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Everyone is saying that we have so many players coming back. We have 6. We also have 6 players I have never seen play, so I have no idea what to expect. While the returning 6 are key players, when 50% of the team is new, that's a lot. In other words, I think it's a little early to have expectations...

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As fans we tend to overrate talent but undervalue game experience.

Last year we played four freshman and a sophomore.

Hurley's two best teams were when we had upperclassmen with game experience

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I'd say that's about as fair as you can be for us. Probably more likely to be an NIT team, but we have NCAA potential. Can we cash in on enough of those Q1 games. Last years team beat VCU, but other than that, we were not very close to being an NCAA team. How long of a leash do we give Cox if we do...

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He’s in Cincinnati right now. Not sure if he’s visiting or not, but he’s there. He said he was going to start taking his OVs in Sept/Oct. Xavier (in Cincy) has offered. He could be taking an unofficial there. His projected OVs are GTown, URI, Seton Hall and Xavier. Edit: Xavier recently received ve...

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Virginia Tech would be my best guess.

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Johnson (@HumanTarantula) just posted on his Twitter account a few moments ago that he'll be arriving at URI in 9 days.

I post from my cell so I can't link his tweet to the board.

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SandorClegane wrote: ↑4 years ago Would be nice to land a veteran big. Any word on who the favorite to land this kid is?

Who knows?

He's already committed/de-committed from Seton Hall, St. Joe's and St. John's. So I guess there's a shot.

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JucoRecruiting reports that we have offered Valdir Manuel, a 6-10 PF, once again.

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Per his twitter, his final four schools are:

Florida
West Virginia
Penn State
Temple

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Committed to Western Kentucky today per Evan Daniels on Twitter.

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PeterRamTime wrote: ↑4 years ago The scary one on there is the Gators.

If he just wants to be a high major we are toast.

We have been a bit more successful than the other schools lately.

I don't believe it's the Univ of Florida, I think it's the Univ. of South Florida.

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Not looking good.... Especially when his Mom tweets... "Thank you Coach Manning" By their own admission they had a great official visit here and I'm sure Coach Cox has been recruiting him hard, maybe longer than anyone else. Let's hope it pays off. Go Rhody. His mother has tweeted thank y...

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rambone 78 wrote: ↑4 years ago Not looking good....

Especially when his Mom tweets... "Thank you Coach Manning"

By their own admission they had a great official visit here and I'm sure Coach Cox has been recruiting him hard, maybe longer than anyone else. Let's hope it pays off. Go Rhody.

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Iggy1979 wrote: ↑4 years ago Long gaps after visit are not good. I've thought for awhile he was going elsewhere

I agree Iggy. Enough time passes by and it's like the visit never even happened.

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bkoeppen wrote: ↑4 years ago

His recruitment just got a lot more challenging that's for sure. An ACC school with a solid academic reputation has got to be appealing to him and his family.

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I love those navy blue end zones with Keaney blue trim I saw in Rhody Tickets latest video posted yesterday

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Rhody83:

Any insight into when he might narrow down his list of schools?

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Until Pat Riley shows up in a convertible, this thread is nothing. Three real-life URI basketball memories... Randy Wilds taking off his warm-up pants only to discover he had no basketball shorts underneath. Derek Groomes wearing a home jersey that had his name misspelled on the back. Tavorris Bell...

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Same type of videos last August at GCU. Ace already mentioned connection with Marshall (and Bobby) to get open gym time st ASU. He isn’t going anywhere. He is visiting his brother. He spent the entire August break out there last year. I believe his mother was in one of his IG videos in AZ this past...

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rhodyrhodyrhody wrote: ↑4 years ago

Great news! This is a promotion that was both well earned and clearly deserved.
Congratulations to "Coach" Buchanan. Best of Luck to you!

#GoRhody

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This just keeps dragging on and on. Took them 10 days to post the job. Interviews can't begin until the posting ends. Sigh. This is totally ridiculous. Are we administratively inept? An incomplete staff and an incomplete schedule just days from August 1st. There is no sense of urgency or purpose in...

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This just keeps dragging on and on. Took them 10 days to post the job. Interviews can't begin until the posting ends. Sigh. This is totally ridiculous. Are we administratively inept? An incomplete staff and an incomplete schedule just days from August 1st. There is no sense of urgency or purpose in...

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Hi all, Because of state procedure policies, there are limitations to what can be said, but I wanted to try and help clear up a couple things. Earlier this offseason, there was a job posting that many of you saw. This was for Kevin Sutton's position. Because of the timing of having to put together ...

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Funny, how when an unstoppable, unbeaten, whirlwind, like Mike Tyson or Ronda Rousey get beaten, they are never the same. The aura of invincibility leaves them, and they become pretty ordinary. Mike Tyson was the most dominating boxer I've ever seen, until Buster Douglas KO'd him. Tyson also had a ...

