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RhodyRam86 wrote:was anyone able to watch the PC game? it was on CBSSN right after URI, but from where I am, the network seemed to be having a problem. I saw only the first 3 minutes of the game then it cut out. Missed the rest. Not sure if this was a local or national issue, but if the latter, could you imagine the conspiracy theory if it was URI that got messed up after the PC game? yikes!
You couldn't pay me to watch them.
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I didn't have a problem with what Billy Reynolds said

Nice win for PC makes sure We pass Creighton and helps our RPI
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Here is the entire article by Bill Reynolds
I have always enjoyed his writing, especially my favorite is his Saturday Morning article

I don't see at all where he slighted URI

In fact, he even gives an additional line about URI regarding the UMASS victory

Bill went to Brown and played basketball at Brown. I see him at many URI games as well as PC games. I have always found him to be fair.

■ The Rams blew out UMass in the first half the other night as if the Minutemen were a JV team. Somewhere Julius Erving must have had tears in his eyes.

PC, URI right where they want to be
BILL REYNOLDS
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:


■ Here we are in the middle of the season and both URI and PC are both in the NCAA Tournament chase.
Are they there yet?
Of course not.
But they're on the path.
In short, they're both where they want to be in mid-January.
In short, they're both on track to get in the tournament for the second straight time. Prior to last season, that hadn't happened in 20 year


■ Blake Bortles is going to come in here and beat the Pats on Sunday afternoon? Really?

■ The Rams blew out UMass in the first half the other night as if the Minutemen were a JV team. Somewhere Julius Erving must have had tears in his eyes.

■ Do we really now have to name winter storms? What's next, springtime showers?

■ Fifty percent of Celtics' shots the other night against the Pelicans were 3-pointers.

■ Get ready for the reincarnation of Aaron Hernandez, as best-selling author James Patterson has both a new TV movie and book on the late, tragic, former Patriot in the works.

■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: The Jaguars are one of four NFL teams never to play in a Super Bowl. Can you name the others? (Answer near the bottom of the column.)

■ LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Tom Brady, via the Boston Herald, from his new six-part documentary on Facebook: “If you’re going to compete against me, you better be willing to give up your life because I’m giving up mine.’’

■ LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from first ballot nut-case and NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman on his friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un: “I basically hang out with him all the time, we laugh, we sing karaoke, we do a lot of cool things together.’’ Really?

■ Has there ever been a coach who handles his emotions any better than Brad Stevens? Not too many.

■ There’s no truth to the rumor that if you look up the word “divisive” in the dictionary Trump’s face stares back at you.

■ Or that in my next life I’m going to major in social media.

■ Former Brown basketball player Stephen Silas, son of former NBA great Paul Silas, is the interim coach of the Charlotte Hornets.

■ One of the supposed best things about the Jaguars is their pass rush.

■ The new movie “The Post’’ is worth watching.

■ The last three quarterbacks left standing besides Brady? Blake Bortles, Case Keenum, and Nick Foles. You say you’ve never heard of them, Bunky? That’s your first clue.

■ Anthony Davis is an NBA superstar on the rise.

■ Just when it seems it might be a quiet week, Trump’s past jumps off the bench and runs back into the game. This time with the report in the New York Daily New that he has had several sexual encounters with porn star Stormy Daniels after his son Barron was born.

■ Bill Belichick was 37-45, including playoffs, in his five years with the Cleveland Browns.

■ Just when you start to forget about Rajon Rondo, you hear that he had a career-high 25 assists in a game this year, and has had two others with 15 or more.

■ Why are the Jets the Jets? They just fired their offensive coordinator after only one year. That’s why.

■ Don’t invite LeBron James and Donald Trump to the same party, as reports are LeBron has no use for Trump.

■ The NBA is full of great, young players who have benefited by coming of age playing against other great players around the country.

■ Duke Castiglione, the son of legendary Red Sox broadcaster Joe Castiglione, is a new weekend anchor on WCVB in Boston.

