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- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game #25 - URI vs. Xavier, in-game thread
- Replies: 102
- Views: 4570
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game #25 - URI vs. Xavier, in-game thread
- Replies: 102
- Views: 4570
Re: Xavier pink-out
Xavier has won four Atlantic 10 Tournament Championships in its first 15 seasons in the A-10 (1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006). Xavier has won or shared 15 regular season conference championships over the last 28 years(eight A-10 and seven MCC), while winning 10 conference tournament championships (four ...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Canisius/Baron Poll
- Replies: 128
- Views: 5828
Re: Canisis/Baron Poll
For the 17 people that voted they would be happy for Baron, please, explain yourself. I'm one. Why? Because I put aside my Italian Alzheimer's (you forget everything but the grudges). He's a mediocre coach but a good, decent man, and when I consider the collection of eels, lizards and snakes at oth...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game #23: University of Dayton - GameDay and In-Game!
- Replies: 126
- Views: 5680
Re: Game #23: University of Dayton - GameDay and In-Game!
This from our pal Gerbil Jim Donaldson. Can't say I really disagree: "It also would have been nice to see more fans in the stands, as the announced attendance was only 3,388. The ongoing apathy among URI alumni, students, and fans of Our State U. continues to amaze -- and disappoint -- conside...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game #23: University of Dayton - GameDay and In-Game!
- Replies: 126
- Views: 5680
Re: Game #23: University of Dayton - GameDay and In-Game!
My $.02: -- Nik played his @ss off. He usually does, but the results aren't always apparent. -- Aaman scored in the first half on a drop-step worthy of Hakeem Olajuwon -- catch, step, seal and score in about half-a second. -- The first half was a treat without that inane "make some noiii-iiiise...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
The Fryuh Faih-weathah Faithful only come here for two reasons:
-- To try to persuade themselves that they're still superior to someone.
-- To do their, ahem, particular version of fact-checking our discussions, then go back to their own restricted board(s) to laugh at us.
Pathetic.
-- To try to persuade themselves that they're still superior to someone.
-- To do their, ahem, particular version of fact-checking our discussions, then go back to their own restricted board(s) to laugh at us.
Pathetic.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8932681/sources-big-east-catholic-7-close-reaching-media-rights-deals "NBC Sports Network verbally offered the Big East between $20 million and $23 million per year for six years to acquire the league's media rights, sources told ESPN."...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: My dilemma as a URI fan
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4181
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
Then you also can't complain when many PC fans decide to hate on URI ... It's a two way street, and it's also IGNORANT on both sides. It's one thing to debate the merits of how a specific team will survive in a specific conference. But are you really that much of a child that you have to moan about...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
More facts is the last thing I need to loathe Pee-C. There's more than anyone can use in one lifetime.rjsuperfly66 wrote:It sounds like you guys are trying to find anything to stick to the wall to hate on PC.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
I don't know what the financial agreements are between the State and the city of Providence are, but I do know that the University took a blighted building and turned it into a bustling place of higher learning, that is open to all. I do know that the Providence Place mall sits where the former URI...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game #17: George Washington - GameDay!
- Replies: 132
- Views: 7317
Re: Game #17: George Washington - PreGame
IMHO, the place is "quiet as a church" because the asinine "game presentation" cacophony beats any organic crowd noise into submission.rambone 78 wrote:the place is as quiet as a church too often. Get the folks riled up, make some noise, and intimidate the refs!
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: A10 Conference Announces Inaugural Men's Basketball Legends
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1433
Re: A10 Conference Announces Inaugural Men's Basketball Lege
Shouldn't this only include players and coaches who actually competed in the Atlantic-10 or its predecessor, the Eastern 8?
