yessir321 said:

Who says I can’t make ‘blanket statements?

That’s also a laughably hypocritical take… The Penn State Football team has zero to do with what occurred 20+ years ago at Penn state by people either dead or currently in jail, so really what’s the difference?

Oh I know what it is! What this really boils down to is you personally are Catholic and take offense to someone calling out the institution you’re a part of. You see it’s ok to cast stones on others but you shouldn’t have stones cast on you isn’t that right Catholic?😉

End of the day, the Catholics are responsible for FAR and AWAY more abuse towards children than Penn state. Particularly with all of the recent news of the Catholic Native American schools of late. This fact is undeniable. Notre damn is the only school between the two that still recieves funds to this day from an institution that legitimately harbors pedophiles (pope Benedict harbored pedophiles)

I don’t support institutions that harbor abusers of children. F*ck both schools

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I’m Catholic??? Wow

As for funds- are you telling me- F-k any Rutgers player that came from any of the powerhouse Catholic HS’s as well?

How about top kids from Pa and NJ who have parents that support PSU and were supporting fans during the Sandusky years?

yessir321 said:

Who says I can’t make ‘blanket statements?

That’s also a laughably hypocritical take… The Penn State Football team has zero to do with what occurred 20+ years ago at Penn state by people either dead or currently in jail, so really what’s the difference?

Oh I know what it is! What this really boils down to is you personally are Catholic and take offense to someone calling out the institution you’re a part of. You see it’s ok to cast stones on others but you shouldn’t have stones cast on you isn’t that right Catholic?😉

End of the day, the Catholics are responsible for FAR and AWAY more abuse towards children than Penn state. Particularly with all of the recent news of the Catholic Native American schools of late. This fact is undeniable. Notre damn is the only school between the two that still recieves funds to this day from an institution that legitimately harbors pedophiles (pope Benedict harbored pedophiles)

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The Penn State FOOTBALL PROGRAM had everything to do with kids getting ass-raped in their showers

I don’t disagree with your take on ND. I just think there’s a little separation there. Yes ND is a Catholic institution (so I can’t fault you for your take). But with PSU it’s just so much more direct - it literally happened with the PSU program and their facilities.

Granted I usually root for any team playing ND but not when playing PSU.

Now I just hope ND loses their next game ;)

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1. Not much to say here other than this team is an absolute mess. Purdue (Braden Smith specifically) ran circles around us, and looked like an NBA team playing a junior high school team.

2. Smith & Co. ran pick and roll all night and murdered us. I’ve never seen so many beautiful pocket bounce passes in a single game in my life.

3. The season is officially over. There’s no coming back from 8-8 (1-4), especially with how the team has regressed over the course of the year.

4. Hayes, Derkack, and Martini (who DNP for good reasons) are all portal whiffs. Acuff is showing life as he gets back to full health.

5. Matt Painter absolutely SCHOOLED Steve Pikiell tonight, both in roster construction and in running offense.

6. This has to be the most disappointing season I can remember.

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Specifically tonight and the Wisconsin games , you look up and it is 6 turnovers in first 5 minutes and then tonight 12 turnovers to Purdue’s 3 . You come out of the gate turning the ball over and not even getting a shot at the rim. Hard to win that way. Then have to dig out of a 8-10 point hole. Wisconsin got to 16at 33-17 before we fought back. We have had good games with 4 turnovers or definitely under 10. Our basketball IQ has disappeared and simple basketball plays are not being made.

