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Pike: “Grant had his two best practices”

Even in Texas A&M game you could see Grant had length and athleticism on defense…he looked raw offensively, but you could see there was something there.

It’s absurd that the leashes of guys like Martini and Hayes have been so long and Grant never got a real chance again until last night.

You could even see the team feeding off his energy on and off the court last night.

Caleb vs Ron - On ESPN+ Now

Miss those guys. Crazy to think how well rounded the teams use to be. If you could make an all time pike team what would it be?

Mine:
Starters

PG: Dylan Harper
SG: Corey Sanders
SF: RHJ
PF: Ace Bailey
C: Cliff

Bench

PG: Geo Baker
SG: Jacob Young
SF: Akwasi Yeboah
PF: Caleb McConnell
C: Myles Johnson

Reserves
Paul Mulcahy
Eugene Omoruyi
Cam Spencer
Damn. We did have some good players at one time.

Next Coach....

Your 100% right and it's ridiculous anyone thinks otherwise. Rutgers will have plenty of money with the Big Ten TV revenue coming in to buy out Pike's contract and there is no way he makes it past next year unless he somehow made the tournament next year.
That's not how it works. Big buyouts are funded by the boosters. We don't have a big enough fan base to find the NIL, where is the buyout money coming from?

Probably nothing - but Harper injury Columbia

....and to your point if the guy JaMike was guarding was actually JaMike that defender could have actually been help. No way could that person help with a good shooter.

I missed Davis on the bottom right.
But your're right.

What is Ogbole doing there?
Does he really need to go out towards the 3pt line with that guy?
That guy is a 30% 3pt shooter.

OT: Stock and Investment Talk

Listened to a podcast over lunch. Two of the best trades for 2025 were considered:

1. Short Oil - price will likely go below $60 due to drill baby drill
2. Long Gold - due to increased gov'ment debt and deficits

Thoughts? Both sound reasonable.
Sold more of my high growth stocks this week. I am out of CAVA. Cut back on SOUN, etc. Will wait for further pullback before jumping back in.

If what you say happens (ie lower oil prices and high government debts and deficits, we are likely in trouble from an economic standpoint.

Pikiell and loyalty

It’s clear Rutgers does not maximize its offensive talent with the lack of offensive sets that other teams run to get the best out of everyone.

This has been a theme during his tenure and I’m not sure why. It just feels like he is extremely loyal to his staff and not will to bring someone on who has an eye for running an offense that can utilize different players. On one end, Rutgers can score over 85 points every game but on the other end, it feels like scratching claws with how much iso they run.

Idk how you fix this. The defense that Pike can lean on the past is no longer there.

OT: Hulk Hogan Boo'd mercilessly at WWE Show

Hogan definitely was an awful wrestler, even for the standards of the 80s. I watched some of the NFLX WWE debut and caught when Hogan came out. Honestly, it didn't sound like he was being booed. Not sure if production did something with the audio.
Huh? It was clearly raining boos. There was no conspiracy of the production adding audio. Also it’s not about politics. Undertaker backed Trump and the crowd cheered like hell during his appearance. This is a Hogan thing.

Caleb vs Ron - On ESPN+ Now

Miss those guys. Crazy to think how well rounded the teams use to be. If you could make an all time pike team what would it be?

Mine:
Starters

PG: Dylan Harper
SG: Corey Sanders
SF: RHJ
PF: Ace Bailey
C: Cliff

Bench

PG: Geo Baker
SG: Jacob Young
SF: Akwasi Yeboah
PF: Caleb McConnell
C: Myles Johnson

Reserves
Paul Mulcahy
Eugene Omoruyi
Cam Spencer

OT (Updated): The Saturday 1/11 Event Now Looking Like <1" with a Whiff Possible on the Low Side and 1-2" Possible on the High Side

why are using the term unlikely and why do you continue to use that useless NMB...its basically taking an outlier skewing the data

the ukie is a whiff, the euro is similar or even less than yesterday. The GFS is about 2 inches for central jersey and since it showed 2 feet a few runs ago maybe we shouldnt rally around it. The Icon is not a serious model. The CMC is on board but the GGEM isnt.

a potential for an event but its totally unknown at this point and just as likely to be a whiff as it is to give us 2 inches
Wishcasting 101.

OT: Hulk Hogan Boo'd mercilessly at WWE Show

These two posts are correct. Wrestling fans are "smart" about the business now and its become very picky and brutal about who they support. It's also based on regions of the country as certain people are more over in liberal areas but not in conservative areas and vice versa.

Many people are sick of Hogan's ego tripping and how he treated others over the years. The booing by the crowd was not based no his characters and his actions, it's based on how people perceive Hogan as a person. And yes, a California crowd didn't help.
Hogan refusing to put over Sting clean at Starrcade was the beginning of the end for WCW.

OT: Belmar beach badge checkers don’t fool around

Will Tulsi be kind enough to tell us where the money for upkeep, garbage colection, lifeguards, and NIRH, the extra police when you have 20,000 people in a town that has 5.000 the rest of the yeat will come from
Easy, the charge those against having to buy a beach badge will pay for applying to be exempt from needing a beach badge 🥸
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