Rhody15 wrote: ↑1 year ago
Rhody72 wrote: ↑1 year ago
Jdrums#3 wrote: ↑1 year ago
Brutal.
Not ready for prime time league this year.
... and not for the foreseeable future. Losing mid-major programs will be raided for any talent that they develop from recruiting promising freshmen and rehabilitated problematic transfers. Why would they stay with a losing program?
Fans were sold on transfers with lots of talent but a lot of problems - Ant Harris, Fourmena, Weston and even Freeman who Archie had to sit.. On talent alone, they would have made URI a winning program. We see now why they were available to Archie. For months the band leaders of this Board have been raving how great these guys would make URI. They will be gone with the wind once they get their lives together.
Tammi gets it.
St Louis isn't a losing program
Foumena isn't a transfer.
And to say these kids don't have their lives together is ridiculous.
They are division 1 athletes attending college on a scholarship.
I almost would prefer DC Rams is on this board instead of you.
And yea! Let's have Tammi coach the women's AND men's team like you suggested! That'll work!
Can we please just ban this idiot, provides nothing of value here.
Entertainment value!
Plus he highlights and has a lot of dumb thoughts that allow us to explain the "101" version to others who weren't aware.
Harris has academic issues, (still not sure why vault is saying anything about him, Archie hasn't mentioned anything). That's always a risk worth taking for his talent.
Foumena is getting F'd by the NCAA and immigration issues.
Weston is battling an injury and shaking off rust after not playing for a year.
Freeman looks to be a poster child for Archie's coaching methods as he became a different player post-benching.
Again, we do have enough talent to beat Quinnipiac and Texas State. If we just rolled the balls out and let them play street ball we would've beaten both those teams. I got to watch that for a decade with Jim Baron.
However, if you want to win in the A10 and in the future, you need to have a capable system deployed with players who know how to play in it. So you trade the meaningless OOC wins this year to get your players to learn how the system works in a live fire environment.
I'd rather lose games now to figure out who can play and who can learn the system. Losses and learning now will lead to wins. No rebuild is an overnight project. It still takes a year or two to put your system in place - even if it's your guys.
Archie took a 22 win team to 20 wins at Dayton.
Oates took an 18 win team to 16 wins at Bama.
Hurley took a sub .500 team to a sub .500 record at UConn.
The overreactions of people 8 games into a full blown rebuild are wild and hilarious. This season isn't about an NCAA run. It's about taking a once proud program's ashes and trying to build something. There's no foundation here anymore. It takes years to build culture. It takes years to destroy it. We've gone through both cycles.
Archie wants to be good for a long time. That's why he brought in people with 3 years of eligibility. Not one year rentals.
His playing time system right now is predicated on who's doing what during the week in practice. He's doing that to build a culture of accountability and work leading up to the games. Because that's how you build a good program.
Enjoy the ride.