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RhowdyRam02

I think we're potentially at a very interesting crossroads for URI athletics coming up. Notice I said interesting and not good or bad, and it might be a good time to take stock of our recent history, where we are now, and possibly the future of the athletic department. In the coming days I'm plannin...

RhowdyRam02

Part of the problem was we were competing with every team. We should have blown out Fordham and UMass, not been competing with them. Those hurt our computer rankings and our strength in the eyes of people looking at our resume. We only had one good game in the last seven

RhowdyRam02

Is there a different way you'd like it broken down? I'm in the middle of a personal project on URI athletics and I looked at URI basketball during Thorr and pre Thorr. He's been here so long that for an equivalent pre Thorr time period I had to go all the way back to the 1994-95 season. I figured B ...

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A. A 13 year period where URI has a conference winning percentage of .546 with a regular season championship, a conference championship, and two trips to the round of 32 Or B. A 13 year period where URI has a conference winning percentage of .448 with a conference championship, three trips to the to...

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Rhody was no longer on the bubble when play ended last year, they played themselves off on every serious bracket projection

RhowdyRam02

I had my say in starting this topic. I believe the best time to lock up a future great coach is before he becomes a great coach. We need to show David that we are looking at him as our long-term coach, we want a similar understanding from him, and we are willing to pay him now for what we believe h...

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Down the stretch when we were a consensus bubble team we went Loss at Dayton 81-67 Win vs St. Joe's 73-55 Loss at Davidson 77-75 Win at Fordham 76-75 Loss vs St. Louis 72-62 Loss vs Dayton 84-57 Win at UMass 64-63 3-4. Two of the three wins were 1 point nail biters against putrid teams. One absolute...

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I think 2019-20 year was the ultimate “prove it” year. The talent was there. Experience was there (still had guys that actually played in a NCAA tournament). Second year coach, with more experience and opportunity to hire “his” guys. Competitive schedule was there. Even the results were there, mid ...

RhowdyRam02

I don't see any improvement in Cox' in game coaching since he started. Still doesn't know how to call timeouts, still too passive when things are going poorly. As someone new to the role, he should be showing drastic improvement in this area, we should be able to point to improvements, he's shown n...

RhowdyRam02

Yes, Cox not being on pace to make the tournament in his first three years with what he inherited is a giant bust. Context matters I’m sure when Thorr gave Cox the keys he had COVID-19, and losing transfers to UCONN and Kentucky on his roadmap. Pretty normal things that happen all the time right? E...

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Yes, Cox not being on pace to make the tournament in his first three years with what he inherited is a giant bust. Context matters as you say. Cox inherited a program that was at where Hurley was in year 3 of the rebuild. Year 3 vs year 1 - We go to the NIT 2nd round vs having a disjointed year that...

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Hurley failed for three years before succeeding here? Yeah, not exactly. He coached two seasons at Wagner, his second year was very good. His first two years here were spent completely rebuilding a nuclear waste site, his third year he brought a core of sophomores and freshmen to the second round of...

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The first of four no excuse to lose games in a row

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I don't see any improvement in Cox' in game coaching since he started. Still doesn't know how to call timeouts, still too passive when things are going poorly. As someone new to the role, he should be showing drastic improvement in this area, we should be able to point to improvements, he's shown no...

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... You were wanting URI AD to lock in Cox for the long term about a month ago. Still thinking so? Yes, we can do no better. Cox needs to grow and learn. The last time we quit on an AAU-type coach we got CFL. I will change my opinion if Ish leaves. Cox needs the right mentor. Cox is no dummy; quali...

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Context is important too. Leggett and Harris only played 9 minutes each. DJ is very much a spot up shooter and hardly has the ball in his hands. I’m not trying to take anything away from them, but obviously primary ball handlers will always have “more” turnovers. That being said the level of turnov...

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When is the next David Cox Radio show so there is a chance we can ask him a question or Bill Koch I know your on this board and read it could you ask why he plays Carey so much compared to Ish Next radio show you can ask him a question is quite a way away from happening I would guess. It's the medi...

