2020-21 Schedule (top post is current)

[Billyboy78]

Bryant.

[hrstrat57]

Agree time to have the guts to schedule Bryant. Ignoring the fact that they’re D1 is not a good look.

[RF1]

Agree time to have the guts to schedule Bryant. Ignoring the fact that they’re D1 is not a good look.

URI did schedule Bryant as recently as two seasons ago. Beat them 97-63 in Kingston on 11/06/2018. My understanding is that URI was not dodging Bryant since it went D1. The Bulldogs under O'Shea wanted a bigger payday than URI could offer and Rhody wasn't open to a return game. The decision to not play much was more on Bryant than URI.

Bryant played PC several years after going D1 as the Friars could pay a bigger guarantee. PC has however more recently decided not to play the Bulldogs or even longtime opponent Brown in the last few years. The Friars last played Bryant 12-12-2015 and Brown 12-6-2017.


Rams Run Away From Bryant in Opener, 97-63
https://www.gorhody.com/sports/m-baskbl ... 1106xcb3rx

[CamsRams]

Can we update date for WKU game above?

[DeanDome88]

It be nice to get a home and home with Boston College while we have the connection there.

[daytonflyerfan]

.......does a game with a Vermont work? Even away?......

That is a good idea.

[JimSidd]

This should be the year we play a home and home with PC. Let's bring that back

If Bunky sees this post, this thought will end up in his weekly FWIW column for the next three months.

[RF1]

It be nice to get a home and home with Boston College while we have the connection there.

There is the Christian connection but my guess is BC wants to stay away from Rhody. URI has a winning overall record at Conte and won the last three games in the series. Given the down state of BC basketball for the last decade (most recent NCAA was in 2009), I would not give them a 2-1 as was done twice previously.

[PeterRamTime]

No way BC wants any part of us.

They also played SLU and Richmond last year and got killed.


Oh and we did beat them in the closed scrimmage.

They are bound to steer clear of A-10 teams for a year or so.

[JimSidd]

Hasn't there been an A10 vs AAC or another conference tournament set up?

A10/Mountain West Conference challenge

Fordham, LaSalle, GW, and UMass are out. San Jose State is out.

Only 10 of the 11 MW teams are playing.


https://atlantic10.com/news/2019/10/17/211814499.aspx

2020 Atlantic 10 – Mountain West Challenge Series Matchups
Game times and television coverage to be announced at a later date

Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020
Utah State at Davidson

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020
UNLV at VCU
St. Bonaventure at New Mexico

Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020
San Diego State at Saint Louis
George Mason at Fresno State
Boise State at Rhode Island
Air Force at Saint Joseph’s
Richmond at Colorado State
Duquesne at Wyoming

Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020
Dayton at Nevada

Hmmmm... December 5, eh? So much for the URI - PC game on the first Saturday in December.

[Taylor Swift]

Hasn't there been an A10 vs AAC or another conference tournament set up?

A10/Mountain West Conference challenge

Fordham, LaSalle, GW, and UMass are out. San Jose State is out.

Only 10 of the 11 MW teams are playing.


https://atlantic10.com/news/2019/10/17/211814499.aspx

2020 Atlantic 10 – Mountain West Challenge Series Matchups
Game times and television coverage to be announced at a later date

Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020
Utah State at Davidson

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020
UNLV at VCU
St. Bonaventure at New Mexico

Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020
San Diego State at Saint Louis
George Mason at Fresno State
Boise State at Rhode Island
Air Force at Saint Joseph’s
Richmond at Colorado State
Duquesne at Wyoming

Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020
Dayton at Nevada

Hmmmm... December 5, eh? So much for the URI - PC game on the first Saturday in December.

I bet it will be a weeknight, Dec 1.

[JimSidd]

A10/Mountain West Conference challenge

Fordham, LaSalle, GW, and UMass are out. San Jose State is out.

