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We don't want a 20 game schedule in the A10. Too many RPI killers at the bottom. The BE will be next in a few years....they will likely add an 11th team to make a 20 game league schedule doable. I would prefer multiple OOC games vs P=5 teams and an 18 game A-10 schedule. If however the other P-5 le...

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https://twitter.com/jonrothstein/status/988877970340286465?s=21 As many expected, the PAC-12 may soon be following the lead of the Big Ten and ACC in going to a 20 game league schedule. This would further eliminate more OOC game opportunities versus P-5 power conference teams. 20 Game Conference Sch...

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For some reason, it seems that no women's coach can succeed here. La-Fource does not appear to have the program headed in the right direction. Time to reassemble the deck chairs when her contract is up next year (5 year deal) and hire someone else to see if they can break the cycle. It should not be...

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If you are in Boston, two MA breweries will open off site taprooms downtown. Night Shift will have a tap room in the basement level of the Converse HQ building next to the TD Garden (on the water between Zakim and N Washington St bridges. It is planned to be open by late 2018. The Boston Beer Co (Sa...

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Rhody83 wrote:

Green will not be transferring to LaSalle

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http://www.providencejournal.com/sports/20180421/bill-reynolds-new-beginnings-for-uris-david-cox Reynold’s Cox article. Another link if above does not work for some: New beginnings for Rhode Island’s Cox http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/ProJo/TranslateArticle.aspx?doc=TPJ%2F2018%2F04%2F22...

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Is this the UCONN board now? Can we move the f);@ on? He’s gone. He’s happy. We’ve got a new coach. He’s happy. The bitterness from grown men is becoming very unsettling. Let’s focus on our future. We’ve had over a month to grieve! Many Ram fans have disliked UConn back to a time well before Dan Hu...

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There is a difference. He is entering the finite world of the elite. In hs basketball there is room to excel. At Wagner it's a joke to even point to that, but obviously there was room to grow in that league. There was lots of room to grow at URI in the A10. Specifically, in the vacuum of the best c...

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I expect Dan, at UConn, to replicate and perhaps even slightly better the success he had at URI. That however will not be enough to please Husky fans. They will want numerous final fours and NCAA championships.

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Billyboy78 wrote:
Rhody83 wrote:
Wow. That would be an unbelievable get for LaSalle.

LaSalle has a history of getting high ranked Philly native players that first went elsewhere to transfer back to the city to play for the Explorers.

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IMHO Hurley made a huge mistake with this move.... Yuk and getting yukier by the minute. I like where we are at with Coach Cox, I think we’re gonna roll. Hurley just has to remember to always have his back to the wall to avoid getting stabbed. Be it the UConn President, AD Dave Benedict, or Calhoun...

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Wow that is big news regarding Buckingham. He was a highly regarded recruit, and with the way the natives are restless in Richmond this doesn't bode well for Mooney. He was likely going to get 1 more year to get them back near the top of conference or be out of there. Their fans on twitter seem to ...

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On top of that, the budget that RF1 posted was for the 2016-2017 season, before NCAA money started rolling in, before ticket sales were the highest level they'd been in years and before donors saw the team having real NCAA success (making them more likely to open their wallets). As revenue sources ...

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I hope UConn has to pay every cent it promised Kevin Ollie in its contract with him. Their actions toward an alumnus and winning coach of an NCAA championship are truly dishonorable. If money comes out of the men's basketball budget to pay for the buyout and the team has to fly coach to places such ...

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There was an article in the Richmond Times Dispatch that listed the reported budgets for Men's Basketball expenses for the fiscal year July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017, the latest figures available. This is what URI is up against in the A-10: Link: http://www.richmond.com/sports/college/numbers-game-c...

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The new coach in Storrs should be made aware of the facts since he appears ignorant of them. The A-10 has sent more teams to the NCAA Tournament and earned more units than the AAC since it was formed five years ago. By bids per year and earned NCAA units: NCAA BIDS AND UNITS BY LEAGUE SINCE 2014 201...

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But who is saying they aren't upgrading? It is implied by the lack of a significant public commitment to things such as staff salary and increased charter flights. While Thorr may not have 100% ruled these out, he has also not specifically endorsed or guaranteed them with his public comments and ne...

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It seems like there is a segment of our fan base that is MAD that are not operating with a bigger budget. As in life, URI basketball can only spend the money that it has. That segment of the fan base exists because URI DOES HAVE MORE MONEY from and for the program at this time. The 2018 NCAA units ...

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https://twitter.com/CDiSano44/status/986248635276029952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2Ftwitter.min.html%23986248635276029952 This seems to make more sense. I could not have envisioned URI not wanting this game. If Nevada wanted out, there would probably have h...

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They have a large fan base with a big arena.....in the Albany area which would be fine. They are a private Jesuit school which fits the BE profile though. Siena is not Jesuit. It is run by the Franciscans, the same order that administers St Bonaventure. There are only four Jesuit Order institutons ...

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I think Siena is exactly the type of place that should take a shot with Pitino. They are irrelevant now and will be irrelevant again when he leaves them in shambles after his time there, so might as well go for it. Rick Pitino leading a team called the SAINTS? I can just envision it now - the promo...

