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You only need two words to sum up the second half:

Pee. You.

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Xavier has won four Atlantic 10 Tournament Championships in its first 15 seasons in the A-10 (1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006). Xavier has won or shared 15 regular season conference championships over the last 28 years(eight A-10 and seven MCC), while winning 10 conference tournament championships (four ...

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For the 17 people that voted they would be happy for Baron, please, explain yourself. I'm one. Why? Because I put aside my Italian Alzheimer's (you forget everything but the grudges). He's a mediocre coach but a good, decent man, and when I consider the collection of eels, lizards and snakes at oth...

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This from our pal Gerbil Jim Donaldson. Can't say I really disagree: "It also would have been nice to see more fans in the stands, as the announced attendance was only 3,388. The ongoing apathy among URI alumni, students, and fans of Our State U. continues to amaze -- and disappoint -- conside...

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My $.02: -- Nik played his @ss off. He usually does, but the results aren't always apparent. -- Aaman scored in the first half on a drop-step worthy of Hakeem Olajuwon -- catch, step, seal and score in about half-a second. -- The first half was a treat without that inane "make some noiii-iiiise...

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The Fryuh Faih-weathah Faithful only come here for two reasons:
-- To try to persuade themselves that they're still superior to someone.
-- To do their, ahem, particular version of fact-checking our discussions, then go back to their own restricted board(s) to laugh at us.

Pathetic.

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http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8932681/sources-big-east-catholic-7-close-reaching-media-rights-deals "NBC Sports Network verbally offered the Big East between $20 million and $23 million per year for six years to acquire the league's media rights, sources told ESPN."...

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Then you also can't complain when many PC fans decide to hate on URI ... It's a two way street, and it's also IGNORANT on both sides. It's one thing to debate the merits of how a specific team will survive in a specific conference. But are you really that much of a child that you have to moan about...

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rjsuperfly66 wrote:It sounds like you guys are trying to find anything to stick to the wall to hate on PC.

More facts is the last thing I need to loathe Pee-C. There's more than anyone can use in one lifetime.

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I don't know what the financial agreements are between the State and the city of Providence are, but I do know that the University took a blighted building and turned it into a bustling place of higher learning, that is open to all. I do know that the Providence Place mall sits where the former URI...

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rambone 78 wrote:the place is as quiet as a church too often. Get the folks riled up, make some noise, and intimidate the refs!

IMHO, the place is "quiet as a church" because the asinine "game presentation" cacophony beats any organic crowd noise into submission.

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Shouldn't this only include players and coaches who actually competed in the Atlantic-10 or its predecessor, the Eastern 8?

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You may as well kill all sports if you kill football. College Football is a sport that is growing in interest and basketball has been in a decline for 15 years across the county. The biggest crowds in Kingston the last few years have been for football games. Basketball has become very defensive and...

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What was the outcome of the exhaustive investigation into the attack on Rhody? I haven't heard anything, so I assume the Pee-C administration is still working vigorously to bring the attackers to justice.

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Rumors are rumors and doubtless are being leaked by those close to the Sacred Seven to justify their decision to bail on the glorified Conference USA to which they currently belong. Maybe they will make big money for a couple of years, and maybe Fox does want to create a national sports channel to c...

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what would have saved all the other conferences would have been to push for a national championship playoff that was like Division 1-AA.....all conference champs get an automatic invite and a few at-larges to make 16 teams....then every school has a chance to win the national title....but they all ...

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The size of television markets doesn't matter for basketball, because within the next three or four years the BCS cartel will vacuum up all the available television time. If the networks want the cartel's football, they'll have to take all the cartel's basketball, meaning the Sacred Seven will soon ...

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RAM67 wrote:Red. You always come up with the best ideas!

Just trying to help out the beloved alma mater.

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Or maybe instead of big heads create full-frontal nude cutouts of Rihanna at the same scale and wave them at opposing players when they have the ball.

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Actually, UConn itself doesn't deserve as much blame for the lawsuits as Dick Blumenthal, at the time the grandstanding publicity-hogging attorney general. He made a big show of suing Boston College and the ACC, but most, if not all, of those lawsuits died very quiet deaths.

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I don't know about Temple, but UConn has invested too much money (and tapped a number of seven-figure donors) in its football program to join the Atlantic 10, which would be seen as an abandonment of football. The UConn administration should be in Chestnut Hill, Mass., washing the cars and doing the...

