan

If we hit had our FTs we would only be down 6 with a chance to be down 4

RIFan · Re: 11/18 | Northwestern | 2:30PM (ESPN+) | Hall of Fame Tip-Off Ok now

Ok now

RIFan · Re: 11/18 | Northwestern | 2:30PM (ESPN+) | Hall of Fame Tip-Off 3!

RIFan

3 points left at the line

RIFan · Re: 11/18 | Northwestern | 2:30PM (ESPN+) | Hall of Fame Tip-Off FTs…

FTs…

RIFan · Re: 11/18 | Northwestern | 2:30PM (ESPN+) | Hall of Fame Tip-Off Ok, mini run

Ok, mini run

RIFan

Back to the portal this offseason and see if we can start from scratch again

RIFan

Yes, this may be the worst start to a game in URI history

RIFan

We are on pace to score 8 points for the game

RIFan

Looks like 5 vs 10 when we are on offense

RIFan

So far a big smack of reality

RIFan

section(105) wrote: ↑5 months ago
NYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑5 months ago
RIFan wrote: ↑5 months ago I don’t recall seeing Weston, any idea why?
Coach Carroll in Alumni Lounge said it was flare up of the knee injury before he got here.
Injured

Thx! Hope it gets better quick!

RIFan

KingstonLane wrote: ↑5 months ago
RIFan wrote: ↑5 months ago I don’t recall seeing Weston, any idea why?
Knee. Supposedly they’re optimistic he’ll be back this weekend

Thx, hope they are right.

RIFan

I don’t recall seeing Weston, any idea why?

RIFan

Ok, this team would have beat last years team by 30. Just need to shore up the FTs! So nice to see good basketball again!

RIFan

Yes, good for him. He certainly had ample opportunity here, maybe this is just a case of a change of scenery does the trick.

RIFan

18-13
10-8
70.27
House 15.27
4821

Thanks! And Go Rhody!

RIFan

I hate NIL, but I might not hate it as much if we started dropping big bucks and getting 4*’s to sign here instead of a P6 school.

RIFan

It’s tough recruiting high school players now if you are not in a Power 6 conference. If they pan out or are better than expected, they will be recruited hard by the P6 conferences. The big east is part of the power 6, but they do not have quite the same resources as a whole and are also susceptibl...

RIFan

It’s tough recruiting high school players now if you are not in a Power 6 conference. If they pan out or are better than expected, they will be recruited hard by the P6 conferences. The big east is part of the power 6, but they do not have quite the same resources as a whole and are also susceptible...

RIFan

Will we learn this or the results of the scrimmage first?

RIFan

I honestly don’t remember if the scores came out last year, but seeing how bad we were last year, that was probably a good idea. What’s to hide this year, unless we were equally as unimpressive as I assume we were last year.

RIFan

Kinda bummed nothing has “leaked”. Come on people, these are not state secrets!

RIFan

Agreed, I’m ok with 2-3 and maybe if all things align 4…but 1 is unacceptable and will have a long lasting negative impact on the league and member schools. Many people thought the A10 was a wanna be conference when we were getting 3-5 teams in, what are we now in their minds?

RIFan

Providing that many college kid’s vehicles sounds like a liability nightmare.

RIFan

Since being bad for 3+ seasons means any students who know what success looks like are gone and you are starting from scratch with regards to building a student fan base. For them it’s “show me”, prove you are good before you will get my attention.

RIFan

Remember midnight madness when Harrick was here and I believe it was broadcast on ESPN? Just win baby!

Search found 2580 matches

Login • Register