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I've haven't understood his timeout management since game 1

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Another problem with the what did you expect, expectations are too high line of thinking is that they're looking at this year in a vacuum instead of Cox' entire tenure. The expectations from everyone, and the whole point of hiring Cox, was that if we hired him there would be no rebuild and we'd danc...

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In fairness, I didn't say they'll do it, I just said there's no excuse not to

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This team is like an object lesson for fans who go off about why isn’t that guy getting minutes? (not Ish related) why don’t they let that guy take more threes? why doesn’t that guy handle the point? For every question, they have a guy do it and then it’s like well that’s awful, don’t do that again...

RhowdyRam02

.......for me, no pectin in the sauce, collection of talent, sure.......playing in a system that does not fit their individual skill sets, not placing them in position to be using those skill sets to be successful.......apparently the season will go as Fatts goes.......hoping he shoots his way out ...

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We can't extend Cox and add money to his buyout. Either get rid of him after this year, deal with whatever hit recruiting might take by him being on a short deal, or come up with some creative extension that somehow doesn't increase what it would take to buy him out. David Cox should be firmly on th...

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Rhody15 wrote: ↑3 years ago Oh wow, look what happens when you get Makhel involved.

You get points, and you draw fouls.

Clueless Cox though didn’t want to do that for the first ten minutes of the game.

We literally have better in game coaches on this board than on our bench

RhowdyRam02

This is a game, where multiple drives to the rim will be available, for all URI guards and wings. Because of the trapping/pressing style of VCU. Hopefully they’ll take advantage of that. Not to be a debbie downer, but on the flip side, VCU's trapping/pressing style coupled with URI's propensity for...

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This is a game, where multiple drives to the rim will be available, for all URI guards and wings. Because of the trapping/pressing style of VCU. Hopefully they’ll take advantage of that. Not to be a debbie downer, but on the flip side, VCU's trapping/pressing style coupled with URI's propensity for...

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Cox isn’t saying that I am. I’d give any coach the same benefit of the doubt for a team with 8 new faces. People here somehow thought Cox would make a 75% new roster gel with no offseason? I’ve said it before, those folks are all living in a fantasy land Cox doesn't get a pass for his own poor play...

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Do you think the next coach will have special powers to make layups for his players? We should hope so!! Ah yes, the Jim Baron, "I told my guys to make the buckets but they didn't listen to me" defense. Always a classic Cox isn’t saying that I am. I’d give any coach the same benefit of th...

RhowdyRam02

This team is horrible. We should have blown out an undermanned St. Joe's and instead lucked into a win. The sooner we move on from Cox the better, we will never be a successful program with him as our head coach Do you think the next coach will have special powers to make layups for his players? We...

RhowdyRam02

This team is horrible. We should have blown out an undermanned St. Joe's and instead lucked into a win. The sooner we move on from Cox the better, we will never be a successful program with him as our head coach

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Rhody72 wrote: ↑3 years ago I can't wait to see who will be the first poster to write "just win baby" or "a win is a win" or something similar.

DCRams. They'll throw in an I told you so

RhowdyRam02

Problem with this team right now is that no one player is problem free. Cox wants to shorten the lineup but who do you even go with? Whether it’s turnovers, missed defensive assignments, Sheppard missed wide open layup, Harris trying to go 1 on 3 on the fast break, etc etc list goes on and on ........

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Rhody72 wrote: ↑3 years ago I wonder what URI basketball practices look like?

Are we sure they practice?

RhowdyRam02

Fatts a selfish 1-6 from the field and 0-3 from three and we're losing to a dog shit team. Those two things are highly correlated. If Fatts is going to continue to insist on taking the most shots and going to continue to shoot poorly we're going to continue to suck. It would be great if Cox could ge...

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Fatts should sit the whole second half. Time for him to get a message, because if Cox has been trying to send one it hasn't been received yet. You're shooting 1-4 and chuck up an off balance hero ball three early in the shot clock that had no chance of going in and because of your poor decision maki...

