The Official - URI’s NEW Head Coach is DAVID COX

steviep123 · Unread post by **steviep123** » 6 years ago

jcru wrote:I knew that would bother him, but as they say... true story

Bother who? Me or True Point? If you think that bothers me you don't know me at all.

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 6 years ago

sf2010, your comment makes absolutely no sense to anyone but you. What does inventing the internet have to do with planning a .gif image and spending an hour to make it?

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 6 years ago

It's cool, stevie! At least someone is getting use out of it.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 6 years ago

URI also interviewing Celtics assistant Micah Shrewsberry. https://t.co/xXNn0SeM9Z

Bos8 · Unread post by **Bos8** » 6 years ago

Cox had his interview today.

rhodylaw · Unread post by **rhodylaw** » 6 years ago

I do not hate the Micah Shrewsberry interview.

steviep123 · Unread post by **steviep123** » 6 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote:URI also interviewing Celtics assistant Micah Shrewsberry. https://t.co/xXNn0SeM9Z

Billy your link brings us to the Goodman tweet about Cox/Dooley/Becker. Did you give us the wrong link?

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 6 years ago

Shrewsberry is one of the very few non-Cox candidates that intrigues me. I've said before that I don't think there is any value proposition in hiring a coach that has been at a smaller school for more than a year or two. If they were special, they wouldn't still be at the small school. I would rather try to nail finding the next special coach than play it safe with a reasonably competent Joe Q. Coach. To me, Cox could be special, Shrewsberry could be special. I think Nate Oats could be special. I would bet my house that Dooley and Becker are not special.

DC_Rams · Unread post by **DC_Rams** » 6 years ago

That’s a pretty big fish and probably Cox’s stiffest comp. goodman’s Latest tweet says URI interviewed Shrewsberry.

DC_Rams · Unread post by **DC_Rams** » 6 years ago

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 6 years ago

steviep123 wrote:
Billyboy78 wrote:URI also interviewing Celtics assistant Micah Shrewsberry. https://t.co/xXNn0SeM9Z
Billy your link brings us to the Goodman tweet about Cox/Dooley/Becker. Did you give us the wrong link?

Goodman was just responding to his own tweet to break the Shrewsberry news.

Rhody83 · Unread post by **Rhody83** » 6 years ago

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 6 years ago

Officially a Lamar Odom redux now

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 6 years ago

Rhody83 wrote:

=> eye roll emoji

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 6 years ago

jcru wrote:Officially a Lamar Odom redux now

===> head shake and face to palm emoji.....

DC_Rams · Unread post by **DC_Rams** » 6 years ago

Well, it’s out in the open now. It’s Cox or bust for Harris.

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 6 years ago

Tell him, "don't let the door hit ya..."

gorhody · Unread post by **gorhody** » 6 years ago

https://twitter.com/Dreambig_04/status/ ... 3188292608

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 6 years ago

Was at my older brother's yesterday for Easter in Tiverton. Alumnus and follower of the program. "Hurley's gone." "Yeah, that sucks"

"They're going to hire the assistant coach"

"But this isn't like when Jerry D got hired, and Lamar promised to stay if he got hired, right? There aren't any players like that this time around"

errrrrr

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 6 years ago

Will Dana's tweet be next?

DC_Rams · Unread post by **DC_Rams** » 6 years ago

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 6 years ago

Oh, they are all going to weigh in, don't worry. They know the decision is close, now is the time to threaten the mass exodus.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 6 years ago

Shrewsberry is definitely an interesting option.

Matunuck · Unread post by **Matunuck** » 6 years ago

I just paid for my season tix because I wanted to watch Cox coach.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 6 years ago

jcru wrote:That proves absolutely nothing, TP.

Now, if you had done that 15 years ago, THEN you might have had a point.

I had no point other than it is highly doubtful that anyone "stole" anything "from you," including an image you supposedly put onto the internet two decades ago. If a thing you made is showing up on a google image search from dozens and dozens of sources (none of which appear to be the website where you originally uploaded it), that is kind of cool I guess, but if someone uses one of those images they didn't "steal" it from you.