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Per his twitter account, URI has made the "Final 8" for Taj Thweatt, a 6-7 power forward from South Wildwood, NJ along with:

Miami
West Virginia
Seton Hall
Temple
Illinois
Penn State
Florida

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Sadly, you knew after Dan Hurley's departure that there was a great probability that this is exactly what was going to happen. Dave Cox doesn't have the leverage to push the administration's resource commitment to compete with that of VCU or Dayton the way Hurley did. And our athletic history demons...

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I wonder who is recruiting BABC and Mass Rivals. If you mean as the Assistant Coach, TJ has taken over the Northeast area. At this point, I just don't see how you can possibly pass over TJ for an assistant's position. He stepped into the job as a "temp" last summer and did well. He more t...

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Akele definitely looks bigger than his last season here.

Great to see these guys back on campus and working out with the team.

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Is Johnson enrolled for the second semester of summer school which, I think, started on June 24th.

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Billyboy78 wrote: ↑4 years ago Every time I see a new post in here, I think that something might have been announced. Oh, well.
Same.
I hear Bob Sacamano might be in the running.

Lol... You just might be right!

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Billyboy78 wrote: ↑4 years ago Every time I see a new post in here, I think that something might have been announced. Oh, well.

Same.

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His Mom is pretty active on Twitter. She's obviously involved in his recruiting and seems to be a big basketball fan in general. She follows DMV recruiting pretty close too. You can follow her at
@Ish2020

I bet she reads this forum.

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"...10 minutes down the road, there's a beach..."

C'mon in Ish, the water's fine!

#GoRhody

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Rhody83 wrote: ↑4 years ago Two more home games generates revenue which can be used for the program.

Something we never seem to have enough of.... Revenue

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This year, for a team with 6 newcomers (accounting for half the roster) I don't think it would hurt us to play a couple more competitive early season games. While the games themselves may not help our tournament resume per se, they'll give our guys a chance to play together before we play games that...

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The service academies are never giving up control of the Army-Navy game.

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Iggy1979 wrote: ↑4 years ago Any idea of his name?

I believe it's Paul Smith, a 6-9 power forward, class of '20 who plays for DeMatha High. His stock is on the rise.

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A10 Conference pairings for 2019/20 season to be announced at 2 pm today.
I'm hoping we play VCU, Davidson and Dayton twice.

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Does he commit, or does he wait to see if St. John's offers?

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Are you Harris' agent? Lol.

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I am willing to bet that any player Rhody adds between now and the start of the school year, will not be part if the 8!man rotation. The only exception would be injury or the lose of a rotational player. You have 80 minutes to split between Cyril, Harris, Walker & a portion of Tate’s time. Ther...

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Billyboy78 wrote: ↑4 years ago Nice that he's playing well, but afraid he's going to blow up.

I think he's blowing up now, right before our eyes. By the end of summer his offer list is probably going to look a lot different then it does right now. It might be tough for us to hang in there.

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Just my thoughts, but actually, Johnson was a pretty good junior college player, an honorable mention Juco all american. Johnson is your proto-typical "late bloomer" who has grown into an interior post position player. He was a point guard early in high school, became a combo guard the fol...

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Both are Catholic Schools - no surprise They're even closer than that... they're two of the 28 member Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities. If you are however talking literally in a geography sense, URI and BC are far closer. URI to BC 76 miles SLU to BC 1,188 miles Obviously, I wasn't...

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BC will do a home and home with SLU but won’t play URI? Whimps https://twitter.com/jonrothstein/status/1140678830358704128?s=21 SLU gets an even home and home. URI could only get two 2-1 deals with BC. Both are Catholic Schools - no surprise They're even closer than that... they're two of the 28 me...

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Is Johnson's campus visit still on the schedule for today?

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theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago
adam914 wrote: ↑4 years ago Probably google. Its like the 4th or 5th picture that comes up if you google Ryan Center.
Isn't there a way to pay so your social media results end up favorably? Does URI not do that?

Lol... You know the answer to your question. (you know they don't)

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Rhody83 wrote: ↑4 years ago If we don’t have a complete coaching staff by the first week in July, the athletic department and Coach Cox have screwed up.

+1

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The worse part is when people start to believe their on fallacies and theories. Then there is no convincing them otherwise. (This post was not directed at anyone, but if the shoe fits...) The whole coaching staff situation is a shoddy look right now and I guess we're just trying to figure out why t...

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If we want him, we can get him. For the record DC_Rams and fwiw I would be ecstatic if Devale chooses URI He has size, he can shoot FTs, he can shoot 3 pointers at 43%, he can rebound, clock shots and he is 6'7" You can't teach height and Cox is building a roster that I might guess is the tall...

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