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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Aug 5, 2022 23:30:57 GMT -5
^
I came here to read about the MBB OOC sked which is the title of the thread. Like pretty much every thread here these days it's about everything but the thread title. So bark up a different tree.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Aug 6, 2022 5:36:30 GMT -5
Rhody's visit to BC will be the conclusion of a H&H series that the Eagles backed out of two years ago for Covid reasons. The teams still met that season in a neutral site game put together at the last minute in a fan-less Mohegan Sun with BC getting a win. URI hosted the Eagles last season and played them again a week later in Daytona Beach claiming victories in both. Rhode Island has met Boston College ten times in the last thirty years with URI holding a 6-4 advantage despite just three games being in Kingston.
Impressive. Does URI claim a geographic section of RI as Ram country as opposed to Friar country? I bet many Rhode Islanders like both teams. I didn't know there were multiple geographic sections of Rhode Island
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 6, 2022 7:17:54 GMT -5
Don't bring in Nichols, that'd probably kick our posteriors. If a Ralph Willard team could lose to Williams (admittedly defending national champs, IIRC), a Brett Nelson team has an even better chance of losing to Nichols who has had very good basketball success at their level the last several years under different coaches and looking to climb to a higher division. If we are going to lose, let it be to a D-1 team.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 6, 2022 9:08:39 GMT -5
Don't bring in Nichols, that'd probably kick our posteriors. If a Ralph Willard team could lose to Williams (admittedly defending national champs, IIRC), a Brett Nelson team has an even better chance of losing to Nichols who has had very good basketball success at their level the last several years under different coaches and looking to climb to a higher division. If we are going to lose, let it be to a D-1 team. Plus the Hart Center would be packed. With screaming Nichols Bison fans. More than when the Bucknell Bison was good, if the way Nichols fans packed the Hart and went nuts during the NCAA D-3 game they moved to Worcester due to ticket demand a few years ago.
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Post by DiMarz on Aug 6, 2022 9:20:53 GMT -5
I would love to see Merrimack on our schedule..HC football opens there this season, and Ice Hockey has played there for a number of years...They were 14-16 overall last season, 10-8 in conference.. Last season they played at Army (L), Lehigh (W), at Boston UNiv. (L by one). A local school about 45 minutes away....
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Post by timholycross on Aug 6, 2022 14:50:41 GMT -5
No reason not to play MC...I'd rather wait a couple years before playing Stonehill however, losing to them in their D1 inaugural would be another insult added to our many injuries.
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Post by purplehaze on Aug 6, 2022 14:56:40 GMT -5
We’ll see Stonehill this season on a neutral court at Fordham - yes, there’s a risk with that game
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Post by efg72 on Aug 6, 2022 17:56:35 GMT -5
Every game we play is a likely or potential loss
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Post by rgs318 on Aug 6, 2022 18:05:22 GMT -5
Just as every game is also a potential win. That is why the games actually have to be played.
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Post by efg72 on Aug 6, 2022 18:33:49 GMT -5
Agree but until we prove we can win the negative outcome can drive the thought process
Let’s see what happens
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Post by bfoley82 on Aug 7, 2022 16:07:48 GMT -5
I brought up UH as a potential home opponent seeing how they are in a position of weakness, are 80 minutes away, and would possibly satisfy the D2/D3 home opponent instead of bringing in Assumption or Nichols or whomever. Someone else made a relevant post showing their soccer team basically has to be road warriors in order to field a team. We were not "analyzing" the UH soccer program. If you don't like a post, it takes zero effort to skip on by, but a lot of effort to bitch about it. There are like 20 people in this group, most of whom are older which I respect greatly (and love hearing strories and insights of great games and players of the past, many of which my late father attended and recited), but a few seem to always be looking for conflict which ruins this site. With the T&G a shell of itself, this was my place for insight. I'll just head to Fitton for the opener and enjoy the game and hopefully a great season. Too much gnashing of the teeth here. ^ Pretty sure no one here gives a rat's ass about who Hartford plays in soccer. And I tend to see a lot of schedules since that is literally what I have to do to decide where I am on a specific day.
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Post by bfoley82 on Aug 7, 2022 16:09:04 GMT -5
Don't bring in Nichols, that'd probably kick our posteriors. If a Ralph Willard team could lose to Williams (admittedly defending national champs, IIRC), a Brett Nelson team has an even better chance of losing to Nichols who has had very good basketball success at their level the last several years under different coaches and looking to climb to a higher division. If we are going to lose, let it be to a D-1 team. Plus the Hart Center would be packed. With screaming Nichols Bison fans. More than when the Bucknell Bison was good, if the way Nichols fans packed the Hart and went nuts during the NCAA D-3 game they moved to Worcester due to ticket demand a few years ago. They took over Bryant last October in an exhibition game.
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 7, 2022 19:29:34 GMT -5
Why can't we get fans like that? (NAD excepted).
