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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 2633844, member: 5832"] I dunno - I'll break from popular sentiment a bit. I hate picking an obviously good coach from an obviously good situation for him and a smaller fan base. I hate it. I'd love to have him and it's his choice, but there'll always be a part of me that has a level of remorse about it. Because I remember what that felt like to be them. I'm not a stomp on another fan base - never mind another New England fan base - to win more basketball games. I hate people being smug about it. I'd love to have him. But this whole situation - we lost a coach under an umbrella of deep disappointment because he was an absolute evangelical UConn guy who played well here, won a national championship and failed after that. And I feel awful for him. And because of that, we're whacking another program in New England and taking their transformative guy. I want him to make a good decision for him. And if it's staying there, good on him. I'm happy for him. If it's here, then great - but I'm sad for the URI fanbase. This area of the world has been relentlessly raped, looked over and thrown in a ditch when it comes to college hoops. I felt every second of UConn (and the Big East's) rise to prominence and how hard of an accomplishment that was - and how hard it's been for the break up of the real Big East. I want him to coach here, badly. But a sliver of me is sad for northeast college hoops. Because they're in line for more mediocrity because of our failures. [/QUOTE]

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