Game 14: AT University of Rhode Island, Saturday, December 30th, 4 PM, Atlantic 10 Network

[DJ5 SIZE]

It was bad enough to be a 17 1/2 pt. dog to a “powerhouse” like URI, but this is just plain embarrassing. I’m calling the AD office first thing Tuesday morning to voice my displeasure.

Me too! Can you let me know what they say? Also, would you like to help me email Bard to voice displeasure? LMK

 

[Patriotsince81]

Just watched Paulsen live on Facebook. Did he really just say he had "No idea" about UMass?

 

[Five Two]

Has anyone got the video link to work?

I tried and never got it to work. Looks like I was better off not watching.

Given we play @ UMass on Wed just 2 hours away from Kingston, are we staying up there our are we coming home and going back up?

 

[Patriotsince81]

I tried and never got it to work. Looks like I was better off not watching.

Given we play @ UMass on Wed just 2 hours away from Kingston, are we staying up there our are we coming home and going back up?

Staying up there.

 

[Washingtonian]

Duquense beat Dayton, 70-62.
Richmond is giving Davidson fits (game is on NBCSN).

 

[Washingtonian]

I tried and never got it to work. Looks like I was better off not watching.

Given we play @ UMass on Wed just 2 hours away from Kingston, are we staying up there our are we coming home and going back up?

I tried on Firefox and Chrome. The pop up came up for flash on Firefox, but it didn't matter. It work on Edge.

 

[gmujim92]

Its obvious that GM has a lack of talent. At first I was somewhat taken by the announcers critique of GM, but really they are right. Some of his comments, no idea what they are doing on offense, their defense is pretty much non existent. Turnover after turnover. They just commented how RI is getting easy basket after easy basket.

I just think DP may be a good coach, but I think he and his assistants can't recruit worth a s.. No coach can win with non competitive players. And yes I think Paulson talks a good game, but has shown little results. Does anyone really think this team is making progress?

We just played the No. 1 team in our conference — a team that has 5 seniors — and two likely first-team all-A10 players — in its top 7.

We were picked to finish 10th. We play four freshmen, two sophomores and two juniors.

Overreact much?

 

[Falco]

We just played the No. 1 team in our conference — a team that has 5 seniors — and two likely first-team all-A10 players — in its top 7.

We were picked to finish 10th. We play four freshmen, two sophomores and two juniors.

Overreact much?

I'm going to beat this point to death. The roster is DP's fault! I don't understand why people keep pointing to the roster as an excuse. DP missed on his early recruits. That's why we only have 2 juniors! It's not Hewitt's fault!

 

[PoorManProfit]

I'm going to beat this point to death. The roster is DP's fault! I don't understand why people keep pointing to the roster as an excuse. DP missed on his early recruits. That's why we only have 2 juniors! It's not Hewitt's fault!

and to be honest, I'm worried about hanging on to the ones that are supposed to enroll next Sept. A season where I can see single digit wins concerns me.

 

[mason lawyer]

I'm going to beat this point to death. The roster is DP's fault! I don't understand why people keep pointing to the roster as an excuse. DP missed on his early recruits. That's why we only have 2 juniors! It's not Hewitt's fault!

No! no! DP can do no wrong here. It' all Hewitts fault. We are heading in the right direction. Wake up people

 

[Jack Strop]

Yeah, you, and DJ3, and PMP have had nothing else to say but yammer about Coach P and his perceived incompetencies and mistakes. We've heard enough of it. You're like the pâté de foie gras manufacturer cramming corn meal down a duck's throat until nothing else will fit!

We've heard your endless echo of opinions over and over and over. Ok, ok... your opinion has been noted. We're very familiar with how you stand on the issues. Very few agree with you, but it's in the record.

So, how are YOU going to fix your perceived problems with what it is Mason Basketball? I'm not talking about all this fantasy Coach and AD crap. What are you going to do, specifically? What actions are you GOING to take? Are you going to pickett outside EBA? Stage a sit in at Brad Edward's or DP's offices? Start a petition? Bring signs into games stating, "DP must go!"? What? What are you planning to do besides gripe, bitch, moan, nag, cry, complain, beef, belly ache, fuss, fidget, whine, sob, holler, and kvetch over how badly things are going right now with my beloved Patriots?

(MasonLawyer, DJ3, and PoorManProfit respectively)

Say something substantive and contsructive for a change or shut the F up!!!

 

[GMUSig03]

I'm unfortunately not as optimistic. This will be EC's 3rd game back with 9 days off since their last game so he may be back closer to full strength - and they pulled off an at large worthy OOC mostly without him.

I agree in theory that we match up better with guard heavy teams, but they have some grown a** men at guard.

I expect more of an 80-65 type game - get down by 20 or so, get within 10 or 12, but lead balloons again at end due to fouling.

Prophet.

 

[rf1]

Rhode Island fan here.

FYI - there were actually some Mason fans sprinkled throughout the crowd yesterday. A woman a few rows behind me seemed very excited to see your team and was proudly wearing its gear.