■ How’s that “swamp draining’’ coming along?

■ R.I.P. Celtics great Jo Jo White at 71, a seven-time All-Star, and 1976 NBA Finals MVP.

■ QUIZ ANSWER: Browns, Lions and Texans.

■ Just when you start to feel good about downtown Providence, a 15-year-old girl gets stabbed in Kennedy Plaza.

■ Watching the Celtics’ Jayson Tatum, who is 6-feet-8, handle the ball is like watching a guard do it.

■ If Jacksonville can come into Foxboro and win, there should be a parade for them, no matter what the Jaguars do in the Super Bowl.

■ It’s Brady against the clock. Who are you betting on, Bunky?

■ When did the Providence Place mall turn into the setting for “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral”?
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Ok, I'm not bitching. It's just an "is what it is" post. URI and PC both played big games yesterday. Equal coverage possibly? Maybe side by side articles? No. PC gets a big headline with a big picture on the front page of the sports page. We get a smaller headline, no picture, at the bottom of the page. It doesn't matter which team is better. It's never going to change. Whatever. It is what it is...
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Billyboy78 wrote:Ok, I'm not bitching. It's just an "is what it is" post. URI and PC both played big games yesterday. Equal coverage possibly? Maybe side by side articles? No. PC gets a big headline with a big picture on the front page of the sports page. We get a smaller headline, no picture, at the bottom of the page. It doesn't matter which team is better. It's never going to change. Whatever. It is what it is...
PC beat a fringe top 25 team at home.

URI beat a barely top 100 team that they were expected to beat.

They're not equal games. You are conflating "big games" and trying to make them mean the same thing when they don't.

URI @ Dayton was big for us. That's still 1 tournament team beating a team that won't be playing postseason basketball.

Creighton @ PC had national implications. 2 teams squarely in the NCAA field at this moment, one of which angling for a top 25 spot.

Once again: being a "good" team doesn't excite the casual fan base like a big matchup does. PC has the luxury of playing big matchups pretty much every week in the big east. URI's conference schedule looks like a Baron OOC lineup this year. Not a single game moves the needle.

If roles were reversed and URI beat a top 25 team while PC beat up on a crap DePaul team, we're top billing.
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Blue Man wrote:
Billyboy78 wrote:Ok, I'm not bitching. It's just an "is what it is" post. URI and PC both played big games yesterday. Equal coverage possibly? Maybe side by side articles? No. PC gets a big headline with a big picture on the front page of the sports page. We get a smaller headline, no picture, at the bottom of the page. It doesn't matter which team is better. It's never going to change. Whatever. It is what it is...
PC beat a fringe top 25 team at home.

URI beat a barely top 100 team that they were expected to beat.

They're not equal games. You are conflating "big games" and trying to make them mean the same thing when they don't.

URI @ Dayton was big for us. That's still 1 tournament team beating a team that won't be playing postseason basketball.

Creighton @ PC had national implications. 2 teams squarely in the NCAA field at this moment, one of which angling for a top 25 spot.

Once again: being a "good" team doesn't excite the casual fan base like a big matchup does. PC has the luxury of playing big matchups pretty much every week in the big east. URI's conference schedule looks like a Baron OOC lineup this year. Not a single game moves the needle.

If roles were reversed and URI beat a top 25 team while PC beat up on a crap DePaul team, we're top billing.
You have to look beyond the game itself. 10 in a row, 7-0 in conference, haven’t lost a conference game, in what? A year? Cmon. I doubt it’s anything intentional, it’s just poor effort.
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RoadyJay wrote:
Blue Man wrote:
Billyboy78 wrote:Ok, I'm not bitching. It's just an "is what it is" post. URI and PC both played big games yesterday. Equal coverage possibly? Maybe side by side articles? No. PC gets a big headline with a big picture on the front page of the sports page. We get a smaller headline, no picture, at the bottom of the page. It doesn't matter which team is better. It's never going to change. Whatever. It is what it is...
PC beat a fringe top 25 team at home.

