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THE OFFICIAL 2024-2025 NET RANKINGS THREAD

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goru7 said:
Try listening to some pods and listening to coaches press conferences or when they are gathered together and offer their unsolicited opinions. Princeton is thought of highly. The IVys have sent a number of players to the Power 4 after their 4 years are up or earlier and most have had great possitive impacts on their new teams. Danny Wolf from Yale is one of those at Michigan now that I heard the commentator last night say he has worked his way into the first or second round of the NBA draft. I think Xavier Lee of Princeton has a chance for a second round pick or impact free agent. You are claiming Ivy plays shit ball and I disagree wholeheartedly.
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Wolf is a rare case of an ivy league player who left before his four years were up, grabbing at that NIL brass ring. I'm curious if more will follow.

Ivy league players generally tend to be fundamentally sound, and (other than Wolf) are 5th year seniors with a ton of experience. Of course, we get Martini, though.

Still, the Ivy League usually has 2-3 good teams, and a bunch of also-rans. And their top teams keep tripping over the bottom ones, which usually keeps them out of the upper echelon of algorithm driven rankings and keeps them perennially as a one-bid league.

Part of that is because of their rules around scholarships, admission, etc. which shrinks their available player pool.
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OT: Stock and Investment Talk

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rutgersdave said:
So many ways to make money. Sorry for the people that can’t accumulate enough to invest.
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I know it's tough, and a lot of folks are living paycheck to paycheck. But that was a $1300. investment that now pays a $6.50 annual dividend (half the purchase price) and is worth roughly $15,000. So around that time I bought a car. Forgo the Beemer and loan payments and bought a Saturn SL2 which I had for 17 years and 205,000 miles. Price difference was a lot more than $1300.
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Poor NIL is the biggest reason for our disappointing season

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rutgersal said:
If we were too proud to negotiate, we didn’t have the money. That’s what you call spin. We simply cannot compete with FSU because their boosters want to win.

This is the only fanbase that thinks you can win without money, which is why we’ve never won it all. Show me a successful program and I’ll show you a group of boosters that make it happen. Look at UConn, who poached our best player last year. UConn’s success should be ours, but our boosters are not as supportive as theirs. That’s the biggest reason they succeed and we don’t. Dan Hurley, a former assistant for Kevin Bannon, choosing the UConn job, when he could have had ours, tells you all you need to know.

The reason we have a significant amount of misses is that we have to take bigger risks due to lack of resources. It is much, much harder to find players who fall through the cracks thanks to technology.

The “I want to win but I don’t want to donate” attitude is not tenable if we want to build a successful program. It’s time to pony up or shut up.
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Rutgers has 23 major league sports teams within 250 miles of campus, 28 including MLS. Florida State has zero.

Lots of competition for the sports fan dollars around here.

Moreover, Rutgers donors prefer to give to academics. That is why Rutgers endowment value is more than 2x that of Florida State.

Holloway talked up the number of Rutgers donors in recent message. "We reached and surpassed a $250 million fundraising goal because of a surge in new givers: more than 7,500 of our 34,000 donors in fiscal year 2024 were first-time donors."

For example, I used to give to the gymnastics team. Now, I give to an academic scholarship. Do you blame me?
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I know most won’t agree, and won’t happen, BUT..here me out.

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seansherm said:
Even not playing all that great he did average 24 and 11 against Auburn and Kentucky. 24 against Arizona. Did a little less against Kansas I think. Ace was 23 and 11 in his two SEC games. Flagg is excellent, no need to try and drag him down to build Ace up.
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Not dragging him down. Just pointing out his support cast is so much better and therefore his assist totals go up . He is playing really well now. He also made 2 crucial turnovers at the end of the Kentucky game. He is not infallible. We see ACE every play and he is placed under our microscope. We do not watch Cooper to the same extent. But from what I have seen lately , Duke is playing thru him as he is handling the ball a lot instead of the guards and he has raised his level of play considerably the last 7-8 games against ACC competition.
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Poor NIL is the biggest reason for our disappointing season

