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My guess is that he lives in Philly and likes coaching hoops. It’s probably his hobby!

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I’m thinking about using a poop emoji on you for excessive use of exclams (whether or not those uses are in the manner of the lowest form of wit — but the highest form of intelligence).

Apologies to Mr. Wilde; to mr cummings too.

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Okay !

I always confuse synecdoche and metonymy. But then I have the same problem with zeugma and syllepsis.

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This is an embarrassingly terrible take.

This is an embarrassingly terrible take.

This is an embarrassingly terrible take.

This is an embarrassingly terrible take.

This is an embarrassingly terrible take.

This is an embarrassingly terrible take.

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I don’t want to belabor the point because, of course, you are right that a fifth year guy off the bench should have a shorter leash than the youngsters. OTOH, the game was not in question so, unless coach has already decided that Taine is not going to help us this year, he probably would like for him to end the game on a better note. Ufortunately, he didn’t when given the chance.

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I don’t have a problem with that except that the minutes would have been good for Sharma . We are going to need him this year and times like that is when he can get some valuable minutes

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*fourth year guy off the bench

On the Non-Ron side of the coaching candidate bracket, Drew Valentine beat Quarter Zip in Jadwin Gym, in an 8-9 matchup. Xaivian Lee having a fairly meh season so far. In a total tangent, I’ve got my eye on Burke from Turkey, who’s had a solid season so far. Hoiberg plays Randy Bennett in a 6-11 matchup in the ā€œnot really candidates, but will get brought upā€ region, on Sunday.

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I’ve got Drew Valentine on my short list. I like him for our job better than Mitch Henderson.

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Providence’s start to the season is putting a dent in Kim English’s star in my view. 4-0 but all Q4 games and three of the wins have been uncomfortably close. Though Jabri has continued to show off the most bizarre foul drawing ability: he’s attempted 12 FTs while only attempting 2 2PT shots.

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Kim English gives me Jeff Capel vibes. Really don’t want him to be considered.

I’m starting to plant myself on the Ryan Odom bus. Culturally he fits the program and has the Charlottesville ties. Has been a winner every stop
of the way.

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I like Odom too but he has a 10 million buyout

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I have this feeling, perhaps it’s overly confident and naive, but I feel that if we want Ryan Odom he’s ours. And he’s a guy that I think would be here until he retires if he’s successful.

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Where’s that figure coming from?

I saw a $10 million ā€œSchool Buyoutā€ on a USA Today page but reading the fine print, it seems they define that as to what the school would owe the coach should he be fired.

I do know VCU has a clause in their contracts that requires the hiring school to schedule a Home & Away series which would be fun.

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We should do home and homes with VCU on the reg no matter who we hire as coach.

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Funny cause in my time we played most all the instate teams. Richmond, VCU, ODU and Bass Tech. They were always great trips and great for the state to get Virginia basketball against really good instate teams

And we didnt always win those games. Ty Jeromes present coach was a real one at Richmond for those that remember

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It was in a article i read about head coaches. The article read like that. It didn’t mention that

If anyone hasn’t checked out a game at Siegel Center (VCU) I highly recommend it, even if UVa isn’t the opponent.

It’s loud, almost always packed, and the game experience is much different than JPJ. More ā€œfunā€ IMO.

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Oddly enough, the Siegel Center ā€œemceeā€ is literally the same guy who did it at UHaul when I was a student (late 90s?).

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