URI beat a barely top 100 team that they were expected to beat.

They're not equal games. You are conflating "big games" and trying to make them mean the same thing when they don't.

URI @ Dayton was big for us. That's still 1 tournament team beating a team that won't be playing postseason basketball.

Creighton @ PC had national implications. 2 teams squarely in the NCAA field at this moment, one of which angling for a top 25 spot.

Once again: being a "good" team doesn't excite the casual fan base like a big matchup does. PC has the luxury of playing big matchups pretty much every week in the big east. URI's conference schedule looks like a Baron OOC lineup this year. Not a single game moves the needle.

If roles were reversed and URI beat a top 25 team while PC beat up on a crap DePaul team, we're top billing.
You have to look beyond the game itself. 10 in a row, 7-0 in conference, haven’t lost a conference game, in what? A year? Cmon. I doubt it’s anything intentional, it’s just poor effort.
Agreed - but look at the conference this year. If this was 2014 and the A10 has 3 ranked teams with another 2 in the top 40, we're front page news everywhere.

The A10 has 1 top 50 team right now and its us. As of right now there are 2 top 100 teams. We're built like a low-major conference, not the traditional A10. Get out of the mindset that we get to have sometimes where we're the "best basketball only conference in the country." We are barely a top 5 conference by those standards.

The Big East has 3 ranked teams with 1 just outside of the field at the moment, including the #1 team in the country. In RPI they have #2, 5 (PC just beat), 17, 30, 35 (PC just beat), 36 (PC).

One of those things is not like the other.

If the shoe was on the other foot and PC was the only good team in the Big East, beating top 100 teams while we were selling out the Ryan Center beating multiple top 25 teams in week's timeframe...we'd lose our shit and be justified.
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And pump the brakes in pumping up Creighton. Without their big Krampelj who is out for the season they are an NIT team. Watch how many games they now lose. Good win for PC but teams like Creighton, Butler are pumped up by guys like KMac and now by our own fans. Butler starts a GW transfer, yesterday Creighton had a Div 2 transfer seeing meaningful minutes. Those are not high level teams and they will both be lucky to dance.
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Nova fairly ranked. Xavier is a Top 20 not Top 10 team. Hall and PC are next best. After that you have 3 teams that are not special (Butler, Creighton, Marquette) and then 3 shit teams in their basement. This isn’t last year’s BE.
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Blue Man wrote:
Billyboy78 wrote:Ok, I'm not bitching. It's just an "is what it is" post. URI and PC both played big games yesterday. Equal coverage possibly? Maybe side by side articles? No. PC gets a big headline with a big picture on the front page of the sports page. We get a smaller headline, no picture, at the bottom of the page. It doesn't matter which team is better. It's never going to change. Whatever. It is what it is...
PC beat a fringe top 25 team at home.

URI beat a barely top 100 team that they were expected to beat.

They're not equal games. You are conflating "big games" and trying to make them mean the same thing when they don't.

URI @ Dayton was big for us. That's still 1 tournament team beating a team that won't be playing postseason basketball.

Creighton @ PC had national implications. 2 teams squarely in the NCAA field at this moment, one of which angling for a top 25 spot.

Once again: being a "good" team doesn't excite the casual fan base like a big matchup does. PC has the luxury of playing big matchups pretty much every week in the big east. URI's conference schedule looks like a Baron OOC lineup this year. Not a single game moves the needle.

If roles were reversed and URI beat a top 25 team while PC beat up on a crap DePaul team, we're top billing.
This is very sound logic and true, but it doesn't make a difference who plays who. You could have reversed the opponents and result would have been the same on Projo's front page. I have only bought the journal a few times in the last several years, but show me an example of URI catching a headline over the beloved Friars? It may be the "Providence" Journal but is the only paper in the state unlike any other state.. It has been like this since I can remember, and most of the time you could say it was warranted, but that doesn't mean 100% of the time over the last 50 years. Like Billy says, it is what it is and will never change.
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bigappleram wrote:And pump the brakes in pumping up Creighton. Without their big Krampelj who is out for the season they are an NIT team. Watch how many games they now lose. Good win for PC but teams like Creighton, Butler are pumped up by guys like KMac and now by our own fans. Butler starts a GW transfer, yesterday Creighton had a Div 2 transfer seeing meaningful minutes. Those are not high level teams and they will both be lucky to dance.
I'm not pumping them up. The numbers are the numbers.

