2 Football Players Arrested after Chi Phi Fight

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 8 years ago

RhowdyRam02 wrote:
brady1 wrote:Can we please stop with the Hockey talk. It's not going to happen. No one gives a crap about Hockey. A school without a football team good or bad is a school with a second tier athletic program.
So PC, the reigning national champion in hockey and two time NCAA tournament participant is worse than us because of our football program? How about Xavier who has gone to 13 tournaments since our last one with 4 trips to the Sweet Sixteen and two trips to the Elite Eight in that time? Are they worse then us because they don't have football and we get our asses kicked every Saturday? How about Gonzaga who has been to the tournament every year since 1999 with 4 trips to the Sweet Sixteen and two trips to the Elite Eight? Do you think they miss having a terrible FCS program?

You can say all you want that no one gives a crap about hockey, and you might even be right. But no one cares about FCS football either. And the presence, or lack thereof, of a football team does not determine the state of an athletic department. The ability of your sports to do well is what determines that. And our second biggest program is a total and complete joke.

Just curious, do you go to any football games? About how many per year? Not being smart, just curious.

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 8 years ago

Dre3000 wrote:
SGreenwell wrote: Usually because of football, you have to worry far more about the number of female athletes to balance that sport, since there isn't really a natural female-focused sport to balance it out. (Softball and baseball kind of cancel out, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's hockey, etc.) So, removing it probably doesn't effect the Title IX ledger at all.
Wouldn't Swim and Dive, and Women's Rowing then count? Since there is no male counterpart to either of those sports?

I imagine there might not be a counterpart right now because they're trying to balance out the numbers.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

ramster wrote:Just curious, do you go to any football games? About how many per year? Not being smart, just curious.

I haven't been to a football game since the Brown game last year and didn't renew my season tickets after last year, though I've found myself watching games on TV or listening to them on the radio if it fits into my schedule. The Albany and Brown games were the straws that broke the camel's back.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 8 years ago

Capacity alone does not make a athletics venue complete. PC's Schneider and Quinnipiac's TD Banknorth were cited with capacities in the mid 3000 range. Not only do these presently have about 500-1000 more in capacity than Boss, all of it chairback, but they have plenty of other fan comforts and amenities (restrooms/concessions/club lounge or luxury suites). Both may be at the low end of big time college hockey capacities, but they do match up with the amenities of big time college hockey venues.

So Boss Arena can be made nicer with an expansion that adds seats to one sideline. That would require a decent capital investment. Sounds a lot like what is needed for Meade. it needs an overhaul on the east side. Boss Arena is fine for club hockey and probably sufficient for Atlantic Hockey, the lowest rated league in D1. It is however presently not much more than an ice barn. It would be in the bottom tier of D1 hockey. If you don't think so, check out the hockey homes of BU, BC, UNH, UMass, RPI, Penn State.

URI hockey will never catch on playing in the worst league in all of D1. It might beat teams in its league but it would get rolled by decent hockey programs. Decent programs would rarely grace the schedule of Boss. Most URI students, alums, and fans would be focused on the hoops team which has almost the same season. URI hockey would be in a similar position as football. Not much success and little fan interest. This in turn would result in the school spending the minimum as it wouldn't want to take on any risk of investment. Improvements to Boss and an upgrade in leagues would be a pipe-dream.

Ramblinrose · Unread post by **Ramblinrose** » 8 years ago

Calm down. Boss was not designed for D1. Thor has no interest in hockey. Back to the subject hand, football does nothing to justify its existence ...no crowds, no buzz, student apathy, embarrassing players on and off the field. URI struggles financially. And this program is a drain.

brady1 · Unread post by **brady1** » 8 years ago

Does anyone ever wonder why the portion of pc fans who hate URI passionately to a tee, like our boy here friarrosie, think URI should drop football? If you don't have a football team good or bad you're a second rate athletic program and no one gives a crap about hockey.

GO RHODY!

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 8 years ago

Ramblinrose wrote:Calm down. Boss was not designed for D1. Thor has no interest in hockey. Back to the subject hand, football does nothing to justify its existence ...no crowds, no buzz, student apathy, embarrassing players on and off the field. URI struggles financially. And this program is a drain.