Watching Wisconsin and Purdue , 2 good offenses that run a lot more screens and pin downs , yes, but they also run simple pick and roll offense. Smith had like 13-14 assists on simple pick and roll on one side of the court. Wisconsin did the same but ran pick and pop and got 5 threes out of their bigs.
Common denominator their point guards Smith last night , Blackwell on Monday night had the ball in their hands and orchestrated the action. They did not use their point guard as a decoy but as a maestro. We cannot run pick and role with Ogbole who cannot catch a bounce pass but we can run it with Somerville and we can certainly run it with ACE where we can run pick and pop. The offense has suffered but failed to play simple basketball to take advantage of the advantage we have . Yes , Dylan has been ill and it has hurt us badly but to fix this offense that scored 50 points last night , we have to stop the early turnovers and we have to play with Dylan running the show and running pick and roll with Somerville and with ACE. Keeping ACE in the corner wasting away on any set is ludicrous . That will lead to easier scores and allow momentum to build along with confidence. Teams are doubling Dylan when he tries to drive and gets by his man and he is met with another defender so his drives all the way to the hole are more difficult. Things have to be made easier and for the life of me , watching other teams play simple fundamental basketball and have success and we have Dylan , ACE and Lathan and can do the same. We are not getting any consistency out of the rest of the supporting cast with only Acuff and Grant showing a pulse. We have to put the ball in Dylan’s hands and run simple fundamental basketball.

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ScarletDave said:

So much wrong with this thread. Build a cavern arena and end up like Penn State, zero atmosphere and a long forgotten program. Even in our worst years over 30 NCAA misses at least we got some fun upsets thanks to the RAC. The team cannot generate 2 consecutive stops, that’s why the RAC was quiet. It’s the players, arena has nothing to do with it

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People attacking/wanting to get rid of the RAC is crazy. It is the best and most consistent thing about this program. Winning/Being competitive makes RAC Magic happen, and that part has been failing miserably lately. Looking at the past 30 year study PLUS chances of our near future success in the next few years in no way equals a 12K-15K arena. Bottom line you NEED to keep some of the cool, unique and very definable things about a program/university. We should have found a way to keep the grease trucks, just as we should find a way to keep this grease truck of an arena called The RAC - it is awesome, has character and needs to stay!

yessir321 said:

When looking at institutions who have a history of abusing children (Penn state vs the Catholic church), the Catholics are responsible for more abuse overall. It’s for this reason alone I say Go Penn State! 🤢

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Not bad reasoning

but while ND is a Catholic school they aren’t the Catholic Church (so there’s a degree of separation there)

plus (and this is HUGE) to my knowledge no children were ass-raped in NDs showers

so I am more happy that PSU lost

ashokan said:

Ever see a movie, documentary etc that the network logo is flashed on screen at the moment of peak drama?
That is done because the mind is most susceptible to impressions when it is emotionalized, stressed etc.
PTSD is related to that mechanism and is essentially a hypnosis based disorder

Hypnotists know they can access the subconscious when a subject's controlling, judgement factors are suspended.
Shock a person and they can have their link to conscious awareness ruptured - allowing impressions under the intellect.
Those impressions can take control of thought and feelings - make people re-experience things they don't want.

Those are flashbacks and they are resurfacing to burn-off but as people keep overreacting to them they reinforce.
Many studies show "trauma counseling" can make people worse because it has people refocus on things that need defocusing.
Concentration also has hypnotic aspects

This group (run by former military) has done a lot for PTSD sufferers

Patriot Outreach

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The fact that you buy into hypnosis is probably the least surprising thing I could have read.

Absolutely fascinating that a group of posters who are scared to get the vaccine most of the world has bc of some unfounded potential health issues they’re convinced it has, but meanwhile are open minded to a Mexican street drug that’s been PROVEN to cause Murmurs and lingering heart issues…. All because Joe Rogan talked about it.

We’re so F’d. Ya’ll are some of the most impressionable people I’ve ever seen talking about subjects you have no clue about.

That or a whole hell of a lot of you are gonna die off in your late 50’s and 60’s because you know better than to trust western medicine and would rather take the Aaron Rogers approach to medicine

Idiots, truly idiots

No one can dribble.

I see the “no sound handle” as an issue from top to bottom at every position.

That includes Ace!
The last thing i expected from GG last year was a 6-8 sharp shooter with no ability to put the ball on the floor.