Are we pumping up URI by pointing out they're the #11 RPI in the country right now?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

I'm now having to defend the damn big east because half the posters here are thinking because we're good that it's the only thing that matters in college basketball.

Have some perspective.

If this were any other team or season - say Valpo had a top 10 RPI in a shitty awful MVC (which is a higher ranked conference than us) - we would be calling bullshit on them having a ranking because their conference is so bad.

Most of the country is viewing us like that. Yes we've won 10 straight but we're supposed to have won 10 straight. We've been favorites in every game. Most by double digits.

For sure this is an impressive run because we're inside of it but outside looking in we're a good team playing in a shit conference doing what we're supposed to do.

The title of this thread is "Projo FAIRNESS" and I'm yet to see anyone have a take that shows the Projo being unfair or biased in their coverage.

Not saying it didn't happen at any time in the last 30 years that most people keep bringing up, but anyone whining about this now is just looking to play victim.
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Silly to waste energy being offended by the projo...just enjoy this team's great run for yourself...don't rely on others to pump it up for you...When it starts to get real (i.e., in the NCAA's)...this stuff will all take care of itself.
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giovanni wrote:
Blue Man wrote:
Billyboy78 wrote:Ok, I'm not bitching. It's just an "is what it is" post. URI and PC both played big games yesterday. Equal coverage possibly? Maybe side by side articles? No. PC gets a big headline with a big picture on the front page of the sports page. We get a smaller headline, no picture, at the bottom of the page. It doesn't matter which team is better. It's never going to change. Whatever. It is what it is...
PC beat a fringe top 25 team at home.

URI beat a barely top 100 team that they were expected to beat.

They're not equal games. You are conflating "big games" and trying to make them mean the same thing when they don't.

URI @ Dayton was big for us. That's still 1 tournament team beating a team that won't be playing postseason basketball.

Creighton @ PC had national implications. 2 teams squarely in the NCAA field at this moment, one of which angling for a top 25 spot.

Once again: being a "good" team doesn't excite the casual fan base like a big matchup does. PC has the luxury of playing big matchups pretty much every week in the big east. URI's conference schedule looks like a Baron OOC lineup this year. Not a single game moves the needle.

If roles were reversed and URI beat a top 25 team while PC beat up on a crap DePaul team, we're top billing.
This is very sound logic and true, but it doesn't make a difference who plays who. You could have reversed the opponents and result would have been the same on Projo's front page. I have only bought the journal a few times in the last several years, but show me an example of URI catching a headline over the beloved Friars? It may be the "Providence" Journal but is the only paper in the state unlike any other state.. It has been like this since I can remember, and most of the time you could say it was warranted, but that doesn't mean 100% of the time over the last 50 years. Like Billy says, it is what it is and will never change.
It most certainly makes a difference.

If I have to start posting every time a headline gets posted with URI at the lead people would call me a troll or PC shill or Projo shill or Bill Koch butt buddy or something.

Look back and every time someone bitches about this is when PC tops billing, but when URI does it no one says shit.

Here's a question: show me an example of the Rams "deserving" top billing over the Friars and it not happening?

How many weeks did we beat a top 5 team followed by a fringe top 25 team? How many big wins did we have by ourselves?

Our success until very recently has been relative to our competition and history, which isn't all that great.

PC plays like 10 games a year versus ranked teams. Usually wins a handful. Some of those are top 10, top 5, or number 1.

We've NEVER done that. It's news when we just get a top 25 team on the schedule. Nevermind beat them.

It's not news when you beat up on teams that you're better than. It is news when you beat teams much better than you.