Sounds like you could be president of the apathy club. URI would be worse off without a Football Team period.

How many State Universities in the United States of America do NOT have a Football Team?

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

I can understand why URI isn't shelling out large dollars to improve the football program right now.

Those dollars, of which there aren't many as we know, are being directed toward the men's BB program.

Football is the red headed stepchild as things stand right now.

Thorr is trying to get the program respectable by hiring a guy he hoped would get us there without spending those dollars in the short term.

Well as we can see, it's not working.

And it won't work, unless money starts flowing toward the program. When, or if, will that happen?

If it doesn't, the program is fini imo. When is the drop dead point?

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 8 years ago

There is no drop dead point. There is no timetable to end football. There is no clock ticking. There is no plan to end football.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

It is on the horizon, Ramster.

Either fund it, or drop it. 0-11 seasons aren't going to continue much longer.

I have heard that Dooley's patience is wearing thin. Fleming's contract has 2 more years to run.

He might very well be URI's last football coach...

Do you or anyone else expect URI to announce $20-$30 million dollars worth of program upgrades any time soon? Because that's what is needed.

brady1 · Unread post by **brady1** » 8 years ago

Rambone we're DOOMED! You crack me up. Have you spoken to Dooley this month or ever? No one's happy with URI Football but you keep yelling fire in a crowded theater. Yea the movie stinks but there is no fire yet. Rambone to you forget glass half empty there is no glass everything just sucks in just about everything. We're Doomed!

Dooley's hosting a number of people to his box for today's game, with you being so in the know, I'm sure you're invited. Do us a favor and ask Dooley we're we stand with football?

Again because you like repetition a school that doesn't play football good or bad has a second rate athletic program.

GO RHODY!

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

Actually Brady, I post this stuff just so you will respond to it.

Keeps me entertained, because frankly, you're a funny guy!

Glass half full, indeed!

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

Since this his kinda turned into another hockey hate thread.
URI hockey today 10/10/15 Pink the rink vs. West Chester U. 4 PM

$8 ($5 students)

Back (hopefully) to football talk.

I think Ram hockey talk and Ram football talk are completely unrelated btw......

Ramblinrose · Unread post by **Ramblinrose** » 8 years ago

You'll need a new AD if you want hockey.

bmwrhody2010 · Unread post by **bmwrhody2010** » 8 years ago

Can we please stop with the asinine hockey talk. Having a decent club hockey team does not translate to a good Division 1 Hockey program. The URI club hockey team would not hold the jocks of the top D3 programs in the nation. Along with that, D1 hockey is dominated by the same hockey schools year in and year out. Providence College winning the national championship last year was more of an anomaly then the two previous champions of Union and Yale, both of those teams had been consecutive year national tournament participants since 2011.

Rhode Island high school hockey is no longer relevant in national prominence and it isn't help by the fact that high school hockey is consider crap by most colleges now. If a hockey player wants to go D1 hockey in the US, he has to play juniors in the USHL, and if they are worth their salt in the USHL, schools like BC, BU, Michigan, Minnesota, and their fellow top tier programs will be all over them before URI has a chance at them.

If you want a good case study of how URI hockey will look go check out local schools like Holy Cross and UConn. Even with all it's money, UConn still sucks at hockey. Or go look at UMass-Lowell where everything is invested in hockey, and the rest of their sports suck.

You also have to find what women's teams you want to hack. It would most likely be rowing, a team that has one more conference championships recently then any men's team or women's track who has had more consistent conference and national success than any male team at URI...

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

RF1 wrote:Capacity alone does not make a athletics venue complete. PC's Schneider and Quinnipiac's TD Banknorth were cited with capacities in the mid 3000 range. Not only do these presently have about 500-1000 more in capacity than Boss, all of it chairback, but they have plenty of other fan comforts and amenities (restrooms/concessions/club lounge or luxury suites). Both may be at the low end of big time college hockey capacities, but they do match up with the amenities of big time college hockey venues.

