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josephski

I agree that contracts with local stations is not the way to go; streaming is. Would like to see the quality of the radio broadcast improve too. The problem with streaming is that only diehard Rhody fans will bother to find it and watch. It will not atttract more casual fans and help grow interest ...

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I think Ace mentioned this before - it reduces the number of text etc they get every day. Bishop has 21 scholarship offers. A coach from everyone of those 21 schools contacts him every day multiple times. It’s overwhelming. What's to stop him from just saying his 8 schools right now or whenever he'...

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I'm sure some of the younger fans will think it's a great game if we play Xavier at Mohegan because they won't play at the Ryan Center. Maybe when Xavier is a consistent final four type team. WV is the borderline level program that I am ok playing at Mohican. Any less and I am pissed. WVU has made ...

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I have a controversial take: for one of the greatest seasons in URI basketball history, including a record number of weeks and record-high positions in both polls, an outright conference championship, a nation's best winning streak, a win in the NCAA tournament, and the swan song of a handful of re...

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With Nicola (c not k) gone, that leaves an 11 man roster and just four players with any meaningful college game experience and one of the four hasn’t played in a year. That’s why the move has significance, IMO. I mean...it could have significance but even with Akele we would still lose 70% of our s...

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I think the point is, if you're 6'7" in today's NBA, you better be able to step out and shoot it. Exactly. Comparing Hassan's height to Kawhi is the same as comparing his height to Steph Curry, completely irrelevant because they have different skill sets. Unless Hassan can prove he can play ou...

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EC is DNP tonight for the hated Grizzlies. Before tonight’s game Memphis was last in ppg at 64.5. They can’t score and they won’t give their bench players a chance. I agree. It is kind of an unwrritten rule that most players do get a chance to play in summer league. Most teams do this but clearly t...

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eli#10 wrote:Very very happy for JT to get this chance. I really enjoyed watching him for the past 4 years. CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!

Agreed. It was really fun watching him improve every year and finishing it off with a killer senior year. Also a great model for any recruit coming into the program.

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Way to go Terrell!

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https://twitter.com/jonrothstein/status/1007713377915981824?s=21 They also lose the awesomely-named Giddy Potts. I wish they would have played last year. For the names alone, a Giddy-Fatts matchup would have been outstanding. Bummer, after losing Johnson their highest scorer coming back from last y...

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What is ESPN paying for the rights? Is the A10 selling digital rights separately to ESPN+ while maintaining the broadcast relationships they’ve had with NBCSN, CBSSN and ESPN? Or will ESPN+ be the exclusive home for A10 basketball? Sounds like ESPN+ will only carry games that don't appear on nation...

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Contract "spirits" get broken all the time. These folks care zippo about the spirit of anything. Technically speaking, Colorado beat Missouri in 1990 with a famous 5th down play en route to a share of the national title. In the spirit of sportsmanship, should Colorado have said "we d...

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https://twitter.com/TyB_WV/status/989309976907837440?s=19 Since this game is part of the Naismith Hall of Fame, does that make it a neutral site game and not a home game? Doubt it. I'm guessing West Virginia was only willing to do a "home" and home with us if they gained the RPI benefit w...

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DC_Rams wrote:With Sutton coming in, this may be our shot at this kid. What are the details on Corey?

Averaged 6 points a game and didn't start on his community college team. No thanks.

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Obie, From what i see and hear URI does not have a strong lobbying presence at the state house and the only potential donor increase will come from younger alumni, most of whom are not in a position to become major donors. Blue Man, you speak of Hurley like you have Sunday dinner with him. Go back ...

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For what its worth I agree with Ramrod. EC was his own worst enemy sometimes and you can just tell some games he had games where he was just mentally checked out on defense and offense. Not always the case however, he had a few special games this year and did well in the tourney. His ceiling was mu...

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For what its worth I agree with Ramrod. EC was his own worst enemy sometimes and you can just tell some games he had games where he was just mentally checked out on defense and offense. Not always the case however, he had a few special games this year and did well in the tourney. His ceiling was mu...

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A few thoughts on the recent post above. Dan said he told all the recruits to stay (this infers it was after he told them he was leaving). Jermaine Harris’ coach came out after Dan’s presser and said they never heard from Dan Hurley. I believe Jermaine’s coach. Why would Thorr want Dan contacting U...

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If I'm being honest, I see a difference between UConn's staff going after players that are committed to URI and going after players that were formerly committed to URI. It is hard to know which it would actually be (whether Adams asked out at URI because of contact from UConn, or UConn only made co...

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Well at least they included their methodology so it's easy to see why this list is awful.

josephski

Nothing is wrong with the soccer field, but if you build a new stadium, you build it to be able to handle soccer and football. It doesn't make any sense to combine soccer and football in the same facility. First, trying to schedule three teams games and practices in the fall would be difficult. Sec...

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Also could have been he saw himself as better than Fatts when he committed. After watching the season unfold that may have changed. He also could have just recently received interest from a school with a better opportunity for him. All speculation, but after reading his mother's blog, you know this...

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Maybe he is a bit worried about playing time ?? We do have a lot of good guards ??? we have no more good guards now than the day that he committed in the first place. I don't think we are playing a 4 guard system anymore. Leave that for uconn to deal with. We would have only had 5 guards total with...