Also, the image in question was a trademarked image, and a version of a trademarked image that you uploaded to the internet is not exactly "your" thing in the first place. The concepts of public domain and public use are both applicable here. If the image was some sort of original artwork then maybe it would make sense to say someone else using it had stolen it.

All of this is entirely besides the actual point, which is: who cares.

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 6 years ago

Wow...Hurls has to be mad pumped, smiling ear to ear and maybe laughing like a hyena. Either his friend gets a HC job and MAYBE his recruits stay with him, or, he gets to HIRE his friend and get the guys he recruited anyway. Hurls: "Winner winner chicken dinner" Cox has to be pretty jacked up, too, I would think.

"Chief, looks like we have a hostage situation here"

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 6 years ago

Hurley Show wrote:I just paid for my season tix because I wanted to watch Cox coach.

silly...there's no connection there....

Matunuck · Unread post by **Matunuck** » 6 years ago

NYGFan_Section208 wrote:
Hurley Show wrote:I just paid for my season tix because I wanted to watch Cox coach.
silly...there's no connection there....

Just a joke because the recruits are campaigning for Cox.

Matunuck · Unread post by **Matunuck** » 6 years ago

Tate just had a similar tweet.

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 6 years ago

.......IF we loose JH due a coach hire other than Cox, that would be huge disappointment, but shit happens when coaching changes come calling......

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 6 years ago

Its COX or see ya in 10 years.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 6 years ago

As we've discussed exhaustively here, if they hire Cox, it will not be for any one particular recruit. There is value in retaining your roster and a large and high quality recruiting class, obviously, because if you do not have any players then you don't have a team. But only a true imbecile would try to compare David Cox's candidacy for a head coaching position with Jerry DeGregorio's. Jerry D would never have gotten a job coaching at any level; Cox will have a D1 job this year or next year whether URI hires him or somebody else does.

Also don't understand why a person would have a problem with a player or recruit weighing in on who they want the next coach to be. People here are weighing in despite it not having any impact on their life and despite the fact that they don't appear to have any earthly idea what the hell they are talking about.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 6 years ago

Dana.....Behind my brother all the way on this one! Love Cox and our relationship, only coach I’m willing to play for https://t.co/XGUT9UKyIM

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 6 years ago

If it's not Cox, the whole class is gone.....and some players too.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 6 years ago

We've always known that, and so has everyone involved. I guess I'm not really sure what the fire drill is about all of a sudden.

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 6 years ago

Actually, that link you posted proves my point, because the ones that are copies of the one I made have the same color blue as the ones I made, and it looks like all of them link to this site. Whereas the ones with the dull light blue letters don't link to this site, and were likely created by someone at the school.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 6 years ago

TruePoint wrote:We've always known that, and so has everyone involved. I guess I'm not really sure what the fire drill is about all of a sudden.

I wasn't sure about Dana though. He loves the school too.

Matunuck · Unread post by **Matunuck** » 6 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote:If it's not Cox, the whole class is gone.....and some players too.

Agree Billy. Some people say it doesn’t matter, hire the best coach. I would keep our players, and recruits. Cox has earned his shot, in my opinion.

steviep123 · Unread post by **steviep123** » 6 years ago

I don't know much about Shrewsberry, but looking at his Wiki page, doesn't seem to have any Div 1 head coaching experience (was a head coach from 2005 to 2007 at Indiana - South Bend, an NAIA school). Other than a brief stint as an asst at Purdue, he's been with Brad Stevens (Butler, Celtics) since 2008. I don't see him any more intriguing than Cox. (Although not less intriguing either).

What's clear is that the 3 recruits that tweeted either thought for sure that Cox was coming earlier and are now not as confident or just want to do what they can to make sure it is Cox.

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 6 years ago

This just seems like jack-wagon-ry... (although, I probably qualify for TP's last sentence in the post above) Whatever...