So Boss Arena can be made nicer with an expansion that adds seats to one sideline. That would require a decent capital investment. Sounds a lot like what is needed for Meade. it needs an overhaul on the east side. Boss Arena is fine for club hockey and probably sufficient for Atlantic Hockey, the lowest rated league in D1. It is however presently not much more than an ice barn. It would be in the bottom tier of D1 hockey. If you don't think so, check out the hockey homes of BU, BC, UNH, UMass, RPI, Penn State.

URI hockey will never catch on playing in the worst league in all of D1. It might beat teams in its league but it would get rolled by decent hockey programs. Decent programs would rarely grace the schedule of Boss. Most URI students, alums, and fans would be focused on the hoops team which has almost the same season. URI hockey would be in a similar position as football. Not much success and little fan interest. This in turn would result in the school spending the minimum as it wouldn't want to take on any risk of investment. Improvements to Boss and an upgrade in leagues would be a pipe-dream.

Nobody said capacity is the only thing that matters when evaluating arenas, but it is the only thing that matters when discussing capacity. Funny how that works.

The rest of your post just illustrates the continuing double standard against hockey and pro football and a lack of knowledge about college athletics. URI hockey is supposed to have one of the best arenas in the country or it's not worth having, but football doesn't even need to have a stadium that's safe to be in. You keep falling back on chairback seats when I've showed it's not only unnecessary but teams have won national championships with bleacher seats. We shouldn't have hockey because it will take an investment in improving the facility but football is worth keeping around even though it costs more money on a yearly basis then hockey ever would and the facility investment needed is massively higher then anything needed for Boss Arena. URI hockey will fail because supposedly we'll never get decent teams to play us at URI, yet by definition we NEVER get decent programs into Meade Stadium because FCS football is de facto D2 and FBS teams never come to URI.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

Ramblinrose wrote:Boss was not designed for D1.

False, it was designed to be easily expanded in case the program was ever elevated and it's currently sufficient for Atlantic and ECAC play.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

Hey Brady1, you keep saying you need a football program or you're a second rate athletic department, but why have you never bothered to answer the direct questions I asked you the first time you typed that ludicrous line?

"So PC, the reigning national champion in hockey and two time NCAA tournament participant is worse than us because of our football program? How about Xavier who has gone to 13 tournaments since our last one with 4 trips to the Sweet Sixteen and two trips to the Elite Eight in that time? Are they worse then us because they don't have football and we get our asses kicked every Saturday? How about Gonzaga who has been to the tournament every year since 1999 with 4 trips to the Sweet Sixteen and two trips to the Elite Eight? Do you think they miss having a terrible FCS program?"

Why haven't you answered the questions?

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 8 years ago

bmwrhody2010 wrote:Can we please stop with the asinine hockey talk. Having a decent club hockey team does not translate to a good Division 1 Hockey program. The URI club hockey team would not hold the jocks of the top D3 programs in the nation. Along with that, D1 hockey is dominated by the same hockey schools year in and year out. Providence College winning the national championship last year was more of an anomaly then the two previous champions of Union and Yale, both of those teams had been consecutive year national tournament participants since 2011.

Rhode Island high school hockey is no longer relevant in national prominence and it isn't help by the fact that high school hockey is consider crap by most colleges now. If a hockey player wants to go D1 hockey in the US, he has to play juniors in the USHL, and if they are worth their salt in the USHL, schools like BC, BU, Michigan, Minnesota, and their fellow top tier programs will be all over them before URI has a chance at them.

If you want a good case study of how URI hockey will look go check out local schools like Holy Cross and UConn. Even with all it's money, UConn still sucks at hockey. Or go look at UMass-Lowell where everything is invested in hockey, and the rest of their sports suck.

You also have to find what women's teams you want to hack. It would most likely be rowing, a team that has one more conference championships recently then any men's team or women's track who has had more consistent conference and national success than any male team at URI...

Was late to approve this, but I wanted to quote it because I agree 100% and want others to see it.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

Women's hockey has to go varsity at same time they are equally deserving.

URi regularly plays and often beats D3 teams with the current club team.

bmwrhody2010 · Unread post by **bmwrhody2010** » 8 years ago

Hrstrat57,

Please pay attention to NCAA D3 hockey before asking me to pay attention to anything. URI hockey plays the bottom dweller D3 teams or D2 (which is basically the NE-10) of New England. They don't play regional powerhouses like Plymouth State, UMass-Boston, Babson, Norwich, Middlebury or Castleton State. You want to know why? Because they would get crushed. If you're going to hang your hat on beating teams like Assumption, then you might as well call URI a hard game for Syracuse when it comes to football.