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Baron Settlement $1.1M
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3302
Re: Baron Settlement $1.1M
You may as well kill all sports if you kill football. College Football is a sport that is growing in interest and basketball has been in a decline for 15 years across the county. The biggest crowds in Kingston the last few years have been for football games. Basketball has become very defensive and...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
What was the outcome of the exhaustive investigation into the attack on Rhody? I haven't heard anything, so I assume the Pee-C administration is still working vigorously to bring the attackers to justice.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
Rumors are rumors and doubtless are being leaked by those close to the Sacred Seven to justify their decision to bail on the glorified Conference USA to which they currently belong. Maybe they will make big money for a couple of years, and maybe Fox does want to create a national sports channel to c...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
what would have saved all the other conferences would have been to push for a national championship playoff that was like Division 1-AA.....all conference champs get an automatic invite and a few at-larges to make 16 teams....then every school has a chance to win the national title....but they all ...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
The size of television markets doesn't matter for basketball, because within the next three or four years the BCS cartel will vacuum up all the available television time. If the networks want the cartel's football, they'll have to take all the cartel's basketball, meaning the Sacred Seven will soon ...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Marketing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1334
Re: Marketing
Just trying to help out the beloved alma mater.RAM67 wrote:Red. You always come up with the best ideas!
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Marketing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1334
Re: Marketing
Or maybe instead of big heads create full-frontal nude cutouts of Rihanna at the same scale and wave them at opposing players when they have the ball.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
Actually, UConn itself doesn't deserve as much blame for the lawsuits as Dick Blumenthal, at the time the grandstanding publicity-hogging attorney general. He made a big show of suing Boston College and the ACC, but most, if not all, of those lawsuits died very quiet deaths.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
I don't know about Temple, but UConn has invested too much money (and tapped a number of seven-figure donors) in its football program to join the Atlantic 10, which would be seen as an abandonment of football. The UConn administration should be in Chestnut Hill, Mass., washing the cars and doing the...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Marketing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1334
Re: Marketing
And if they picked Danny Ferry those of us who remember him mugging Kenny Green in 1988 would start a riot. Ooops, wait, can't use that word.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game Thread - Southern Methodist vs. URI
- Replies: 91
- Views: 5916
Re: Game Thread - Southern Methodist vs. URI
Turning every game into Short Attention-Span Theater isn't going to get people to games, though it is turning off some of us few remaining ticket-buyers.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game Thread - Southern Methodist vs. URI
- Replies: 91
- Views: 5916
Re: Game Thread - Southern Methodist vs. URI
So I went to the game today and here is my take... Off the Court: -Good Lord! John Vanner and his on court nonsense during timeouts has worn real thin. Hes annoying as hell. I remember at the Vermont game he started yelling 'look at the scoreboard!!!' When there was like ten minutes left and needle...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
Let them go. As I've been saying for years there are two classes of schools--the BCS cartel and everyone else. The Sacred Seven may get a few dollars more going on their own, but that will only last a couple of years until the cartel membership settles. Once that happens, the cartel will vacuum up a...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: OT Rutger's Mike Rice Suspended and Fined.. and Now FIRED!
- Replies: 271
- Views: 14246
Re: OT Rutger's Mike Rice Suspended and Fined
Mike Rice Sr. was a lunatic. Sounds like the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
Even if -- and "if" is the biggest two-letter word in the dictionary -- the Sacred Seven get $1.5 million a year in television, that will only last as long as it takes for the BCS cartel to regain control of all the television time. Let's assume the scenario where four mega-conferences are...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
The Catholic schools can do whatever they want and in a couple years it won't matter. Lincoln, Neb., Starkville, Miss., and Pullman, Wash., will be worth more than Boston, New York and Philadelphia because the BCS cartel will squeeze everyone else off the air. They'll be able to tell the networks, &...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
The Catholic 7 will stick together only as long as it makes financial sense. When the television money dries up--which is inevitable because the BCS cartel will gradually assume control over the lion's share of the available television time--they'll be forced to re-think their cost structures due to...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving
- Replies: 1359
- Views: 81787
Re: Big East - Basketball Only Schools Leaving?
The basketball-only schools can't afford to leave the Bigheaded East because they'd lose access to the brand name, the tournament at Madison Square Garden and especially all that television money. Besides, when conference realignment settles out they'll be on the outside looking in just like us. Rem...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Want To Get Angry At The Barons?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1787
Re: Want To Get Angry At The Barons?
Q. What's Italian Alzheimer's?
A. You forget everything but the grudges.
Let's lay off the Barons and wish them well. Or would you rather be Canisius than URI?
A. You forget everything but the grudges.
Let's lay off the Barons and wish them well. Or would you rather be Canisius than URI?
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game #9: @ Providence College - InGame!!!
- Replies: 244
- Views: 12213
Re: Game #9: @ Providence College - InGame!!!