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ancienthooper said:
Maybe I missed it, but what has Schiano achieved? 7-6 and gagged the third-rate Rate Bowl? I actually think he’s a good coach, just don’t see what gold standard he’s set that Pikes should be aspiring to.
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This program was a complete laughing stock when he took over the first go-round. Has sent multiple useful players to the pros. And got the good housekeeping seal of approval for his development of players from none other than Bill Belichick. But that's all he's achieved I guess
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THE OFFICIAL 2024-2025 NET RANKINGS THREAD

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darkcheck said:
It all depends on how you define drastically. As for the ivies and where we strive to be, not impressed. The ivies are a one bid league mostly. Any real p4 coach doesn’t tremble at the ivies. Any complements are polite lip service
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Try listening to some pods and listening to coaches press conferences or when they are gathered together and offer their unsolicited opinions. Princeton is thought of highly. The IVys have sent a number of players to the Power 4 after their 4 years are up or earlier and most have had great possitive impacts on their new teams. Danny Wolf from Yale is one of those at Michigan now that I heard the commentator last night say he has worked his way into the first or second round of the NBA draft. I think Xavier Lee of Princeton has a chance for a second round pick or impact free agent. You are claiming Ivy plays shit ball and I disagree wholeheartedly.
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Izzo Pullover

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bac2therac said:
my favorite Rutgers was one they gave out at the spring game almost 10 years ago...one i cut the sleeves off and the other just a regular...its not the best made but its got the simple block R and thats it...i think its a Gildan which I usually hate but for some reason this was one of the rare times it worked and has held up.

Otherwise almost all my tees come from homefield or retro brand because I love the soft tees.
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I know exactly which one you're talking about and agree. Great t-shirt.
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I know most won’t agree, and won’t happen, BUT..here me out.

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The RUT said:
Well sure, but even if that happens Ace and Dylan are moving on. There should not be a single person in this fan base that expects to see them anywhere near the RAC next season. You will be watching them on TV.

My point was that the best those two can do for RU beyond this season is represent RU well in the NBA and have long term careers where younger kids know they were RU guys. A 10 year old kid isn't going to remember them making/missing the tournament. They're going to just know "Ace and Dylan went to Rutgers."

That's the future of RU with these two.
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Of course not. I’m just pointing out that until it’s impossible to make the tournament, that should be the goal and presumed best possible outcome however much a long shot.
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I know most won’t agree, and won’t happen, BUT..here me out.

The RUT
PSAL_Hoops said:
No - the best thing that can happen is we get in the BIG tournament and pull it all together to claim the autobid.
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Well sure, but even if that happens Ace and Dylan are moving on. There should not be a single person in this fan base that expects to see them anywhere near the RAC next season. You will be watching them on TV.

My point was that the best those two can do for RU beyond this season is represent RU well in the NBA and have long term careers where younger kids know they were RU guys. A 10 year old kid isn't going to remember them making/missing the tournament. They're going to just know "Ace and Dylan went to Rutgers."

That's the future of RU with these two.
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Post Mortem by Lion - Delayed, RU vs MSU

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seansherm said:
It's one game and Grant had been just as worthless to that point though. All I'm saying. I hated the Martini pick up, you don't have to tell me how little he's added, he's been worse than I was even expecting.
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Grant was not worthless. He blocked 1-2 shots , got some rebounds and his 3 point shooting came around just a little hitting 1 early second half and one after he was bright back in. Martini did what again? Right , a truly worthless performance.
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THE OFFICIAL 2024-2025 NET RANKINGS THREAD

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goru7 said:
I am judging them on who they are today. A team that has a chance to win the Ivys for the third straight year. Do you really think thry are a terrible team ? If so , go ask every Ivy League opposing coach , then go ask all the Power 4 coaches that are scared to schedule them. Then report back. You are acting like they are a terrible team which is the further thing from the truth and I am telling you they are not a team that drastically hurts our NET.
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It all depends on how you define drastically. As for the ivies and where we strive to be, not impressed. The ivies are a one bid league mostly. Any real p4 coach doesn’t tremble at the ivies. Any complements are polite lip service
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