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Interesting contrast in styles. They are playing the Oats style where they try to get a shot up pretty quickly, shoot a lot of threes. It's pretty simplistic but this one will certainly come does to 3pt%. They are under 30% for the year and if they are 10-34 or something like that, Rhody should hand...

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There is a better chance of Cox resigning before Friday’s game than Fatts moving to the bench. He played 40 minutes on Saturday. There is no possible way he doesn’t start. I won’t argue against the idea that Jeff should play with the ball in his hands a bit more but that can happen with Fatts on th...

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theblueram wrote: ↑4 years ago I can't get anyone questioning our big man Cyril. He has delivered every year. He deserves more respect than he is getting. I love his game and everthing he does each night.

Guy is a monster. Love how he plays.

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This is URI.. As much as we would like 13 scholarship players providing meaningful minutes it's probably never going to happen. If it does there will probably be more transfers. There just aren't enough minutes for 13 players. No one expected the Walker and Shepard situations.. DJ was brought here ...

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I think it is tough to write the kid off two games into the season because he is not ready to play yet. You could have the same problem with a grad transfer who has to come in and learn to play the level of D we expect before you get to see minutes. It is a big difference playing in the NEC to comi...

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My point, if you missed it- having to fill multiple roster spots in the spring is not the move for a program like URI. I got it. My response was that there are multiple options (frosh, wait on grad xfer, bank the schollie, JC). Of course it keeps almost every non blue blood coach awake. If you go t...

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Having to fill roster spots in the Spring can be a gamble. There’s often a reason some guys are still available, and I think we see that with Sheppard and Johnson, It can work out, of course. Munford was an excellent spring signee, and I think Toppin has a chance to be very good. Roster management ...

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Dowtin and Martin can shoot the three Dowtin Freshman 35.1% Sophomore 38.7% Junior 35.4% Senior (5-12) 41.7% Martin Freshman 31.1% Sophomore (6-11) 54.5% Martin and Dowtin hit (5-10) 3Ps against Maryland. They need to shoot more similar to how Dowtin fed EC and Terrell the ball his first two years ...

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It's magnified against a team like MD but it's really hard to swallow in 2019 there isn't someone like Four on this roster that can't just stand in the corner against a 1-3-1 zone. Fatts tried to dribble through it all night which is insane. I suspect rhody will see some variant of that all year. Th...

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Walker/Sheppard are not immaterial issues but this team has all the pieces to make a fun run or be maddeningly inconsistent. It's not quite make or miss like the NBA but if they don't get up towards 33% from three it will be a rough year from a hopes/viewing standpoint. And that's not asking a lot i...

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Still, Georgetown should maybe take responsibility for themselves rather than playing victim to a 19 year old kid who didnt like the fit. Obviously they offered him something that he didnt get so it's their fault that he was either dismissed or run off. Your fit comment is off. Walker git into a fi...

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Fatts scored 40+ in a game last season on the road. He absolutely belongs there. That's not a great reason to put him on any team. It's clunky stat but he was a net negative offensive and defense player last year in BPM. It is really, really hard to be a top flight player when your shooting is that...

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Good to hear. Our bigs meaning Harris and Tate? With Cyril out it seems like we still managed to take advantage inside. I assume so. Just passing on info I had heard from guys that would know. GBG, Good info, thanks for sharing. Do you happen to know when it was a 1 possession game with a minute to...

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Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑4 years ago Good to hear. Our bigs meaning Harris and Tate? With Cyril out it seems like we still managed to take advantage inside.

I assume so. Just passing on info I had heard from guys that would know.

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Pieces I cobbled together from a few people. 1. URI did a really nice job switching their bigs into mismatches and took advantage. 2. Both teams shot well from outside 3. BC was up 17-7 and 43-40 at half and by eight with under ten left. 4. Thornton (their PG) left the game 30 seconds into the 2nd h...

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Just booked the Hilton Garden Inn in Silver Spring where our daughter lives. Stayed there many other times and it is a fine hotel and about 20-30 minutes from College Park. There are 7 of us going to the game. That's a little farther away than you might want to be, especially when the game will end...

