Not sweating this season

[Chief00]

Anybody who watched Hurley at URI knew he wasn't coming in as a master of x and o's. That's not why we hired him. He was hired because he was a lot of what KO was not.

Primarily, He was hired because he's a proven builder with experience, has tons of energy, connections, and gravitas. And perspective.

It's what we need right now.

He's young, and has plenty of time to grow in the x's and o's department. But in contrast to last year, I've seen plenty of solid inbounds plays.

I was agreeing up until seeing lots of good inbounds plays.

 

[intlzncster]

I was agreeing up until seeing lots of good inbounds plays.

Should have put 'relative' to last year. I feel like we've erased those atrocities from our memory. It can get a LOT better to be sure.

 

[Chief00]

We’ll know next year. Then I will say 20% if we say it yet again. In regards to ko I wish we had a chillious type before his one year as Miller was getting old and Moore was too green. A poor decision that may have had ko bummed to carry the recruiting load as well. There must be a book someday about that whole past regime. School Pres. Warde. Conference. Etc.

Agree, should have cut Miller loose a year earlier. Good we kept him for his Diallo connection. LOL

 

[intlzncster]

Agree, should have cut Miller loose a year earlier. Good we kept him for his Diallo connection. LOL

I hate to say, truly, because I love the guy, but Ricky probably wasn't the right hire either. Needed a guy like Kimani/Hunter/Tommy on board. Experienced both in recruiting, coaching, managing, and with a ton of relationships in hotbed areas.

Killings was fine, but he should have been lowest man on the totem pole.

 

[B1GEast]

Bump. Alterique

 

[Excalibur]

Bump. Alterique

????

 

[Pudge]

It is about the Yakwe. And give Hurley credit ... he knew the interior D deficiencies was glaring.

Of late, the ease of driving that lane and scoring comes up over & over. We have improved our talent level and our backcourt recruitment + wing talent. The need is still there for that tough interior. God bless Carlton, he has improved. But we do need a tough recruit - likely Transfer

 

[uconnfan68]

Really clear over the past week that anyone on or off the team who thinks this isn't Alterique's team next year isn't paying enough attention. He's talking him up every chance he gets, he's demoted a rising senior guard to a reserve role and he's running everything through Alterique. There's no point guard controversy coming next season.

The guy has a plan. We're in good hands.

I sure hope he has a plan B... Alterique isn't guaranteed after practice 1.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

There was no sweating in previous seasons but that was more due to lack of hustle.

 

[Jaker]

I am starting to sweat next season already.

 

[olehead]

He also was up 5 with 2 minutes to go against Oregon in the 2nd round in 2017. Oregon rallied and went to the Final 4. If you watched that game, URI outplayed them.

That was a great game. I felt bad for the URI kids, who really brought it against the Duckies. URI couldn't contain Dorsey and Brooks.

 

[ccsuphanner]

Unfortunately, next season isn't going to be what people want to see either. But in 20-21, we're going to start breaking hearts and destroying dreams again.

 

[HHusky]

Just a thought about closing down this season in a week or so. Maybe we should CUT DOWN THE NETS! When we get back home cut them all down. Toss them out and bury them. Take the night off and re-string all the nets in prep for a long off-season of work. Vow to wear them out getting ready for next season. Hard work is the road to success!