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The resurgent Rams’ fan base that made the short trip to New York filed out into the nearby streets to take advantage of the local 4 a.m. last call, gearing up for the following afternoon’s meeting with Dayton." Haha! We sure did!! Looking forward to some more Rocco's Tacos in March. And boy d...

NYGFan_Section208 wrote:Can't you hook your iPad or laptop up to your tv?

Yes, and I do. But that is more of a pain in the ass than just tuning to 574 and chilling. Plus, now I have to pay? It should at least be comped since they moved the game off TV.

As far as the notion that the coach is responsible per se for the performance of the team, I don't think that holds up under scrutiny. Follow that to its logical conclusion and you get an absurd result - what if the two best players went out for the year? Three best? At what point does the coach ge...

There will probably be like 100 people at the game though. DC shuts down after an inch of snow never mind what they are anticipating this time. And fuck! I thought Obadiah was joking!!!! STC. I don't joke like that. I am a fact based person. But I apologize for the poor wording of my post. I should...

I think that was Carr that said that.

Yes, I am against the practice when it is done in order to take the quoted piece out of context and present the words in a way other than what the author intended. In this case, that was not my intent at all, my response was just strictly to the part of what you said that I quoted. Do you feel I to...

I feel comfortable saying he probably would have been better this year than last, but even if he weren't last year's EC would still be helpful to this year's team.

Yes, Dan said that after losing a number of close games during Year 2 they had a class or program directed on Finishing. That was in advance of Last Year, Year 3. This year they knew they had EC and a more veteran team that had already gone through that so did not repeat going into Year 4. Then the...

Yeah, I'm just going for "unpreventable event that isn't your fault" here. I'm sure we could fine tune the analogy all day if we really wanted to, but I don't think it changes the point. The analogy was not the most important part of my post, just a simple way to illustrate my point in ano...

...how on earth do educated adults not understand it doesn't matter about injuries.... I just couldn't disagree more with this line of thinking. If you get hit by a drunk driver or struck by lightning on your way to work tomorrow, do you think it would be fair have your tardiness held against you? ...

I think my biggest issue with this year's team is that I believe they can be successful even without EC, especially in the A-10. We have the parts to win now in our starting lineup and serviceable bench players that go 3 deep. A very good PG who is controlling the game well and vastly improved his ...

Right, which is why everyone expected to go to the tournament this year. But then, we didn't have the same roster coming back, because our best player is not playing. If EC had announced he was transferring or entering the draft last April, would everyone have been cool with that and kept expectati...

Thanks for posting these. Nice that they make them available for people out of market or who weren't able to listen live. I always enjoy them.

Right, which is why everyone expected to go to the tournament this year. But then, we didn't have the same roster coming back, because our best player is not playing. If EC had announced he was transferring or entering the draft last April, would everyone have been cool with that and kept expectatio...

The Dayton thing is pretty easy to reconcile: we just aren't where Dayton is as a program right now. Dayton has been humming for a couple decades. We are in year 4 of basically starting the program from scratch. Is it that surprising that they are in a better position at this point to deal with the...

Seawrightspostgame wrote: None of this addresses the large out of state alumni base. Or the problem millennials face in employment. Especially in RI. I want to live in RI. I don't.

Yep.

State of URI fanbase, circa 2016:

That's fine, I guess. Maybe suffering through 17 years in the basketball wilderness justifies this collective tantrum. I just think it is unproductive and misguided.

The Dayton thing is pretty easy to reconcile: we just aren't where Dayton is as a program right now. Dayton has been humming for a couple decades. We are in year 4 of basically starting the program from scratch. Is it that surprising that they are in a better position at this point to deal with the ...

...how on earth do educated adults not understand it doesn't matter about injuries.... I just couldn't disagree more with this line of thinking. If you get hit by a drunk driver or struck by lightning on your way to work tomorrow, do you think it would be fair have your tardiness held against you? ...

Rod, that was a nice luxury that Cooley had with Cotton. If we had a guy that good and that experienced we might be in better shape. Also, PC went 10-8 in conference that year and was not an at-large team. They had to win the tournament to get in. So to this point how much difference is there really...

I don't think we should just hang our hat on EC getting hurt, and blame the whole season on that. IMO I think the overall talent was overated coming in, and we would have been disappointed in the results, even with EC. Other than Garrett, who has really exceeded expectations? Maybe Iverson, but he ...

I know blueram personally, and he is a good guy and a good fan. I am not trying to call him out. I just disagree with him on this point. End of the day, he bleeds the same shade of blue as I do. I can say the same about Rod and some of the other guys. I've been going to URI games for 30 years, which...

I guess, but JT and KI were better prospects coming out of high school. Where is the outrage at that? Shouldn't these two be able to carry this team further than EC could? I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but all due respect: who cares about HS rankings and stars? At the college level, EC i...

