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Blue Man

We don't recruit New England kids. We do - we were in the mix with Amdy last year and couldn't afford him. I know we do. I was being sarcastic. We just can't land any of them. Were Jarvis and Jared the last 2 significant recruits from NE Prep schools that we got? That was 10 years ago. Austin suppo...

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Billyboy78 wrote: ↑3 weeks ago
SmartyBarrett wrote: ↑3 weeks ago
We don't recruit New England kids.

We do - we were in the mix with Amdy last year and couldn't afford him.

Blue Man

Count me in the team House camp. Without a true PG and playing 1/2 the year as the #1 target for a defense, he managed to be a pretty efficient scorer jumping up a level from what he was used to. 14 ppg in the A10 isn't nothing. Nice to have a guy capable of going off at any point. 1 year left I thi...

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What a bum. Last name only. Guy averages under 5 points a game in 20 mins and is a 36% shooter. I'd love him in the A10 to ridicule in person though. Calling him a bum is going way overboard. Cardiac arrest in the preseason, didn’t get cleared for the beginning of the year. No chance he was 100% an...

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What a bum. Last name only. Guy averages under 5 points a game in 20 mins and is a 36% shooter.

I'd love him in the A10 to ridicule in person though.

Blue Man

Jersey77 wrote: ↑3 weeks ago
OBRAM wrote: ↑3 weeks ago maybe its been said on this post, but teams that make it to the NIT Final Four are NCAA Playoff caliber teams.
No question both Seton Hall and Indiana State definitely are.

Certainly over Virginia

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https://x.com/rhodyexcellence/status/1775216436199203177?s=46 needless to say - this was not me... hard pass this is a ponzi scheme How? If you want to get good players, this is how you get good players. You certainly don't have to donate, you certainly don't have to buy in. For everyone that doesn...

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Clark had 41 points plus 7 rebounds and 12 assists. She is a tremendous passer Iowa plays UConn Friday 9pm in Final 4 Both the men’s and women’s UConn and NC State basketball teams are in the Final 4, props to them. That’s crazy , wonder if that’s ever happened before ? For UConn this is the 5th ti...

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reef wrote: ↑3 weeks ago
RF1 wrote: ↑3 weeks ago
We are seeing a lot of coaches getting promoted from non P5 to P5 , it’s about identifying those up and comers

Another for the 3 teams in 4 years as a coach.

But that NEVER happens!

Blue Man

We will really know the writing's on the wall when or if Hammond enters the portal. This stealth mode plus the footdragging about KJ is just more frustration surrounding this program. Same for the collective announcement, whatever it is. Thought the recent article that came out about Hammond and hi...

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If that's the case then this is sad. Has it come down to celebrating being able to keep some players you recruited a year or so ago? Guys like Cam and Fuchs are good players, but a 'Big Week' had better be getting some really good transfers to help a much needed upgrade with the roster. Could just ...

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Get on board! Join here: https://rhodyexcellence.com/join/ https://twitter.com/rhodyexcellence/status/1774910568115196412 Would imagine this is announcing some key players staying? If that's the case then this is sad. Has it come down to celebrating being able to keep some players you recruited a y...

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Bryant’s Roster Blue have entered Portal Red were 5th year players Basically starting over. Phil Martelli Jr with work to do including consoling Rhody Vault :( IMG_2982.jpeg Excited to hear how it’s not his fault, this is the new world of college athletics, he came into an unfair situation and has ...

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I decided to do a little digging. For the past couple of years, a large percentage of our recruits and our portal interests have been from the DMV area. There are 14 guys on this current list. How many from the DMV area? Zero. There are 6 from NY/NJ. Those would be Duane. 3 are from Illinois. Those...

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Blue, did DH personally send you this info ? Did he put you on his PR team ? Just kidding :lol: I only saw bits and pieces of Edey games and honestly wasn’t paying close attention to how the ref’s were treating him. That said, I missed most of what’s in the vid’s you posted above. You and Stevey ma...

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Here's the latest Portal Tracker for Rhody: Portal-Tracker'24.png I decided to do a little digging. For the past couple of years, a large percentage of our recruits and our portal interests have been from the DMV area. There are 14 guys on this current list. How many from the DMV area? Zero. There ...