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 7, 2022 21:14:43 GMT -5
They get up for playing either a D-1 team or in the NCAA playoffs similar to HC football fans getting up for playing FBS UConn and in the NCAA playoffs last season. They also have a consistent winning basketball program so each game has a pretty good shot at being more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
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Post by hc87 on Aug 8, 2022 9:58:01 GMT -5
Rhody's visit to BC will be the conclusion of a H&H series that the Eagles backed out of two years ago for Covid reasons. The teams still met that season in a neutral site game put together at the last minute in a fan-less Mohegan Sun with BC getting a win. URI hosted the Eagles last season and played them again a week later in Daytona Beach claiming victories in both. Rhode Island has met Boston College ten times in the last thirty years with URI holding a 6-4 advantage despite just three games being in Kingston.
Impressive. Does URI claim a geographic section of RI as Ram country as opposed to Friar country? I bet many Rhode Islanders like both teams. At the risk of incurring ACTP's wrath, I don't believe there is much overlap in RI for both schools hoop teams. PC's fan-base, for the most part, dates back many decades and includes many "subway alums" from the Providence/SE Mass region. URI's fan-base seems to consist mostly of Rhody alums and not so much the population south of Providence. The Rams have nearly always been the "poor cousins" in the state with regards to fandom.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 8, 2022 10:07:27 GMT -5
Wonder if it was that way in NH when Dartmouth was a football power?
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Post by hc87 on Aug 8, 2022 10:21:41 GMT -5
Wonder if it was that way in NH when Dartmouth was a football power? It was, remembah, Dartmouth in the 60s and 70s was playing "University/D1" football whereas UNH was playing "college/D2." Dartmouth was ranked in the national D1 polls as late as 1970. Different era obviously, but looking at an old HC@Dartmouth game program from the '60s, I was amazed how large their radio network was then. They had stations all ovah New England carrying their games every Saturday then. I think both Curt Gowdy and Ken Coleman covered the Indians on the gridiron then.
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 8, 2022 11:34:23 GMT -5
Time to trot out, once again, that when the Crusaders upset Dartmouth in the torrential rain at Fitton in 1966, the Indians were sporting the longest winning streak in the country at the time, something like 10 straight. Probably were nationally ranked and considered one of the top teams in the east.
But, those days are long gone now that both schools are FCS level.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Aug 9, 2022 5:19:12 GMT -5
Back to the schedule..... the longer we don't receive news of additional games, the more likely there will be more non D-1 games on the final schedule, it would seem.
I wouldn't mind regular series being set up with Merrimack and UMass Lowell (surprised we haven't seen them yet). More opportunities for road games for local fans; also could come in handy if you are looking for games right before exams (as opposed to long bus trips or stay over travel). It's not like it's going to jeopardize any potential at large bids to the tournament.
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Post by efg72 on Aug 9, 2022 6:41:45 GMT -5
Agree NAD, but I prefer a couple of pay games. I would like to believe if the AD/staff can get 5 or 6 of those teams rated 20-70 scheduled we might improve recruiting, increase the future investment in the sport, and accelerate a return to being a respectable basketball program. But then again that just might be wishful thinking.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Aug 9, 2022 6:54:39 GMT -5
Should be room for both, if there are opportunities still in play (can have 13 OOC games with the MTE).
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Aug 9, 2022 7:10:11 GMT -5
Agree NAD, but I prefer a couple of pay games. I would like to believe if the AD/staff can get 5 or 6 of those teams rated 20-70 scheduled we might improve recruiting, increase the future investment in the sport, and accelerate a return to being a respectable basketball program. But then again that just might be wishful thinking. Unfortunately, I think this year's slate is going to be one of the worst and most boring we've had in quite some time, and that's after last year's OOC which was 278th in terms of strength of schedule. Nelson desperately needs wins.
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Post by efg72 on Aug 9, 2022 7:51:02 GMT -5
I think the athletic department should be run in the best interest of the individual program- not the coach-- if he is good enough to recruit the better players, develop a team, be part of the community, and manage the games, he will find a way to win.
So we are where we are, and we should start rebuilding from within. If Nelson wins and survives, fine; if not, we move forward with an attractive schedule.
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Post by mm67 on Aug 9, 2022 7:55:23 GMT -5
Re: URI . Late '40's. Ernie Calverley. NIT. There is a history of some topflight basketball albeit brief and long ago. I don't know anything about other past URI teams. If college basketball returned to a more regional flavor URI - Providence - BC would seem to be a natural. And, HC? Merrimack? Bryant, etc?
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Aug 9, 2022 8:37:12 GMT -5
I think the athletic department should be run in the best interest of the individual program- not the coach-- if he is good enough to recruit the better players, develop a team, be part of the community, and manage the games, he will find a way to win. So we are where we are, and we should start rebuilding from within. If Nelson wins and survives, fine; if not, we move forward with an attractive schedule. In MBB, the head coach is in charge of scheduling. Unlike football, which falls under the AD's role to my understanding.
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