NickRU714 said:

Sorry but this makes little to no sense.

If you can’t build through recruiting (see #1) then how exactly are you building out a competitive roster?
Do we keep the recruiting misses and just ride it out with Jalen Miller, Antonio Chol and Woolf?

I mean sure recruit better HS players.
But if that continues to not work then not sure the alternative than transfers.

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I mean you could probably make the argument (and one poster has approximately 100,000 times regarding one particular player) that we would have been better off just keeping the players we recruited than we are today.

But that requires the player to want to stay so..

LeapinLou said:

Pike's words:
- We're Young
- We're Close
- 100% on me

All of these things are true. And I'm not making excuses for Dylan and Ace, but they just aren't themselves. I don't know if it's illness, the grind of a longer season, or the disappointment setting in. But before yesterday, everything was still on the table. For them to look and play like that was so disappointing. Congratulations to Iowa for really wanting it and never giving up. They were undermanned and 0-5 on the road. And despite that, they outscored us by 20 points over the last 15 minutes in the RAC. That's hard to believe.

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It’s not that hard to believe

The RAC hasn’t been the RAC since 2021 when we beat purdue

Even the announcers point out that fans sit on their hands half the time and only get up because the person in front of them stood up

The fans (and I am a season ticket holder too) contribute very little to the atmosphere anymore

Plum Street said:

Actually pike is the only one to do it in the last 42 years here.

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Which is sad in itself.

fluoxetine said:

That's completely absurd lol.

RUDivision is almost definitely not serious lol, he's been posting this over and over and also that Pike will be (not that he wants him to be, that he WILL BE) fired after this season. If you're engaging with him, you've already lost.

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Pitino definitely would be in the tournament with this roster.

I don’t think Pike is a good coach and never should have received his extension . You can just watch Pike prove me right game after game and no reason to engage with me. I see the end an am willing to do the right thing and move on. You can pray that it works out and allow this University to fail.

The only difference is I know we have to move on you HOPE it works out.

Hope is not a strategy

Uh what are we supposed to do when our players leave via the porter then? Were we supposed to suit up walkons?

fluoxetine said:

That's completely absurd lol.

RUDivision is almost definitely not serious lol, he's been posting this over and over and also that Pike will be (not that he wants him to be, that he WILL BE) fired after this season. If you're engaging with him, you've already lost.

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Yea I begged out. Haha. I understand the frustration

LeapinLou said:

I moved 3 years ago and now it's a one hour drive each way to the RAC. Given that almost all of the games are on TV and I'm about to turn 60, it does make one reevaluate season tickets after a performance like last night. I'm not saying I will bale, but I understand your POV.

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I’m an hour and ten minutes now with a fair amount of backroads so that is making the decision easy.

RUChoppin said:

We decided before the game to drop basketball tickets for next year, and reduce football from 4 to 2. Game certainly didn't change that decision.

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Exact same except not totally sold on 2 football.

RutgersChow said:

I don't know how the finances would work out, but my gut tells me that Danny Hurley would like to come home.

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RUSCFORMERLYRULOU said:

get a donor, a ten year contract, and a dump truck full of money.

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Lmao you guys are even dumber than I thought.

Do you guys really, seriously, think that if we had the ****ing donor base to hire the back to back national championship coach away from UConn + the NIL budget he would require that we would be watching the dumpster fire we are currently watching?????

JFC

RAC93 said:

Right now we are in the top 15, after tonight’s effortless game, do we make the Big 10 tourney?

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This is not a tournament team of any kind. If we make it, it will be one and done. Like our 2 superstars. I'm sorry, I've had it with this season.

I was at the game. This morning, I watched the end of the game and the way Fran and the Iowa team was reacting with such pure joy. In a weird way, it made me feel better. Respect to Sandfort and crew for being experienced, talented guys for which this is the biggest part of their journey and not a pit stop on the way to something bigger.

zappaa said:

If we had Pitino as coach with the same roster, illnesses and injuries, we’d have 20 wins right now.

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That's completely absurd lol.

bethlehemfan said:

Sorry we are all upset but this is crazy. We are nowhere close to Jordan level. At least pike showed it’s possible to win here.