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FWIW: Mack was the guy I wanted if we didn't land Archie Miller. Will be interested to see how he does at Charleston. Me too Mack is an asshole. For the complainers who think Archie isn't "connecting" with the fans enough...even though he's just a reserved guy off the court...Mack is a to...

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With the whistles, Edey is borderline unwatchable. It is impossible, literally impossible, to be that big, play 40 minutes, play 100% of your game directly under the basket, while only committing 1 foul. When one player is getting to the line more than the entire other team...that's not a good prod...

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With the whistles, Edey is borderline unwatchable. It is impossible, literally impossible, to be that big, play 40 minutes, play 100% of your game directly under the basket, while only committing 1 foul. When one player is getting to the line more than the entire other team...that's not a good produ...

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And it's f'n bullshit Rhody hoops would be rolling right now. Maybe not natty's, but perennial tournament teams and plenty of ability to knock off anyone. Blah blah blah coach K, you killed us because you had the perfect match up against is. Lucky for you we guarded a 7 footer with 6'4 Stan Robinso...

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I don't know that I've ever heard of any other coach who talks more often or more fondly of their time at a previous school than Dan speaks of URI.

Blue Man

Bravo to Dan Hurley whose UConn team have dominated in the NCAAs so far, winning by 32, 17, and 30. We can bask in some reflected glory of his achievement knowing he got his most important chops at Rhody. Hurley made the right decision in taking the UConn job and going to a place, not only for a bi...

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Still March and already down to 8 players from the list of 15. Long way to go til November 1….. Fuchs House Green Kortright Weston Estevez Brown Montgomery Wright Foumena Dubsky Stewart Bilau Hammond Farrell To me this feels about right - unless we get another PG and Ways hits the portal sensing hi...

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Bravo to Dan Hurley whose UConn team have dominated in the NCAAs so far, winning by 32, 17, and 30. We can bask in some reflected glory of his achievement knowing he got his most important chops at Rhody. Hurley made the right decision in taking the UConn job and going to a place, not only for a bi...

Blue Man

Bravo to Dan Hurley whose UConn team have dominated in the NCAAs so far, winning by 32, 17, and 30. We can bask in some reflected glory of his achievement knowing he got his most important chops at Rhody. Hurley made the right decision in taking the UConn job and going to a place, not only for a bi...

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I have a sneaking suspicion that our bigger boosters realize just how important this offseason is to the future of this coach and program, and are or will step up to ensure Archie can bring in the talent he needs to get good again. Consider the alternative. It's not pretty. So we are paying over $2...

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Are we ODing on copium here or is there really a chance KJ actually stays? Maybe a little of both? Hard to know what's going on behind the scenes. My take on it at this point is I hope he stays, but at the same time I never expected him to be here long and still feel that way whether he stays for n...

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steviep123 wrote: ↑1 month ago Wow! Just Wow!

Edit: I can't find any other source for this, so this might be a parady account or soemthing - my apologies.

That’s a fairly well known parody account. One of the better ones

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rambone 78 wrote: ↑1 month ago Its Blue Man again raging against the dying of the light.

Just kidding bro keep on keeping on....

It’s worked before!

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https://www.woonsocketcall.com/sports/hammond-gearing-up-for-hoop-experience-with-rhody-rams/article_ef696126-ec38-11ee-bef4-cf325a0a35d5.html For all the fear mongering this new article that specifically talks about Hammond playing for Archie and how important that is because of Archie’s pedigree a...

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Well, the hope is we can compete with more teams financially this offseason. We also have to factor in what he said he’s looking for. He wants to be a starting point guard. I haven’t kept up to date if any of these guys transferred… Georgia Tech - They had a very good freshman point guard in Naitha...

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SGreenwell wrote: ↑1 month ago
rhodylocal wrote: ↑1 month ago
RhowdyRam02 wrote: ↑1 month ago

Wrong
It would be fun to look back at that Fordham thread.
Here you go!

viewtopic.php?p=101957#p101957

I enjoy the receipts. That thread was me specifically putting it on the players and their FT shooting, not the coaching.

