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The thread on Parfait Bitee had me thinking about how many former URI players were currently on college D1 coaching staffs. I quickly came up with nine players. I am sure that I am probably missing some. Feel free to help me out and add others:

Parfait Bitee | Towson | Assistant
TJ Buchanan | URI | Assistant
Eric Youncofski | URI | Assistant
Jim Christian | BC | Head
Tyson Wheeler | Fairfield | Assistant
Antonio Reynolds-Dean | Clemson | Assistant
Horace Pappy Owens | LaSalle | Assistant
Patrick Four McGlynn | LaSalle | Assistant
Carlton Silk Owens | Kennesaw State | Assistant

RF1 wrote:The thread on Parfait Bitee had me thinking about how many former URI players were currently on college D1 coaching staffs. I quickly came up with nine players. I am sure that I am probably missing some. Feel free to help me out and add others:

Parfait Bitee | Towson | Assistant
TJ Buchanan | URI | Assistant
Eric Youncofski | URI | Assistant
Jim Christian | BC | Head
Tyson Wheeler | Fairfield | Assistant
Antonio Reynolds-Dean | Clemson | Assistant
Horace Pappy Owens | LaSalle | Assistant
Patrick Four McGlynn | LaSalle | Assistant
Carlton Silk Owens | Kennesaw State | Assistant

you missed the best of the bunch, haha.

Preston at Creighton

Preston a Murphy Creighton

Is Patrick four mcglynn really an assistant at LaSalle. Last time i checked he was playing decently well overseas in portugal.

RF1 wrote:The thread on Parfait Bitee had me thinking about how many former URI players were currently on college D1 coaching staffs. I quickly came up with nine players. I am sure that I am probably missing some. Feel free to help me out and add others:

Parfait Bitee | Towson | Assistant
TJ Buchanan | URI | Assistant
Eric Youncofski | URI | Assistant
Jim Christian | BC | Head
Tyson Wheeler | Fairfield | Assistant
Antonio Reynolds-Dean | Clemson | Assistant
Horace Pappy Owens | LaSalle | Assistant
Patrick Four McGlynn | LaSalle | Assistant
Carlton Silk Owens | Kennesaw State | Assistant

I'm seeing a McGlynn as a director of basketball operations at La Salle, but it's not Four

http://www.goexplorers.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball

Made some fixes (can't believe I missed Preston/was confused with McGlynn as the asst at LaSalle also played at Towson):

Parfait Bitee | Towson | Assistant
TJ Buchanan | URI | Assistant
Eric Youncofski | URI | Assistant
Jim Christian | BC | Head
Tyson Wheeler | Fairfield | Assistant
Antonio Reynolds-Dean | Clemson | Assistant
Horace Pappy Owens | LaSalle | Assistant
Preston Murphy | Creighton | Assistant
Carlton Silk Owens | Kennesaw State | Assistant
Todd Bozeman | Morgan State | Head
Chris Holm | GW | Assistant

Kind of hard to believe only 1 head coach out of 350 plus D1 schools or whatever the number ???

reef wrote:Kind of hard to believe only 1 head coach out of 350 plus D1 schools or whatever the number ???

Add another - Todd Bozeman is still coaching. head coach at Morgan State.

Bonzie Colson, Sr?

Good one about Bozeman I forgot he was still coaching

ramsman75 wrote:Bonzie Colson, Sr?

He was a high school coach last I heard. Not sure what he's doing now.

Billyboy78 wrote:

ramsman75 wrote:Bonzie Colson, Sr?

He was a high school coach last I heard. Not sure what he's doing now.

Former college assistant. Last position was New Bedford High. Stepped down last year with the intent to more closely follow his son's career at Notre Dame. Jr however got injured and sat out most of this season.

Man, Xavier has played only 20 minutes total in his time with the Bucks from January 8th til now. Keep collecting them checks through, feel great for him about that part! I think the NBA minimum is somewhere around $1.5-2 million/season so he's getting nice pay on a prorated basis.