Question for you. During play in the 2nd half yesterday just as Rhody scored a three point basket, a small boy came out onto the court from the vicinity of the GMU bench. Someone with a suit on came out from that corner to grab the boy as GMU was bringing the ball back down the court. This child had already previously run out onto the court during halftime during a local youth exhibition. A woman that may have been sitting directly behind the bench ran out then to scoop him up. Given that the seats behind the visiting bench are normally given to the opponent team, and possibly a GMU rep (man in suit) grabbed him during play, it is assumed he was the son of someone connected to GMU (staff, player family, or prominent fan). Was this the case? I go to a lot of URI games and have never seen something like this before. If the kid is connected to GMU, has he done this at your home games? He was probably around 3 or 4 years old and could easily have got hurt given the size of the players.

 

[gmujim92]

Rhode Island fan here.

FYI - there were actually some Mason fans sprinkled throughout the crowd yesterday. A woman a few rows behind me seemed very excited to see your team and was proudly wearing its gear.

Question for you. During play in the 2nd half yesterday just as Rhody scored a three point basket, a small boy came out onto the court from the vicinity of the GMU bench. Someone with a suit on came out from that corner to grab the boy as GMU was bringing the ball back down the court. This child had already previously run out onto the court during halftime during a local youth exhibition. A woman that may have been sitting directly behind the bench ran out then to scoop him up. Given that the seats behind the visiting bench are normally given to the opponent team, and possibly a GMU rep (man in suit) grabbed him during play, it is assumed he was the son of someone connected to GMU (staff, player family, or prominent fan). Was this the case? I go to a lot of URI games and have never seen something like this before. If the kid is connected to GMU, has he done this at your home games? He was probably around 3 or 4 years old and could easily have got hurt given the size of the players.

No idea who he belongs to. We only know him as DJ3.

 

[gmutom]

No idea who he belongs to. We only know him as DJ3.

I was going to say he is one of our walk-ons, but I like your response better.

 

[PoorManProfit]

Rhode Island fan here.

FYI - there were actually some Mason fans sprinkled throughout the crowd yesterday. A woman a few rows behind me seemed very excited to see your team and was proudly wearing its gear.

Question for you. During play in the 2nd half yesterday just as Rhody scored a three point basket, a small boy came out onto the court from the vicinity of the GMU bench. Someone with a suit on came out from that corner to grab the boy as GMU was bringing the ball back down the court. This child had already previously run out onto the court during halftime during a local youth exhibition. A woman that may have been sitting directly behind the bench ran out then to scoop him up. Given that the seats behind the visiting bench are normally given to the opponent team, and possibly a GMU rep (man in suit) grabbed him during play, it is assumed he was the son of someone connected to GMU (staff, player family, or prominent fan). Was this the case? I go to a lot of URI games and have never seen something like this before. If the kid is connected to GMU, has he done this at your home games? He was probably around 3 or 4 years old and could easily have got hurt given the size of the players.

We have this creepy dude that, at home games, lurks around the court during breaks in the action and shoots t-shirts into the crowd. It is t-shirt guys grandson that you saw.

 

[GMUSig03]

No idea who he belongs to. We only know him as DJ3.

POY with only hours to spare!

 

[GMUSig03]

Rhode Island fan here.

FYI - there were actually some Mason fans sprinkled throughout the crowd yesterday. A woman a few rows behind me seemed very excited to see your team and was proudly wearing its gear.

Question for you. During play in the 2nd half yesterday just as Rhody scored a three point basket, a small boy came out onto the court from the vicinity of the GMU bench. Someone with a suit on came out from that corner to grab the boy as GMU was bringing the ball back down the court. This child had already previously run out onto the court during halftime during a local youth exhibition. A woman that may have been sitting directly behind the bench ran out then to scoop him up. Given that the seats behind the visiting bench are normally given to the opponent team, and possibly a GMU rep (man in suit) grabbed him during play, it is assumed he was the son of someone connected to GMU (staff, player family, or prominent fan). Was this the case? I go to a lot of URI games and have never seen something like this before. If the kid is connected to GMU, has he done this at your home games? He was probably around 3 or 4 years old and could easily have got hurt given the size of the players.

No chance for that at our home games due to set up of the stadium and the coaches/players family sit several rows behind team bench and behind a hand rail. I'm not aware of any 3/4 year old sons of any of the coaches and I sit in the same section and have been to away games.

Those seats for away games also go to players family's, so that would be my best guess.

 

[gmujim92]

POY with only hours to spare!

#clutch

 

[Falco]

Yeah, you, and DJ3, and PMP have had nothing else to say but yammer about Coach P and his perceived incompetencies and mistakes. We've heard enough of it. You're like the pâté de foie gras manufacturer cramming corn meal down a duck's throat until nothing else will fit!

We've heard your endless echo of opinions over and over and over. Ok, ok... your opinion has been noted. We're very familiar with how you stand on the issues. Very few agree with you, but it's in the record.

So, how are YOU going to fix your perceived problems with what it is Mason Basketball? I'm not talking about all this fantasy Coach and AD crap. What are you going to do, specifically? What actions are you GOING to take? Are you going to pickett outside EBA? Stage a sit in at Brad Edward's or DP's offices? Start a petition? Bring signs into games stating, "DP must go!"? What? What are you planning to do besides gripe, bitch, moan, nag, cry, complain, beef, belly ache, fuss, fidget, whine, sob, holler, and kvetch over how badly things are going right now with my beloved Patriots?

(MasonLawyer, DJ3, and PoorManProfit respectively)

Say something substantive and contsructive for a change or shut the F up!!!

I'm going to convince everyone that this is unacceptable. And hopefully you all can put pressure on the AD to start looking for a new coach