RUDivision said:

Oh no it’s not! No top flight recruit will come here. The companies who partnered with us and Ace/Dylan will never pay for another player to play here. He has Zero big ten players on the roster next year. Has no long term program depth.

Historic season (missing the tournament with 2 NBA players).
So No top recruits moving forward
Lost Nil companies
No roster depth or talent


It’s going to get worse and yes then he found it!

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You don’t remember Eddie Jordan lol. Impossible to be worse. Like zero chance.

bethlehemfan said:

I don’t know. He did ok with talented players with heart.

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Agree but they were always a defense-first team. Sandfort and Nix are offensive players. With some exceptions like Ron Harper, offense comes to die here. Even Cam struggled at times here, but seemed to do much better with a structured offense and player accountability. Of course, UConn had much better players surrounding him too

bethlehemfan said:

It’s impossible to leave it worse than he found it but the next guy will get us to that level no doubt.

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Oh no it’s not! No top flight recruit will come here. The companies who partnered with us and Ace/Dylan will never pay for another player to play here. He has Zero big ten players on the roster next year. Has no long term program depth.

Historic season (missing the tournament with 2 NBA players).
So No top recruits moving forward
Lost Nil companies
No roster depth or talent


It’s going to get worse and yes then he found it!

RUDeac said:

The son. Not slick Rick. Smart guy lol.

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I would take Slick Rick. Guy is high energy. Lays more pipe than guys half his age.

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Hope he pull a Bennett or Woodson.

Wagram97 said:

I don’t know, and as much as I hate saying it, but it really seems like Harper has been riding that loss against Alabama all season long. Lot of his stats are kind of average for a lot of games. Yes, injuries and illness has taken a toll on him but fact is he’s had almost no impact on conference play outside of two or three games.

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He may be have more talent, but he doesn't have 1/2 the heart of his brother

RU-Hunter said:

Also, we can’t complete a simple inbounds play

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Assuming that we actually have one

This year going to every single game as a season ticket holder has been a complete chore. I expect I am not the only one giving up my tickets. Single games should be available next year. Pike hit his ceiling against Houston in tourney. He has underachieved with good talent because he does not run an offense. Game has passed him by. Probably get lame duck 1-2 more years of Pike before Rutgers can stomach writing big check for remainder of his bloated contract. Thanks to disgraced athletic director.

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fluoxetine said:

No? I don’t know? I guess it depends on what his hypothetical reasons are.

I mean if he stops doing his job to the best of ability we can talk but until then it’s nonsense.

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Shelby agrees that it’s not holding a program hostage to stay on and continue collecting salary as long as the contract allows, but there are definitely scenarios which would be that.

Yes, inbounding cost RU a trip to San Diego in ‘22
Then in ‘23 resulted in a loss to Minnesota & even getting bid..
& if the lineup was working so well at the end of the half, why switch it up for the start of the 2nd? .. It was at that point that I thought we would lose the game.

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jtung230 said:

It’s Bball IQ. These guys just don’t have it. The team captain Williams has the lowest.

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Someone needs to check on JWill.
He might still be spinning in circles looking for an Iowa player after that dagger 3.

koleszar said:

Schiano’s really going to have to earn his money now with all the moving parts on D. I really hope he takes a more active role as I have little faith in Robb Smith as a DC

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Come on. That’s not fair. When he had talent in 2012, Robb Smith did an incredible job, and brought the team within an illegal man downfield penalty of playing in the Orange Bowl. The defense carried that team while the offense struggled. This year, he’ll have talent, unlike his previous stint. And what I like about his defense is that he is far more aggressive, unlike the bend don’t break schemes we saw the past few years.

Mr Magoo said:

However, Pair them with Pike and they’d suck too. They be left to entirely create for themselves with no designed player or ball movement and no accountability for shitty passes, screens, cuts, etc

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I don’t know. He did ok with talented players with heart.

RUDivision said:

It will be a morgue next season. No big ten talent outside of Lathan Grant and possibly Dortch but they need another 1 probably 2 more years of development.
Piles program is dead and he will leave us worse then he found us

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I agree. I actually don’t care if they all leave…except for Pikes record of replacing players with even lesser talent.

Degaz-RU said:

Andy Katz was the sideline reporter on the telecast. He mentioned twice in the 2nd half that Pike was imploring the team during timeouts to play with energy, clapping and trying to energize them.

This team has no heart and no leadership.

And we still haven’t figured out how to defend Iowa’s motion offense after 9 years.

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Tonight, this is where I blame Pike

He should have benched Harper early in the 2nd nd half after that poor in bounds pass to JWill.

The last 10 minutes of the 1st half lineup had energy, enthusiasm and rhythm. Acuff was on fire when Harper wasn't on the floor, how does the staff not see that?

JMike had 10 points in 11 minutes, Sommerville 12 minutes and who knows why Grant was in the doghouse in the 2nd half. Dortsch got 4 minutes in the 1st half and then went on the side of a milk carton.

Yet Pike plays guys who definitely won't be here next year, Martini, Hayes and the lottery twins.

Then in 25/26 we will be subjected to 4 freshman and 300+ transfer portal players because this year frosh will have transfered out.

RUDivision said:

It will be a morgue next season. No big ten talent outside of Lathan Grant and possibly Dortch but they need another 1 probably 2 more years of development.
Piles program is dead and he will leave us worse then he found us

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It’s impossible to leave it worse than he found it but the next guy will get us to that level no doubt.

bethlehemfan said:

I would take sandfort and nix over anyone on our roster.

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However, Pair them with Pike and they’d suck too. They be left to entirely create for themselves with no designed player or ball movement and no accountability for shitty passes, screens, cuts, etc

fluoxetine said:

Shelby is a fairly talented troll.

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Shelby will take that as a compliment….or as the many smooth brained knuckledraggers here would type, a complement.

bac2therac said:

Seats in the lower 200s were going for under $20 tonight

The whole experience with the incessant noise is really more conducive to fans coming a few times a year rather than a season ticket holder going 18 times

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The rac is in a terrible location. In the middle of nowhere Piscataway. Combine that with the weird game day theatrics de-emphasizing the collegiate nature of it and overall poor fan experience the only thing that makes it viable is giving the diehards hope that the games will be exciting. Lethargic performances like we’ve seen at home the last two years will drive them away in droves which will add to the downward spiral as opposing fans take over the arena making a shitty experience even worse.

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Shelby65 said:

Fozzy…would keeping his coaching staff buddies bc there’s no AD or new prez to require change be considered holding the program hostage ?

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No? I don’t know? I guess it depends on what his hypothetical reasons are.

I mean if he stops doing his job to the best of ability we can talk but until then it’s nonsense.