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josephski

Reynolds took the typical RI defeatist route vis a vis the URI football program. Rather than think of making the fixes so that it compete with other regional New England schools (UNH and UMaine) with similar size/budget constraints along with poor local recruiting talent, he takes the surrender and...

josephski

Just googled Hassan Martin an article by Gordon was the third link down so that might explain it. Either way I do disagree with Kmac's picks but I'd prefer a bit of variety rather than everyone voting the same. I'd also rather see picks like Kmacs than Elton Alexander who is from Cleveland and put O...

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he said he'd have a column with the reasoning for his votes According to CollegePollTracker he has SIX, count 'em, SIX "extreme" picks which are 5 or more positions above/below actual poll position. http://www.collegepolltracker.com/basketball/pollster/kevin-mcnamara/2016/pre-season Seth ...

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5. huge upgrade to facilities which re-energizes program :D Completely agree Even if a plan is simply rolled out for the future - just need some kind of hope. This seems like the only shot, and still a gamble...roll out a plan for future development of the facilities...as it is right now, if you're...

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I get that it's splitting hairs but it's also the difference between being in the top 25 and on the outside looking in. We've had a ton of publicity due to being in the top 25 which probably would not have happened to the same extent if we were predicted to be in the 26-30 range. Ultimately it won't...

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Yea and all four of Dayton's starters have been to the NCAA tournament. Three out of the four have been to the NCAA tournament all three years. Experience does make a difference in college basketball, whether users on this board want to admit it or not.

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ATPTourFan wrote:Chris DiSano makes a valid point as usual

It's a nice idea but not really true. If you look at both our conference schedules you can easily argue Dayton has the tougher schedule.

josephski

The theme was right only if you want URI to drop the Football Program. Most here do want the program dropped so most will like the article. If you don't want the URI Football Program dropped then the theme is wrong. But bottom line, the reasons for dropping the program were weak. Concussions, New J...

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Fucking embarrassing. I don't know why anyone expects things to change. It's hilarious too because people on this board posted Thor's comments in the offseason about being "behind" the football program. He's been here 9 years and nothing has changed. We'll probably win 1 more game and peop...

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All three road OOC games are going to be pretty difficult especially if we're ranked. I'm fairly optimistic we'll beat Providence because not only are we a much better team but Hurley is due for a win against them. If we're still ranked going into Valpo and Houston then those games will certainly be...

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Langevine is ready to defend at this level. Sticking to my opinion that he is first big off the bench in the first real test (Cindy) And while we will have to contest with their size they will have to navigate 4 high level guards hopefully creating havoc on both ends of the floor. I hope you're rig...

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Travis Ford is slimy and uses every trick in the book. SLU is desperate to return its basketball program to championship level and have likely given Ford many resources. Plus, the promise of instant playing time cannot be overlooked. The cupboard is fairly bare for SLU with Crews' recruits, so Ford...

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Wisconsin under Bo Ryan redshirted guys constantly. Current starter Ethan Happ redshirted as did former McDonald's All-American Brian Butch. Tom Izzo has done it, most notably with Morris Peterson who went on to the NBA. Trevor Cooney redshirted his first year at Syracuse. So it's not as foreign as...

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This whole conversation about red shirts is comical. Some top teams only have 11 players on scholly since anything more then that wouldn't even sniff the court anyway. Obviously if we get hit with 4-5 season ending injuries then all 13 guys might get some playing time. Other than that why waste 20 ...

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Might as well not even worry about Duke at all. We haven't beaten anybody as good as this cinncinati team in a while. Especially as far as the nonconference goes. We have to be as good as everybody is projecting us to be, to be able to beat them. So in that game we should really get a feel for how ...

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There should be a decided fan advantage on Saturday vs Cincinnati. I don't think however that this will be the case on Sunday if Rhody meets the Blue Devils. Duke has fans everywhere and travels well. Saturday has already sold out so I agree there will be a huge home court advantage for Rhody. Ther...

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Seawrightspostgame wrote:StubHub at $70 today. Do I have to buy these to lock it in? Is there any other release?

You can get a 3 game mini plan with the URI game for as cheap as $51. I'd hold off on buying from stubhub, prices will most likely drop.

josephski

Anyone know if resellers could be part of the reason ticket sales are rising? I'm not sure if we're at the point yet where resellers would bother with games at the ryan center but the mohegan tournament tickets definitely got bought up by resellers.

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I don't think it is unreasonable for Mathews and Martin to be named 2nd team given their injuries but they truly are two of the most elite, talented and high potential basketball players in the A10. They are 1st team talents even if the A10 coaches don't want to recognize it now I don't think it ha...

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Hurley wants to keep the starters fresh. Rather than average 39 minutes a game he wants them to average 32. That will allow to maintain the faster, high pressure he prefers. No one averaged 39 minutes a game last year. Also no one was even in the top 10 for minutes per game in the a10. An average o...

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Hurley wants to keep the starters fresh. Rather than average 39 minutes a game he wants them to average 32. That will allow to maintain the faster, high pressure he prefers. No one averaged 39 minutes a game last year. Also no one was even in the top 10 for minutes per game in the a10. An average o...

