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I've said this before, and I know I'm not the first either, but every time this comes up I think how I'll just never understand why the NCAA and these schools don't just break off football in to its own thing and leave everything else alone. Make up whatever football conferences or divisions or wha...

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On the happy thoughts side, only two weeks left in this dreadful season. URI is pretty much guaranteed to play in an A-10 PIG Tuesday 03/11/24 game. Even if they were to beat one of the league's other dregs, I cannot imagine them winning the next game on Wednesday. Very much looks to be the second ...

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I’m old enough to remember us going on a streak of 7-1 against VCU. Made the trip down there Dan’s last year knowing we would get a dub. Today I’m hoping we keep it within 3 touchdowns. This shit ain’t easy. One of those games we were at home and Dowtin hit back to back, pull up 3s as he dribbled d...

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I’m old enough to remember us going on a streak of 7-1 against VCU. Made the trip down there Dan’s last year knowing we would get a dub. Today I’m hoping we keep it within 3 touchdowns. This shit ain’t easy.

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Bc he’s foreign player isn’t he cut out from the NIL of it all?? If so then the only reason he leaves is due to relationship with coach and prospects for his future. He’s a seminal figure in our retention needs this spring/summer. Correct https://theworld.org/stories/2024-01-17/international-studen...

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Bc he’s foreign player isn’t he cut out from the NIL of it all??

If so then the only reason he leaves is due to relationship with coach and prospects for his future. He’s a seminal figure in our retention needs this spring/summer.

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One of the only silver linings to this season.

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No serious person wants Archie out or even thinks his seat is even remotely close to warm. One only needs to look at Loyola that brought back a core of returnees from a last place team, infused with a couple Portal additions and some FR and jump to the top of league. I do believe retention is impt; ...

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I’ll agree wholeheartedly with the above in that our HC has to piss excellence and has to lead by example. This isn’t UD there isn’t a machine behind you. The HC at URI is the engine and has to be for it to work. That’s why Dan was so effective.

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Archie sounds like Rick. And a few other coaches out there.

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You should win the majority of your games when you put up 77 points at home. Against a top 30 defense. Our inability to provide any type of resistance is astounding. There are too many defensive blunders to even call out.

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hrstrat57 wrote: ↑2 months ago Martin/Miller Rhode Island / Massachusetts battling for top of A10 would be a dream scenario IMO.

Crank up the local hate!

I think an ideal scenario for the league would be if their top 4 teams were Dayton, VCU, Umass and URI.

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I’m high on Umass. And I think how we have played them over 80 minutes is encouraging. They have talent, couple strong FR and play hard. Matt Cross gets them double digit extra possessions every game thru pure will and grit. An easy player to like. We saw what he did at the end of our game. He does...

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Any nuggets to share for those that attended ??

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reef wrote: ↑2 months ago Sounds like Holtmsnn would have to drop down a conference

Some St Louis ppl like him to replace Ford.

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I’m high on Umass. And I think how we have played them over 80 minutes is encouraging. They have talent, couple strong FR and play hard. Matt Cross gets them double digit extra possessions every game thru pure will and grit. An easy player to like. We saw what he did at the end of our game. He does ...

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Jdrums#3 wrote: ↑2 months ago
steviep123 wrote: ↑2 months ago Chris Holtmann Supposedly out at Ohio State
According to SI, likely potential replacements are Sean Miller and Lamont Paris at South Carolina, Nate Oats, TJ Otzelberger at Iowa State.

Thanks for posting, StevieP.

Also Greg McDermott

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Of course Caputo is going to be fine. It’s year 2. It’s GW. He’ll get at least 4 years unless the wheels completely fall off.

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I agree 100% with the point you are making, but Pitino had no choice but to reload his roster in his first year similar to what Archie had to do here. He has/will make St John's a place kids want to go and I don't expect he'll be needing to reload every year. Schools like URI will continuously have...

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To the crowd that thinks the future is reloading your roster with 10 players every year. And that’s the new normal and all that jazz. Enter Exhibit A: St John’s. One of if not the best coaches alive, recruiting kids to play in MSG and in the Big East. And they look to be at best an NIT team. And he...

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Maybe a Hammond will be the type of player that will stick, and be the draw for others to come our way to develop some continuity. 105 it’s key for our season next year that a bunch of guys from this year “stick”. Cam, Fuchs, Foumena, House etc. We can’t do another roster reload. We need Archie goi...

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To the crowd that thinks the future is reloading your roster with 10 players every year. And that’s the new normal and all that jazz. Enter Exhibit A: St John’s. One of if not the best coaches alive, recruiting kids to play in MSG and in the Big East. And they look to be at best an NIT team. And he ...

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You realize if Rhody played Paul VI we would win by 30 right? Men against kids. It’s a different game and Ben like every other FR will take time to adjust. That said there have been many many good A10 guards under 6 feet. Just 30? Probably more like 50+ lol and that's acknowledging his team does ha...

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I don't think Hammond is going to have a hard time breaking the lineup. There's more talent on the PAUL VI team than there is here, and he is their leader. You realize if Rhody played Paul VI we would win by 30 right? Men against kids. It’s a different game and Ben like every other FR will take tim...