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Probably thinking plenty of bench is his future short term with Thompson, Dowtin and Russell ahead of him..... St. Bonaventure perhaps a destination? If Adams is anywhere close to his brother in skill there's no way Thompson would be ahead of him. Pretty disappointing though, I loved watching Jayle...

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Not sure why Dowtin's post from the book of James about asking God for wisdom...something he likely does every day... gets taken as 'he wouldn't leave'? I HOPE that's the case, but don't see the connection... Dowtin has been getting looks from NBA scouts, I think it'd be really dumb for him to sit ...

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Now that this is out two things i have heard recently that are worth repeating... 1.) Direct from current players on our team the word was Cox is the glue, multiple guys came here to play for him as much as Dan. 2.) Despite the above, there is still an expectation of 1-2 defections. Whether its rec...

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Will be interested to see what the contract looks like. Some big time schools in the American conference. Yea American looks like they're really stepping it up. With Hurley at Uconn, Hardaway at Memphis, McKie at Temple and now Dooley going to ECU it looks like the American could easily pull away f...

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The ECU radio network is reporting that ECU has reached agreement with Joe Dooley Is anybody else surprised by this? East Carolina...really?? Will be interested to see what the contract looks like. Some big time schools in the American conference. Yea American looks like they're really stepping it ...

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This what people say when they are done making things up. I would be suspicious of a Dooley hire if we heard stuff like "he could bring a few spring recruits with him". For the same reasons. The reality is I have no idea. No one does. Not a single person. It's hard to get a hire right. Wh...

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Winning at that level (a conference where the winner is a 15 or 16 seed) does not automatically translate to better conferences. Do you think Pitt would have taken 14 conference wins next year? I guess not, or they obviously would have called Joe Dooley.... Hurley came from the NEC which is probabl...

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If Cox isn't offered the head coaching position, you can take all the growth and momentum this program has built up the last 6 years and throw it out the window. It's not just about keeping the current roster intact and ensuring most (if not all) of the incoming recruits honor their commitments, al...

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I'm all for Cox as the head coach but I really don't understand why people are acting like Dooley would be an awful hire. The guy has made 2 NCAA tournaments and in 4 out of his 5 years as head coach as either made the tournament or finished first in the conference. At a school like Florida Gulf Coa...

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David is so mature, so above petty nonsense that he extends benefits of the doubt to players. Danny never let them breathe. zero leeway. they always knew he was lurking behind every corner waiting to pounce on them for letting up. I'm concerned the difference in personalities will be an issue I don...

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https://twitter.com/_jharris1/status/978394851162157056?s=20 For some reason can't read it. Won't load. What did it say and from who? He tweeted “can’t wait to get my grind on at RHODY” then deleted it. Then he also posted “Rhode Island is home now” and deleted that. We’ll see if he keeps the tweet...

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Looks like he deleted it already, but I saw it too josephski. I also noticed Tate and Martin both retweeted their tweets from earlier last week about URI. Now this is 100% pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if they have been informed of who the next coach will be? Yea it seems like he can’t ...

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Just posted this in Harris’ recruiting thread but it’s probably worth posting here as well! https://twitter.com/_jharris1/status/978394851162157056?s=20 Edit: and it looks like he deleted the tweet. First tweet said “can’t wait to get my grind on at rhody!” Second tweet said “Rhode Island is home now”

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People take the 10 second rule before posting nasty stuff. if someone said to you 6 years ago that he would do what he did and then left, everyone would have signed up. yes it hurts, yes it sucks but we need to move on and thank the guy for getting us to this point. took 10 seconds...yup, he's stil...

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What's amazing is how a coach can turn a school into a powerhouse. Prior to Coach K, Dook made 7 NCAAT. Think about that. Coach K has taken Dook to 35 tournaments. I guess it just depends on what your ambitions are. You can be a coach at a school who has success and be another cog in the wheel, or ...

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you build a brand by winning. period. the more you win, the more youre seen and the more attention you get. Duke, Carolina, Indiana, UCLA, Syracuse, Arizona, Kansas, Gonzaga, etc arent brands because they are on billboards or plastered on bus stops. They are brands because they win and are seen/cov...

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Wow. I really thought we'd at least go on some type of run to make it somewhat interesting, I think Iona may have played a more competitive game than we have today.

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Andre and Cyril in at the same time! First time all year? Nope, before Cyril got hurt they started the first couple games together. not true...unless they had 6 starters. EC, JT< JD, Stan and Andre started every game. When EC went down, Garrett started. Stan missed one game that I believe they both...

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Just try and cut the lead to 10 by halftime.

josephski

So glad i got to see the win today, but now i feel equally as bad about having to work saturday. what is it going to take to beat duke? Our seniors playing like seniors and their freshmen playing like freshmen. If Duke plays to their best and we play to our best then there is no way we win, have to...

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Lets fucking goooo!!!!

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Holy shit, that was an awesome sequence!

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PeteRI wrote:Fatts got robbed on that three point shot. He should have had three free throws.

Refs have been pretty inconsistent both ways. I agree that was a foul but there is no way Young’s second foul was a push off.

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Great win by Cuse! Really don’t think either of these teams should have been in the tournament but I’ll take the win! Looking forward to URI win tomorrow as well!

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Refs are absolute trash

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Let’s go Cuse!!!

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