Beating teams like UMass-Dartmouth, Worcester State, and Framingham State aren't what I would call statement wins for a club hockey program either. These teams are more of a club team than URI. URI hockey has its own weight room, strength and conditioning coach and training staff and ice hockey rink. The schools that they beat, who are D3, do not have the same benefits that the URI team has. When they beat a team like UMass-Boston (NCAA D3 team), who has its own rink, a strength and conditioning coach, and all the rest like URI, and also just put two players in the ECHL this year, let me know.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

The URI National Championship team a few years back would have absolutely crushed Plymouth State or any of the current D3 teams you mention and could have competed in D1.

Speed, size and superior goaltending that team was a beast and featured a number of RI HS players.

MSC and Hendricken boy's hockey no longer relevant???

Fantasy.

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 8 years ago

bmwrhody2010 wrote:Hrstrat57,

Please pay attention to NCAA D3 hockey before asking me to pay attention to anything. URI hockey plays the bottom dweller D3 teams or D2 (which is basically the NE-10) of New England. They don't play regional powerhouses like Plymouth State, UMass-Boston, Babson, Norwich, Middlebury or Castleton State. You want to know why? Because they would get crushed. If you're going to hang your hat on beating teams like Assumption, then you might as well call URI a hard game for Syracuse when it comes to football.

Beating teams like UMass-Dartmouth, Worcester State, and Framingham State aren't what I would call statement wins for a club hockey program either. These teams are more of a club team than URI. URI hockey has its own weight room, strength and conditioning coach and training staff and ice hockey rink. The schools that they beat, who are D3, do not have the same benefits that the URI team has. When they beat a team like UMass-Boston (NCAA D3 team), who has its own rink, a strength and conditioning coach, and all the rest like URI, and also just put two players in the ECHL this year, let me know.

I haven't even heard of these "regional power houses" lol damn.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

I don't recall any details of what the fight was about in here, but I found this in The Good 5 Cent Cigar:

http://rhodycigar.com/2015/10/10/two-fo ... -fighting/

"An anonymous brother from the Chi Phi fraternity, who left minutes before the incident, recalled the night from what his fraternity brothers have told him: “An ex-girlfriend came to the party unwanted and was kicked out. Her cousin, on the football team, showed up with a bunch of other linemen in a pick-up truck. Nobody knows how they got into the house. They broke in somehow. They walk in and start assaulting kids. Kids have no idea what’s going on. People are banging on [President] Liam Ryan’s door. Liam walks downstairs and gets cracked in the back of his head, knocked out. Kids have broken jaws, broken arms. It was a bunch of linemen against five brothers. The cops show up and the kids get caught trying to get into the truck. There were multiple kids knocked out, laying on their face.”

The same person said it wasn't the first incident with the football team.

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 8 years ago

Unreliable second hand reports.....not saying it didn't happen that way but that "testimony" is not admissible in court....

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 8 years ago

Frat Brothers Did Nothing Wrong, According to Frat Brother

Ramulous · Unread post by **Ramulous** » 8 years ago

As an expert in the field I've learned that there are many versions of a story.......take the total number of people involved.....let's say 12....there are then 12 sides and then the truth....for a total of 13..

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 8 years ago

SmartyBarrett wrote:Frat Brothers Did Nothing Wrong, According to Frat Brother

Seems legit.

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 8 years ago

Ramulous wrote:Unreliable second hand reports.....not saying it didn't happen that way but that "testimony" is not admissible in court....

I also get kind of leery about people who aren't willing to put their name on a statement. I also notice that "ex-girlfriend being kicked out of fraternity house" is handwaved away quite easily.

bmwrhody2010 · Unread post by **bmwrhody2010** » 8 years ago

hrstrat57 wrote:The URI National Championship team a few years back would have absolutely crushed Plymouth State or any of the current D3 teams you mention and could have competed in D1.

Speed, size and superiorO goaltending that team was a beast and featured a number of RI HS players.

