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by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: URI Athletics
Topic: URI Football Transfer List
Replies: 24
Views: 3659

Re: URI Football Transfer List

Can’t find the tweet now but believe we hired someone from Nebraska as our new D coordinator
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Dana Tate Transfers to Siena
Replies: 534
Views: 30171

Re: Dana Tate Transfers to Siena

Agreed. End this thread. The speculation does no one any good and casts a negative light on this great community.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)
Replies: 492
Views: 16783

Re: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)

The modified TP Bandwagon...he seems to have relented on the hard line stance and is hanging on by a thread. That's where I'm at. I actually thought the UR game was a bigger blow bc we could end up tied with them and that would break the tie. Also was a squandered Q2 win. That said, if we lose this ...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)
Replies: 492
Views: 16783

Re: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)

There is no way this team should beat us on our home court. Literally every guy on our roster was more highly ranked/regarded coming out of HS, and/or has more tangible accomplishments at the college level. Couple that with a packed house, and what should be a hungry URI team aware they have little ...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)
Replies: 492
Views: 16783

Re: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)

Saw some highlights of last year's Duquesne game circulating on twitter and what immediately stood out were a few explosive dunks from Cyril. Even saw some of that in LIU and LSU game this year, but at some point in December something has happened that has limited his explosiveness. Whether it's in ...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Where Are They Now? Former Player Results and News
Replies: 4017
Views: 442572

Re: Where Are They Now? Former Player Results and News

Really sad sad story. From what I can tell it was rumored in his past that he had bipolar disorder, and he also had a history with guns and drugs. Not a good recipe.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Ticket Exchange 2019-20
Replies: 191
Views: 17358

Re: Ticket Exchange 2019-20

I would hope it expired due to high demand, in that case its a good thing.
Really need to get 7K in there. This team seems to thrive off it (best performances against Bama and PC when we also had high attendance).
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #12 - Games of Interest
Replies: 187
Views: 8368

Re: Week #12 - Games of Interest

This is not the right place for this, but there is some crazy and sad video out there on former St Joe’s guard Delonte West. Feel awful for the dude, seems like his life really went south.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

And what do ya know, Baylor #1 in the polls today. I guess their NET ranking was strong enough to pass the “eye test” :) Who would you bet if they played on a neutral court-I’ll take Gonzaga, Duke or Kentucky over Baylor. But that’s not how this works. NCAA committee uses metrics and data points. T...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)
Replies: 492
Views: 16783

Re: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)

Finish in 2nd in the league and we are in. Whether that’s 15-3 or 14-4. Regardless SLU, Duquesne, VCU (and UR) are the teams we are competing with for that spot. So ideally we sweep all of those games (sans Richmond which we already lost to).
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

And what do ya know, Baylor #1 in the polls today.
I guess their NET ranking was strong enough to pass the “eye test” :)
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

His defense and court awareness has gotten markedly better this year. Don’t always think our offense and our playmakers do enough to get him touches and build confidence. I’m hopeful it’s all gonna click some day, he’s got the build and body to be a great A10 big.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Ryan Center In-Game Experience - Issues and Upgrades
Replies: 4249
Views: 331318

Re: Ryan Center In-Game Experience - Issues and Upgrades

Agree with all of this. Never understand why the stats go away at precisely the time you can check the stats (timeouts). Realize some valuable ads needs to be shown as well but find a healthy medium. This isn’t that hard.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

They have a NET 20+ spots higher than WKU so not sure how you can say WKU is a better win. How about my eyes watching both teams play. Pretty simple. Just because North Texas may have gotten beat up by a bunch of good teams or won by 10 or more against bad teams that manipulates a flawed system in ...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

They have a NET 20+ spots higher than WKU so not sure how you can say WKU is a better win.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)
Replies: 492
Views: 16783

Re: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)

Also of note last year we had a big halftime lead on them and they came all the way back to give us a crippling loss. Hope that serves as some motivation.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)
Replies: 492
Views: 16783