Only 10 of the 11 MW teams are playing.


https://atlantic10.com/news/2019/10/17/211814499.aspx

2020 Atlantic 10 – Mountain West Challenge Series Matchups
Game times and television coverage to be announced at a later date

Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020
Utah State at Davidson

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020
UNLV at VCU
St. Bonaventure at New Mexico

Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020
San Diego State at Saint Louis
George Mason at Fresno State
Boise State at Rhode Island
Air Force at Saint Joseph’s
Richmond at Colorado State
Duquesne at Wyoming

Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020
Dayton at Nevada

Hmmmm... December 5, eh? So much for the URI - PC game on the first Saturday in December.

I bet it will be a weeknight, Dec 1.

I would guess they’ll go with the date that provides the best tv deal.

[section(105)]

......maybe a game with UCF, but only at home......update, ......even with a short bus ride up Rt-95, the away game is not warranted......

[ramster]

Hmmmm... December 5, eh? So much for the URI - PC game on the first Saturday in December.

I bet it will be a weeknight, Dec 1.

I would guess they’ll go with the date that provides the best tv deal.

With the BE going to the 20 game schedule they will likely have a BE Conference Game that Saturday Dec 5, as that seems to be done in Conferences going to 20 games. They have to squeeze in their extra 2 games.

[CamsRams]

......maybe a game with UCF, but only at home......

Even with potential to play them in 2nd game at Mohegan?

[ramster]

......maybe a game with UCF, but only at home......

Even with potential to play them in 2nd game at Mohegan?

Wouldn’t see Central Florida doing anything with URI other than a home and home. AAC was 7th ranked Conference, A10 was 8th ranked

Plus already a good possibility URI and UCF meet at Mohegan with Marquette and Minnesota rounding out the 4 team tournament.

[URI96]

What happens to all these games once they cancel the season?

[ramster]

They are cancelled if there is no season.

I personally think there will be a season. I think there will be an NFL Season too

[rambone 78]

Decisions will have to made soon as to whether or not there is a season.

Of course that depends on what schools do. Online learning is the way of the future.

The entire education system of the future will look a lot different, out of necessity.

And what will that do to college sports?

[RF1]

What happens to all these games once they cancel the season?

I would imagine the series/game contracts for the most part stay in effect and will have to be honored at a later time.

[Rhodyram]

Decisions will have to made soon as to whether or not there is a season.

Of course that depends on what schools do. Online learning is the way of the future.

The entire education system of the future will look a lot different, out of necessity.

And what will that do to college sports?

As far as college basketball- decisions do not have to be made soon at all- it's April- season doesn't start until November. There will be games- it's a matter of how many games and who/how many people will be allowed to attend.

[Taylor Swift]

Hmmmm... December 5, eh? So much for the URI - PC game on the first Saturday in December.

I bet it will be a weeknight, Dec 1.

I would guess they’ll go with the date that provides the best tv deal.

In 2013 the game was on a Thursday night.

[rambone 78]

Decisions will have to made soon as to whether or not there is a season.

Of course that depends on what schools do. Online learning is the way of the future.

The entire education system of the future will look a lot different, out of necessity.

And what will that do to college sports?

As far as college basketball- decisions do not have to be made soon at all- it's April- season doesn't start until November. There will be games- it's a matter of how many games and who/how many people will be allowed to attend.

I still think decisions will have to made soon....because of the start of the school year, which is not that far off....just over 4 months away.

If schools are open, yes there will be games...but if they aren't....no.

I guessing by June or maybe July, we should know...by then we should know a lot more about the virus.

[RF1]

If the season is cancelled, it would mean the NCAA Tournament 1st and 2nd rounds event at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence on March 18th and 20th of 2021 are out as well. The recent comments from the CDC Director that a 2nd wave of the virus, which could be far worse than what we are now experiencing, was likely next winter was an ominous warning for a very uncertain future.

[Billyboy78]

It's already been said that if students are not on campus, there will be no sports. I hate to be Debbie Downer, but with no vaccine, I don't see how that's possible. If somebody has an answer, please let me know.

[URIRecruitingInfo]

[rjsuperfly66]

I can't fault the leagues trying to get back, but I don't see any real way that it happens.

Already you have players saying they may not want to participate in complete isolation.