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ramster wrote: ↑4 years ago Narrowed to 3 teams:
Boston College - ACC
NC State - ACC
Texas A&M - SEC

Have heard the old man and Pastore are pushing for BC but the kid hasn't quite gotten there.

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BC has no chance here but they definitely seemed to have turned the corner in recruiting. Buddy of mine knows Vin Pastore really well and they are close to making Mass Rivals a feeder type program. He loves Jim Christian. Ashton-Langford (former top 100) just transferred there from PC. He's just a ...

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Yeah...BC has a chance.....NOT BC has no chance here but they definitely seemed to have turned the corner in recruiting. Buddy of mine knows Vin Pastore really well and they are close to making Mass Rivals a feeder type program. He loves Jim Christian. Ashton-Langford (former top 100) just transfer...

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I think we're in pretty strong agreement here. I'm not saying we shouldn't hire assistants ever again, but if Cox doesn't work out I think we have to examine if our particular situation lends itself to first time coaches being effective. We seem to be middle of the pack for resources in the confere...

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I find it ironic that of the two most hard headed posters with respect to who should be coaching the program, one thinks that we should have interviewed 75 coaches, including D3 coaches, and the other guy only wants to consider people who played at URI. Who wanted 75 interviews? I get that you like...

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Time for Cox to go. Wait too long and you lose any momentum Hurley built. This is next level bad. The problem is the Cox hire is a direct reflection of Thorr. Maybe he has enough goodwill built up to get a mulligan but the reality is this is a three year minimum short of this happening regularly ne...

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TruePoint wrote: ↑5 years ago They talked to both of those guys...

I guess you don't get the point. If the list started at ten then it was a bad list. Seemed at the time to be a shoddy search and we are watching the fruits of that right now. 98% of the people who voted for Cox just wanted to keep the frosh class together.

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People are frustrated, but I think there are only a handful of posters who actually think Cox should be fired. They just say it a lot, repeatedly, so it seems like more. I don't think I have ever called for his job. But I do think, in a corporate type setting, Cox would be gone at year's end. Somet...

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Going back to the spring, you’ve pretended that the reason Cox was hired was to keep one recruit, or even one class of recruits. Even though you cannot be convinced otherwise, I will say again for anyone else out there who happens to be encountering this suggestion for the first time, that he was n...

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People are frustrated, but I think there are only a handful of posters who actually think Cox should be fired. They just say it a lot, repeatedly, so it seems like more. I don't think I have ever called for his job. But I do think, in a corporate type setting, Cox would be gone at year's end. Somet...

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In many ways, IMO, UD and URI are at the opposite ends of the spectrum regarding our head coaches. On the one hand, after a successful run with Archie Miller, many, including myself, would have been happy with giving the head coaching job to one of Archie's assistants, however, we did not take that...

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In many ways, IMO, UD and URI are at the opposite ends of the spectrum regarding our head coaches. On the one hand, after a successful run with Archie Miller, many, including myself, would have been happy with giving the head coaching job to one of Archie's assistants, however, we did not take that...

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It's amazing that 82% voted for Cox. JFC.

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Should have had a legitimate, credible, national search to replace DH. Instead we went 24 inches down the bench. It's amazing it was like 90%/10% pro-Cox.

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You guys can believe KenPom, I’ll believe my eyes. Where is there a conflict with what you believe and kenpom? There is no opinion in kenpom...no subjective measures. If it says our tempo is faster or slower, well, it is. Or whatever is different from your eyes. There can be reasons why but it's it...

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This is why you don't hire a coach to save a recruiting class. URI had big time mojo and could have gotten some serious up and comer. No doubt these all have risk but I was dubious of this hire from the get go. Ask yourself if the 2018 class had zero commits when DH left would you have wanted Cox?

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Still think this team has a lot of talent and will boil down to whether Cox can mold Fatts. Simple as that. We are approaching 200 shots from three point land for Fatts and he is well below 30%. The fact that he can take early shot clock threes, especially contested ones, is beyond me. That would be...