MSC and Hendricken boy's hockey no longer relevant???

Fantasy.

Oh please step into reality with me my friend

Some of URI's Hockey's best teams could not handle playing against middle of the pack NCAA D3 teams.

2006-7 URI (30-9) lost to Amherst (14-10-1) 7-3, Amherst lost 6-2 to the reigning 3-in-a-row defending champion Middlebury, who lost in overtime for the national championship that year
2007-8 URI (23-15) lost to UMass-Dartmouth (18-9-1) 6-4

URI was so "impressive" with their 2005-06 National Championship season beating a consistently terrible Suffolk University (6-14-4) team 11-2 and beating a Stonehill team that went 14-12-1 but didn't beat a team with a winning record that year. Please, URI lost to and tied a 12-19 Washington and Jefferson club team that year.

Once again let me know when they beat a decent D3 team though...

And yes Hendricken and MSC hockey are irrelevant now. Ask anyone that is involved with college hockey and ask where the players come from. They don't come from high school anymore, they come from Prep school or juniors. Jack Eichel didn't play high school hockey in the "oh so glorious" high school hockey state of Massachusetts, he played in the best tier of juniors hockey in the USA, the USHL. Take a look at most of where the current URI roster comes from, you'll see what I mean.

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 8 years ago

bmwrhody2010,
You certainly know your hockey! What I think people on the board who support hockey basically are writing is that they'd like the University to give varsity hockey a shot, just as the University has spent countless seasons and $ on a seemingly losing proposition with football.
My hockey recruiting knowledge and what goes into a top-notch program is not up-to-par with your understanding of it, that's surely obvious, but the enthusiasm is.
Maybe if presented to us, those interested in ALL RHODY SPORTS SUCCESS what would go into a great hockey program, I know that I'd be very appreciative.
Thanks, Bressler….

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

bmwrhody2010 wrote:
hrstrat57 wrote:The URI National Championship team a few years back would have absolutely crushed Plymouth State or any of the current D3 teams you mention and could have competed in D1.

Speed, size and superiorO goaltending that team was a beast and featured a number of RI HS players.

MSC and Hendricken boy's hockey no longer relevant???

Fantasy.
Oh please step into reality with me my friend

Some of URI's Hockey's best teams could not handle playing against middle of the pack NCAA D3 teams.

2006-7 URI (30-9) lost to Amherst (14-10-1) 7-3, Amherst lost 6-2 to the reigning 3-in-a-row defending champion Middlebury, who lost in overtime for the national championship that year
2007-8 URI (23-15) lost to UMass-Dartmouth (18-9-1) 6-4

URI was so "impressive" with their 2005-06 National Championship season beating a consistently terrible Suffolk University (6-14-4) team 11-2 and beating a Stonehill team that went 14-12-1 but didn't beat a team with a winning record that year. Please, URI lost to and tied a 12-19 Washington and Jefferson club team that year.

Once again let me know when they beat a decent D3 team though...

And yes Hendricken and MSC hockey are irrelevant now. Ask anyone that is involved with college hockey and ask where the players come from. They don't come from high school anymore, they come from Prep school or juniors. Jack Eichel didn't play high school hockey in the "oh so glorious" high school hockey state of Massachusetts, he played in the best tier of juniors hockey in the USA, the USHL. Take a look at most of where the current URI roster comes from, you'll see what I mean.

I am not your friend my 3 post sport.

The fact that a club team can lace em up at all vs. a varsity program shows how well coached and run the program is and how deserving they are of a chance to recruit and compete at the varsity level.

Thanks for the rant!

I wouldn't be surprised if you are a charter member of Friar town tho. Ram hockey would be a nightmare for you! The folks on the east side wouldn't care for it much either. Why else would one join a forum to post about hockey in a football thread on a basketball forum?

Congrats on the national championship, truly well played.

Mods how about moving the hockey posts here to a new thread as they really have nothing to do with URI football.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 8 years ago

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 8 years ago

We can move the hockey talk I guess but we have like 300 threads where the same hockey talk happens. I'll look for one when I get to a computer.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 8 years ago

Ha ha TP!

We had a pretty good slugfest thread last year I think....
RF1 and rhowdyram02 went toe to toe I recall and I got my usual whiny comments in too ha ha!

