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Blue Man

There should be ramifications for that - if you sign a deal then opt out for a better deal then there should be ramifications to avoid poaching. That's what's broken. You can't put any stipulations on a contract. You agree to pay player x to represent your "brand" for a year. That's it. I...

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They (Umass) did the same thing with RJ Luis last year and a few weeks/months later he accepted a bigger bag to go to St John's. Seems like there are 3 waves to the portalers... Wave 1: those leaving no matter what due to role, PT or bigger bag. They announce quickly. Wave 2: those that after meeti...

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Chemistry was definitely an issue. Brand new team with a roster in flux. How was chemistry not an issue? No. It definitely had zero affect that the team we recruited had played zero minutes together, that our intended starters played maybe 1/3 of a season together due to eligibility/injuries, or th...

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So far this is what our roster line-up looks like: PG - Luis, Ways, Ben CG- House, Cam Wing - Zek, Farrell SF/PF- Green PF/C- Fuchs I do like the experience returning (so far) and feel this will be a competitive group. The additional year together will help the team's chemistry and I expect the def...

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I doubt this will happen, but imagine? https://x.com/RobDauster/status/1772634277118669119?s=20 LMAO. I mean...I don't know anyone...anyone, including every PC fan when PC was good and in love with Cooley, that would say he was a great coach. The tagline on him was, and I'll quote myself "he's...

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I doubt players who have a questionable work effort are going to magically become dedicated and fully committed all of a sudden. They need to be identified and move on, and become someone else's problem. If they dont want to play for this coach, how can you keep them around? IDK if you ever played ...

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All 3 will leave. Can’t see Karaban going yet. The NIL money is there and he’s been in a funk a majority of this season. He’s not league ready. I’d put him as least likely. Mom is an immigrant, degree is a must. Castle is unique, could probably get an NIL bag next year and improve his draft stock f...

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That roster does not move the needle whatsoever. That's also assuming Hammond stays and plays. If he were to leave, as it stands, winning 10 games would be a stretch. There’s no way that returning your starting lineup with more experience and growth, means less wins. Holy hell we’re losing it and i...

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It would be great for the conference if either Young or Murray get A10 jobs. Dan wants to keep them. He specifically lobbied in that last contract to expand his pool to pay them more. They’d definitely be worthy of a job - but I think Dan wants to pay them well enough to stay, and wait out a plum P...

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It would be great for the conference if either Young or Murray get A10 jobs. Dan wants to keep them. He specifically lobbied in that last contract to expand his pool to pay them more. They’d definitely be worthy of a job - but I think Dan wants to pay them well enough to stay, and wait out a plum P...

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DH is making 5.25 M per year though 28-29 , big time value contract hope he gets a raise On the pace he's at, he's going to make way wayyyyy more than that right now. "Winning the Big East and the conference tournament are each worth $100,000. An appearance in the first and second rounds are e...

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I would happily fund PC's NIL to take on Bassy. Once again this is a kid who has splits of 43/29/70. And his stats were bolstered this year by playing on one of the worst teams in one of the worst conferences in the country. You thought our D was bad this year? Bassy's DBox +/- would have him NINTH ...

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https://twitter.com/RiceMBB/status/1772090218184671715 Another one for the "3 schools in 4 years" crowd. Also on the 4 schools in 7 years team. HOW DARE HE!? WHERES THE LOYALTY!? rabblerabblerabble I mean, you can’t count Lanier. He was fired, wasn’t his choice to leave SMU. He left Georg...

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Imo no chance Dan coaches NBA. They would tune him out in a second. I doubt he will coach anywhere else until he retires. He has the perfect situation at UConn and makes plenty of money now. He could make more at say Kentucky, but where he is now is close to home and Andrea can still go to the beac...

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RF1 wrote: ↑1 month ago

Another one for the "3 schools in 4 years" crowd. Also on the 4 schools in 7 years team.

HOW DARE HE!? WHERES THE LOYALTY!? rabblerabblerabble

Blue Man

I do not get all the excitement for the Big East only getting 3 teams in. This is not good in my opinion for the A10 or any conference that does not sponsor football. To be consistent, I think it is ridiculous to come up with a NET that means nothing. I said this last year when VCU had no shot at a...