Then if players have to leave isolation for any reason, the assumption is that they would have to quarantine for 14 days.

You are talking about having to coordinate the isolation of thousands of people ---

780 MLB players + their familities, probably another 300+ staffers from the 30 teams, other game day personnel (media, groundscrew, caterers, etc.), and presumably minor league players would need to be actively playing for organization depth which starts a whole new chain of isolated players.

1 asymptomatic player, staffer, caterer, family member, etc., could shut down the entire league for weeks because of fear of spread.

I think football has a better chance of making it happen because of how they schedule. The problem with the NBA, for example, was that in the span of 1 week, one team might play 4 other teams, who played 3 other teams. That is the potential of 8 teams being impacted by spread.

In the NFL, 1 game per week means that at most, 2 teams were impacted. If you build in extra bye weeks, perhaps you allow for the fact that if someone were sick, we isolate both teams for 2 weeks. It would make scheduling fluid and potentially a complete disaster, but at least there wouldn't be mass spread to contend with between several teams.

Still, they also probably have to follow a complete isolation model. College cannot just elect to send 120 football teams or 350 basketball teams to some bunker in Siberia to play. It will never happen. Can't see any college sports for that reason next year. At best, I think college basketball comes back in January, if a vaccine or significant alternative treatments are already in place, and even then, I think it's unlikely to be played with fans.

[RhowdyRam02]

This appears to be the other lower ranked game we get as part of the HOF classic

[PeterRamTime]

Lost to them last time we played. Courtesy of CFL.

Revenge game 10 years in the making!

[URI_05]

Lost to them last time we played. Courtesy of CFL.

Revenge game 10 years in the making!

Ha, I was at that game. So brutal.

[PeterRamTime]

Lost to them last time we played. Courtesy of CFL.

Revenge game 10 years in the making!

Ha, I was at that game. So brutal.

That game and the UIC game we lost that year was when the shit really started hitting the fan for Jimbo. They were mailing it in. Way too much disappointment from the collapses.

We had bubble team talent on that team and they just weren't about it.

[RF1]

This appears to be the other lower ranked game we get as part of the HOF classic

Based on another Rothstein tweet that listed the four non-host teams in the HOF Tournament, your thinking is probably right. We look to get Lehigh and Quinnipiac at the Ryan Center out of the grouping of Albany, Liu-Brooklyn, Quinnipiac, and Lehigh. Will play Marquette in our first game at Mohegan Sun and then either Minnesota or Univ of Central Florida (UCF) the next day.

[steviep123]

Lost to them last time we played. Courtesy of CFL.

Revenge game 10 years in the making!

Ha, I was at that game. So brutal.

Me too. Awful. Although I was impressed by Quinnipiac's arena with the hoops court and hockey ice next to each other in the same building.

[Rhody72]

The dumbing down of the OOC schedule is happening. Back to those 20 win seasons and no dancing.

[section(105)]

.......geese, we shoulda had a pre game there, I remember the Q big man having a career day, Lamont Ulmer was in the house, on way back to RI stopped for a bite at Venice n Westerly, and thinking what-the-hell happened to us to loose their......regarding the sked with dumbing down, TCB in conference as pathway to Dance.....

[rambone 78]

The UConn president announced yesterday, that the school might need to prepare for online classes only starting in the fall.

Their board of trustees will vote one way or the other by June 30th.

All on campus summer classes have been cancelled.

I imagine URI will make a similar announcement soon.

We could be looking at no first semester sports.

[ElmCityRhody]

Lost to them last time we played. Courtesy of CFL.

Revenge game 10 years in the making!

Ha, I was at that game. So brutal.

Me too. Awful. Although I was impressed by Quinnipiac's arena with the hoops court and hockey ice next to each other in the same building.

I was at that game

Afterwards I waited for him baron to do the radio post game show

He walked across the court to the scorers table and I gave him the Bronx cheer and booed him

emBARONsing

[rhodylaw]

The UConn president announced yesterday, that the school might need to prepare for online classes only starting in the fall.

Their board of trustees will vote one way or the other by June 30th.