Blue Man

Sign me up yes please Can't compete with most of those teams financially. Well, the hope is we can compete with more teams financially this offseason. We also have to factor in what he said he’s looking for. He wants to be a starting point guard. I haven’t kept up to date if any of these guys trans...

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Blue Man, defending Dan was plausible by year 5 because the program was trending up by year 3. Archie needs to get this train rolling in the right direction and then my attitude will also change in the right direction. No better time to start than next season! My brother in Christ, then why did Dan...

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Ramfan22 wrote: ↑1 month ago

Veteran pure PG would be welcome especially if Hammond stays.

Blue Man

For every lousy coach we've had, there has always been a few who will defend them no matter what, and list a litany of excuses for why we were bad. I'm not saying Archie is a lousy coach, the guy knows the game as well as anyone. But it's not translating into results so far. For a guy like him who ...

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LMAO. It could be worse. We could be Bonnies fans. This is embarrassing.

https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/350 ... wn-the-nit

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I’m not saying I blame them for wanting us to pay into it now that it’s here. I put some of the blame on them as far as the players seeing the coaches salaries skyrocket over the last 20ish years is part of the reason they wanted a piece of the pie. It’s like seeing all these CEO pay packages and t...

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No. It definitely had zero affect that the team we recruited had played zero minutes together, that our intended starters played maybe 1/3 of a season together due to eligibility/injuries, or that 86% of our roster had never played at the A10 or D1 level before. When does that ever matter? It's a t...

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There should be ramifications for that - if you sign a deal then opt out for a better deal then there should be ramifications to avoid poaching. That's what's broken. You can't put any stipulations on a contract. You agree to pay player x to represent your "brand" for a year. That's it. I...

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They (Umass) did the same thing with RJ Luis last year and a few weeks/months later he accepted a bigger bag to go to St John's. Seems like there are 3 waves to the portalers... Wave 1: those leaving no matter what due to role, PT or bigger bag. They announce quickly. Wave 2: those that after meeti...

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Chemistry was definitely an issue. Brand new team with a roster in flux. How was chemistry not an issue? No. It definitely had zero affect that the team we recruited had played zero minutes together, that our intended starters played maybe 1/3 of a season together due to eligibility/injuries, or th...

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So far this is what our roster line-up looks like: PG - Luis, Ways, Ben CG- House, Cam Wing - Zek, Farrell SF/PF- Green PF/C- Fuchs I do like the experience returning (so far) and feel this will be a competitive group. The additional year together will help the team's chemistry and I expect the def...

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I doubt this will happen, but imagine? https://x.com/RobDauster/status/1772634277118669119?s=20 LMAO. I mean...I don't know anyone...anyone, including every PC fan when PC was good and in love with Cooley, that would say he was a great coach. The tagline on him was, and I'll quote myself "he's...

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I doubt players who have a questionable work effort are going to magically become dedicated and fully committed all of a sudden. They need to be identified and move on, and become someone else's problem. If they dont want to play for this coach, how can you keep them around? IDK if you ever played ...

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All 3 will leave. Can’t see Karaban going yet. The NIL money is there and he’s been in a funk a majority of this season. He’s not league ready. I’d put him as least likely. Mom is an immigrant, degree is a must. Castle is unique, could probably get an NIL bag next year and improve his draft stock f...

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That roster does not move the needle whatsoever. That's also assuming Hammond stays and plays. If he were to leave, as it stands, winning 10 games would be a stretch. There’s no way that returning your starting lineup with more experience and growth, means less wins. Holy hell we’re losing it and i...

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It would be great for the conference if either Young or Murray get A10 jobs. Dan wants to keep them. He specifically lobbied in that last contract to expand his pool to pay them more. They’d definitely be worthy of a job - but I think Dan wants to pay them well enough to stay, and wait out a plum P...

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It would be great for the conference if either Young or Murray get A10 jobs. Dan wants to keep them. He specifically lobbied in that last contract to expand his pool to pay them more. They’d definitely be worthy of a job - but I think Dan wants to pay them well enough to stay, and wait out a plum P...

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DH is making 5.25 M per year though 28-29 , big time value contract hope he gets a raise On the pace he's at, he's going to make way wayyyyy more than that right now. "Winning the Big East and the conference tournament are each worth $100,000. An appearance in the first and second rounds are e...

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