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And if they picked Danny Ferry those of us who remember him mugging Kenny Green in 1988 would start a riot. Ooops, wait, can't use that word.

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Turning every game into Short Attention-Span Theater isn't going to get people to games, though it is turning off some of us few remaining ticket-buyers.

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So I went to the game today and here is my take... Off the Court: -Good Lord! John Vanner and his on court nonsense during timeouts has worn real thin. Hes annoying as hell. I remember at the Vermont game he started yelling 'look at the scoreboard!!!' When there was like ten minutes left and needle...

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Let them go. As I've been saying for years there are two classes of schools--the BCS cartel and everyone else. The Sacred Seven may get a few dollars more going on their own, but that will only last a couple of years until the cartel membership settles. Once that happens, the cartel will vacuum up a...

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Mike Rice Sr. was a lunatic. Sounds like the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

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Even if -- and "if" is the biggest two-letter word in the dictionary -- the Sacred Seven get $1.5 million a year in television, that will only last as long as it takes for the BCS cartel to regain control of all the television time. Let's assume the scenario where four mega-conferences are...

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The Catholic schools can do whatever they want and in a couple years it won't matter. Lincoln, Neb., Starkville, Miss., and Pullman, Wash., will be worth more than Boston, New York and Philadelphia because the BCS cartel will squeeze everyone else off the air. They'll be able to tell the networks, &...

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The Catholic 7 will stick together only as long as it makes financial sense. When the television money dries up--which is inevitable because the BCS cartel will gradually assume control over the lion's share of the available television time--they'll be forced to re-think their cost structures due to...

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The basketball-only schools can't afford to leave the Bigheaded East because they'd lose access to the brand name, the tournament at Madison Square Garden and especially all that television money. Besides, when conference realignment settles out they'll be on the outside looking in just like us. Rem...

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Q. What's Italian Alzheimer's?

A. You forget everything but the grudges.

Let's lay off the Barons and wish them well. Or would you rather be Canisius than URI?

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Ob, I could care less about you. You bring zero to the table outside of name calling. Ironic, since you are the one who calls me juvenile. Ask OB or RIRed anything about basketball X's & O's and you won't hear from them. Red actually said PC didn't do anything strategy wise in the 2nd half that...

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Just checking in now because I couldn't even talk last night. I drove Little Red back to Storrs (she's a Husky through and through but still loves our Rams) and couldn't say a word about the game. Some observations, in no particular order of importance: --The City of Providence did a horsesh1t job o...

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Rhody had better take a couple of football players with him when he goes to the men's room.

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so that will leave them with 6 players (5 scholarship and 1 walk on) Even if Pee-C has to pull kids out of the student section to play, they're supposed to win because they're THE ALMIGHTY PROVIDENCE COLLEGE!!!!!! OTOH, it'd be kind of amusing to watch said students stagger around on the court.

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Only in Rhode Island could taking money from an organization you're supposed to cover not be a conflict of interest.

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It's simple: win and the world wins with you, lose and you lose alone.

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I don't know who will win, but once thing is for sure: the Pee-C student section will be its usual drunk and obscene self.

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Isn't Fryuh Frank still Pee-C's public-address announcer at the Dunkin' Dump? He was for many years. Talk about conflict of interest.

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On the Ryan Center and student seating: "Game presentation" is atrocious and, at times, embarrassing. If I ever catch another of those stupid little plastic basketballs, I'm liable to throw it back at the "MAKE SOME NOI-ISE" moron. Now, back to the original thread: none of the ba...

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The basketball schools aren't going to leave the Bigheaded East because if they leave they lose the rights to the brand name and whatever scraps of a television contract may be left. The football schools couldn't kick the basketball schools out because they haven't been together long enough to keep ...

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(To the melody of "Give My Regards to Broadway")
I hate the Pee-C Fry-izz
And everything about Pee-C
I hate the hype that Vincent Council gets
And I hate Ernie D
I hate the Big East Conference
And the Dunkin Donuts Dump too
I hate the Pee-C Fry-izz
So if you're a Fryuh I hate you.

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The Bigheaded East is collapsing. The only question to be decided will be the number of leagues that get to stay in the BCS cartel. Whether it's five (Big 10, ACC, Big 12, Southeastern, Pac-12) or four (bye-bye, Big 12), those leagues will be so big (16 schools each) that their basketball will fill ...

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I think we'll be a lot closer to .500.

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