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Clearly this team has just given up for the season with this complete joke of an effort. Archie has an unbelievable task to get some players in here, this team flat out sucks, really not interested in keeping anyone outside of Fuchs & Cam. This is horrific If we overhaul the entire roster again...

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Most likely just two more games of this crap.

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Good news. 99% probability the season will be over in one week by the end of next Wednesday night. Our staff will be able to entirely focus on recruiting sooner than most other programs.

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All but four contest entries eliminated with two games left (ytd record of 11-18). They were the most pessimistic on the season for URI: 64 RE_Bred 13 18 6 12 7 6 67.75 house 14.85 4621 65 notmikepowell 13 18 5 13 8 5 66.72 house 13.65 4998 66 ramfan85 13 18 7 11 6 7 65.10 house 14.25 4785 67 sgreen...

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Yeah, how did the A-10 get multiple bids back in the day? Winning marquee games in the non-conference and not losing to low majors. Even high majors need marquee OOC wins. Look at Ole Miss right now. They went undefeated in the OOC, 13-0. Best wins? UCF and Memphis who are NIT teams right now. Ever...

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It is very difficult to have great OOC wins when you have so few opportunities and rarely host any games against such opponents. This then carries over into conference play as the NET rankings of all your league opponents is such that you cannot rise. Just the way the power conferences and NCAA admi...

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9 A10 Teams with NET between 68 and 108 The power conferences and their allies that run the NCAA must be very pleased that their secretive NET ranking system is working exactly as they intended. It means that only one A-10 team (#21 Dayton) is at this time guaranteed an NCAA bid. Rankings in the ra...

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Good luck to anyone that plans on keeping track of the players that enter the portal. Whoever does that given the likely high number of transfers must surely have a lot of time on their hands.

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Sign of the changed times in the college era of free agency? No Neil post on Senior Day. Update - looking at his profile, it seems he has not posted at all this season. I sincerely hope he is ok. I’ve seen him at the games, he’s as OK as any of us who continue to sign up for this pain. Thanks for t...

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Sign of the changed times in the college era of free agency? No Neil post on Senior Day.

Update - looking at his profile, it seems he has not posted at all this season. I sincerely hope he is ok.

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After the NLRB ruling that Dartmouth men's basketball players were college employees, the players voted 13-2 on Tuesday 03/05/2024 to join the local services union which already represents many Dartmouth employees. The school is appealing the NLRB decision and was unsuccessful in delaying the player...

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Does our new facility has some rule that prohibits practicing defense?

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I have read that UMass will have to pay the A-10 an exit fee of $4M if their departure goes as planned in more than a year from now. It would be $5M if leaving was less than a year notice. It likely will not have to be concerned about leaving behind NCAA revenues as it earned none to date in the las...

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If URI and Davidson were all alone tied in the standings, URI would get the better seed by virtue of its early conference win over the Wildcats in NC.

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Magnets are an attractive gift.

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We all knew this was coming but now it is official...... After another courtroom loss, the NCAA has told its enforcement staff to halt investigations into booster-backed collectives or other third parties making name, image and likeness compensation deals with Division I athletes. In a letter to me...

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Our boosters might have to open their wallets again to make it possible to bring in better talent. Even then, who wants to join a losing program? The sad part is the opposite is more likely to happen. The boosters have given like no other time in history and this is the product on the floor. This i...

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I applauded the Miller hire at the time and still hope he can eventually find success here. I had much lower expectations for Archie's first two seasons than most as I was expecting a rough start with discernible incremental improvement. I had no post season contention illusions but thought we would...

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The facts: Miller versus Hurley at the Two year mark 2011-12 | 7-24 | Baron 2012-13 | 8-21 | Hurley 2013-14 | 14-18 | Hurley 2021-22 | 15-16 | Cox 2022-23 | 9-22| | Miller 2023-24 | 11-18 ytd | Miller Hurley's first two seasons both showed improvement with both being superior to the last year of his...

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I believe, for A-10 standings, that Davidson's forfeitures resulted in losses for them and wins for St Louis, Dayton and Fordham. This is based on the official standings on the A-10 site showing all teams played 18 games per their records. As for the tournament, Davidson was excluded from seeding an...

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Hey guys. Serious question. Do you think Archie is feeling it and might be receptive to a reduced buyout ? Probably not. Archie's URI compensation is about to dramatically escalate. His salary jumps $500K in year 3 which I believe may start after the two year contract signing anniversary of March 1...

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Archie's overall coaching grade thus far into his URI tenure: F I think the results thus far fully support this grade. The only question is whether he can in fact turn things around after such a disappointing start to his time in Kingston. The honeymoon period is effectively over for him. Fans are g...

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Did people see what the Davidson Women's program announced on March 1st? The Davidson College athletic department announced Friday that the remainder of the 2023-24 women's basketball season has been canceled due to a significant number of injuries. They had already forfeited two games before then f...

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It really makes no sense for anyone thinking we should drop down to a lower conference. Hurley came here specifically because he wanted to get out of a one bid conference. Now some of you think it wouldn’t be a bad idea. What the actual F! It is not really people saying that URI should drop down. I...

