Where Are They Now? Former Player Results and News

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 4 years ago

His son, Preston Jr., is playing at St. Andrews in Barrington.

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 4 years ago

ramster wrote: ↑4 years ago Great question
First things first....
A return to The State if Rhode Island makes sense

Then......

Yeah, I think Bryant or Rhode Island College or Brown would be great places for him to reestablish his coaching career and reputation.

giovanni · Unread post by **giovanni** » 4 years ago

eli#10 · Unread post by **eli#10** » 4 years ago

Toppins dunks are pretty good also.

steviep123 · Unread post by **steviep123** » 4 years ago

Interesting article by Kevin McNamara on his 30 years covering college hoops as well as Bill Koch’s take:
college hoops as well as Bill Koch’s take

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 4 years ago

Nice article by Lil Kevin 30 years of hoop memories

JimSidd · Unread post by **JimSidd** » 4 years ago

Christion Thompson, 10 points and 9 rebounds in 32 minutes in today’s Tulane comfortable win .... 0-5 from three.

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

JimSidd wrote: ↑4 years ago Christion Thompson, 10 points and 9 rebounds in 32 minutes in today’s Tulane comfortable win .... 0-5 from three.

And 4-8 FTs to go with his 0-5 on 3Ps and 3-9 FGs vs Southern University. Smh.

giovanni · Unread post by **giovanni** » 4 years ago

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 4 years ago

Ulmer still one of my all-time favorite Rams. Always had a special place for him and Cothran since I am from New Haven to. Nice to see he is still playing. I've been thinking about Ulmer a lot recently when watching Toppin play. Not identical players but I notice some similarities with their pure athleticism at least.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 4 years ago

adam914 wrote: ↑4 years ago Ulmer still one of my all-time favorite Rams. Always had a special place for him and Cothran since I am from New Haven to. Nice to see he is still playing. I've been thinking about Ulmer a lot recently when watching Toppin play. Not identical players but I notice some similarities with their pure athleticism at least.

Since you're from New Haven, you must have heard stories about my favorite Ram, Jiggy. And his brother Super John and Bruce Campbell and Wilbur Cross.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 4 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote: ↑4 years ago
adam914 wrote: ↑4 years ago Ulmer still one of my all-time favorite Rams. Always had a special place for him and Cothran since I am from New Haven to. Nice to see he is still playing. I've been thinking about Ulmer a lot recently when watching Toppin play. Not identical players but I notice some similarities with their pure athleticism at least.
Since you're from New Haven, you must have heard stories about my favorite Ram, Jiggy. And his brother Super John and Bruce Campbell and Wilbur Cross.

I definitely remember hearing about Jiggy from people. I used to play at Cross quite a bit, but my dad was a Hillhouse guy so I was taught not to like Cross.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 4 years ago

adam914 wrote: ↑4 years ago
Billyboy78 wrote: ↑4 years ago
adam914 wrote: ↑4 years ago Ulmer still one of my all-time favorite Rams. Always had a special place for him and Cothran since I am from New Haven to. Nice to see he is still playing. I've been thinking about Ulmer a lot recently when watching Toppin play. Not identical players but I notice some similarities with their pure athleticism at least.
Since you're from New Haven, you must have heard stories about my favorite Ram, Jiggy. And his brother Super John and Bruce Campbell and Wilbur Cross.
I definitely remember hearing about Jiggy from people. I used to play at Cross quite a bit, but my dad was a Hillhouse guy so I was taught not to like Cross.

Jiggy and Soup Campbell, the PC star, were classmates at Wilbur Cross. Their senior year, they were the #1 high school team in the country. URI beat out UConn for Jiggy and PC beat out UConn for Campbell. Both were huge recruits. Getting Jiggy was the beginning of Jack Kraft's great run here. Sly came two years later, also from New Haven. He played at Lee High. Back then, most of our top recruits came from CT or NYC. Fun times.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 4 years ago

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 4 years ago

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 4 years ago

Lol typical CFL says in the end NCAA final 4 instead of NiT final 4

Come on CFL you are better than that

phipsiGD'11 · Unread post by **phipsiGD'11** » 4 years ago

Not sure who gets under my skin more, Baron or Carothers.
I was happier to see Carothers go (thought about organizing a parade down Upper College Rd), but I didnt realize how bad Baron was until we got DH.

RhodyKyle · Unread post by **RhodyKyle** » 4 years ago

I'm just impressed he went the entire 43 second interview without throwing a single player under the bus

ramster · Unread post by **ramster** » 4 years ago

phipsiGD'11 wrote: ↑4 years ago Not sure who gets under my skin more, Baron or Carothers.
I was happier to see Carothers go (thought about organizing a parade down Upper College Rd), but I didnt realize how bad Baron was until we got DH.

Carothers approved Jim Harrick.
https://apnews.com/7e62e1ec3f3300d44ae82b70e24a52d0

What were the issues you had with Carothers? And what good things do you think Carothers accomplished?

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 4 years ago

I'll chime in.....2 big issues with Carothers.

He had a hand in hiring Jerry.....and approving the CFL contract for Baron.