Day after Thanksgiving Rhody DOMINATED the Projo sports section because we knocked off a ranked opponent without our best player. That was newsworthy.

Yesterday we beat a fringe top 100 team we were favored to beat by 5 points. PC beat a fringe top 25 team they were the underdogs against.

What is it you people aren't getting?

PC has been a better overall team playing in a better conference than us for the better part of 2 decades. They kept winning when we weren't doing shit. Just because we finally arrived at the party doesn't mean the world has to bend to our will.
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Again, don’t read it, didn’t read it don’t care.

Regarding Rhody hoops see my comment in the other thread.

Fear the Ram

I’m checked out on blueman defense of ProJo

Y’all should too.

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I can do both. I can enjoy the shit out of the season so far and also call out the poor effort on the part of the projo. I’m skilled like that.

I feel better now cause I fixed it.
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Dude these holier than thou, 3 paragraph soap box tirades where you position yourself as the Godfather of URI fandom is getting tired.
Speaking for myself, I watch dozens of hoops games a week and am very well reasoned and informed with the state of the program so I don't need a lecture on perspective from you after 30 years of following this program. I'd much rather read some victim riddled shit from the old timers (who harbor justifiable, but very old rooted bitterness) than this crap.
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RhodyJay for the win!
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"PC has been a better overall team playing in a better conference than us for the better part of 2 decades. They kept winning when we weren't doing shit. Just because we finally arrived at the party doesn't mean the world has to bend to our will."

AND

URI has been a better overall team for the better part of 2 years. Higher ranked, higher KenPom/RPI, conference champions and winners in March. We continue to win, including 3-0 against teams currently ranked in the top 5 in the mighty Big East, and haven't lost since before christmas trees were being put up. A daily newspaper, by very definition, is meant to be topical and reflect the hottest items of the day. For the last 400-500 days we have been the best team in the state. None of this can be disputed. If the 2nd best team in the state playing a team from Omaha that will fall like a sinking ship is in your opinion bigger news, than we can agree to disagree.
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RoadyJay wrote:I can do both. I can enjoy the shit out of the season so far and also call out the poor effort on the part of the projo. I’m skilled like that.

I feel better now cause I fixed it.

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Jay that is feckin brilliant!!!!! And that DOWTIN SLAM was the highlight of the game for me !!!!!!
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bigappleram wrote:Dude these holier than thou, 3 paragraph soap box tirades where you position yourself as the Godfather of URI fandom is getting tired.
Speaking for myself, I watch dozens of hoops games a week and am very well reasoned and informed with the state of the program so I don't need a lecture on perspective from you after 30 years of following this program. I'd much rather read some victim riddled shit from the old timers (who harbor justifiable, but very old rooted bitterness) than this crap.
Not the Godfather. Maybe the Godson.

Victim riddled shit from 30 years ago isn’t relevant now. Sorry if it takes me 3 paragraphs at a time to explain that point.

Victim riddled shit from the past is what holds us back.

It’s the same notion of “Harrick got Lamar from a trailer next to Keaney why do we need a practice facility”. It’s tired and old.

I’m sure more people that read the board think more consistent with the theme of my long winded posts, but refuse to get into the mud and try and fight the same battle I do.

I am just neurotic, don’t sleep a ton, and can do multiple things at once so I don’t mind writing novels.

I’ll keep white knighting the cause of reminding the internet that our whole fan base doesn’t spend their free time playing victim...and you can keep calling me a douche.

Works for me!
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FAKE NEWS!!!!!!
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Blue Man wrote:
bigappleram wrote:Dude these holier than thou, 3 paragraph soap box tirades where you position yourself as the Godfather of URI fandom is getting tired.
Speaking for myself, I watch dozens of hoops games a week and am very well reasoned and informed with the state of the program so I don't need a lecture on perspective from you after 30 years of following this program. I'd much rather read some victim riddled shit from the old timers (who harbor justifiable, but very old rooted bitterness) than this crap.
Not the Godfather. Maybe the Godson.