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Some of you guys make me wonder if you have ever watched college basketball. I was not (and remain) skeptical of the hire but 50+ minutes coming from frosh and then players formerly used to playing second fiddle to EC/JT now settling into alpha roles. There is plenty of talent on this team. Just nee...

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I don’t know any program that contends for the Tournament that recruits a project every year. That would put you at 4-5 projects on your team (at least one will redshirt). That is 5 out of 13 scholarships. You are going to have a few players that you recruit who don’t crack the regular rotation fro...

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Committed to BC. Looks like Christian survived a massive rebuild and is starting to get big time recruits after finding a few diamonds in the rough. Pulling a lottery pick that no one wanted out of NC is the sort of break you need when you take that job. And he probably will have another first roun...

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Read he is looking at Uconn and St John's among others. But Uconn doesn't have any scholarships left for 18-19. Leading scorer at Auburn last year. Rhode Island is close to home. Any chance? Anyone have any info? Going to visit BC on Saturday if he doesn't commit to SJU on his visit there. He has p...

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It begins. https://twitter.com/hartfordcourant/status/986700165666017280 Why kind of moron lawyer did Ollie hire? The 14th amendment? Lol. UConn either violated his contract or did not. If you remember the old BC coach Jim O"Brien won a big settlement from Ohio State because they fired him out...

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TruePoint wrote:Tony Allen is a good call. Had a nice career, too.

Allen is one of the best defenders of the last 30 years. I would be shocked if Terrell had an NBA career.

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I liked the interview, but I'm curious as to Dan's argument that the AAC is a "high major" conference now? Because they had a 2 seed in the NCAA tournament? Is the WCC a high major conference because of Gonzaga? I get that it's his dream job, but acting like the AAC is that much better of...

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UConn was built on the back of one guy. Always beware of those jobs. It's still in a cow field in Connecticut. It still has enough of a brand and a coach to be a tournament regular but I see it more as a Wichita State type gig now. Nothing wrong with that just far from a blue blood.

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So each player would need an agent? Can they deal with contracts? It’s much much more complex then simply paying a student. The benefit of education will be thrown away for good. Kids won’t want to Learn. They won’t have drive once their collegiate careers are over. I’m talking about the 90% of ath...

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for the pay the players crowd, its not that simple. dont forget Title IX. ANY compensation to the players will have to be balanced and follow the Title IX guidelines for program spending. you're also gonna have a lot of kids dealing with complex tax issues. are they W2 or 1099 employees? if 1099 ho...

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Good for him, looks like he probably wanted to play for Hurley so I can't blame him. Nice that he thanked URI and Coach Cox. Time to move on. Right, exactly. When Dan was at URI nobody was upset that some kids wanted to play for him. If this is what he wanted, I’m glad it worked out for him. You wo...

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Currently, players are free to transfer with the stipulation that they sit out a year. They know the rules going in. Don't want to sit out a year, then a player shouldn't transfer or they can transfer to a Division Two school. Otherwise, go transfer and sit a year. What's the big deal about sitting...

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Supposedly the Knicks are trying to talk Jay Wright into leaving Villanova. I doubt he does, but they have a couple of guys we recruited. It's probably the one time I would listen if I was Jay Wright. You just can't beat Madison Square Garden. NYC is such a great basketball town. Offer him $10MM/ye...

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CTRamfan wrote:
Considering how many interests are involved, the players interests are pretty well protected currently.

How are they protected? They are the one group that has no voice in any type of bargaining. In no way are the players interests being protected.

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What you call presupposition, I call prediction. I’m using the facts available to me and mapping them onto my view of the world and projecting an outcome. That is like a basic human reasoning skill . If you want to help the players without ruining the sport, just pay them. Giving them this because ...

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1. Introducing this rule would kill demand and revenue, if not right away then certainly over the long term. That is why is described it as a trade-off. This current system allows for the existence of "big-time" sports because it creates fan interest. 2. This isn't the same thing as the g...

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If they don't care whether anyone watches, they should definitely go ahead with this plan. The sport will likely still exist, but it will have a serious long-term impact on fan engagement. If this were ONLY about making things perfect for players, I would support this transfer rule, but I am 100% b...

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