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 4 years ago

rambone 78 wrote: ↑4 years ago I'll chime in.....2 big issues with Carothers.

He had a hand in hiring Jerry.....and approving the CFL contract for Baron.

Carothers wasn't great from an athletics standpoint, but I do think he helped to rehabilitate and improve the image of the university in general. Definitely not perfect - plenty of stories floating around about the kind of goofy and lofty ideas he had - but ultimately good overall.

Rhode_Island_Red · Unread post by **Rhode_Island_Red** » 4 years ago

SGreenwell wrote: ↑4 years ago
rambone 78 wrote: ↑4 years ago I'll chime in.....2 big issues with Carothers.

He had a hand in hiring Jerry.....and approving the CFL contract for Baron.
Carothers wasn't great from an athletics standpoint, but I do think he helped to rehabilitate and improve the image of the university in general. Definitely not perfect - plenty of stories floating around about the kind of goofy and lofty ideas he had - but ultimately good overall.

Demon rum, begone!

Any questions?

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 4 years ago

Carothers did a relatively good job up to the time of the Y2K fracas with the Higher Ed board when in response to his objections to a budget cut, they tried to fire him. Carothers was absolutely right in that affair (Sally Dowling, the Board Chairperson, showed herself to be a small person and a snob in the controversy) and the university faculty, staff and alumni came to his defense forcing the Board to back down. Unfortunately, the affair emasculated Carothers and from then to his retirement years later, he was never the same person. It was in this time frame that he capped the Athletics budget which did big damage to the program for a time.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 4 years ago

reef wrote: ↑4 years ago Lol typical CFL says in the end NCAA final 4 instead of NiT final 4

Come on CFL you are better than that

Baron was there for the combination of two program celebrations - the 50th year celebration of St. Bonaventure's 1970 NCAA Final-4 Team that had Bob Lanier and a celebration of 100 years of basketball at the school. Many SBU alums from across the years came back for these events. Baron was a member of the 1977 NIT Champion Team, he still has deep connections to the school having played there four years and coached nine years. As coach, he led the school to its first NCAA tournament in 20+ years in 2000. The 50th Final-4 anniversary portion of things garnered the majority of attention at the event as most all the remaining living members of that team were in attendance.

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 4 years ago

Does anyone else remember it this way? I don’t.

wpbrown8267 · Unread post by **wpbrown8267** » 4 years ago

Rhody83 wrote: ↑4 years ago Does anyone else remember it this way? I don’t.

yeah, me either

I remember a lot of stress, anger, frustration w/teams that were talented but lacked any coaching (adjustments, rotations, etc.)

The crash n burn with a few of those seasons totally pissed me off, with a dumb confused look on his face

bigappleram · Unread post by **bigappleram** » 4 years ago

Baron did yeomans work in his first few years in quickly getting us out of a mountain sized landslide brought on by JD. We fell very far, very fast, from the highs of the 97-99 Harrick years. Within 12-18 months he had us playing meaningful games again. He also brought some really good talent to Kingston - Dawan, Jimmy Jr, Delroy, Cothran, Will Daniels, Seawright, Ulmer all have their place in Rhody lore. But for those rosters from 2006-10 to never have sniffed an NCAA game is a major blemish, at least 2 and maybe even 3 of those rosters were NCAA level.

reef · Unread post by **reef** » 4 years ago

Oh my bad 50th anniversary of their final 4 team makes sense then . They had a final 4 team and NIT championship in the 70s

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 4 years ago

bigappleram wrote: ↑4 years ago Baron did yeomans work in his first few years in quickly getting us out of a mountain sized landslide brought on by JD. We fell very far, very fast, from the highs of the 97-99 Harrick years. Within 12-18 months he had us playing meaningful games again. He also brought some really good talent to Kingston - Dawan, Jimmy Jr, Delroy, Cothran, Will Daniels, Seawright, Ulmer all have their place in Rhody lore. But for those rosters from 2006-10 to never have sniffed an NCAA game is a major blemish, at least 2 and maybe even 3 of those rosters were NCAA level.

Yeah - The disappointment of those teams that should have been dancing, and the ugliness of the final year or two, does obscure that things seemed pretty good a couple years in. Baron -was- good at getting guys with minimal to average talent to play their best, but there were too many other deficiencies for long-term success here.

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 4 years ago

Am I missing something obvious- what is VAL?

Unread post by **SGreenwell** » 4 years ago

ace wrote: ↑4 years ago Am I missing something obvious- what is VAL?

Seems like an efficiency stat, similar to PER and what not.

Blue Man · Unread post by **Blue Man** » 4 years ago

wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago
Rhody83 wrote: ↑4 years ago Does anyone else remember it this way? I don’t.

yeah, me either

I remember a lot of stress, anger, frustration w/teams that were talented but lacked any coaching (adjustments, rotations, etc.)

The crash n burn with a few of those seasons totally pissed me off, with a dumb confused look on his face

Are we really going to hang our hat on the fact that a coach was better than a glorified agent riding a 19 year olds coat tails?

This has been covered numerous times but to treat the Baron tenure as anything other than a colossal disappointment that set this program back 20 years is delusional.