Victim riddled shit from 30 years ago isn’t relevant now. Sorry if it takes me 3 paragraphs at a time to explain that point.

Victim riddled shit from the past is what holds us back.

It’s the same notion of “Harrick got Lamar from a trailer next to Keaney why do we need a practice facility”. It’s tired and old.

I’m sure more people that read the board think more consistent with the theme of my long winded posts, but refuse to get into the mud and try and fight the same battle I do.

I am just neurotic, don’t sleep a ton, and can do multiple things at once so I don’t mind writing novels.

I’ll keep white knighting the cause of reminding the internet that our whole fan base doesn’t spend their free time playing victim...and you can keep calling me a douche.

Works for me!
Maybe what happened 30-40 years ago isn't relevant to what's going on now, but it's still relevant to those who lived it. I know how much you love URI basketball. Believe me, I have the same love. It's hard to get rid of the rage in me because of all the stuff that happened back then. I wish I could. And it's not just one or two things, it was many things. If I didn't love URI basketball as much as I do, I probably wouldn't care. I don't expect those who weren't alive or those too young to remember, to understand. I get it. But I think the hard cores like me who remember what was going on with those trying to hold back and destroy our program, probably feel similar to what I do. I respect how the younger fans feel. Like I said, I don't expect the younger fans to fully understand how we feel, just try and respect it. Remember, we're all in this together.
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Lest anyone thought winning would settle things down around here, this thread exists to disabuse them of that notion.

Can't we all just get along? The projo has historically been very unkind to URI - not just the basketball program, but the school itself. So if they do anything borderline, our fans are going to complain. And I'm fine with it. You might be able to put together a moderately passable justification for why they did this thing or that thing, but when you step back and look at how they've treated URI over decades, the sensitivity to it is justified.

Having said that, don't we have better things to be talking about?

Go Rhody. Go Pats.
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bigappleram wrote:Dude these holier than thou, 3 paragraph soap box tirades where you position yourself as the Godfather of URI fandom is getting tired.
Speaking for myself, I watch dozens of hoops games a week and am very well reasoned and informed with the state of the program so I don't need a lecture on perspective from you after 30 years of following this program. I'd much rather read some victim riddled shit from the old timers (who harbor justifiable, but very old rooted bitterness) than this crap.
Not the Godfather. Maybe the Godson.

Victim riddled shit from 30 years ago isn’t relevant now. Sorry if it takes me 3 paragraphs at a time to explain that point.

Victim riddled shit from the past is what holds us back.

It’s the same notion of “Harrick got Lamar from a trailer next to Keaney why do we need a practice facility”. It’s tired and old.

I’m sure more people that read the board think more consistent with the theme of my long winded posts, but refuse to get into the mud and try and fight the same battle I do.

I am just neurotic, don’t sleep a ton, and can do multiple things at once so I don’t mind writing novels.

I’ll keep white knighting the cause of reminding the internet that our whole fan base doesn’t spend their free time playing victim...and you can keep calling me a douche.

Works for me!
No one called you a douche, self important maybe. Also maybe a soothsayer since you now can predict the opinions of those that read the board.

So when Chris Disano, who by all accounts is well reasoned, writes a tweet saying there is a convenience bias that holds back our ranking, is he too some victim riddled fan holding us back. Puhleez. The reality is we are the biggest story in the state in terms of basketball, case closed. Coverage could reflect that better. Across the country the national pundits are talking about Rhody, but just this week our own local pollster wouldn't give us the benefit of the doubt, and another journalist berated the fan base on Twitter for not showing up (even tho attendance is up 20%). You speak out of both sides of your mouth by condemning people for holding opinions based on things that happened 30 years ago, then rest on the historical laurels of PC and the BE as to why the Projo covers them the way they do. So which one is it? Are we living in the moment, or in the past? There is a thing, quite popular these days, called unconscious bias ...and if you are blind to it so be it. The folks who go over the top claiming there is some conspiracy theory against URI based on a conscious bias are a small and extreme opinion on one spectrum. I don’t agree with that. On the other end is your opinion where all is fine with how we are covered. My guess is that more people sit in the middle, and think there is a bit of a hill to climb, or slant, to how we are covered locally. You can find a few dozen of those people making that opinion known on Twitter, funny I don't see 1 Rhody fan besides you defending KMac.
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Don't forget the Criers were at home and we were on the road.