Re: 1/22 | Duquesne | 7:00PM (ESPN+/YurView)

This time I agree, must win.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

:shock: All I saw offensively from Harris was no scoring touch at all. I didn't see the box score but Cox seemed to have him on the bench for most of the game. Harris has had a chance his whole time here and hasn't contributed much offensively. Except for a dumb foul here and there he has been a co...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

I agree with that, but also he can use his ability/preference to attack downhill by dribbling right at a perimeter defender and forcing the guy to pick him up and then passing into the area that guy is responsible for - that is one way to start the ball movement/motion that we are talking about. Th...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

Agreed TP. And I’d posit that zones hurt us this year mostly because they throttle Fatts moreso than bc we are bad shooters. Our guys wide open can knock down shots but that requires the ball to move, preferably inside and out but even quick reversals on the perimeter with a drive, pass, pass combo ...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

I don’t think in Disano’s postgame he was comparing Lasalle’s zone to Syracuse who are pretty much the gold standard for effective 2-3. Just illustrating that like Cuse if you don’t attack from within the back line wings can creep out and you are doing them a favor by just taking ill advised perime...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

I don’t think in Disano’s postgame he was comparing Lasalle’s zone to Syracuse who are pretty much the gold standard for effective 2-3. Just illustrating that like Cuse if you don’t attack from within the back line wings can creep out and you are doing them a favor by just taking ill advised perimet...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

Rhody83 wrote: 4 years ago
reef wrote: 4 years ago Yeah any chance McCall comes back next year or is he gone ???
If UMass continues to suck this year, McCall is gone. The AD forced him to fire all three of his Assistants last year.
What a shit show.
I think he’ll get another year no matter what, but he looks in over his head.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

Creighton is a nice team but not Top 25 quality. A team like LSU, for example, would dismantle them IMO.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 2019-20 Home Attendance Predictions Summary
Replies: 117
Views: 10066

Re: 2019-20 Home Attendance Predictions Summary

Based on opponent and students back we should put close to 7k in there for Duquesne, SLU, Dayton and VCU.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Dana Tate Transfers to Siena
Replies: 534
Views: 30171

Re: Dana Tate to Transfer

Going to Siena.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

Tyrese and Fatts shot 35% and committed 12 turnovers between them.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

Since league play our defense has gotten better and our offense has gotten worse.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

I can't even imagine what page 3 and 4 of this thread look like :)
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

Today for the first time we made Joey Brackets “other teams considered” list - just keep winning. Go Rhody.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

How can this team do well unless Fatts does a better job of sharing the ball when he is having trouble scoring for whatever reason? Fatts is averaging 5 assists/game with an over 2/1 A/TO ratio. This team also needs him to score in order to win. Let’s stop with this shtick that’s not backed up by a...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: West Gym will be renovated to become a basketball practice facility
Replies: 303
Views: 25275

Re: West Gym will be renovated to become a basketball practice facility

Fwiw the richest guy in South Carolina is a URI grad and former wrestler. Sadly I had to stumble upon this information and share it with Athletics. He tried to buy the Panthers a couple of years ago. Joe Esposito? BEN NAVARRO: CHARLESTON FINANCIER When he was an undergraduate at Rhode Island in the...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

Funny that even though they are conceivably the worst free throw shooting team ever I don’t hear audible groans and gasps coming from their fans.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: Recruitment Corner
Topic: '20 DC SG - Ishmael Leggett (Rhode Island Commit)
Replies: 602
Views: 83846

Re: '20 DC SG - Ishmael Leggett (URI Signed LOI)

FYI his name is Scott Hazelton. Not Hazeltine.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

I have been reading about how Dayton has historically had trouble against certain A 10 teams and how they have had trouble at SLU. Have you been watching this Dayton team this year ? It is by no means just Oie Toppin and it is not the same players they had even last season . They are a very veteran...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: West Gym will be renovated to become a basketball practice facility
Replies: 303
Views: 25275

