cm_13 said:

• Being too late on season-long adjustments: As many have stated, Pike took way to long to give Dylan Grant more minutes instead of a guy like Zach Martini — there wasn’t significant change until the Wisconsin/Purdue games, when it should have been after the Alabama game in Vegas. In 2022/2023, Pike should have given Derek Simpson more minutes than Mulcahy after the upset against Indiana at the RAC (December), but he didn’t make significant changes until mid-February

I’m not going to argue that Pike has been good the last two years, but this part is kind of nonsense. For starters he gave Grant more minutes than Martini against Texas A&M, the very next game after Alabama. Grant looks very good now, he did not look good in that game.

As for Simpson/Mulcahy, I find it hard to make the argument that anything Pike did with the rotation between the Indiana game and Mawot Mag’s injury was a mistake. Rutgers was a top 25 team. The reason he didn’t make an adjustment until February was because there weren’t any adjustments to be made until Mag got hurt. The team was 16-7 (8-4) at that point

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cm_13 said:

• Being too late on season-long adjustments: As many have stated, Pike took way to long to give Dylan Grant more minutes instead of a guy like Zach Martini — there wasn’t significant change until the Wisconsin/Purdue games, when it should have been after the Alabama game in Vegas. In 2022/2023, Pike should have given Derek Simpson more minutes than Mulcahy after the upset against Indiana at the RAC (December), but he didn’t make significant changes until mid-February

I’m not going to argue that Pike has been good the last two years, but this part is kind of nonsense. For starters he gave Grant more minutes than Martini against Texas A&M, the very next game after Alabama. Grant looks very good now, he did not look good in that game.

As for Simpson/Mulcahy, I find it hard to make the argument that anything Pike did with the rotation between the Indiana game and Mawot Mag’s injury was a mistake. Rutgers was a top 25 team. The reason he didn’t make an adjustment until February was because there weren’t any adjustments to be made until Mag got hurt. The team was 16-7 (8-4) at that point.

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- I know Grant got more playing time than Martini against Texas A&M, but Pike gave Martini minutes in crunch time just to give him minutes, and he had two really bad turnovers that cost RU the game
- Same goes for Mulcahy — there were signs throughout that season that despite the 16-7 record, Mulcahy was struggling. He had a lot of crucial turnovers and just wasn’t good at all down the stretch (@Minnesota, Northwestern, etc.) Even though he had a low FG%, Simpson had far fewer turnovers in big moments. A good coach would have recognized that Mulcahy wasn’t necessarily the biggest factor in their wins, and reducing his minutes probably gives RU 2-3 more wins overall that year

Flood OC at Texas.
Ash DC at Notre Dame.

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His persona as a "conventional-thinking disgruntled every-man fan" was so weak. He never had an original or insightful thought in all the time i would sporadically listen to his show.

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Salvi's Headband said:

I honestly feel like he's been basically our since Columbia. Even when he's played he's been severely diminished.

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Tweaked his knee in the Columbia game. Hasn’t played since

Scangg said:

Why do you think Dylan won't be healthy the rest of the season? It's still January

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Even after he comes back he will take at least a couple weeks to get back in shape so tend to align with jmm here that he won’t be elite any time soon.

It will be February in 2 days

KK1827 said:

His injury has little to do with how bad this team is. Its coaching

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It doesn’t help for tonight’s game and I’m not disputing the bad coaching.

RUJMM78 said:

The problem is that Harper is injured and might not return to his elite level for the remainder of the season.James praising Harper is just another indicator of his talent level .

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Why do you think Dylan won't be healthy the rest of the season? It's still January

RUinPinehurst said:

Looking at '26 as the breakout year. Today's report was slightly better than the Street expected. CHIPs $ and naming a new permanent CEO could accelerate the stock value in advance of actual earnings growth/profitablity. Can't rule out WOLF being an acquisition target.

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Maybe I'll buy a small amount of Jan 2027 calls - as a lottery ticket to see if it hits over the next 2 years? Probably the best play for a turnaround.

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RW90 said:

Meanwhile over at PSU, after losing to them in the playoffs James Franklin poached the DC from Notre Dame for a cool $3M per year. Talk about first world problems... 🙄

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Jim Knowles was the OSU DC.

KK1827 said:

His injury has little to do with how bad this team is. Its coaching

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No, the fact that the rest of the roster stinks so bad makes losing Dylan even more impactful

Whiney and annoying… wasn’t a fan.

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I wonder how many times LeBron has actually watched him play...

RobotHunter said:

Nah thats what many Rutgers wrestlers wind up doing and they get bullied by the top 15 guys that are cutting 30 lbs.

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SCNJ said:

Shawver was originally a 125 who AA’d at 133

Turley was originally a 165 that AA’d at 174

Sebastian Rivera was originally a 125/133 at Northwestern and AA’d at 141 at Rutgers

Nick Suriano was originally a 125 that won a national title at 133

Anthony Ashnault was originally a 141 that won a national title at 149

Anthony Perrotti was originally a 157 that AA’d at 165.

Majority of our recent success stories have all benefitted from moving up. Sure some guys move up and it doesn’t work out but don’t pretend it’s an auto failure. It’s not.

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Bingo. Also a lot of those guys that moved up and didn’t have success, moved up because they didn’t have a spot in the lineup otherwise. Or did it to help the team. If Walsh puts on the muscle and cuts down to 97, he could be fine with his height, and the benefit of a full off season training with Labs.
Then again maybe he stays at 84. This is all just speculation at this point. But to assume moving up in weight is an auto fail, is silly

LOL I remember it well. We changed our flight to come home a day early from Hawaii. I was still on the hook for an expensive hotel room 🤬

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RUhasarrived said:

I have an issue of SPORT Magazine from the 50's showing Yogi at home with his two boys before ZAP came into the world.
What's so tough about being 74?Beaced is a quarter of a century beyond that point.

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wow.. I remember getting SPORT in the 70s.. but thought it was a new publication then... 1946 was when it first published.

Only at Rutgers does this level of misfortune happen. It’s uncanny.

DHajekRC84 said:

This is just st such a disaster.

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We will basically play more than half the season without a healthy Dylan no chance without him

My neighbor’s son is getting his masters at ND (he’s a Rutgers grad). Word on campus is he crushed the interview.