We could have been Xavier. Or Temple. Or Dayton.

We had the same pedigree, national cache, and buzz as those programs in our conference by 2000 - and opened the best facility in the A10 under his watch.

The right coach could’ve righted the ship after 2 years of Jerry D. Instead we threw a ticker tape parade for the guy who kept us underwater but thought it was great because we werent on the bottom.

steviep123 · Unread post by **steviep123** » 4 years ago

Blue Man wrote: ↑4 years ago
wpbrown8267 wrote: ↑4 years ago
Rhody83 wrote: ↑4 years ago Does anyone else remember it this way? I don’t.

yeah, me either

I remember a lot of stress, anger, frustration w/teams that were talented but lacked any coaching (adjustments, rotations, etc.)

The crash n burn with a few of those seasons totally pissed me off, with a dumb confused look on his face
Are we really going to hang our hat on the fact that a coach was better than a glorified agent riding a 19 year olds coat tails?

This has been covered numerous times but to treat the Baron tenure as anything other than a colossal disappointment that set this program back 20 years is delusional.

We could have been Xavier. Or Temple. Or Dayton.

We had the same pedigree, national cache, and buzz as those programs in our conference by 2000 - and opened the best facility in the A10 under his watch.

The right coach could’ve righted the ship after 2 years of Jerry D. Instead we threw a ticker tape parade for the guy who kept us underwater but thought it was great because we werent on the bottom.

+ double infinity!

PeterRamTime · Unread post by **PeterRamTime** » 4 years ago

The longer I've watched basketball, the more I've grown to understand just how bad Baron was.

Just think about how talented those 3 teams that choked were.

They were probably better than every Hurley team other than his two tournament teams.

Everyone on those teams played professionally except for Will Martell and Will was a very serviceable seven footer, who I would take on this current team in a heartbeat. He definitely could have played professionally.

I've never seen teams be so good early NEVER get better and completely fall apart like they would.

The lack of defense and adjustments makes no sense. No set plays really either.

There's no way in hell a 19-3 Dan Hurley or David Cox coached team would ever play their way out of the tournament like they would.

The 08/09 team almost played their way in, but couldn't beat a one dimensional Derek Kellogg no defense 12-18 UMass team that we had beaten by double digits in their building.

On senior day!

Jimmy Baron and Kaheim Seawright!

Howww is that possible???

Then the next year the team only decided to play once we made it to the NIT.

Glad they collapsed though, otherwise we might still have CFL.

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 4 years ago

giovanni · Unread post by **giovanni** » 4 years ago

JimSidd · Unread post by **JimSidd** » 4 years ago

Christian Thompson scores 20, including 11-12 from the line, with 9 rebounds, plays 38 minutes, and Tulane defeats Cincinnati yesterday. Talk about things you thought you never see.
By the way, for those of you concerned about depth with an eight man rotation, Tulane basically played six players. An eight man rotation is fine if we have no injuries. Only two of them being guards, that’s another story.

DC_Rams · Unread post by **DC_Rams** » 4 years ago

I wish we could’ve kept CT. Another senior playing for his future.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 4 years ago

He would have played a lot this season, after what's happened.

And we could have used him big time. Even though he wasn't very good shooting the 3, he could have helped a lot of other ways.

LoveThoseRams · Unread post by **LoveThoseRams** » 4 years ago

Jared Terrell left Israeli team to play in the Ukraine....why??

EC Matthews was listed playing earlier for the Erie Bay Hawks, but no longer, as of last week, shows up on the roster?

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 4 years ago

E.C. was waived. https://erie.gleague.nba.com/news/bayha ... tony-carr/

scine20 · Unread post by **scine20** » 4 years ago

I figured this was the place to put it since it's about a former player. Does anyone think these two look alike? Derrick Henry/Kahiem Seawright. I just showed their pictures to my wife and she agreed.

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 4 years ago

SmartyBarrett wrote: ↑4 years ago E.C. was waived. https://erie.gleague.nba.com/news/bayha ... tony-carr/

What a shame

LoveThoseRams · Unread post by **LoveThoseRams** » 4 years ago

Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑4 years ago
SmartyBarrett wrote: ↑4 years ago E.C. was waived. https://erie.gleague.nba.com/news/bayha ... tony-carr/
What a shame

But I think he got picked up by the Raptors 905

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 4 years ago

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baske ... ptors-905/

Rhody15 · Unread post by **Rhody15** » 4 years ago

Damn, EC goes from showing up on ESPNs mock draft as a first round pick before his injury to barely even playing in the G League.

What could have been for that kid ...

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 4 years ago

Rhody15 wrote: ↑4 years ago Damn, EC goes from showing up on ESPNs mock draft as a first round pick before his injury to barely even playing in the G League.

What could have been for that kid ...

It might not have all been the injury. Kellen Grady was a major prospect after his Fr year and is slipping every year.

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 4 years ago

Biruta is back from injury and playing in Lithuania again.

LoveThoseRams · Unread post by **LoveThoseRams** » 4 years ago

Four in his 4th year in Spain

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giovanni · Unread post by **giovanni** » 4 years ago