All on campus summer classes have been cancelled.

I imagine URI will make a similar announcement soon.

We could be looking at no first semester sports.

It would be insane for a virus that has allegedly killed 200k people WORLDWIDE in 8 months to continue to keep things closed. Sorry for anyone who has lost a loved one to this, but I really think the fear is worse than the actual thing and people will realize this come about May 15th.

[Rhody72]

Yes, there are signs of baronball in this scheduling. As time passes, only the W/L record is remembered.

The difference is that there is no longer any such thing as a rebuilding year. Will URI be the poachers or the poached? We are sliding into becoming the latter, a developmental minor league team full of castoffs and projects.

[rambone 78]

Yes, there are signs of baronball in this scheduling. As time passes, only the W/L record is remembered.

The difference is that there is no longer any such thing as a rebuilding year. Will URI be the poachers or the poached? We are sliding into becoming the latter, a developmental minor league team full of castoffs and projects.

Whoa....and some people on this board think I'M negative?

That last part of your last sentence is whackadoodle.

[NYGFan_Section208]

Yes, there are signs of baronball in this scheduling. As time passes, only the W/L record is remembered.

The difference is that there is no longer any such thing as a rebuilding year. Will URI be the poachers or the poached? We are sliding into becoming the latter, a developmental minor league team full of castoffs and projects.

Soooo....baron3.0?

[Rhody72]

...
We are sliding into becoming the latter, a developmental minor league team full of castoffs and projects.

Whoa....and some people on this board think I'M negative?

That last part of your last sentence is whackadoodle.

Rambone, I hope my post takes a little pressure off of you.

Unless URI wakes up in a hurry, our beloved Rams will be competing each year to get invited to the NCAA/BBCS tournament. (Think about it!)

[bigappleram]

Overreaction much? We have been a Top 5 A-10 program for the last 5-6 years. In that time we have 2 conference championships, 2 NCAA wins and 2 of the top 3 attendance figures in the history of our arena. Yes we are teetering on the brink of irrelevance? SMDH

[steviep123]

The dumbing down of the OOC schedule is happening. Back to those 20 win seasons and no dancing.

You realize they are hosting Quinnipiac as part of the Mohegan Sun tourney right? If they don't play Quinnipiac, they also don't play Marquette and either Minnesota or UCF in Mohegan Sun.

[steviep123]

The UConn president announced yesterday, that the school might need to prepare for online classes only starting in the fall.

Their board of trustees will vote one way or the other by June 30th.

All on campus summer classes have been cancelled.

I imagine URI will make a similar announcement soon.

We could be looking at no first semester sports.

It would be insane for a virus that has allegedly killed 200k people WORLDWIDE in 8 months to continue to keep things closed. Sorry for anyone who has lost a loved one to this, but I really think the fear is worse than the actual thing and people will realize this come about May 15th.

This is the reason there are ONLY 200K people killed worldwide. The numbers would be significantly higher otherwise. That's the point. So we don't overwhelm hospitals.

[NYGFan_Section208]

...
We are sliding into becoming the latter, a developmental minor league team full of castoffs and projects.

Whoa....and some people on this board think I'M negative?

That last part of your last sentence is whackadoodle.

Rambone, I hope my post takes a little pressure off of you.

Unless URI wakes up in a hurry, our beloved Rams will be competing each year to get invited to the NCAA/BBCS tournament. (Think about it!)

I see what ya did there...a little FCS play on words...clevs....

[CamsRams]

[rhodylaw]

If the transfer rule does not pass does anyone think that increases our chances of getting a really good home game this year? Maybe a home and home that starts here?

[RamStock]

If the transfer rule does not pass does anyone think that increases our chances of getting a really good home game this year? Maybe a home and home that starts here?

Why do you think the transfer rule not passing will help URI get a real good home game? Also if it doesn’t pass I wouldn’t want a real good home game. It would be more value on a year we could compete for the tourney. They are not competing for anything if it doesn’t pass.

[RF1]

The power league teams are looking to screw over the little guys once again in scheduling.