Re: West Gym will be renovated to become a basketball practice facility

Taylor Swift wrote: 4 years ago
bigappleram wrote: 4 years ago Fwiw the richest guy in South Carolina is a URI grad and former wrestler. Sadly I had to stumble upon this information and share it with Athletics.
He tried to buy the Panthers a couple of years ago.
Keep sending that to Waller.
For sure Tswift, Garrett’s a great dude
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

It's RI, which means it's akin to an Italian Sunday lunch. Screaming, yelling, cursing, but all love.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

This fan base and community is too small for Ram on Ram crime. I just said something to that effect, and then went and did the same thing bc your post for whatever reason irked me. And I don't have a Bentley or a castle, so when we get a beer at Barclays before the A10 championship you are buying. :)
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

And Mods please feel free to eliminate all of this back and forth and clean up the thread to get back on topic, I got lured into the gutter.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

Negative on that. But I'm sure calling him a douche would have him running for his checkbook. :) .
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

Spare me the dramatics dude. It was you who made this personal with this beauty "Stop shortchanging this team because you don’t like reading the emotions of people who really care." You opened that door and I just walked through it. Somehow inferring that you really care, and someone who d...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Fatts (Grad Transfer to Maryland)
Replies: 1751
Views: 149859

Re: Fatts

Right now Fatts is #1 the country in steals per game, Cyril is 10th in the country in rebounds per game and Jeff is 18th in the country in Assist/TO ratio.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

Lol. Self destructing threads. I just stay out of game threads until it’s over. And let’s just get back to Lasalle bc this is going nowhere. Plus I’ve now learned only Blueman cares and has ambition, best thing I’ve read here ever.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

If you back up those expectations and words with action in terms of supporting the program/school then you have a right to feel that way. If you don’t, then you don’t. And this is not about having lower expectations, it’s about not treating every game we play as a must win followed by emotional rant...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

What's funny is that in my 35 years of being a fan of Rhody hoops we have received maybe 5 total "at large" bids...yet now on this board every season is a disaster and not worth watching unless that is the end result, and every game is a must win as a result. I guess Dan did raise the roo...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)
Replies: 355
Views: 11357

Re: 1/18 | La Salle | 12:30PM (NBCSN)

What's funny is that in my 35 years of being a fan of Rhody hoops we have received maybe 5 total "at large" bids...yet now on this board every season is a disaster and not worth watching unless that is the end result, and every game is a must win as a result. I guess Dan did raise the roof...
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: West Gym will be renovated to become a basketball practice facility
Replies: 303
Views: 25275

Re: West Gym will be renovated to become a basketball practice facility

Fwiw the richest guy in South Carolina is a URI grad and former wrestler. Sadly I had to stumble upon this information and share it with Athletics.
He tried to buy the Panthers a couple of years ago.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: Week #11 - Games of Interest
Replies: 259
Views: 8565

Re: Week #11 - Games of Interest

FYI, we play St.Louis at home this year. Rest of your points I agree with.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: West Gym will be renovated to become a basketball practice facility
Replies: 303
Views: 25275

Re: West Gym will be renovated to become a basketball practice facility

Rhode_Island_Red wrote: 4 years ago
Blue Man wrote: 4 years ago Football costs us $500k per year, net.
Please show your work.
That 500K number was public knowledge, came from the school in dispelling the myth that the football program loses tons of money. The reality is, it doesn't.
by bigappleram
4 years ago
Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
Topic: 1/15 | Saint Joe’s | 7:30PM (ESPN+/YurView)
Replies: 467
Views: 15399

Re: 1/15 | Saint Joe’s | 7:30PM (ESPN+/YurView)

Long played a lot in the 2nd half because... 1.) Tyrese got in foul trouble and Mekhi was doing a good job on Daly and Cox needed Martin's offense on the court so someone else had to take over Daly responsibility 2.) Toppin struggled covering Daly, fouling him a couple times and getting beat off th...