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RhowdyRam02

Already started. Their star center Josh Cohen (16 pts/ 7 rebs) just entered the portal. Also from Umass - Sawyer Mayhugh and Robert Davis These dudes don't wanna play in the MAC. Sure, but they're still in the A10 next year. I haven't heard one way or the other if we're allowing them to play in the...

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I think another mod might have seen this and taken care of it. I think all of the pinned threads are guys on the team, or verbal commits like Hammond and Farrell. I think he's saying that guys on the team are no longer recruits. Only Hammond and Farrell should be pinned. I think in the past, the co...

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Dino611 wrote: ↑1 month ago UMass is about implode, brace for impact

According to the UMass board Josh Cohen is in the portal

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I'm probably jinxing things, but I'm surprised that our season ended 6 days ago and we've only had two players announce they were heading to the portal so far. I really expected a flood Well the two that entered knew they were going to be asked the leave, the reason others haven’t left is because t...

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I didn't turn it down. It doesn't mean that number has any real value in determining benefits. Like I didn't factor in that number while I was working in the Rams Den. I wasn't sitting there at 7 in the morning saying, "you know, this job sucks, but when you factor in my scholarship I'm actuall...

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I'm probably jinxing things, but I'm surprised that our season ended 6 days ago and we've only had two players announce they were heading to the portal so far. I really expected a flood

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Honest question to get back to the original question posed. Do we want facility management companies to start donating? If they did they would just do something like 5% of proceeds from a building sent back to that school's NIL. Seems to me with our lethargic attendance even in some of our best year...

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Earlier today on espn2 they were saying that it's become a straight pay to play free for all, NIL or no NIL. Those who pay the most will get the best talent. It was also mentioned that some sort of salary cap should be established, the amounts to differ based on conference. If that happens it will ...

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Outside the diehards, our fans want the performance without paying for it. The cart before the horse. As BM just said, it doesn't work that way. But we keep trying! I thought the issue is all the money the NCAA makes and the players don't get any of it????? Where the hell is that money????? What ot...

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Was wondering how much in compensation and benefits the typical URI player now gets and decided to put something together. These numbers are just some ballpark figures. Stipend $6,000 (NCAA allows up to $5,980) NIL $30,000 (URI avg - see below) Tuition/Room & Board $50,000 (out of state URI cos...

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Too much lawyering for my simple mind.... The collective has said....they are not contacting recruits. It's what they said. Should people not believe them? How does that align with "This is not dispositive of the fact that Rhody Excellence is not contracting recruits." I mean, we all know...

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We do not need to "save face". The court rulings are in the books. Are they going for it or not? Quit sending mixed signals if you want to raise money! Kids will know what they’d be getting before committing. That is a fact. It may not DIRECTLY from Rhody Excellence, but the message with ...

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section(105) wrote: ↑1 month ago That, if true, doesn’t make me comfortable and confident the money will go where intended. Meaning the collective won’t be following its own rules a. Nice.

So you'd rather we announce NCAA violations on the website so at least we're following our own rules?

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From the website Q&A: DOES RHODY EXCELLENCE WORK WITH RECRUITS OR PROSPECTIVE STUDENT-ATHLETES? No – In compliance with NIL regulations, Rhody Excellence will not meet with, contact, offer a deal, etc. to any prospective student-athlete. Until a student-athlete has signed their NLI and/or the i...

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Coaches that were giving testimony this week said that players and families don’t care anymore about what your plans are for developing them and the family atmosphere etc…all they want to know is how much are you going to pay them. So basically just like those same coaches have always been. Weird h...

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I was thinking this too, I thought the colleges were making too much money and that the student athletes deserved a piece, but in reality , the fans need to pay more? That can’t be sustainable. It's not, but what's going to make collectives mostly obsolete will be the athletes becoming employees. L...

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He rocks ...does he do that everywhere or just at the amp? Either way is super cool He said go Rhody at the end of his press conference after the PC game in CT earlier this year and that went around Twitter for a bit, so I think he just was playing off of that. I assume it's just after games agains...

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The Civic Center will be hosting the first and second round of the men's tournament. Bracketology has Boston College as the number 1 seed in the tournament taking on Bemidji State and Quinnipiac taking on Wisconsin. Springfield gets Boston University vs RIT and Maine vs Michigan

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Was Bilau officially announced or is that an assumption based on holding senior night for him?

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No surprise here, but now a done deal

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Big Fou coming back to URI or putting name in the portal ? I don't see him coming back. Before yesterday’s game and during halftime Foumena shots 3 Point Shots from the corner over and over again. Not 5 foot or 10 foot shots - just the long ball. Sometimes instead of set 3P attempts he does some of...

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Committee licking its chops ! Wags v Uconn for DH baby ! Licking their chops? For a first four Wagner team? That is certainly not on any of the committee members minds. Disagree. The committee loves these little "we had no idea when we created this potential matchup there would be storylines t...

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I mean if that were the case than why did EC come here? Dan was an aspiring coach who’s best collegiate accolade was a mid major finals loss. Some kids want to be the cornerstone and become a legend. Those are the kids you want. That was before $$ was dangling freely in front of them from many suit...

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Wagner just won the NEC and is headed to the NCAAT, presumably as a 16 seed that will play in the first four. I guess the only silver lining from this season is that URI defeated one NCAAT team ... safe to count this as progress? Actually kind of funny - for all the complaining about how "soft...