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After the loss yesterday, the present NET rankings of the bottom three A-10 schools: #207 GW #212 URI #215 St Louis While SLU did not overtake our Rams as I had though might occur with a loss to them, the worst NET rank in the conference is still within reach for Rhody. https://www.ncaa.com/rankings...

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The most likely tournament seed that URI will get is now 13th. Fortunate that SLU has two tough games left which they will probably lose. They would now win the tiebreaker if teams were tied in standings. 14th seed in 2023 to a probable 13th seed in 2024. I think it safe to say that all were hoping ...

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I am calling it now - this team will not win another game this season.

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Two years into Archie's tenure and we are still at ground zero.
Extremely disappointed and discouraged as there appears to be little to be hopeful about.

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I think if we drop down to the America East attendance would drop even further and it will be hard for us to attract a quality coach ? Attendance and fan interest would plummet, the talent of players drop, and the quality of coach fall. It would also likely mean lower revenues which would in turn l...

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All Conference Awards

Will URI be entirely shut out from A-10 honors for a second straight season?

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With the direction that college sports is going, it would not surprise me to someday eventually see URI in the America East with some of the other New England flagships. It however would not occur unless the A-10 became a perennial one bid league and totally imploded losing its premier programs (Day...

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Don't home teams typically get a 3 point advantage? If so, does that mean URI would be a underdog at a neutral site or on the road?

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With remaining games at URI, home to Dayton, and at St Bonaventure, the Billikens are also looking at this game as their best opportunity for a win left on the schedule.

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Yup RF1, we'll be fine in the MAC. In the A10 teams can do a heavy spend on basketball. One more reason that we fit better in the MAC. The revenue stream will be higher. But do want to note, both UMass and Bonnies are under 3M and doing OK. With the UMass administration decision to de-emphasis men'...

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Martin just became the highest paid coach in the MAC by more than $1M a year. Croce makes $650k a year. Lol. For more context on the men's basketball annual operating budgets (coach and staff salaries a significant portion) for A-10 and MAC schools, I found this link for 2023 data: theresourcenexus...

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There’s discussion of Keith Dambrot retiring at the end of the season and Duquesne elevating associate head coach Dru Joyce. Speculation was already high before the season that this might be it for Dambrot. The health of his wife and the Dukes performance (had higher expectations) this season have ...

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This game probably is the best chance for a win the rest of this season. A loss here could even see SLU and GW leapfrog URI in the NET rankings making Rhody the worst A-10 member.

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Archie is not going to be fired anytime soon. That however does not mean he is beyond people questioning his approach. I think it safe to say there is not a single person associated with URI that is happy where we are at the end of Miller's second season. The current process is not working and thing...

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Less than two weeks now left for this seasons. The end is near!

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Thankfully another game of this season is in the past. Probably just four more games left of this crap unless they win a PIG game in Brooklyn. The sooner this season ends, the better. fans need a break after two years of absolutely putrid basketball.

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Matt Vautour, the longtime UMass basketball beat writer for multiple Pioneer Valley newspapers opines on how this MAC move will hurt the hoops program. UMass move to MAC is brutal blow to its men’s basketball program | Vautour https://www.masslive.com/umassfootball/2024/02/umass-move-to-mac-is-bruta...

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section(105) wrote: ↑1 month ago Nice to go back into the pages to re-read Rod posts……..miss his thoughts

At least Rod didn't have to suffer through the last four seasons. His death occurred right after we had got back to the tournament and were on top of the A-10.

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Didn’t do any research but told someone the other day that this feels like the worst 4 year stretch in program history. We’ve had some awful 3 year runs like 2 Jerry D years and first Baron year. Last Baron year and first two of Dan. But can’t recall 4 in a row this dreadful. You have to go all the...

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On the happy thoughts side, only two weeks left in this dreadful season. URI is pretty much guaranteed to play in an A-10 PIG Tuesday 03/11/24 game. Even if they were to beat one of the league's other dregs, I cannot imagine them winning the next game on Wednesday. Very much looks to be the second ...

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As I noted in the VCU thread, our season has just two more weeks left as of today. Rhody is all but guaranteed to play in the Tuesday PIG game and it is extremely unlikely the Rams would win two A-10 tournament games to get beyond Wednesday night. Let the countdown mercifully begin.

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On the happy thoughts side, only two weeks left in this dreadful season. URI is pretty much guaranteed to play in an A-10 PIG Tuesday 03/11/24 game. Even if they were to beat one of the league's other dregs, I cannot imagine them winning the next game on Wednesday. Very much looks to be the second s...

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Fan base conflicted on UMass’ decision to leave Atlantic 10, move to the MAC
https://www.gazettenet.com/Fan-base-con ... C-54198789

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mainejeff2 wrote: ↑1 month ago Yes! Keep it going URI! $$$

All we need now is an Alfond type donor.

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How are UMass hoop fans reacting on their board about the move to the MAC mens hoop It is the men's basketball fans that seem most disappointed. Their football fans seem happy to finally have a conference home. I do not think they even care which conference it is. Many of them had recently been all...

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Even if the ACC lost them, they would still have UNC, NC St, Duke,Syracuse , Pitt, Wake Forest, and BC. UConn would jump to join that group for all sports securing a home for football with several old rivals. The Big East without football is not in the most secure position given what is transpiring...

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