Providence

[UConniki]

You talk like you guys win every game when we play.

Not even close, PC always gave UCONN a hard time even in the champion years and won more than their fair share.

 

[pj]

The job of being coach at Providence is the same as being the coach at Northwestern or Cal or Ole Miss. Just don’t be publicly embarrassing. Make the tournament every 4-6 years. Get a couple of nice home upsets. Keep the building semi full.

But that’s as high as the expectations get. If they get higher...the coach realizes the athletic department won’t match that expectation and they look for someplace that will. Like Michigan.

If that was their only objective, Providence would not have made the investments in basketball facilities they did in recent years.

However, seeing that they've given up on Catholicism, maybe they had nothing else worthwhile on which to spend their money.

 

[CL82]

Not even close, PC always gave UCONN a hard time even in the champion years and won more than their fair share.

Well since it's "fair share" would be zero... yeah.

 

[RichZ]

They would give a nut to be what we are/were the last 30 years.

But they would never admit it. Even in the confessional.

They forget how long it's been since the Marvin and Ernie show. Then again, most of them weren't alive then. But it's been a long time since Otis Thorpe, too.

 

[RichZ]

I’ve been a UConn fan since I was a kid. But there was a period of time when PC was THE program in New England.

One of my favorite non-UConn teams of all time was the Marvin Barnes/Ernie D team that went to the Final 4. Dynamic players.

That was 44 years (308 dog years!) ago. They may hang their hats on it, but most of them certainly can't remember it.

 

[FriarJ]

Not even close, PC always gave UCONN a hard time even in the champion years and won more than their fair share.

Tell @Waquoit

 

[FriarJ]

But they would never admit it. Even in the confessional.

That is simply not true, we all would. Deep has it correct.

 

[FriarJ]

If that was their only objective, Providence would not have made the investments in basketball facilities they did in recent years.

However, seeing that they've given up on Catholicism, maybe they had nothing else worthwhile on which to spend their money.

When we had crappy facilities we had hard nose players. Now we have pampered soft ones. Burn the damn practice facility to the ground for all I care. Nap pods, hyperbaric chambers and a barber shop. Good grief.

 

[arch]

@arch you’ve just been tagged.

OK, stop it, right now.

 

[Dogman69]

Down 6 to College of Charleston right now with about 46 people in the crowd.

 

[pj]

Down 6 to College of Charleston right now with about 46 people in the crowd.

Down 11 at the moment and getting outrebounded 30-14.

 

[superjohn]

He sucks

You weren't kidding. He was a top 50 recruit, he looks terrible.

 

[auggie22]

I wish we could just blink the final AAC season out of existence and start the BE round robin up immediately. So excited to look forward to conference games again. Super excited about a night at the dunk ... very doable road game.

 

[FriarJ]

You weren't kidding. He was a top 50 recruit, he looks terrible.

Diallo has become a pompous selfish cancer. He has single handily destroyed the camaraderie on this team and Cooley let it happen. Duke is far and away the best player and he needs the ball. AJ Reeves is still salvageable but he needs leadership from his teammates. This season is a total loss without Cooley admitting he has screwed up and making big changes and he is not capable of that

 

[lange10]

You weren't kidding. He was a top 50 recruit, he looks terrible.

He definitely didn't suck last year. Looked really promising. Wonder what happened

 

[6xChamps]

Today was admittedly the first PC game I’ve watched this year but this guy Luwane Pipkins doesn’t look like the answer at PG

 

[amidagoat]

When we had crappy facilities we had hard nose players. Now we have pampered soft ones. Burn the damn practice facility to the ground for all I care. Nap pods, hyperbaric chambers and a barber shop. Good grief.

Unfortunately that’s necessary to get good players now

 

[BFieldHusky]

Diallo has become a pompous selfish cancer. He has single handily destroyed the camaraderie on this team and Cooley let it happen. Duke is far and away the best player and he needs the ball. AJ Reeves is still salvageable but he needs leadership from his teammates. This season is a total loss without Cooley admitting he has screwed up and making big changes and he is not capable of that

@FriarJ...how long was Cooley's extension for?

 

[superjohn]

@FriarJ...how long was Cooley's extension for?

10 years.

 

[BFieldHusky]

10 years.

Wow. A guy with one tournament win in his career got a 10 year extension??? All because Michigan was knocking on the door?

Enjoy Providence lol.

 

[Brochacho]

Is it too late to kick out Providence and bring Wichita with us?

 

[RichZ]

This season is a total loss without Cooley admitting he has screwed up and making big changes and he is not capable of that

Change a single word in that sentence, and it could be referring to us a few years ago, when someone mishandled (or has mispromised to) his own recruits and ended up chasing most of them into the transfer portal.

 

[XLCenterFan]

Providence is my 2nd favorite college hoops team. An extremely distant 2nd that is though.

 

[ucawn]

Jeez tough 3 game stretch. They looked impressive the 1st game winning by a huge margin.

 

[FriarJ]

@FriarJ...how long was Cooley's extension for?

A lifetime