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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...

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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!

RIFan

Seems like we have the same discussion every season…and the answer is always the same…win. I don’t blame the kids, really what fun is it to go watch a crappy team lose and lose and lose. I certainly don’t go to as many games when we suck.

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RIFan

You are right RJ. I actually did say when all this started that there is an opportunity here for some of the big donors to step in and improve the trajectory of our program by paying big bucks to get top players. But it appears we are just happy to pay what our peers in the A10 pay. Thus waiting for...

RIFan

So this is us letting the few bad Apples spoil the bunch. Because deep pocketed ego maniacs want to feel important and fund collectives, everyone else needs to do it, even if the other 90% of the people think it’s not the correct way to go about it. So be right and get left behind or hold your nose ...

RIFan

Thx, I agree $10k is sizable and would consider someone who donates that amount a major donor. I guess I need to get over it, but the whole thing seems so sleazy to me. Why the heck are the fans paying the athletes basically directly? We donate to the school, pay for tix, buy swag and now have to pa...

RIFan

It seemed like almost every game he would get a steal and go coast to coast and finish with a dunk…sometimes a nice reverse one to really get the crowd going.

RIFan

Since everything is relative, what is a a sizable donation? You mention you know people who give sizable donations…is that $5,000, $25,0000, $100,000? What equals sizable?

RIFan

Granted it’s only my circle, but I the people I talk to who are fans of many schools, not just URI. Think the collectives and NIL in general is a mess and have not donated and have no intention of doing so. Just like Blue Man, most are under the impression they are just a cover for the big donors to...

RIFan

So, do we shift our gift or split it with the collective? Not sure the university would be happy with either of those options.

RIFan

UNH charged $85 for a tailgate vehicle spot, plus game tix. BTW, last year the fee was $20 for a spot. Spots sold out in minutes.

RIFan

Sadly, as we are all experiencing, the weather is not allowing for many good days to work outside and is delaying many people’s projects.

RIFan

As they say, Déjà vu all over again.

RIFan

Wow, not what I was expecting so far.

RIFan

I may have mentioned this here before but I have a colleague who worked at a university that was not ranked very high when these started to come out and he was in meetings where they discussed how to improve their rankings. The first thing they did was raise their price. That move alone moved them u...

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