In Larry Bird's book "Drive" he talked about how those end of the bench guys for the 80's Celtics were good enough to play more minutes for other teams, and practice is where those guys really tried to take it to the starters. If they weren't playing many minutes during the game, hell they would expend all their energy to try and win the practice battles against the superstars. Hopefully Xavier is treating the bench life like that, like many pro athletes have said in the past "you get paid to practice and the games we play for free."

Another fun part of the tournament is seeing these guys following and getting excited-

Leroy Butts sighting- playing for Radford against Villanova.

For some reason I was thinking about Iffy Onyekaba yesterday. Did he ever turn up anywhere? 20 and 10 in his first game as a frosh in 20 minutes (if that). Then, almost literally, nothing else. So weird. Maybe even weirder that I was wondering what happened to him.

Don't think he continued to play, looks like he left the team but stayed at the University and graduated in 2016

Gonebarongone wrote:For some reason I was thinking about Iffy Onyekaba yesterday. Did he ever turn up anywhere? 20 and 10 in his first game as a frosh in 20 minutes (if that). Then, almost literally, nothing else. So weird. Maybe even weirder that I was wondering what happened to him.

Iffy is doing well. He has an infant son and is big into boxing now. Posts a lot of videos on his social media. Was always one of the nicest guys I knew at school.

HASwatTeam wrote:

Gonebarongone wrote:For some reason I was thinking about Iffy Onyekaba yesterday. Did he ever turn up anywhere? 20 and 10 in his first game as a frosh in 20 minutes (if that). Then, almost literally, nothing else. So weird. Maybe even weirder that I was wondering what happened to him.

Iffy is doing well. He has an infant son and is big into boxing now. Posts a lot of videos on his social media. Was always one of the nicest guys I knew at school.

twisted3829 wrote:Don't think he continued to play, looks like he left the team but stayed at the University and graduated in 2016

Good to hear. Would love a 30 for 30 short on him. What if I told you a guy who looked like he was cut from stone scored 20 and 10..........and was never heard from again?

Gonebarongone wrote:

HASwatTeam wrote:

Gonebarongone wrote:For some reason I was thinking about Iffy Onyekaba yesterday. Did he ever turn up anywhere? 20 and 10 in his first game as a frosh in 20 minutes (if that). Then, almost literally, nothing else. So weird. Maybe even weirder that I was wondering what happened to him.

Iffy is doing well. He has an infant son and is big into boxing now. Posts a lot of videos on his social media. Was always one of the nicest guys I knew at school.

twisted3829 wrote:Don't think he continued to play, looks like he left the team but stayed at the University and graduated in 2016

Good to hear. Would love a 30 for 30 short on him. What if I told you a guy who looked like he was cut from stone scored 20 and 10..........and was never heard from again?

Tyson had close to that exact story written about him. He got into 1 NBA game in his career, took 1 shot (3 pointer), and hit it.

He's a fun stat quirk of being a 1.000 career shooter

https://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/den ... a-3-062315

From McNamara in today's projo:

http://www.providencejournal.com/sports ... agical-run

steviep123 wrote:From McNamara in today's projo:

http://www.providencejournal.com/sports ... agical-run

Nice article on Tommy. KMac doesn't have it right though. Duke did not end Sly's career. Sly was a sophomore in 78. He played one more year before going to the NBA. Duke ended Jiggy Williamson and Stan Wright's career.

Fantastic article on Tommy G , he is right we sure could use Kenny Green tomorrow

Also nice to see our former players tweets

Go Rhody!!

Billyboy78 wrote:

steviep123 wrote:From McNamara in today's projo:

http://www.providencejournal.com/sports ... agical-run

Nice article on Tommy. KMac doesn't have it right though. Duke did not end Sly's career. Sly was a sophomore in 78. He played one more year before going to the NBA. Duke ended Jiggy Williamson and Stan Wright's career.

Sly's career ended in Maryland in an NIT game in 1979. We had the ball and a two-point lead in the final seconds of regulation, and for reasons still unknown almost 40 years later, he decided to take the ball to the basket. Buck Williams (yes, that Buck Williams) stepped in and took a charge -- Sly's fifth foul -- and hit both free throws (that was how the rules worked in the stone age), which also is still inexplicable since he was about a 55-percent free-throw shooter IIRC.