But, if Cox isn't HC here, he becomes an assistant @ UConn, and if Tate goes to UConn, make no mistake, he'll be playing for Hurls, not Cox. So, let's say he goes to UConn anyway, and then the following year, DC gets a head coaching gig at a lower school...does he transfer to follow him, or is he just mouth-spouting checks he can't/won't ever cash?

D Tate ‏ @DTateJr1
D Tate Retweeted Jermaine Harris

Behind my brother all the way on this one! Love Cox and our relationship, only coach I’m willing to play for [IMG]

NYGFan_Section208 · Unread post by **NYGFan_Section208** » 6 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote:Dana.....Behind my brother all the way on this one! Love Cox and our relationship, only coach I’m willing to play for https://t.co/XGUT9UKyIM

BS

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 6 years ago

Bjorn right now.

DC_Rams · Unread post by **DC_Rams** » 6 years ago

TruePoint wrote:We've always known that, and so has everyone involved. I guess I'm not really sure what the fire drill is about all of a sudden.

Because they are hearing it first hand. I think this Shrewberry or Dooley news woke them up.

steviep123 · Unread post by **steviep123** » 6 years ago

TruePoint wrote:As we've discussed exhaustively here, if they hire Cox, it will not be for any one particular recruit. There is value in retaining your roster and a large and high quality recruiting class, obviously, because if you do not have any players then you don't have a team. But only a true imbecile would try to compare David Cox's candidacy for a head coaching position with Jerry DeGregorio's. Jerry D would never have gotten a job coaching at any level; Cox will have a D1 job this year or next year whether URI hires him or somebody else does.

Also don't understand why a person would have a problem with a player or recruit weighing in on who they want the next coach to be. People here are weighing in despite it not having any impact on their life and despite the fact that they don't appear to have any earthly idea what the hell they are talking about.

Agreed!

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 6 years ago

steviep123 wrote:I don't know much about Shrewsberry, but looking at his Wiki page, doesn't seem to have any Div 1 head coaching experience (was a head coach from 2005 to 2007 at Indiana - South Bend, an NAIA school). Other than a brief stint as an asst at Purdue, he's been with Brad Stevens (Butler, Celtics) since 2008. I don't see him any more intriguing than Cox. (Although not less intriguing either).

What's clear is that the 3 recruits that tweeted either thought for sure that Cox was coming earlier and are now not as confident or just want to do what they can to make sure it is Cox.

I think they probably saw the same tweet as people here did reporting that URI is definitely going to interview at least one other candidate. I'm sure they are trying to advocate for their choice, as is their right. Who knows what they'd been previously told about the search process and whether the news of the other interview came as a surprise. I would guess that nothing has really changed substantively other than more information is public.

I would still be pretty shocked if the next coach is anyone but David Cox.

BleedBlue87 · Unread post by **BleedBlue87** » 6 years ago

jcru wrote:Officially a Lamar Odom redux now

One of the many reasons I can't wait for the Cox hire will because it starts the countdown to when jcru officially disappears from the board. Just like when it was Hurley, he will continue to comment up until the point Cox has success. Then we won't hear from him until the next coaching change saga.

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 6 years ago

Boy you're in for a rude awakening

DC_Rams · Unread post by **DC_Rams** » 6 years ago

It’s decision week, names are leaking out, players likely thought Cox was a certainty...that’s the sudden cause for alarm. I am betting we lose 6/7/8 players if we go a different direction. Fatts, Dowtin, Cyril, Tertsea, Adams, Harris, Tate and Martin.

Talk about a rebuild. DONT DO IT THORR, it’s not worth the gamble.

Billyboy78 · Unread post by **Billyboy78** » 6 years ago

I guess I'm being a little selfish. I'm too old to go through another total rebuild and sucking for at least 2 years. There might only be 4 or 5 scholarship players left....and not good ones.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 6 years ago

jcru wrote:

Bjorn right now.

Uh, no. This situation is not really special. It is the same thing every AD goes thru during any coaching change. This is his job. I can guarantee you he does not feel that way. He's doing his diligence and will make whatever decision he thinks is right, and it won't have anything to do with who tweets what or who emails him or anything else.