Could find it quick I'm sure it got close to 75 hits if I remember....

Our new "friend " will find a lot of buddies in that thread.

bmwrhody2010 · Unread post by **bmwrhody2010** » 8 years ago

hrstrat57 wrote:
bmwrhody2010 wrote:
hrstrat57 wrote:The URI National Championship team a few years back would have absolutely crushed Plymouth State or any of the current D3 teams you mention and could have competed in D1.

Speed, size and superiorO goaltending that team was a beast and featured a number of RI HS players.

MSC and Hendricken boy's hockey no longer relevant???

Fantasy.
Oh please step into reality with me my friend

Some of URI's Hockey's best teams could not handle playing against middle of the pack NCAA D3 teams.

2006-7 URI (30-9) lost to Amherst (14-10-1) 7-3, Amherst lost 6-2 to the reigning 3-in-a-row defending champion Middlebury, who lost in overtime for the national championship that year

2007-8 URI (23-15) lost to UMass-Dartmouth (18-9-1) 6-4

URI was so "impressive" with their 2005-06 National Championship season beating a consistently terrible Suffolk University (6-14-4) team 11-2 and beating a Stonehill team that went 14-12-1 but didn't beat a team with a winning record that year. Please, URI lost to and tied a 12-19 Washington and Jefferson club team that year.

Once again let me know when they beat a decent D3 team though...

And yes Hendricken and MSC hockey are irrelevant now. Ask anyone that is involved with college hockey and ask where the players come from. They don't come from high school anymore, they come from Prep school or juniors. Jack Eichel didn't play high school hockey in the "oh so glorious" high school hockey state of Massachusetts, he played in the best tier of juniors hockey in the USA, the USHL. Take a look at most of where the current URI roster comes from, you'll see what I mean.
I am not your friend my 3 post sport.

The fact that a club team can lace em up at all vs. a varsity program shows how well coached and run the program is and how deserving they are of a chance to recruit and compete at the varsity level.

Thanks for the rant!

I wouldn't be surprised if you are a charter member of Friar town tho. Ram hockey would be a nightmare for you! The folks on the east side wouldn't care for it much either. Why else would one join a forum to post about hockey in a football thread on a basketball forum?

Congrats on the national championship, truly well played.

Mods how about moving the hockey posts here to a new thread as they really have nothing to do with URI football.

Actually, I am Rhody football alum and graduate of the class of 2010. Though I won't say I was any good, I was a walk-on with the D1-AA playing ability of Rudy lol. Rizzi and Trainer probably kept me on the team because of my GPA. I just hate the pointless bullshit about dropping football and making the club hockey program D1. URI football will continue to struggle until it gets better support from the administration, alumni, and starts to win recruiting battles for good players. If URI were smart, they would follow the model of NDSU who has successful men and women's basketball, FCS football (4x defending champions) and successful auxiliary sports like wrestling.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

SmartyBarrett wrote:Frat Brothers Did Nothing Wrong, According to Frat Brother

And the university and local police.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

SGreenwell wrote:
Ramulous wrote:Unreliable second hand reports.....not saying it didn't happen that way but that "testimony" is not admissible in court....
I also get kind of leery about people who aren't willing to put their name on a statement. I also notice that "ex-girlfriend being kicked out of fraternity house" is handwaved away quite easily.

I'm sorry, but this is really great backhanded victim blaming. First, let's be clear, there hasn't even been an allegation of wrong doing by the fraternity or its members in this situation. Second, there has been no allegation that they treated this unwanted guest improperly. And yet you make a leap that there must be something more there, because hey, we all know how frat bros treat women, amiright????

And you might be leery that people don't want to put there name on a statement of what happened that night, but there's a very good reason for that. Namely that putting your name to this account puts a target on your back from members of the out of control football program. We've seen they didn't hesitate before in assaulting members of the fraternity, why would they hesitate in the future?

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

TruePoint wrote:

This is a lone beacon of quality in this thread, outstanding!

brady1 · Unread post by **brady1** » 8 years ago

RR2, really dude/buddy your one man hate against RHODY FOOTBALL is well bizarre. Really dude/buddy you need a life. Remember RR2 a school without FOOTBALL good or bad has a second rate athletic program. Also RR2 no one gives a rats $a$ about hockey.

