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Pikell Just Sucks

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rpiseman said:
Because he’s Steve Pikiell and he’s proven he’s incapable of roster management via the portal. He has like a 10% success rate.

Like you said, he’s an old school coach trying to adapt to a new game. In my view he’s incapable of doing that. My guess is that because this is the first real money he’s made in his career, he’s going to pull a C-Viv and hold us hostage till we pay him out.
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Ok ..we agree.

The solution - to me - is not relying on the portal as much and going back to what made him successful. This works / he’s beaten #1 teams with this approach in the past.

You want to adapt and stay new school with a different coach.

Two different approaches..both could work. But with pikes contract - I don’t think it’s wise to fire him
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Pikell Just Sucks

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mikemarc1 said:
Why can’t he?
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Because he’s Steve Pikiell and he’s proven he’s incapable of roster management via the portal. He has like a 10% success rate.

Like you said, he’s an old school coach trying to adapt to a new game. In my view he’s incapable of doing that. My guess is that because this is the first real money he’s made in his career, he’s going to pull a C-Viv and hold us hostage till we pay him out.
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Sit Dylan

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zappaa said:
So what Rich, he’s a non contributor in his current form.
Win enough at home to make the B1G tournament and sit him until he’s a time bomb of energy.

His body language and standing around is an enormous distraction
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Agreed that’s what happened in the Wisconsin game and he should have never traveled to Indiana to sit on the bench when he was very sick
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Hate to say it, but…

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Tango Two said:
In my opinion if this game was at the RAC where it should have been Rutgers wins…

NO more conference home games on a neutral floor!!
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Nah. Izzo would have coached differently since the game was never in doubt and the RAC isn’t what it used to be. The fans’ passion just doesn’t seem to be there with this group…and I get that. I think we still lose.
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Pikell Just Sucks

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NJHoops17 said:
It can work if you have more NIL and a coach that maximizes talent. Pike has tried to build teams in the past that resemble Houston’s roster construction and play style (great defense, decent-to-good offense, great rebounding, etc.), but he’s just not as good of a coach as Kelvin Sampson.

It may be at hot take but the two tournament years for RU we would have easily been a single digit seed with a better coach in both of those years
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What makes you think that?
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Pikell Just Sucks

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rpiseman said:
auburn may be an exception…let’s use Rutgers as a base case.

Ace and Dylan- NBA
Acuff, Martini, Hayes, Williams- no eligibility.

Let’s then assume that the other 6 with eligibility choose to return and you have four freshman. If he can’t recruit two ridiculous scorers from the portal this years team will feel like 1976.

In short, if Pike can’t make the portal work he can’t be successful.
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Why can’t he?
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Pikell Just Sucks

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mikemarc1 said:
Not really - no 1 team in America Auburn.. only 3 transfers. 7 kids returned.

It’s not all about transfers and one and dones.
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It can work if you have more NIL and a coach that maximizes talent. Pike has tried to build teams in the past that resemble Houston’s roster construction and play style (great defense, decent-to-good offense, great rebounding, etc.), but he’s just not as good of a coach as Kelvin Sampson.

It may be at hot take but the two tournament years for RU we would have easily been a single digit seed with a better coach in both of those years
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Izzo Pullover

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Jersey07712 said:
The Nike difference.
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Is it Nike or the RU AD?

It’s hard to find certain Rutgers gear and even when we had Nike they still kept it vanilla OTOH their Tier 1 programs always had a ton of stuff. I always figured it was something screwy with the licensing fees.

Try going on any of the Lacrosse supplier websites and looking for Rutgers gear. I can buy for all the Big Ten programs except for Rutgers.
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Hate to say it, but…

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Tango Two said:
In my opinion if this game was at the RAC where it should have been Rutgers wins…

NO more conference home games on a neutral floor!!
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Not if we played and shot the ball the exact same as we did today. Have to disagree. If you tell me we play at the RAC, if Dylan is 100% healthy and that we don’t have long stretches of having no ability to score any points, then maybe I would agree. But, Dylan would not have been healthy at the RAC, Ace couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat today, and the team had long droughts of not being able to make a field goal and don’t see how that would be much different if we were at the RAC.
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