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Rod, tell us what you thought of Andre Drummond during his one season at UConn. Was he NBA-ready after 10.0 points, 7.6 rebounds, 2.7 blocks, 53.8 percent shooting and 29.5 percent free throw shooting? The scouts thought he was -- he went No. 9 overall. The fact is, Rod, you have an incredibly close...

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Chukwu is a pipe dream, nothing more. URI is very late to the game on him. And Foster is a worthwhile roll of the dice with a spare scholarship. If they get him, great. But he'll still be a freshman and your expectations will still be ridiculously high just like they were with Hare. The Rams aren't ...

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McGary was a lottery pick according to Chad Ford of ESPN and DraftExpress.net. He also turns 21 in June. His stock might never be higher than it is after this NCAA Tournament. And very, very few players are actually ready for the NBA from Day 1. He should have gone.

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Someone might want to break the news to Matt that Hurley commenting on a potential recruit to a member of the media would be an NCAA violation. His lips are sealed.

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Eddie Jordan is a terrible hire in the first place. He has next to no recent college experience, he's 58 years old and he's spent the last few years living on the West Coast. How will he assemble a staff? How will he recruit? How will he relate to college players? Is he up on the compliance/institut...

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We haven't heard from El Diablo since Dec. 6 -- the night of URI-PC. His multi-month ban must have expired. He's a PC troll to the extreme. Riddle me this, El Diablo. What did the PC staff do to develop Coleman? Why was he as one-dimensional after his sophomore season in college as he was in high sc...

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More worthless bleating from 72.
Address this point please, 72, before you clutter this post with your worthless opinion again. Do you want a coach who is 100 percent to stay? That man was Jim Baron. How did that work out?

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72 and scine have to be the same person posting under different screen names.
And if you wanted a coach to be 100 percent to never leave for another job, you just had one. Jim Baron was going nowhere. How did that work out?

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University presidents are generally eggheads. They know nothing about athletics. For Barchi to think 5/$5 million would get it done shows how out of touch he is with the situation.

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Katz tweeted the link because King is his colleague at ESPN. And "have been mentioned as potential replacements," as King wrote, is a long way from "is a leading candidate" or "is the top choice" or "has been offered the job." King also mentioned Eddie Jordan...

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Katz tweeted the link because King is his colleague at ESPN. And "have been mentioned as potential replacements," as King wrote, is a long way from "is a leading candidate" or "is the top choice" or "has been offered the job." King also mentioned Eddie Jordan ...

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'The two sides' = Dan's agent and URI's attorney. This contract is just like any other business deal. The terms have been negotiated over a long period of time. They just have to dot the Is and cross the Ts. Nothing more to it.

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MrRamsDen76 wrote:The next big hurdle with Dan Hurley will be when Jim Boeheim retires in a few years. Remember you heard it first.

So says the guy with six posts. Please. Mike Hopkins is the coach in waiting at Syracuse. It's already been negotiated.

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Or this.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/-colle ... n-rutgers/

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That's revisionist history at its finest. Jim Harrick was fired and left UCLA in disgrace. He was borderline radioactive when URI hired him.
I never denied that you've supported Hurley, Rod. It's admirable. But you're using 'if' an awful lot in your most recent posts.

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Smokinjimit wrote:Can I smoke what 3 wise men is smokin? I love how opinion is fact. Classic

Okay, offer some original thought of your own. Let's hear what you have to say. I have no doubt it will be brilliant and insightful.

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I tweeted to him....You made a commitment to your players and URI. True character and intergrity will be seen! Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. He made the same commitment to Wagner. He left after two years with no NCAAs, NITs, CBIs, CITs or Northeast Conference titles. Coaches make the same commitment everywh...

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We all know that Rod hasn't been a huge fan of Hare from Day 1. I'm with seanmc -- Hare was a freshman with huge upside. Those guys need time, especially bigs -- they tend to develop at a much slower pace. You recruit a plaayer like Hare for his junior and senior sseasons, not to have an impact righ...

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Starting this thread is evidence Donaldson is doing his job. Columnists are supposed to provoke opinion, positive or negative. Every call you make or email you send will actually be encouragement for the Projo to keep him on staff.

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Ah yes, the highest paid state employee argument. If you want to make a case against being ignorant, that's probably not the best place to start. Hurley didn't take Wagner to the tournament. No NIT. No NCAA. Not even the CIT. Was he a greedy prick for leaving there? No, he was smart. He left for a b...

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Penders went from $50K at URI to $500K at Texas. As for Rutgers, Rice was making about 20 percent of that $650K at Robert Morris. It's a business. They didn't have to pay him more. With Hurley it would be a different scenario. They would have to do much better than $650K and would be able to with th...

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You'd be making the same commitment to your co-workers and your boss. And then you would leave. Stop thinking like a fan and get serious.

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The Final Four also doubles as the NABC convention. Coaches and athletic staff from all over the country are in Atlanta right now.

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Scine, would you leave your job after one year if a rival company offered to triple your salary and guarantee your job security for a longer time? If you say no, you're the real fraud. That's incredibly hypocritical.

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Facilities. Cash. The surroundings that come with a big-time program. URI took four bus trips to Philly in a three-day span last season (Temple and St. Joe's). Big Ten programs don't do that. Major conference programs don't do that. Coaches notice those sorts of things. It's what they fight for in ...