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Hey Blue take a calming pill. We also spent a few years on probation for all the violations during the era. The punishment for Harrick was Jerry D. That was worse than any probation. And even with that...IT WAS WORTH IT. The pinnacle moment of URI basketball fandom in the last 30 years was the vict...

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It's our offense that is moving the needle for us. Currently 126 on Ken Pom and climbing. In A10 play we have 2nd highest FG% and 4th highest 3FG%. Compare that to last year where we ranked dead last in both. If we can end the year with a Top 100 offense I will feel pretty good heading into an offea...

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If this year taught anything it's that there are virtually no true "programs" in college hoops. It's all coach driven. Look at Nova. Look at Louisville. Look at UConn in last couple Ollie years. The luster from a highly successful predecessor wears off quick and the minute you stop winning...

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I'd rather honor Jimmy Baron. First of all, he had a much better overall career here, playing 4 years compared to 1 for Lamar. Maybe kids parents in the USA don't know Jimmy as well as Lamar, but kids in Europe definitely know who he is. He also recently coached at powerhouse IMG, so plenty of kids...

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No, ECR said honoring Lamar would help with recruiting. He’s so much older than the recruits we’d be targeting I don’t believe it’d have any sort of effect on it. Marginal at best. You realize recruits have parents and coaches right? And that those parents and coaches have influence? And there’s a ...

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Correct, but you’re overstating his importance to high school kids who weren’t even in grade school when he was in his prime winning championships. I love Lamar like everyone else here (my favorite number is 5 because of him) but it wouldn’t really affect much at all. So teams can now only honor pl...

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Must. Retain. Cam.

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This isn’t a negative. The conferences, ADs, etc are going to have to fix this mess bc the NCAA is now powerless. Seems like everyone agrees the unlimited transferring isn’t sustainable so should be consensus to rein that in at some point.

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Like Weston, I want Fou to have a longer leash. But Brown has been our best defender in the frontcourt and has made many hustle plays that Archie loves. Fou, without question, seems to have the shortest leash when it comes to our frontcourt, but I get it because he plays out of control and can forc...

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Pretty cool Blue. I’ll have to go back and look at some of those old spots! This Don Draper wannabe fraudster loves it!

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It was easily our best defensive effort of the season and most complete game. Umass we were fire on offense but they still scored high 70s on us. IMO how Weston defended Bishop was the game changer. If he gets going they can be tough to defend and he can get unconscious. Weston made everything diffi...

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https://x.com/studley_stephen/status/1755056912838574305?s=46&t=2tolEYcwGB5AhtU0nkHwSg Love the clips Stevey. That late game turnover where we moved the ball up the court without it touching the floor ending with a Weston to Zek layup was a thing of beauty. Not on the level of that play in the ...

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Also for folks that clamor for zone. A bad man to man team isn’t going to be a great zone team. We were even worse. They got 2 wide open shots and we were out of it. Defended like hawks tonight beyond that opening stretch.

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Rhody15 wrote: ↑2 months ago Also what happened to Fuchs? Didn’t see the first half.

Barely any production.

Got 2 early fouls. And then Brown played well defensively. Limited time for Foumena.

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Who was that team that played GW tonight. Best defensive performance of the season after what looked like the same old same old first 4 minutes. Best game as a Ram for Brandon Weston. He has probably been our most willing defender all year. Made good decisions on offense and his body language was gr...

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Having the right coach used to be everything in college BB if you wanted to win. Now it's that AND a boatload of cash, is what it takes. Richmond is 8-1 and right in the conversation. You really think that’s because they have a boatload of cash? Cmon people stop making up boogeymen. Half dozen mid ...

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When you add up all the little things they become big things...yes in isolation it's a so what let's win first. But what makes you think when we win those things will get fixed...they won't. The uniforms, in arena experience, broadcast, public marketing, etc. If all those things were firing in a top...

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Dartmouth is 5-14. The best tweet I saw said if the players are all employees then they should all be fired.

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I've watched GW a handful of times this year. This is not a good team. Lasalle beat this team on the road.. This is a winnable game, but I don't have much faith. The buzz of the program was the best it's been since Cox's run in year 2 during our four-game winning streak. That has completely died.. ...

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Logically players should have always received compensation for jersey sales. And being in video games. That’s was just blatant abuse of their actual NIL. Ed O’bannon’s suit against EA and Chris Webber railing about all the kids walking around with UM #4 jerseys was the canary in the coal mine of thi...

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And if he does that and yet also complains about the state of the game I’ll point out his hypocrisy too.

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If that's what you got out of that article...ok The only thing worth getting out of that article is sour grapes from Rick. He didn’t articulate anything new on the issue. And anything from Rick on this subject is fairly laughable. I believe he's saying, the enforcement is pointless at this time bec...

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Rick liked it better when he was one of the few that had the money bags. Wah Wah poor Rick. All the chips stacked against him lol If that's what you got out of that article...ok The only thing worth getting out of that article is sour grapes from Rick. He didn’t articulate anything new on the issue...

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Rick liked it better when he was one of the few that had the money bags. Wah Wah poor Rick. All the chips stacked against him lol

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That’s always been one of the worst things you say. Hurls.
Like just no on that one.

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