Irv Chatman had blown out his knee in the ECAC-New England tournament, so we were already shorthanded. In addition to Williams, Maryland also had another future first-round draft choice in Albert King and talented but erratic Ernest Graham, about whom John Feinstein once described as "keeping both teams in the game at the same time."

Anyway, despite being shorthanded, we hung on for three overtimes before losing. Worst nicotine fit I ever had.

I remember watching that game as an 11 year old. Jack Kraft diagrammed the great play to get a charge called on Maryland and John Nelson made 2 FT to force OT ???

reef wrote:I remember watching that game as an 11 year old. Jack Kraft diagrammed the great play to get a charge called on Maryland and John Nelson made 2 FT to force OT ???

Actually, Billy Hahn, Kraft's second assistant, drew it up. He learned during his playing days at (wait for it) Maryland for Lefty Driesell.

Sly williams ran the base line and a Maryland defender ran into John Nelson and a foul was called. I was at the game. I believe Nelson converted both but we lost in ot. It was an NIT game at the Cole Field House. Albert King and Buck Williams played for Maryland and both went on to have decent professional careers.

Former URI basketball player William 'Bill' Shannon who played for the legendary Coach Keaney, passed away. He was just one of his family to pay hoops in Kingston.

Obituary:
http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ ... 0111114920

Normally wouldn't post D-League stuff here, but 46/8/7/3 is probably worth a post. Plus this is like the KB version of a cute cat video right now and I know I could use some chicken soup for the soul. Get em, X.

TruePoint wrote:

Normally wouldn't post D-League stuff here, but 46/8/7/3 is probably worth a post. Plus this is like the KB version of a cute cat video right now and I know I could use some chicken soup for the soul. Get em, X.

X is a great story.
He just keeps getting better.

Makes me excited to track EC and JT's careers.

I wish someone would give him a legit shot in the NBA though.

No idea if this went in or if he was dropping it off to a teammate but still a pretty great picture-

ace wrote:No idea if this went in or if he was dropping it off to a teammate but still a pretty great picture-

And I totally agree with what it says under the picture.

Billyboy78 wrote:

ace wrote:No idea if this went in or if he was dropping it off to a teammate but still a pretty great picture-

And I totally agree with what it says under the picture.

Well, yeah...I mean...how can you not?

NYGFan_Section208 wrote:

Billyboy78 wrote:

ace wrote:No idea if this went in or if he was dropping it off to a teammate but still a pretty great picture-

And I totally agree with what it says under the picture.

Well, yeah...I mean...how can you not?

I disagree. I think they totally undersold it. Ridiculous

spookydog wrote:

NYGFan_Section208 wrote:

Billyboy78 wrote: And I totally agree with what it says under the picture.

Well, yeah...I mean...how can you not?

I disagree. I think they totally undersold it. Ridiculous

dunno...it seemed to strike a nice balance between that and being too over the top...

ace wrote:No idea if this went in or if he was dropping it off to a teammate but still a pretty great picture-

With the language beneath, it made me think Hass is throwing a Hadouken a la the Street Fighter video game.

Over 1,700+ points scored in college, degree coming next month, time to prep for pro career. Jared Terrell has been invited to participate in @PITourney which is an invitation only event for the top 64 collegiate players (seniors) in the nation
s/o @buzzerbeatmedia
#InXweTrust https://t.co/LtOk1wVb6W

JT in the "Where Are They Now?" thread?

Damn.

TruePoint wrote:JT in the "Where Are They Now?" thread?

Damn.

Yeah, it was weird putting a post about Jared in the former player thread.

TruePoint wrote:JT in the "Where Are They Now?" thread?

Damn.

Yeah I'm not ready for this!

Too soon!

I'd be surprised if EC didn't get an invite.

Give them hell JT!

Represent!

ace wrote:

Jesus fucking Christ...

Send it in Hassan !!

See u in NBA summer league in a few months ??

Jesus, we sent Hassan over to collect our tariffs!

That league needs to do better assigning uniform colors for the games- either that or I need my eyes checked