I have no idea how people can defend Baron's time at URI. He was the head coach at a school that has arguably the best college basketball facility anywhere in the northeast. That should be enough of a sell to recruits to get them to the level of Xavier most years. That is a bit of a stretch. The Ry...

Rod, no one with any level of knowledge will make any judgements on Hurley as a coach until at least 3 years at URI. What Hurley is doing this year means absolutely nothing. He has less talent than any URI team I have ever seen, including the Jerry D years, last year's team and the 2004-2005 team. A...

I have no idea how people can defend Baron's time at URI. He was the head coach at a school that has arguably the best college basketball facility anywhere in the northeast. That should be enough of a sell to recruits to get them to the level of Xavier most years. He brought in some decent players. ...

Three Baron vs Xavier games that stick out to me outside of the win in the A-10 tourney are: The game in 2004 when Brian Woodward punched the Xavier player and they got blown out at home. The game in 2008 at URI when Xavier was ranked and URI overcame a big deficit, took a lead on a Will Daniels 3 a...

At this point it's useless to complain and be upset. The team is not good at all. In fact I'd say it's far worse than last year's team. The fact that URI is in pretty much every game shows how good a coach that Hurley really is. URI's talent level IMO is on the level of a middle of the pack bottom d...

EasyEdBrown wrote:Ok, I thought my mind was going.

I'm still trying to figure out why I saw a 6 win team play 14 games that year.

URI went to the conference finals the DePaul year.

You are thinking of a different year.

Here's the attendance for the Ryan Center's Opening Season, where seemingly everything went right for Rhody. Date Team Attendance % Capacity SRO 26-Nov-2002 USC 5785 76% 4-Dec-2002 Kent State 3972 52% 9-Dec-2002 Brown 4286 57% 14-Dec-2002 Maine 4086 54% 21-Dec-2002 Pittsburgh #4 8121 107% 550 31-De...

I did an internship with the URI sports marketing team and along with going to every men's game (which was awesome), I had to sit through a handful of women's games. Free attendance is a good idea but still wouldn't be nearly enough for me to sit through a game of...that...again. Edit: this was RE:...

Well you said it was the game that he hit a buzzer beater.

I was just pointing out that it was a different game that that happened.

Right, it was after the disappointing loss to UMass. Rhody went to 20-4 that afternoon in the Bronx. Then Baron's Rams went on to LOSE 8 of the next 9 games to complete the first major collapse. It was one of those days when you could really be in awe of his abilities sitting up close. Wasn't his b...