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Facilities. Cash. The surroundings that come with a big-time program. URI took four bus trips to Philly in a three-day span last season (Temple and St. Joe's). Big Ten programs don't do that. Major conference programs don't do that. Coaches notice those sorts of things. It's what they fight for in t...

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Scine, that's not real life. It's good to be happy where you are, but human nature is to always look for bigger and better. The grass is always greener. URI has potential to be a good job. It's not the dead end it appeared to be at the end of Baron's tenure. It's also not up to the standard of a Big...

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I cant see him leaving the 6 guys he convinced to come here after just 1 year. That does not seem in character. I also cant see a BCS school throwing 1.5-2MM/year at a guy based purely on potential and name value, which is what they would be doing. If the money were only marginally better it would ...

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You're really assuming Rutgers wants a coach with three years experience, only one a winning season, a similar sideline manner to the fired coach, with only 8 wins. They have to sell this to their fanbase. Despite some media types pushing for Hurley. Would Rutgers go this route, or hire someone saf...

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Sounds like the governor is going to have as much a say in firing the coach as the AD. Chris Christie is none too pleased about the happenings at The State University of New Jersey.

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I repeat, get lost! You followed up your bullshit tweet, John Goodman talking out of his ass, with justifying why Hurley could go to Rutgers. I think we heard enough of you on that subject before. Take a hike! Why isn't it news? Because you don't think it is? Because Hurley would never leave to go ...

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Brad Stevens will be the next coach at Duke. Why would he leave and jeopardize that?

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The latest hotbed is right here in New England. Look at the top 100 for next year. It's covered with prep talent right in the area.

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The sad thing about when URI hired Baron, the people "in the know" were all screaming, don't do it! Right Rod? I would have been OK with it in the end, if Baron hadn't been made CFL by Carothers. JB did get Rhody back to respectability his first few years, but that's when it should have e...

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Billyboy78 wrote:
RoadyJay wrote:The blow to the program is with recruiting. One has to think that EC will at least reconsider his commitment.
Bill Koch‏@BillKoch25
Romulus coach Nate Oats confirms senior guard E.C. Matthews will honor his #URI commitment despite the departure of Bobby Hurley

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So, why is there a PC guy in the picture? Confused. My point on SF is, we already have Martin and Reischel. Too bad Williams didn't have a better shooting season at CCRI, because that would make this a moot point. 6'6" guy who really is a SG, and can handle the ball. Let's slow the expectation...

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UCLA is one of a handful of truly elite jobs in America. Shaka Smart has enough personal recognition to be the guy, but he's not an ideal fit in that most of his experience is on the East Coast. Mark Few should be the first phone call. Don't be surprised if Josh Pastner and Buzz Williams also get a ...

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Sorry, Smarty. That was directed at Rod. You had something and went with it. If anything, it's on your sources. They cooked you here. Two very different realms, your site and print. Not sure Rod is grasping that. He'd rather go after what he perceives to be an easy target and convenient punching bag...

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Good. Then you understand what a gross instance of professional misconduct it would be to investigate the wrong person. You don't just get to turn back. There's a point where you can't say, 'I'm sorry.' In media, that point comes when something hits print.

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That's exactly the point Rod. The Projo doesn't get to be wrong. If URI closed ranks and wasn't commenting -- and if Xavier closed ranks and wasn't commenting -- then there's nothing to say. You can't write Thorr is leaving...then staying. That's not how it works per Eric Rueb's post here, and he's ...

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I've been reading this thread with great interest both from the fan side and the media side. First, Dave should be commended for his report. He found sources he trusted and got this story out there. I would have liked him to have called URI and gotten a "no comment" to legitimize it, but ...

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Al Skinner talked about playing Duke once. There were two deals offered. One was a one-and-done at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The other was a 2-for-1, and URI's home game would have been in Boston, Madison Square Garden or the Meadowlands. Mike Krzyzewski and programs like Duke aren't playing a true ro...

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Forbes released its list of most valuable basketball programs this week. Xavier is in the top 20. Running an athletic program with that sort of asset and doing it well leads to much bigger opportunities.

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Tomas Murphy will graduate from high school in 2017. An honest question here -- how many people on this board think Dan Hurley will still be coaching at URI?

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Folks on the Xavier side don't seem too happy about this either. They denied it at the A-10 Tournament. Not the best look for the Enquirer.

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/xavier/2013 ... -director/

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Their hands were tied. They had to wait until Baron's contract got whittled down to just about nothing before they could dump him. Look at the current coaching situations, Ramster. You think they want to continue paying Trainer and Inglese? No, but they can't justify paying two coaches in non-revenu...

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Baron's teams ran one offensive set -- high ball screen, dribble penetration to absolutely nowhere, stagnation around the 3-point line and/or a wild take toward the rim for a contested shot in the lane. Everybody had the green light from downtown. And forget about the other end of the floor. We all ...

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And that's why the school has to keep its own counsel here. Yes, the Hurleys should feel good about who URI hires, but they can't have the final say or anything close to it. That would immediately cut the AD's power and ability to make tough decisions. The school itself is going to be around far lon...

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Big difference between posting on a message board and having the adequate confirmation to put it in print. I'm sure SGreenwell, ATP and the rest of the admins here could attest to that.

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Ed Cooley must be thrilled at the thought of potentially playing two games in the Ryan Center in 2013.

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