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Poor NIL is the biggest reason for our disappointing season

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Greene Rice FIG said:
The roster would look completely different.
We would play better defense.
We wouldn't have played Kennessaw State.

Ace NET NET is not moving the needle forward in terms of winning basketball games.
He is not making others better on offense (in fact he is making them worse).

Very good chance we wouldn't have Derkack and Davis
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This is interesting. I've seen you very down on Ace's defense, and for the most part I've agreed, although I think it is much better now than it was early on. I just noticed Ace's defensive efficiency # actually leads the team now. Pretty shocking.

For his offense. His 16 assists on the year is atrocious. The biggest benefit to his shot making is that it should draw attention away from others. He is shootng 40% from three though, and his turnover rate is lower than Dylan, JWill, and Derkack - but they all turn it over too much.
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Poor NIL is the biggest reason for our disappointing season

365Poster24Seven
Knight Shift said:
You don't know shit. Here's a proposal --every time you, KYK and Lou post on this board with a complaint, you donate $100 to NIL. That should raise nearly $1mil at the rate you three complain.
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Wow unbelievable kudos to you BAC does nothing but waste his life on this website. He bashes players and coaches but still finds the time for 10 paragraphs after every game. He has never donated squat to basketball but is tolerated because he is tight with all of the CE buddies.
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We're 3-1 in the B1G with a healthy Harper (and 2-0 with a healthy Harper and Grant playing). Just sayin'.

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combes said:
Illinois is having a similar issue. Have only lost one BT game with its whole lineup playing. Jakucionis missed several games with an injury and now Ivisic has missed two games with mono and who knows when he will return. Those are the two leading scorers and the top rebounder. The pick and rolls they run together are things of beauty, and since Ivisic can stretch the floor, it opens up everything for the other players. Going to be a tough go without him.
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What is the record with your best guard missing ? Now your center ? Do you miss them ? Is there a difference when they do not play or play still hurt ? Again asking about your great guard and your center as you know we have lost Harper or he has played either ill or hurt and lost our center Ogbole
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Rutgers Fandom 2024/2025

rtabachk
This is probably one of the most debilitating seasons as a Rutgers fan that I can remember in a very long time.

There have been some downers in the past that were pretty deflating. The failed 2pt conversion v WVU in 2006 and the Cincinnati loss that same year. The recruiting class with Saquan Barkley that fell apart in 2013. Tim Pernetti leaving. The Ash years.

But this season I feel like our hearts were just ripped out. Football underperformed and dropped games v UCLA, Nebraska, Illinois and Kansas State that they could have won so a 7-6 finish could have instead been an 11-2 finish.

Basketball, with a once in a multiple generation get of the #2 and #3 recruits is not going to have a post season. This year's performance will also go the distance in dissuading top talent from coming here.

Deflating. All I can say. Assuming I'm not the only one that feels this way.
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Poor NIL is the biggest reason for our disappointing season

RUChoppin
Greene Rice FIG said:
None of us are privy to the NIL marketplace.

I think we would have been able to get a 2 guard and a wing off the portal with the spot being open for a guy being a focal part of the offense playing in the B1G for a reduced rate.

Obviously I don't know that.

Our situation coming in to the season had to have eliminated a LOT of potential transfer targets.

If I were a 22 year old playing for a mid major and saw the tape on Ace Bailey and the shots he took I would stay way clear of RU.
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You're talking about mid-major players? We got two seemingly-strong mid-major players in the portal last year in Acuff (21.7 pts, 3.6 rb) and Derkack (17.0 pts, 6.0 rb). Do you feel that our player evaluations would be better with mid-major pickups without Bailey/Harper on the roster.... enough so that two such pickups would be a net improvement on having Bailey/Harper? That's a huge assumption - and more wishful thinking than anything else.

Bailey/Harper needed a stable core around them... and we didn't have that. If we'd somehow been able to retain Omoruyi, Mag, Simpson, Woolfolk, and Griffiths.... I feel we'd probably have been in a better place. It's not about shiny new/different/imaginary portal players... it's about Bailey/Harper slotting into an already-built-and-stable system with veterans around them to help them get acclimated.
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Izzo Pullover

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SF88 said:
I am happy to answer questions, as best I can, about RU merchandising and licensing. Please don't confuse my answers with my love and passion for RU, just reality.

I went to USC, UCLA and Maryland bookstores back in the fall. I've been to both on campus bookstores and off campus stores at PS-MSU-UM-NEB-IU-OSU from the B1G in addition to Syracuse-Clemson-South Carolina and the local UDel and Princeton. The choices, on campus and online, for RU gear aren't bad at all. I'm not sure what folks are expecting.

Please point out a "smaller school" that has a wider selection of merch. You can't compare to OSU or Tenn. Those type schools have been winning in a huge way for generations. We beat Louisville 18 years ago. They have 90,000+ stadiums that are sold out. they have a large, single campus that concentrates the students and the stadiums together. They are named after the state they represent. NJ folks don't follow Rutgers in the same bandwagon manner other states do. IMO, the biggest problem is simply demand. It's not there. We ordered the minimum and still have more than half left of the Rate Bowl tee.

The Izzo 1/4 zip is a nice Nike product. Are we liking the product, or the logo, or both. Scarlet Fever has a really nice Adidas 1/4 zip. I grabbed one myself. Having a cartoon Sparty/Knight dribbling just eliminated 90% of fans. It's only appealing to basketball fans now. It's cute, but wouldn't sell at RU. We've had very nice top shelf Nike and Adidas stuff and it mostly doesn't sell well. People aren't buying $70-$90 hoodies and lots of muttered comments about $75 Adidas polos. That leaves the next step down which is the mid-tier Champion or Colosseum. The step below that is the Pennant or Badger brands. Below that is the Jerzee and Gildan wholesale brands. Honestly, the Gildan soft style tee is more comfortable then most tees out there. The advent and growth of the internet allows the Peter Millar, Lulu or Johnnie O items available to anyone, at any time. The lack of selection is simply a result of supply/demand. On campus, we focus more on the students and they're not buying Peter Millar. RU is not a wealthy student body.

I've had more than my share of disagreements with RU Licensing, but lack of selection or availability is not on them. Rutgers itself doesn't control what is offered by any company, or where it's sold. They can be limiting with art sometimes. Adidas has sucked with product offerings and support, but the demand hasn't been there. Personally, I don't like that retro patch logo, but tough to argue subjective. At $38 a tee and $75 hoodies, it's available for those who like it. What you all want to see???
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Thanks for replying. I have always been in the lack of demand camp is issue number 1. Although other issues certainly may contribute.

My specific comment I liked the logo, and can never own enough quarter zips. Maybe we can get this when we switch to Nike.

I understand the bball/football logo maybe limiting demand by choosing just one sport fan base but think for RU this particular logo would reach across the aisle to a degree, so to speak.
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