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I just don't get why Hurley seems so set on playing 10 guys a game. We have so many talented upperclassman yet he want's to force the younger guys into the lineup. It's great we have depth this year but just because we have depth doesn't mean we have to use it. I get using 10 guys for some of our we...

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I'm not sure if that uniform is any different, Iverson just has his shirt untucked so you can't see the top of the shorts.

josephski

Those are supposed to be ram horns? I thought they were just swirls, possibly designed by a drunk. Whether or not those are supposed to be ram horns the shorts look like they were designed by a drunk or a 10 year old. Pretty sure when articles come out titled "Worst College Basketball Jerseys ...

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Those look awful. Really hope those aren't our actual shorts.

josephski

When's the parade?! Is Fleming going to get a key to the city?

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I think past performance means more for historically good teams than teams like URI. Duke has proven they can win with young players, have one of the best coaches in college basketball and historically have always been good. This along with the team they have on paper makes it hard to doubt they wi...

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I think past performance means more for historically good teams than teams like URI. Duke has proven they can win with young players, have one of the best coaches in college basketball and historically have always been good. This along with the team they have on paper makes it hard to doubt they wil...

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http://www.cbssports.com/college-basket ... 17-season/

Our games against Cincinnati and Valpo both made the list.

josephski

I mean yeah, he isn't wrong, but aren't there approximately 351 teams that still need to prove it on the court? Yes and no. We have the longest NCAA tournament drought by far of any teams being mentioned in the top 25 lists. We also have the fewest total NCAA tournament appearances of all teams bei...

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Appears that scoring is the main issue. We've yet to score more than one goal in regulation time. Looking at the stats we've out shot our opponent in 4 out of the last 5 and have had more corner kicks in 3 out of the last 5 with the Albany game being equal in corners. It seems like we have some offe...

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Unfortunately it looks like scalpers picked up a lot of tickets and are reselling them on stubhub.

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ElmCityRhody wrote:Soon the demand for tickets will be so great that they finally take my advice and move the press to sidelines and baselines and put seats in the current press area..

And improve the Rhody pub!!!

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Bummer, where'd you see the cover?

josephski

Glad Jarvis is getting recognized. Thought he was our best player last season, hope the picture is of him with the mask. As for the hype, I don't think anyone views it as bad, they just aren't buying into all the hype. Myself included. We have what looks like a great team on paper but there are stil...

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With all due respect, and remember I said with all due respect, i don't care about that opinion when recruits are citing that hype as part of the reason they choose to come here. The hype is leading to better recruits, more TV exposure, slots in better tournaments all things that put us in a better...

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If he's skipping his SMU visit then I'd assume he's going to Grand Canyon.

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Cooley is right about the marketing. Also there's really no reason he shouldn't want URI to win every game except against them. Right now the URI PC game is a great rivalry game but it's not close to being a big game on the national level. If URI and PC were both consistently ranked then that would ...

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Yea they are very clean looking, hopefully the basketball jerseys look as good.

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Not looking good early...

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I'll join if you don't hear from gorhody.

josephski

The friars having artificial surface for their soccer field does not seem to have hurt their winning percentage over the past few years... Artificial turf has nothing to do with winning or losing. Players would rather play on a natural grass field that is kept in great condition than on artificial ...

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#54 on ESPN's latest Top 100. http://www.espn.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/order/true Not coming here. It would be nice to be able to get a highly rated RI kid, but not happening. Swider is the next RI kid that will blow up and be out of our league. I'm not sure why we ...

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4 is a small sample size but it doesn't make sense to compare what an a10 team needs to do to get a 10 seed to what a power conference team needs to do to get a 10 seed. Especially when we have an out of conference schedule like the one we currently have.

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Interesting...on Jun 2...U of L wasn't even on the list... Just another example of a P5 school swooping in, spending about 5 minutes recruiting him and getting him to commit to them instead of the schools that had been recruiting him for 2 years. Louisville offered June 21, scheduled a visit July 1...

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Over the last five years, 10-seeds in the NCAA tournament average 21.35 wins per season and 10.9 losses, have an RPI of 45.7, a non-conference strength of schedule of 121 and an overall SOS of 45. They play an average of 17.9 top 100 RPI games (and win a little over eight of them). We think this sc...

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Another proposal without expansion required would be to move to a 9/5 schedule. The preseason top 9 teams would play each other home and away for a total of 16 game. The bottom five would play each other home and away for a total of 8 games. The top 9 teams would play 2 games each against the botto...

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zporiri wrote:Was there a post that we deleted? The most recent post of just a pic of him and hass standing from 3 days ago

Yea there was a post of him doing a windmill dunk.

josephski

Good read, thanks for posting. The main thing that stood out to me was that the president in the 1960s wanted to improve the football program and made the effort to do that. Sounds like they weren't afraid to invest money into the program. Also I think schools that are in the middle of no where such...

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Anyone know any more info on what our guys will actually do there? Only thing on the website I could find was the teams made up of kids in high school and the schedule http://adidasuprising.com/adidas-global ... ule-stats/

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