I mean, JT and KI show flashes of being really good. That's the problem, they show flashes. They need to bring their A game ALL the time. They don't. Is that mental? I think it's just human nature. Most kids their age aren't able to bring their A games every night. Most pro athletes aren't even abl...

If you lose your best player, you're not going to be as good as you would have been. If you expect this team to win the A10 outright and/or be an at-large team without their best player, you must have thought this was a Final Four team before the season started. I thought this was an at-large team ...

If you lose your best player, you're not going to be as good as you would have been. If you expect this team to win the A10 outright and/or be an at-large team without their best player, you must have thought this was a Final Four team before the season started. I thought this was an at-large team w...

theblueram wrote:Doesn't matter what the situation is.

This is the attitude that I just find mind boggling. How can it not matter what the situation is? I don't see how being in denial about reality is helpful.

Close it out Huskers!

Consider this analogy: Someone paid you to build them a house. When you finished it and it was exactly what they wanted, you called them to tell them it was done and that they should meet you at the property in the morning so you can show it to them. That night, a tornado rips off the attached gara...

Luke, I think waiting since 1999 is plenty patient for many in this fanbase. In 17 years, me and a lot of those on this board will no longer be here. We'd like to see things happen before we meet our maker. Keep it up swabbers and I'll give you the rest of my crack-pot psychological opinions of wha...

Rod, I am not the kool-aid guy. I am the anti-setting-your-own-hair-on-fire guy maybe. There's no question that losing some of these games, and the way we've lost some of these games, is very frustrating. But to look at it soberly, is it that surprising that losing your best player would take you do...

RR, don't say anything because you'll get triple teamed by the "what do you know?" crowd on this page. Yeah, we'd go undefeated! Blah! Blah! Blah! Whatever fantasy you like. NCAAs, Final Four..... I don't know about all that. Seems like you're intentionally misstating the argument so what...

The difference between being 16-2 or 15-3, and 11-7? No way, by himself. It's really not that big a difference, though, since the difference between 10-7 and 14-3 is only four or five possession - one or two per game. If we had lost all these games 7-10 points id say it's probably not realistic to ...

You're just focusing on the end of the game, and even there I think that it's wrong to assume that EC is incapable of making plays at the end just because he didn't as a young player. But that's missing the point. For the first 39 minutes, having EC would make a huge difference. I honestly find it r...

Your word salad doesn't help me at all to understand why you think this team wouldn't be an NCAA team with EC. They wouldn't be a perfect team even with him, obviously, but if they can have all the flaws you mentioned and still play all these teams down to the last possession or two, why wouldn't ad...

Would we be an NCAA team this season even with EC? I don't think so. And that's troubling. This I just don't get. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but what is this based on? On one hand, your issue is that we've lost a handful of games you feel we could have and should have won - games that w...

Always good when you have to scroll up to the top to see what thread you're in, because the conversation doesn't seem at all related to the topic you thought you clicked on.

Leave it to TP top slam the posters, as always. I don't recall EC doing much in the clutch since he's been here. Never hit a shot at the end of a half or end of a game. Think back to the Dayton game in Brooklyn. Use his loss as an excuse or a crutch. You guys are making him into Michael Jordan or S...

If EC hadn't got hurt and the season had otherwise unfolded in exactly the same way, this thread's existence and much of the commentary within it wouldn't be absurd.

I find the attitude of some of our fans to be amazing. There is nothing particularly exciting about a slightly above-average basketball team, so I get there not being frothing-at-the-mouth enthusiasm for this game or this team. But I also don't get the extreme disappointment some people are express...

W. Let's go Pats.

Whatever you want to say about the team's performance as a whole to this point in the season, Iverson and Garrett have both exceeded my expectations (which were not low coming in, by any means). They are real players.

Maybe Price should chill on blowing the "heat" off his hands to make sure he doesn't miss a three by 2 feet again.

Someone please tell me why they did not announce the la sale assistant coaches considering that pappy Owens, was one of the top 10 to ever wear a ram uniform-big time mistake and embarrassment. A boo for Dan Yorke.... I don't think the PA guy is just out there making it up as he goes along. That's ...

Hassan is an absolute stud.

Maybe Ohio State will drop their failure of a basketball program after they were blown out by Maryland today.

Iverson's floor game is so much more impressive than I had anticipated it being when he got here.

I guess my feeling about collapsing at the end of games is that if you're pretty good, you're not going to win every game and you're not likely to be blown out in every game you lose. Sometimes you're going to lose close ones, and when you do you always feel like you could have won them. It is also ...

I posted basically this same thing in the La Salle thread because I hadn't seen this thread and I think it may be more appropriate here. I find the attitude of some of our fans to be amazing. There is nothing particularly exciting about a slightly above-average basketball team, so I get there not be...

Happy birthday, Dan. Hope you get a win. My wife's birthday, also. A Rhody win today will make Dan's day better, and will also indirectly improve my wife's birthday by not leaving her with a miserable dinner companion. According to some posters, you take this way too seriously. According to my wife...

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