goru7 said:

Common now. Stinks is getting blown out game after game. This flawed team played extremely competitive against Alabama , Texas A& M and Michigan State , all top 10 -15 teams , with chances to win all 3 . Switch those 3 and we are 7-7 vs Q1,23 and 4-4 versus Quad 1. Why don’t you tell me what we lost to those 3 teams combined was ? Let’s keep Dylan out of the equation since the New Year since we already had that discussion where you believe it really has not had an impact.

Stinks ? Go look at the bottom of the ACC , teams like Miami and Virginia and Boston college and Syracuse. No one in the BIG 10 or the SEC stinks this year. The leagues especially the SEC top to bottom might be the strongest ever.

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Do those ACC teams have two lottery picks? Asking for a friend.

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nutfromSEC117 said:

Where does Barkley tackling blitzing LB on a HUGE 4th down conversion rank ??

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No kidding. And now they threw a flag on Lattinore but punk Brown took off his helmet. Luckily didn’t matter

RUskoolie said:

We are hiring a school President not an entry level employee. This takes time. Plus we have a Governor getting elected this year. We have already started the process of hiring a President when we still have the current guy for 6 months.

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That’s all well and good, but not having an athletic Director for this long is not a good thing

RUDivision said:

Scoring the ball at will. What else is Kevin Durant good at? He seems to be doing ok

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Durant is an excellent passer, a much more refined scorer, a better ball handler, a better defender and also a much better FT shooter.

Plenty of reasons for our lousy 10-10 record:

- Portall misses/No legit 5-man (not enough NIL?)
- Injuries (Acuff, Ace, Dylan, Ogbole)
- Illness (Dylan)
- Scheduling/venues (KSU, Princeton, MSU)
- Pike trusting players (Grant too little, others too much)
- Over-reliance on freshmen
- Poor gameday coaching and substitutions

In the end I would not say our players are uncoachable. It’s more like a bad mix of players that lack cohesiveness.

Remember, no 2 players on this team have played a full season together. That might work if you have all juniors, seniors, and graduate guys, but we’re now playing 5 freshmen and starting 4 of them.

And yes, Pike is ultimately responsible for all of it, except the illness and injuries.

Where does Barkley tackling blitzing LB on a HUGE 4th down conversion rank ??

JayDogSmooth said:

He’s not walking away from guaranteed money

Regardless, we need a new president and athletic director ASAP.

We’re still operating like we’re in the big East or Atlantic 10

The people in charge need to wake the hell up and find competent people to lead this great university immediately if not sooner.

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We are hiring a school President not an entry level employee. This takes time. Plus we have a Governor getting elected this year. We have already started the process of hiring a President when we still have the current guy for 6 months.

The Kansas City Chiefs have benefitted from a staggering amount of favorable calls in the playoffs throughout their recent run as the league's most dominant franchise.

Congrats Ladies! What did we do different in the 4th quarter? Did we unleash a relentless press the whole quarter?

KK1827 said:

Court club aint exactly full of folks who can stroke 7-figure checks, lets be honest here. Greg has multiple 7-figure check writers, most of which have zero association to RU. Pike needs to think outside the box.

I’ll get ripped for this but the court club looks more like a 55+ community gathering room for a game of bridge at noon on a tuesday than it does a corner office

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You basically described the 100 level seating as well.

RUskoolie said:

Lack of NIL does not help but Pike would really benefit from a GM in this new world. He needs to figure it out in the next 4-8 weeks or he is digging his own grave because 25-26 will be more of the same.

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A GM is needed, but how is the power structure? If the GM just counts Pennies and Pike still says he wants to over pay for low major transfers that’s no help. There has to be some check on Pikes lack of eye for talent lately.

Maybe Pike just recruits low IQ players.

I can remember a few smart ones - RHJ, Geo, Cam. But most Pike players look lost on the court. We all know about the offense that appears to run off a playbook with a single blank page.

How often does a Rutgers center make a pass? Cliff averaged 0.7 assists per game at Rutgers. Lathan is at 0.5. Heck, Shaq did 1.7 in college and 2.5 in NBA.

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Lack of NIL does not help but Pike would really benefit from a GM in this new world. He needs to figure it out in the next 4-8 weeks or he is digging his own grave because 25-26 will be more of the same.

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How bad is Barkley hurt?

ClassOf02 said:

That was a ballsy fake punt call.

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Great call and yes ballsy. Must have seen something in the tapes.

goru7 said:

Read the OP. The thread is saying the team stinks. I disagree and showing examples. No one was giving out trophies for moral victories just saying we are not a bad team nor for that matter a good team either because a good team would have pulled out victories in those games. But we don’t stink. You hopefully understand the point more clearly.

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We do stink, that’s the point. You are comparing us to other little people and saying “you see, we’re not the shortest guy in the room”. But that doesn’t mean that we’re not short as well. Comparing us with other bad teams does not make us good, we just also stink just like those others.

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tico brown said:

Was Alonso’s biggest mistake was hiring Scott boras?

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Nope. His biggest mistake was turning down 7/$158M, which he did before either Boras or Stearns were in the picture.

bac2therac said:

stop bein cute

We were one of the only schools with a complete holes plus we had Harper family ties

This wasnt happening at Duke

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I think Harper ties yes. They could’ve name any school they wanted and it would get done