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RUDivision is almost definitely not serious lol, he's been posting this over and over and also that Pike will be (not that he wants him to be, that he WILL BE) fired after this season. If you're engaging with him, you've already lost.

Salvi's Headband said:

I disagree with this thread entirely. I think Iowa did a good job defensively on them. That's really it

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You're right but at the same time, you can't let an 0-5 road team outscore you by 20 points over the final 15 minutes. Their defense was bad. If that is less about effort and more about illness sapping them of their energy, then the loss is also on the coach for not recognizing that.

koleszar said:

A game in which he let a one legged Bridgewater sit back and pick us apart instead of blitzing and making him try to hobble away to avoid pressure. Yeah that Robb Smith.

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We wasted a guy being a spy on Bridgewater instead of rushing him even though he was physically incapable of scrambling, and then on 4-5 key third/fourth down short yardage plays when they took Bridgewater out we didn’t sell out against the run even though it was obvious they weren’t going to let the backup QB pass.

kupuna133 said:

Not surprised. As soon as he was bypassed for someone with less experience for co dc the writing was on the wall.

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Or maybe Schiano knew Orphey wanted to get back to Texas and he wasn't a candidate for promotion. I don't know. Do you?

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Seems like you are advocating an old school approach and I am not sure that works in an environment where money talks and transferring out is so easy. You won’t get highly regarded HS kids without a bag and if we hit on developing 3 stars and below aren’t we still at risk of them leaving for a better financial situation?

The lack of depth on the roster this is a problem but to me the issues go much deeper.

Did you like our offensive possessions toward the end of the game? Even talented kids needs plays run for them to help get good looks rather giving them the ball and just say see what you can do. Our on ball defense was atrocious across the board and offered no resistance on drives to the basket. Atleast look like a well coached team.

mikemarc1 said:

Anyone watch the 4 nations face-off opener? What a great 3 hours of hockey - league definitely has something here. Very entertaining and players were engaged. Looking forward to us game tomorrow

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Game 1 was great. Coming in there seemed to be a low level buzz from hockey fans, hopefully last nights game ramps that up, and hopefully tonights game ratchets it up even moreso.

Psyched to see Jack with Matthews.

Unfortunate no Quinn.

Pike's words:
- We're Young
- We're Close
- 100% on me

All of these things are true. And I'm not making excuses for Dylan and Ace, but they just aren't themselves. I don't know if it's illness, the grind of a longer season, or the disappointment setting in. But before yesterday, everything was still on the table. For them to look and play like that was so disappointing. Congratulations to Iowa for really wanting it and never giving up. They were undermanned and 0-5 on the road. And despite that, they outscored us by 20 points over the last 15 minutes in the RAC. That's hard to believe.

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bethlehemfan said:

Mmlol. Gonna let you rant on. Agree to disagree.

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Fair enough

RUDivision said:

Right so give you hope and tickle your mind with possibilities of sweat 16 and NCAA magic. Talks of remodeling the RAC. NBA prospects . The excitement through the roof.

Only to fail miserably at his job and have it all disappear in a historic season that will have us as the laughing stock all tournament long.

So is it worse to be awful or provide hope and then prove to all big time recruits not to go to Rutgers? The team next year will be at EJ levels, we lost all big recruits, corporate donors, remodel, and became a larger national embarrassment story.

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Listen no one is arguing that this year is not a complete shit show and major disappointment and that is in part of Pike. However the other absolute forward looking worse cases aren’t true. We could have a few top 150 players returning next year, we have at least one other top 150 player coming in and we are very much in it for a few top 150 kids for next years class. We lose all of them then your no big ten talent statement can hold some water. The national embarrassment story line is true but for right now. Yes articles will be written leading up to the tournament about the big miss but guess what shortly after articles will be written about two top lottery picks both playing at Rutgers. The pain from this year will live on much longer for the members of this board not the general public. The corporate sponsors were a Bailey Harper thing not a Rutgers thing. On the upside we will have rev share to play with next year (new upside) and my guy tells me Pike will approach NIL outreach for donors differently as well. We are looonng way from Eddie Jordan days.

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