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Archie's coaching success was predicated by one great PG he had at Dayton. Since then he's whiffed at that position, the most important in college BB. Just ask Calhoun. Now Archie was planning on having his next great one in Hammond. If he leaves without ever suiting up for us, it's back to square ...

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There are dozens of coaching changes each year vs thousands of kids abandoning schools. And tell the the last time you saw the same coach be a HC at three schools in 4 years? It's new, but ...353 schools times 15 schollys = 5295 players vs 353 head coaches. 1823 players entered the portal but 80% o...

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Exactly! I've been waiting for the posts calling coaches selfish mercenaries who have no loyalty and are only after money. Weird how it's suddenly quiet on that front and all the concern about "culture" and "family" has disappeared! You never hear posters lamenting their lost lo...

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I do not get all the excitement for the Big East only getting 3 teams in. This is not good in my opinion for the A10 or any conference that does not sponsor football. To be consistent, I think it is ridiculous to come up with a NET that means nothing. I said this last year when VCU had no shot at a...

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Also amazing to think we had two head coaches that won NCAA national championships at one time in their careers and another that made the Final Four. Could even add Keaney as he took URI to the NIT championship game when that tournament was considered more prestigious than the NCAA by many. We have...

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DH said in an interview years ago he would like to eventually coach in the NBA , it can happen down the road He also said he wanted to retire by 50. Those things always change. I can guarantee you he’ll be at UConn until he surpasses Calhoun for titles. No NBA player is going to want to play for Da...

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DeanDome88 wrote: ↑1 month ago Yale giving Auburn a game so far. It would be nice to see a team we beat win a game.

On the flip side - teams that handled us are also winning games in the tourney. Northwestern. Wash St. Duquesne. Dayton.

Funny that only one of those teams were thought of as NCAA teams when we played them.

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Still a huge gap in what we pay vs. major contenders: Basketball assistant Preston Murphy is set to make $450,000 a year under a two-year deal. Fellow assistant Ryan Pannone's two-year deal is worth $360,000 per. Yeah exactly - Kenny was making $750k a year at Louisville. Kimani Young was making th...

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Never mind the casual fan, but when even the diehards are starting to bail, the alarm bells should be sounding in Thorrs and Parlanges offices. If Archie is unwilling to adapt and adjust, and continue to force a defensive philosophy that isnt working on his team, maybe change is needed sooner than ...

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Even further back, Duke eliminated URI in close games in both 1978 and 1988 that were each decided by just one point. 0-3 versus them all time in the NCAA. Our 30-point blowout loss against St. Joe's and our two losses against Davidson are why we played Duke in 2018.. We were a 4-6 seed for most of...

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1/3? LMAO. The real fan bases like Dayton and VCU require donations to get access season tickets. So they all donate. And some donate more on top of that. Everyone that complains here has no idea how cheap our entertainment is...and then has the balls to complain about that expense, and decries the...

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Hurley needs to stop with the rabbit ears. He's going to get in trouble. He looked like he was still jawing with the guy in the plaid jacket well after half ended. Fire is one thing. That's just wrong. Danny needs to be above that but it looks like the guy is still running his mouth. I'm sure he's ...

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Since the success of a team now depends on donations from fans, the teams with the more rabid fan bases will always be the better teams. A team like Dayton averages 13,000 some fans. If one third of them donate, they're getting donations from 4300 fans or so. We average 4000 fans. If one third of u...

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Do you really think we’re following that rule? We definitely are not along with every other collective. They just have to put that on the website to save face. I mean we definitely are following that rule. Stone or our big donors aren't out there recruiting. The collective's job is literally to col...

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Since the success of a team now depends on donations from fans, the teams with the more rabid fan bases will always be the better teams. A team like Dayton averages 13,000 some fans. If one third of them donate, they're getting donations from 4300 fans or so. We average 4000 fans. If one third of u...

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Just signed up - I am in the help the NIL - cant take the bottom 4 in the A10 anymore - but look at UMASS they had the two day bye. They are back at home again just like us.hh Would rather win 20 games, finish 4th, lose in the quarters than go 12-19 and lost in the play in. Yeah if you had the hope...