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Blue & White Scrimmage one month from today

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We're rebuilding ourselves considering everything we've lost the last two years. I think we've got some intriguing players in the QB room, but I don't think it's unfair to call our QB situation unsettled at the present moment

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I’d try Foumena, and hopefully Green doesn’t foul so Zek can play less. Loving Cam today. I honestly wouldn’t be shocked if Foumena has told Archie he just won’t play. If that happened why would Archie bring him to Brooklyn? He'd just leave him back in Kingston and tell him to get his transfer pape...

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That's a fair way to look at it. I certainly like that Stone's out in front of things already

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Update with an email from Stone, don’t know if this is auto generated and sent to everyone and whatnot. Seems like they are aware of the login problem. I got it too. They - and when I say "they" I mean Stone specifically, on behalf of our big donors - are paying a lot of attention to this...

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This is kind of cheating, but outside of winning the whole fucking thing in Brooklyn I don't think it matters. The state of the rebuild hinges on keeping Fuchs and Estevez and getting Hammond on campus

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I think (hope) we'll beat St. Louis today. The only thing that stopped us from winning at home was our own putrid effort. I'd like to think that a week and a half after they pantsed us at home that we'll show some fight in Brooklyn, but I've been wrong about us showing better effort a bunch this sea...

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Just joined for a monthly contribution, is there no user profile though? Seems odd that if you donate, there isn't an account that you have made where you login and see recent contributions, articles, updates, perks, Rhody excellence store, blah blah blah you get the picture. It really needs to be ...

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That would still be stronger than the alternative with some of those other conferences. Financially the revenue from the A10 would still be higher. But again, let's cross that bridge if and when we ever get there, no need getting ahead of ourselves. As bad as we are right now, I am more concerned a...

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Conference play only Miles Rubin 17.8 minutes per game, 75.4% field goal percentage, 50% free throw percentage, 5.6 points per game (.315 points per minute played), 4.4 rebounds per game (.247 rebounds per minute played), 2.9 fouls per game, .8 assists per game, 1 turnover per game, .5 steals per ga...

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It really makes no sense for anyone thinking we should drop down to a lower conference. Hurley came here specifically because he wanted to get out of a one bid conference. Now some of you think it wouldn’t be a bad idea. What the actual F! It is not really people saying that URI should drop down. I...

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It is not really people saying that URI should drop down. It is people saying that the A-10 is already in decline and would suffer a massive fall if teams such as Dayton and VCU went elsewhere in the future. In that scenario the A-10 would effectively be dropping down to the level of other conferen...

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Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑1 month ago Bring me back to 2010 or whatever when everything in college sports was normal and enjoyable.

So before Dave Gavitt founded the Big East and set these dominos in motion?

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You can hate it or you can love it, but this is the current state of play of college basketball. Want to move toward the top of the A10 standings? We've got the infrastructure, we have the coach, we have the fanbase. Now we need boosters and fans to generate $500,000+ for NIL. If not the other stuff...

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Surprised Fuchs didn't get all rookie team, though I can't say I'm upset because I haven't done a deep enough dive into what everyone else was doing. 8.2 points per game, 6.1 rebounds per game in conference

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https://x.com/JasonBelzer/status/1767237790691938317?s=20 So estimated that the American, Mountain West, WCC, and Atlantic 10 will be looking at about $200,000 to $1.25 million in NIL money per team and $25,000 to $300,000 per starter, though most starters won't be near the $300,000 mark. We now hav...

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So I just had a terrifying thought. This is going to lead to more games against Fordham as the A10 will consider them our geographic rival.

Does anyone have the number for the America East commissioner?

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Look at how bad our home schedule was this year. The only interesting team on there was UMass due to the rivalry factor. Now imagine that in a few years, but with no UMass. The home games with UMass are not the problem. The issue would be having offset it with a road game every other year. As I men...

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Our home games against UMass are always at the top of attendance for our conference games as well. Ideally this is why we play them every year, with our home game being on the years we play at PC, so we have an out of conference game every year that draws and you can build mini plans around I disag...

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https://x.com/billkoch25/status/1762201103775465624 I don't see this as the end game for UMass, just a path for them. I have a feeling this is a steppingstone for them to eventually get an invite to the AAC. I agree. Then again, if they had moved all of their sports to the MAC 10 years ago when the...

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KeaneyBluBallz wrote: ↑1 month ago
Billyboy78 wrote: ↑1 month ago Yeah, the Mews used to be hopping when we were good. I'm not sure what it's like now.
the Mews is hopping without URI.

threads like this makes me miss Casey's.

And Charlie O's. Brewmasters would still be fun, but not for a four year old

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The Mews is still perpetually packed and with a four year old the seating options are greatly reduced. If they're going to the Mews they should plan on getting there very early

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Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 month ago Our home games against UMass are always at the top of attendance for our conference games as well.

Ideally this is why we play them every year, with our home game being on the years we play at PC, so we have an out of conference game every year that draws and you can build mini plans around

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This is crazy - it would have been better if they could have been a football only school. It will be a step down for hoops. I wonder how Frank Martin will take it? What conference was going to take them as a football only school? UMass has been trying that play for a decade and no one was biting. Y...

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Section104 wrote: ↑1 month ago I'd imagine Charleston is on speed dial as a replacement or they keep it to 14.

Selfishly, I'd love to see them add Belmont (Nashville). Crazy how much weight Football has that they are downgrading basketball conference. Interesting times...

No more schools! We already have too many

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