RhowdyRam02

With three of our four latest recruits we're going head to head with Brown, Rice, Robert Morris, Towson, Yale, East Carolina, George Mason, Kent State, Drake, Green Bay, and IUPUI. I don't see how we can be consistently good in the Atlantic 10 when our current staff isn't known for their player deve...

RhowdyRam02

We didn't just lose, we got curb stomped (14 point loss their place, 27 point loss our place) to a top 5 team (outstanding but certainly not debatably the best team in the country), we got dominated at home by St. Louis, lost in OT to Davidson, only beat a bad UMass team by 6 and 1, and only beat a...

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You and anyone else here who thinks how last year ended was an “epic choke job” needs to refresh your memory on what even happened. We lost 2 games to debatably the best team in the country and another to St Louis who was arguably outright better than us, and then a game in OT to a top 6 A10 team i...

RhowdyRam02

What?! He did not have the roster Hurley did...stop it. Cox started with Jeff, Cyril and Fatts. That is better than what Hurley had at the start, but he also did a better job with those early teams than Hurley did. Hurley left after Jared, EC, Stan, Hassan, Jarvis and Iverson were all gone. It was ...

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I just think you’re (and others here) wildly over exaggerating how much Cox has disappointed. Year 1 he was left with a shell of a roster (expected outcome). Year 2 he had a borderline tournament team and we’ll never know what would have happened considered COVID. And here we are in Year 3 with a l...

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First of all I wasn't a Baron supporter, I didn't like the hire initially, and felt he should of been gone well before 11 years. But no way did Cox underachieve his first year, losing almost all your starters and scorers from the previous year (EC, Jared, Stan, Jarvis, Berry). Last year we had a gr...

RhowdyRam02

People on this board think things are bad now? Imagine you lose Cox and with the open transfer window out go all the new faces he just brought in. Program gets once again reset 2-3 years minimum. We were spoiled by the end of the Hurley era. We aren’t Dayton or VCU. Expecting to make the tournament...

RhowdyRam02

People on this board think things are bad now? Imagine you lose Cox and with the open transfer window out go all the new faces he just brought in. Program gets once again reset 2-3 years minimum. We were spoiled by the end of the Hurley era. We aren’t Dayton or VCU. Expecting to make the tournament...

RhowdyRam02

Regardless of what you think Cox will get an extension. That will be necessary to get the caliber of recruits they are going after, these kids will not go to a program with a lame duck coach and coach K isn't walking through the door. Many programs are experiencing roster turnovers which will conti...

RhowdyRam02

The $11.2 million first phase was funded through the RI Capital Plan Fund. Have to be honest, not sure the ins and outs of how some projects need to be put before voters, why some can just be done, and why one project (Fine Arts) can have part just done and then part has to go to voters. From the 20...

RhowdyRam02

I don't know about #1 class, who knows how these recruits work out. We certainly lost a lot more (graduates) that year, than we gained: Brendan- Decommitted and followed Hurley Dana - He turned out to have off court issues as we now know. Tyrese - Left, followed DH JH - Still here, been battling in...

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I don't know about #1 class, who knows how these recruits work out. We certainly lost a lot more (graduates) that year, than we gained: Brendan- Decommitted and followed Hurley Dana - He turned out to have off court issues as we now know. Tyrese - Left, followed DH JH - Still here, been battling in...

RhowdyRam02

DC was gifted the #1 recruiting class when he took over 3 years ago. That class no longer exists and we are sitting at 3-4 in OOC. He's either going to be a miracle worker, and get us to the NCAAT this year, or he's going to be a head coach with 2 years remaining on his contract. I don't know about...

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Most players can be stopped on offense. It is a matter of how much defense is going to devote to stopping you. And, that depends on how much your teammates can make the opponents pay for not devoting sufficient resources to stopping them. Against Wisconsin in the first half, Fatts' teammates stunk ...

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