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Poor NIL is the biggest reason for our disappointing season

bac2therac
RUChoppin said:
The "dropped in their lap for free" is really an oversimplification. We got Bailey and Harper to commit to Rutgers, but they were such high profile players that NIL was going to follow them wherever they went. It wasn't that the players were dropped in our lap - we had to recruit the players and get them to commit - it was just that the NIL to secure them was already mostly baked into the deal (they'd have gotten it pretty much wherever they went).

So the NIL for those players was largely bonus - which means that the NIL we had for the rest of the team was what Rutgers itself could pull for non-feature players. It wouldn't have been enough to keep Omoruyi. It was used to assemble a supporting cast from the portal, but clearly there were misjudgements made on how well that cast would perform.

If we got two other players not named Bailey/Harper, we wouldn't have pulled the $4M. We were able to secure their commitment, so money followed along with them. We do not have some innate ability to pull NIL funds for roleplayers.
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what i am saying is our peers do not have someone paying $4 million for 2 players...its not rutgers paying it. Northwestern or even Illinois isnt paying 4 million for 2 players

Rutgers had an incredible advantage situation vs our peers, it should not have that difficult to come up with a supporting cast and to spread some money out. We pissed away any advantage
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The lack of NIL isn’t the fans fault, it’s Pike’s fault

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RUskoolie said:
You're mostly right but this narrative of only the rich can save us when it comes to donations, that needs to stop. Every single donor is important.
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I get what you're saying but Al's 'Miami fans pony up' statements are ridiculous considering UM's fairweather fanbase and their sports notoriously drawing like crap. UM has a big handful of high-roller donors who fund their NIL; it's not like the 25k who show up at Hard Rock or the maybe 2k who actually attend UM basketball games are ponying up 10k each for NIL.

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Politi NAILS IT on Pikiell’s Postgame Comments

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Knight Shift said:
Not Me GIF by Complex

I have always hated Politi and his schtick, and you and I have disagreed about it. That's what makes this board interesting. Respectful disagreements. These people clinging on to Politi are hilarious.

Pikiell is a nice guy,and when nice guys finish last, it can be brutal. But he fed the hype for this season, and not he has to deal with the fallout.

That said, I just listened to the post-game presser, and if that is what Politi's article is ranting and raving about, he has lowered his idiot bar even lower. I have no problem with the way Pikiell answered the questions. Pikiell is a positive mindset kind of coach. Thankfully, he not a Cronin.

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Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper turn Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell ambitious for Big Ten title: “We have lofty expectations”

Rutgers' newest stars Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper have their head coach Steve Pikiell thinking of a Big Ten title this season.
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Bringing up GPA is moving the goalposts. Schiano 1.0 and APR, and now Pike dropping the clumsy GPA misdirection is par for the course for coaches who aren’t winning.

Besides, most of the courses are assuredly the easiest in the university and the players have access to an army of academic support staff.

His job is to win games. Period. Photo ops at a hospital or bragging about grades isn’t good enough.
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OT: Cold and Potentially Snowy Pattern Likely for Most of January

RU848789
bac2therac said:
yep big long thread which basically failed...BELOW NORMAL SNOWFALL FOR THE PERIOD
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Wrong. Snowfall was not below normal in New Brunswick as I demonstrated (it was slightly above normal, but not enough to meet my criteria of "above normal" where that is being in the top 1/3 of historical data) and NB is pretty representative of CNJ. I'm sure there are locations where snowfall was below normal and some above, but most were pretty close to normal, as far as I can tell.

Edit - and in my response to WB, I also showed that Philly's snowfall was about average for the 1/4-1/25 period. So again, not below normal in another major location.
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Poor NIL is the biggest reason for our disappointing season

RUChoppin
bac2therac said:
we dont...but our peers are not getting 4 million dollar players dropped into their lap for free

pretty sad to use the no nil funds at RU argument when someone paid 4 million for 2 kids to come here...if only other schools had that
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The "dropped in their lap for free" is really an oversimplification. We got Bailey and Harper to commit to Rutgers, but they were such high profile players that NIL was going to follow them wherever they went. It wasn't that the players were dropped in our lap - we had to recruit the players and get them to commit - it was just that the NIL to secure them was already mostly baked into the deal (they'd have gotten it pretty much wherever they went).

So the NIL for those players was largely bonus - which means that the NIL we had for the rest of the team was what Rutgers itself could pull for non-feature players. It wouldn't have been enough to keep Omoruyi. It was used to assemble a supporting cast from the portal, but clearly there were misjudgements made on how well that cast would perform.

If we got two other players not named Bailey/Harper, we wouldn't have pulled the $4M. We were able to secure their commitment, so money followed along with them. We do not have some innate ability to pull NIL funds for roleplayers.
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OT: Cold and Potentially Snowy Pattern Likely for Most of January

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WhiteBus said:
The "pattern" was accurate for the cold but way off in snow and in general precipitation. I still don't understand the late addition the morning of the last storm at the same time it was 39 degrees when the new map was released. Right now Philly and the general area will be the lowest total ever in Philadelphia if we don't get anymore rain/snow before Saturday.
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For Philadelphia, the pattern was accurate for being colder than normal and a little off for snow, relative to it being "snowier than average," as snowfall for the period was right on the average, not "way off;" details below Total precip was way below normal, but that wasn't part of the original post. For the last storm, the NWS saw the early morning models all bump up snowfall amounts appreciably, so they raised the snowfall forecast a bit - that ended being wrong, but I wouldn't say it was unjustified given the data at hand.
  • For temps, Philly was 6.4F below normal for the 1/4-1/25 period, which is way below normal (vs. the Jan avg of 41/28F), as it was the 2nd coldest January in the last 30 years and the 13th coldest in the 84 years since 1941 (when records started being kept at the airport) and was even a bit colder than NB's 4.7F below normal for the same period.
  • For snow, Philly got 4.6" from 1/4-1/25 (at the airport, the official location of record since 1941) and this is just about average for that period, as Philly gets 6.4" in January on average, so over 22 days one would expect 4.5" of snow - that's not way off.
  • For precip as I mentioned above, Philly might have a record low for January as they have 0.39", so far vs. a lowest ever of 0.45". I also never made any predictions about total precip, just cold and snow.
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