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Siena would have ZERO credibility if it were to hire Pitino. It just parted ways with Patsos over his supposed bad behavior. How could it then morally justify hiring a coach that had a national championship vacated, supplied hookers to potential players and their dads, had sex with the wife of a sta...

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NorthernRamFan wrote:
Last I heard SLU increased Macon’s salary by almost 100k and that put him out of reach for us... again I reiterate. They need to hire young and hungry!

You might as well also add inexperienced and cheap.

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It seems that URI is completely satisfied with the success the basketball program ACHIEVED but not focused and fully committed on making it continue. This is very disappointing as it is anything but THINKING BIG.

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Men's baseball is having an unusually bad season this year. The start as typical was not good given all the away games versus strong competition in warmer climates. The difference this year is that it did not improve once they got back north. Now stand at 8-24 for the season with a dismal 1-8 in lea...

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Meanwhile the former URI coach will be paying his assistants the following salary at his new gig: Hunter $315,000 Moore $250,000 Young $250,000 Total Base Salary: $815,000 UConn Men's Notebook: Salary For Assistants, Benedict Discusses Recruiting http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-mens-basketball/h...

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Thorr has been very creative in finding money for the HC position. He now has to do that for the assistants. If Cox can't hire away from St Louis because of $ then we have a problem. St Louis has always been well funded and above anything URI is doing in the money department. Why would that be a pr...

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Westerly is a good half hour commute from campus. I use to commute from West Kingston to Westerly. Hurley lived in Saunderstown for at least a couple years. Hurley lived in the Saunderstown postal zone but no where near the water. A little birdie told me he lived west of Rte 1 off Shermantown Road ...

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rambone 78 wrote:So it depends on whether people are willing to give Dan the benefit of the doubt.

We did for six years. No more. His actions in the last few weeks have rendered much of what he said to be untruths.

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The sad part is that supposedly legit media cited and perpetuated a report from such a weak journalism source that had already been denied. It is sad that other media did no due diligence in looking up the reputation of GoLocalProv and seeing that such report cited no named sources and was not autho...

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Hurley going after former URI recruits? I thought he intimated he wouldn't do that.

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How can a URI home game include a doubleheader with other teams? I can't imagine this game being counted by the NCAA RPI formula as anything but a neutral site for all four teams.

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Looks to be a done deal. Dayton will be part of the undercard game for WVU vs Rhody..

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I would think the away Brown game is the most likely contest to get changed. Doing so would solve two problems - get more home games for this season and return the series so that URI would play once in Providence every season (alternate PC and Brown every other year). The HOF Tournament in 2016 mess...

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Give no attention to pieces that have no named author such as the case with GolocalProv. These anti URI pieces have been attributed to their "Sports Team." Their site however has no listing with specific actual names of such team.

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https://twitter.com/BWMcGair03/status/983735323908820992 could be a good start. experience on the bench. he was well liked at UCONN. He is a Groton native that went to UConn and Northeastern. Supposedly close to Calhoun since his playing days under him at Northeastern and later had stints as part o...

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TJ Buchanan is being promoted to Director of Basketball Operations. Glad to have TJ sticking around and get a nice promotion. Nice promotion after just one year on a D1 staff. Will see a significant bump percentage wise as his salary goes from $38,000 to $46,500. I would imagine he can use it havin...

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Richmond, VA at #171?

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Transfer from Delaware. Will sit out a year and play two remaining years at SJU

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Great hire. Plus it means we've now got 3 potentially strong A10 teams in PA - St. Joe's, La Salle and Duquesne. Our conference is definitely on the way up! I would not go so far as to proclaim Duquesne and LaSalle to be strong until they actually get there and stay that way for a while. The two sc...

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Still feel bad for Fatts. As a freshman making his first trip around the league, he was visibly upset on the road out at Dayton when the fans chanted that his coach would not be there next year. Hurley at the time told him to pay no attention to it and ignore it. Just six weeks later, Hurley abandon...

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Looks like LaSalle has selected and come to terms with a new coach - Villanova Assistant Ashley Howard. Press release will go out today at 5pm with an introductory press conference tomorrow at 11pm. https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/983063140651978753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%...

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Interesting clause about URI paying the golf or beach club annual membership fee up to 8k. Explains why Hurley and Skinner belonged to a Narragansett beach club. I don't think either were golfers. Baron on the other hand along with his sons liked to golf and he went with membership at Quidnessett CC.

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Thanks got it (and saved it for future reference). This is that section directly copied from the contract: 5.0 Support Staff: 5.1 The Coach shall have the right to select and retain three (3) assistant men's basketball coaches who shall be paid on the bi-weekly payroll subject to the same payroll de...

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How many positions does the 425K staff salary pool pertain to? It seems some are just assuming it covers the three "coach" positions. Are the directors, coordinators, and Athletic trainer not part of this pool? The list below from the gorhody site lists the following ten staff positions li...

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I had thought Jerry D lived in the condos across from Scarborough in Narragansett. Baron lived in a development in East Greenwich just off Frenchtown Road west of Rte 2. Hurley lived in a development off Shermantown Road in NK. Cooley lives off Middle Road in EG. Harrick, Pitino, and Welsh all lived...

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