GO RHODY!

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

Brady you keep trotting out that dumb as hell line about second rate athletic programs, how about you finally answer the question I ask everytime you do? Is it because even you know it's dumb?

brady1 · Unread post by **brady1** » 8 years ago

RR2, I refuse to answer your question because most sports fans around the country would agree with my statement. But son really you're on a silly internet bulletin board waging a one man crusade to drop RHODY FOOTBALL over and over and over again. That I find Dumb. Oh yea I forgot no one outside of kenmore square cares about hockey. Enjoy the rest of your evening RR2 try and let your hate of football rest for the night. CHEERS!

GO RHODY!

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

You refuse to answer the question because I've proved you wrong, sport. And nobody anywhere in the world cares about de facto division two football.

brady1 · Unread post by **brady1** » 8 years ago

proved me wrong you're joking right. This is a internet bulletin board there is no wrong or right. Really son work on your life kids, wife or career your constant hate on URI FOOTBALL on a silly bulletinboard is well unhealthy/embarrassing.

GO RHODY!

bressler3south · Unread post by **bressler3south** » 8 years ago

There's no crying in football.

BUT THERE IS A LACK OF SUCCESS AT URI AND IT'S SICKENING!!!!!!!!!

MAKE AN EFFIN' COMMITMENT AND DO IT RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!! TEAR DOWN THE EAST STANDS, MODIFY A NEW STADIUM AROUND WHAT EXISTS AND DO WHAT'S NECESSARY TO BRING BACK THE SUCCESSES OF THE "AIR GRIFFIN ERA."

P.S. MAKE HOCKEY A VARSITY SPORT, BUILD A PROPER ARENA -- AND WHILE THEY'RE AT IT -- BUILD SOME PROPER BASEBALL STANDS, AND BRING BACK WRESTLING!!!!!!!!!!!!

RHODE ISLAND IN GENERAL IS SO HALF-ASSED….

Have a nice day.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 8 years ago

Bressler, it's just like those who were happy with mediocrity when Baron was coach.

URI made the commitment to end that mediocrity, at least in basketball.

Now they need to do the same for football, if they want to keep it around. I'd take mediocrity in football, that would be a big step up from what there is now.

Of course it will cost a crapload of money to do that.

Hiring the right coach has turned around the women's BB program. It will take a lot more than that to do the same for football.

The "status quo" in football simply isn't acceptable. Something has to change it, one way or the other.

That "something" is coming, again, one way or the other.

Bos8 · Unread post by **Bos8** » 8 years ago

RhowdyRam02 wrote:You refuse to answer the question because I've proved you wrong, sport. And nobody anywhere in the world cares about de facto division two football.

Nobody cares about de facto division two football? You must not have turned on ESPN today, as they were broadcasting live from what must be a de facto division two school. Do they even broadcast college hockey? I can't wait for that top 5 match up of Nebraska-Omaha vs Minnesota- Duluth!!!

bigappleram · Unread post by **bigappleram** » 8 years ago

The national champion hockey team plays in front of 3,000 people
URI football routinely plays for 6-7,000
If they won they would draw 10-12K consistently
People like football

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 8 years ago

Bos8 wrote:
RhowdyRam02 wrote:You refuse to answer the question because I've proved you wrong, sport. And nobody anywhere in the world cares about de facto division two football.
Nobody cares about de facto division two football? You must not have turned on ESPN today, as they were broadcasting live from what must be a de facto division two school. Do they even broadcast college hockey? I can't wait for that top 5 match up of Nebraska-Omaha vs Minnesota- Duluth!!!

Don't forget UMass-Brockton or whatever.

RhowdyRam02 · Unread post by **RhowdyRam02** » 8 years ago

brady1 wrote:proved me wrong you're joking right. This is a internet bulletin board there is no wrong or right. Really son work on your life kids, wife or career your constant hate on URI FOOTBALL on a silly bulletinboard is well unhealthy/embarrassing.

GO RHODY!

You know nothing of my personal life and you want to watch yourself when you bring that line of talk up.

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