We have an entire team of bad hands, bad handles, with the exception of Dylan, who unfortunately has been nothing but a spectator for 4 straight games due to illness

ouchmyknee said:

Don’t worry. Knight will be gone after this season.

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As much as people are killing Pike and deservedly so, there is no way B. Knight comes out of this untarnished. He has been here for all of this and is paid handsomely for his work (good and bad). There seemed to be the view that he would eventually leave for an HC job at a P-5 or P-4 level. The belief was he so good at what he does he could skips the proving ground stops at St.Peters and Wagner that Holloway and Hurley made. I never understood that and it certainly less likely to be the case after the past couple of seasons. The guy who is looking like he might have been a bigger loss that originally thought was Karl Hobbs.

Knight won't have trouble finding a new assistant coach gig with a new coach at another program ,but the days of thinking he was the sure fire heir here or a candidate for a top job elsewhere (other than maybe Pitt) are over.

The play that best summarized the game and season for me was when Smith (I think?) walked the ball up. Before even reaching the three point line Smith passed it inside for a wide open layup while RU had no defensive player within ten feet of the scorer.

He’s Done! No excuses needed

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He kicked the ball on the seam. That could have gone either way. ND just keeps winning. Credit to them.

On the other hand, Franklin just can't beat a good team. Allar is horrible and PSU has no WR/playmakers outside of Warren in the passing game.

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Wasn't Wachtel an assistant at one time? Surprised he would post this.

Can someone explain to me why the 300 level was built without seat backs? My damn back is killing me at games.

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Salvi's Headband said:

It does feel like the magic is gone...even in our wins like psu and shu it was meh

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People are just turned off with the whole shady NIL crap.

I had a +1100 parlay that was looking great in the 4th quarter... and then it wasn't

1. Tie at half... check
2. ND win..... check
3. under 45.5 points. nope

Speaking of parlays there was a guy last weekend that hit a 14 leg parlay! $5 won him almost $500K

yesrutgers01 said:

Not a fair comparison- the ND football team has zero to do with the Catholic Priests that did what they did. You can’t make that blanket statement for every single Catholic based institution. Do you also feel that way about every Muslim because of 9/11?
PSU, the institution was 100% directly a part of and complicate in what happened there.

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Who says I can’t make ‘blanket statements?

That’s also a laughably hypocritical take… The Penn State Football team has zero to do with what occurred 20+ years ago at Penn state by people either dead or currently in jail, so really what’s the difference?

Oh I know what it is! What this really boils down to is you personally are Catholic and take offense to someone calling out the institution you’re a part of. You see it’s ok to cast stones on others but you shouldn’t have stones cast on you isn’t that right Catholic?😉

End of the day, the Catholics are responsible for FAR and AWAY more abuse towards children than Penn state. Particularly with all of the recent news of the Catholic Native American schools of late. This fact is undeniable. Notre damn is the only school between the two that still recieves funds to this day from an institution that legitimately harbors pedophiles (pope Benedict harbored pedophiles)

I don’t support institutions that harbor abusers of children. F*ck both schools

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Roy_Faulker said:

He’s taken different teams to the NCAA tournament. He’s no slouch.

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Two NCAA’sOver how many years??

I’m in no way saying Pike should be fired. I am saying that he’s dug himself a hole career wise that I don’t think he’ll be able to get out of.

biazza38 said:

Made my night

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Being an excruciating loss was the cherry on top.

Ash_Hole said:

Every Rutgers fans should be rooting for Penn State to win — because Rutgers athletics (as member of B1G) gets a split of the prize money.

AND if we get an all B1G national championship — a whopping $52M will be split among conference members 😳

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Not selling my soul for a few dollars.

yesrutgers01 said:

I only became a fan in 05- what exactly is the ND hate?

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For me, it was 06. They stole our bowl spot because they were a better TV option. I do think they deserved it this year.