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From the website Q&A: DOES RHODY EXCELLENCE WORK WITH RECRUITS OR PROSPECTIVE STUDENT-ATHLETES? No – In compliance with NIL regulations, Rhody Excellence will not meet with, contact, offer a deal, etc. to any prospective student-athlete. Until a student-athlete has signed their NLI and/or the i...

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For some reason the media LOVES PC, can't say enough about them every game. They're a fun team with a star player and an engaged fanbase? They were kind of the talk of the offseason when in a historic, literally never seen before situation, the coach who grew up in the college's home town, built th...

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8jcvrl.jpg This is so backwards. What happened to just having a rooting interest in a team/school? Why are we being asked to financially back the team? Like someone said, the Boston Celtics don’t ask for donations. The funny thing is that we've always been asked to "financially back the team&q...

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Sure, some coaches stay at a college for a long time, as long as they get an extension and more money. And they don't jump around to 2-3-4 schools in 5 years because they have a contract that guarantees they'll get paid or get a hefty buyout. They have an incentive to stay. I'm sure more players wo...

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reef wrote: ↑1 month ago I would think Louisville would shoot for someone better than Bobby , he didn’t exactly kill it @ ASU

Louisville is a dumpster fire. Pitino will have taken 2 different teams to the NCAAs 3x. Since he left Louisville has had 5 different coaches.

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I would hope that the people who complain the most are also the ones putting up some dough. This is like the people who complain about their kids rec league but don't volunteer, or people who complain about their local elected officials but don't vote. If you have the means and your entire premise ...

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D Some credence in the defense by Blue. But IMO too many misses with the guys that joined after the first year which IMO doesn't really count. Still all in on Archie but as others have said this is a very very big offseason for him and this program. And I think that's a fair debate to have. I'm jus...

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Fou leaving just hurts a little more because how many legit 6'11" guys with some decent athleticism do we get around here? They don't grow on trees. Yeah but same thing with Jordan Hare. I don't remember all this bellyaching when Dan told him to GTFO before the first game of year 2. Sponge Hol...

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I'm giving Archie a C. When you look back at it - with the deficiencies this program had/has, this is to be honest where you can be expected to be in year 2 of a rebuild. In the new world of NIL, we barely had any last season (and literally zero the year before), so we couldn't pay the players we wa...

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When one of our better players is in such a hurry to announce his intention to leave, that's never a good sign. I mean who’s shocked? For all we know he told Archie he was leaving 3 weeks ago. How would it look then if Archie was playing the guy who quit on the team? For all his upside and talent, ...

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It could be worse…we could be Georgetown fans.

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reef wrote: ↑1 month ago
Blue Man wrote: ↑1 month ago Sheesh. I gotta stop doing polls.
Please don’t stop, I’m waiting for the annual Archie Miller grading poll

No polls until the pain is less fresh.

Wait til at least the A10 tourney is complete for us to get a more honest, less emotional grade.

Blue Man

Regarding the backcourt, I'd prefer Luis to leave over House. We're playing St Louis, one of the worst team in the A10, and Kortright is struggling to bring the ball up, getting the ball stolen right over half court, can't make the easy pass, etc etc. Yea he's strong and can back down smaller guard...

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Ayo-Faleye's 19 help Vermont knock off New Hampshire 66-59 in America East Conference tourney semis BURLINGTON, Vt. -- — Ileri Ayo-Faleye had 19 points in top-seeded Vermont's 66-59 victory over fourth-seeded New Hampshire on Tuesday night in the America East Conference Tournament semifinals. The C...

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We've got to get to the point where we can have success of course, but once there sustain that success. With winning gets the NIL funds consistently high which ensures we keep getting better talent. I can only imagine what UConns NIL fund is, and will continue to be with their success level! Along ...

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From the Projo today. Sounds like Archie wants to run it back with a good amount of the guys from this season. “We need to bring back a significant portion of this roster that’s about the right things, and we need our fans to start to grow with them a little bit. “We need our place to start to unde...

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From the Projo today. Sounds like Archie wants to run it back with a good amount of the guys from this season. “We need to bring back a significant portion of this roster that’s about the right things, and we need our fans to start to grow with them a little bit. “We need our place to start to unde...

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