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reef wrote: ↑3 years ago We could use a cupcake like FU to get us right

Duquesne is a cupcake. How did that work out for us?

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This loss is on Fatts and Harris. I said earlier that this was no guaranteed win. With Makhi down, Harris was needed and he has let the program down. Fatts wants to pad his career stats. Cox should pull a Jack Kraft. Anyone who thinks Fatts is one of the top couple players in URI history is crazy!!...

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Has anyone ever posted this story before? If so, my Apologies for posting again. If not, just another example of Cox bowing down to Fatts. Cox’s first year when they were struggling, Cox brought them to Narragansett beach for an early morning work out. Fatts refused to get out of the van and partic...

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rambone 78 wrote: ↑3 years ago Jacob and Tyrese knew what they were doing leaving here.

Lack of coaching.

There are two players that have been here all three years of the Cox era. How has Fatts improved since his sophomore year? How has Harris improved since he got on campus?

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The biggest sign of poor coaching is a team getting worse as the season goes on. Last year we went from consensus at large team to not on the bubble. This year our best game of the season was the fifth game and we've gotten worse from there. We have bad coaching. Unless things turn around dramatical...

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Blue Man, you've been following this program since the early days of Baron. Remember on the projo board there was a time when most of us thought JB was doing a great job? You know, the year we were 19-3? And then the entire house of cards came crashing down? Last season Cox had us fooled until late...

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... Are you a clairvoyant? Because that is the only plausible reason for your posts. They are certainly not based in fact, reality, or knowledge of anything but your undying love for Dave Cox. ... I know talent when I see it. I have experience hiring people. Do you work for a publicly traded compan...

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Vito's leaving and Perrantes bombing out are reflections of the overall situation. Regardless of personal likes and dislikes. I am not the only booster who feels this way. People talk like this is Oklahoma where every year a Heisman candidate is transferring in. I can't remember when in first year ...

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So today is the day for football. I originally planned to do one sport a day, but there’s a lot of ground to cover on this one (this will definitely be the longest one I do, by a lot), it is not for the faint of heart to read, and it’s daunting to write. A couple of times I went to write this over t...

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Rhode_Island_Red wrote: ↑3 years ago I think this thread belongs in something other than the basketball forum.

I put it here because it's a poll question related to the next part of where we stand as an athletic department

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Things to consider when voting in this poll. We haven't made the playoffs since 1985 or had a winning record in conference since 2001. We were 4-4 in 2010 and 4-4 in 2018. Every other season has been a losing season in conference. Albany was a member of the NEC and could only start increasing schola...

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Two days after the football team finished their 2010 season, Thorr announced that we would start playing in the NEC conference for football only starting in the 2013 season. Immediately before the 2012 season started that decision was rescinded, with us having never played a single game in the NEC. ...

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reef wrote: ↑3 years ago Come on 72 u are better than that

Objection, facts not in evidence

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I think most posters here are missing the development of a great college basketball coach. URI pays him a half million less than they offered Hurley and then says they have no more money for assistants and a basketball facility. David Cox will move onto a school that is not full of big thinkers but...

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A lot here about DC last 3 years and how Hurley left the program. Hurley wasn’t here long enough to create a coaching tree so it wasn’t proven that he developed his staff. Cox was not the answer and we should be looking at “Hurley” type coaches like Kelsey at Winthrop. Blueman’s post is spot on wit...

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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...

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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

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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

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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 ...

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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 n...

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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 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...

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.......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

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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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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...

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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...

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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

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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?

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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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