Ob, I could care less about you. You bring zero to the table outside of name calling. Ironic, since you are the one who calls me juvenile. Ask OB or RIRed anything about basketball X's & O's and you won't hear from them. Red actually said PC didn't do anything strategy wise in the 2nd half that...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game #9: @ Providence College - InGame!!!
- Replies: 244
- Views: 12213
Re: Game #9: @ Providence College - InGame!!!
Just checking in now because I couldn't even talk last night. I drove Little Red back to Storrs (she's a Husky through and through but still loves our Rams) and couldn't say a word about the game. Some observations, in no particular order of importance: --The City of Providence did a horsesh1t job o...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Are you going to the PC URI Game Thursday Night?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2028
Re: Are you going to the PC URI Game Thursday Night?
Rhody had better take a couple of football players with him when he goes to the men's room.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game #9: @ Providence College - PreGame
- Replies: 211
- Views: 12385
Re: Game #9: @ Providence College
so that will leave them with 6 players (5 scholarship and 1 walk on) Even if Pee-C has to pull kids out of the student section to play, they're supposed to win because they're THE ALMIGHTY PROVIDENCE COLLEGE!!!!!! OTOH, it'd be kind of amusing to watch said students stagger around on the court.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Frank Carpano and WJAR hate URI hoops
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4863
Re: Frank Carpano and WJAR hate URI hoops
Only in Rhode Island could taking money from an organization you're supposed to cover not be a conflict of interest.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Ryan Attendance
- Replies: 81
- Views: 4980
Re: Ryan Attendance
It's simple: win and the world wins with you, lose and you lose alone.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Game #9: @ Providence College - PreGame
- Replies: 211
- Views: 12385
Re: Game #9: @ Providence College
I don't know who will win, but once thing is for sure: the Pee-C student section will be its usual drunk and obscene self.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Frank Carpano and WJAR hate URI hoops
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4863
Re: Frank Carpano and WJAR hate URI hoops
Isn't Fryuh Frank still Pee-C's public-address announcer at the Dunkin' Dump? He was for many years. Talk about conflict of interest.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Official Conference Realignment Thread
- Replies: 125
- Views: 7137
Re: Maryland, Rutgers to big ten Uconn to ACC
On the Ryan Center and student seating: "Game presentation" is atrocious and, at times, embarrassing. If I ever catch another of those stupid little plastic basketballs, I'm liable to throw it back at the "MAKE SOME NOI-ISE" moron. Now, back to the original thread: none of the ba...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Official Conference Realignment Thread
- Replies: 125
- Views: 7137
Re: Maryland, Rutgers to big ten Uconn to ACC
The basketball schools aren't going to leave the Bigheaded East because if they leave they lose the rights to the brand name and whatever scraps of a television contract may be left. The football schools couldn't kick the basketball schools out because they haven't been together long enough to keep ...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Who do you hate more - UMASS or PC?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 4423
Re: Who do you hate more - UMASS or PC?
(To the melody of "Give My Regards to Broadway")
I hate the Pee-C Fry-izz
And everything about Pee-C
I hate the hype that Vincent Council gets
And I hate Ernie D
I hate the Big East Conference
And the Dunkin Donuts Dump too
I hate the Pee-C Fry-izz
So if you're a Fryuh I hate you.
I hate the Pee-C Fry-izz
And everything about Pee-C
I hate the hype that Vincent Council gets
And I hate Ernie D
I hate the Big East Conference
And the Dunkin Donuts Dump too
I hate the Pee-C Fry-izz
So if you're a Fryuh I hate you.
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: Official Conference Realignment Thread
- Replies: 125
- Views: 7137
Re: Maryland, Rutgers to big ten Uconn to ACC
The Bigheaded East is collapsing. The only question to be decided will be the number of leagues that get to stay in the BCS cartel. Whether it's five (Big 10, ACC, Big 12, Southeastern, Pac-12) or four (bye-bye, Big 12), those leagues will be so big (16 schools each) that their basketball will fill ...
- 11 years ago
- Forum: NCAAs or Bust!
- Topic: SI.com's Busting Brackets predicts 6 win season for Rhody
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1692
Re: SI.com's Busting Brackets predicts 6 win season for Rhod
I think we'll be a lot closer to .500.