Go Rhody and go Jags!!!!!!!!!!
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bigappleram wrote:And pump the brakes in pumping up Creighton. Without their big Krampelj who is out for the season they are an NIT team. Watch how many games they now lose. Good win for PC but teams like Creighton, Butler are pumped up by guys like KMac and now by our own fans. Butler starts a GW transfer, yesterday Creighton had a Div 2 transfer seeing meaningful minutes. Those are not high level teams and they will both be lucky to dance.
People said the same thing about Xavier last year when they had injuries and they ended up in the elite eight. It's too early to know what's going to happen with Creighton, plus McDermott is a pretty good coach, I'd be surprised if they end up in the NIT.
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They may still find their way in, but they don’t have the talent depth in their program that Xavier has. When you are forced to put in a transfer from Adelphi (Div 2) it’s getting thin. I think they will lose a few now without Krampelj, maybe they will still limp in like last year after losing their PG. But we know how that ended. Agree McDermott is a helluva coach.
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The only time I get to see hardcopy editions of ProJo is whatever day I'm doing the laundry. I like sitting there reading the front section, and the sports page. They put a paywall up on their digital edition, like many do these days, so I can't really access it easily.

Anyway, what do I see Thursday morning when I pick up the front page? At the top of the page, above the top headline, in bold print, with a photo of E.C., is a headline "Rams Keep on Rolling", directing the reader to the sports page, where there is a game story, and Rams Journal. Same two stories you would see for a PC game on the sports page. A game story and Friars Journal.

But, since so many love to slam the Journal over their coverage of Rhody bb, I found it telling that not one person thought to point out our game Wed. night was pasted across the top of the front page, above the top headline on the page.
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Didn't know where else to mention this...

Anyone catch the photo of the PC game at alumni hall, looked almost empty... only 1800 seats and they couldn't fill the students? I know it was only a quarter of a game but I can only imagine if something like that got moved to Keaney that place would be jacked up. What is the student attendance to PC games at the dunk?
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RamIt! wrote:Didn't know where else to mention this...

Anyone catch the photo of the PC game at alumni hall, looked almost empty... only 1800 seats and they couldn't fill the students? I know it was only a quarter of a game but I can only imagine if something like that got moved to Keaney that place would be jacked up. What is the student attendance to PC games at the dunk?
Most of their fans are high school dropouts. They probably don't even know where the PC campus is.
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For what its worth:
Reynolds not 1 dot mention of Rhody.
What a stiff!
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I see a big pic from Thorr on Twitter of the newspaper of Rhody holding the trophy and a headline Alone At The Top.
So I go to providencejournal.com to see it and the article.
This is what is on the projo's home page the day that URI wins its first ever A10 Regular Season Championship.
http://www.providencejournal.com/

A picture of PC with the headline Friars are hitting a wall.
And you wonder why Rhody fans hate the Journal.
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kmillr wrote:For what its worth:
Reynolds not 1 dot mention of Rhody.
What a stiff!
The Providence College Journal will only allow him a certain number of words on URI every year.

And slightly OT, poor Fryuh Frank had to interview Dan Hurley on the court last night. From section 105 his you could see the cheaply-dyed hair and pancake makeup on his head -- looked like a corpse in the casket at a wake.
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One advantage I have living in CT is that I don't read that rag anymore.

Once in a while I might glance at it while visiting my mom in Wakefield.....

Whenever I need some comic relief.
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I just went to projo.com and sure enough the front and center picture is of the friars hitting the wall headline...now most days that would make me happy...but today...
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That's stooping to new lows even for them.....
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But we're just being paranoid... right?
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