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Pike Failed the Fans, Minimal Effort Towards NIL Raising Would’ve Made For a Special Season

Your head is in the clouds.
Sorry KYK, no Fortune 500 Boardroom is investing in Rutgers Basketball because there is no ROI. Your ideas are not practical because there are no whales looking to save Rutgers Basketball. If there were, they would have been investing all these years.

The only people that might invest in Rutgers Basketball are those who care. It’s a non starter for everyone else.
for basketball to compete they better go out and find them period...its not coming from the aging small fanbase..wake up
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He’s not a serviceable Big10 starting center and never will be. He’s a Merrimack-level center. Hopefully Derkack will transfer back and take Lathan with him.

Too slow and plays small.

Fine as a backup but it’s doubtful he wants that role, and that’s not where NIL should be spent anyway
Complete nonsense. He’s a Freshman Center Averaging 7.4 points and 4.2 rebounds, playing a bigger role than he should be only due to injury.
He has exceeded most expectations.

Pike Failed the Fans, Minimal Effort Towards NIL Raising Would’ve Made For a Special Season

We were 7-6 both 2023 and 2024. Which is basically the equivalent of a bubble basketball team as the numbers say
its the equivalent of a perpetual nit type team going 17-15 not really a legit bubble...its a fake bowl system where there are way too many of them

OT: Your stories of a brush with famous people.

Interviews: Bernard King, Dave Cowens, Dr. J, Larry Bird, Dominque Wilkins, Kevin McHale, Bobby Jones, Darryl Dawkins, Dave Wohl, Mike Fratello, Randy Wittman, Doc Rivers, Vern Fleming, Hugh Durham, Bobby Cremins, Mark Price, John Salley, Fred McNeil,
Encounters: Cookie Rojas, Bobby Valentine, Gerald Riggs, Don Rickles, Kevin Willis, Terry Forster, Howard Cosell, Bobby Cox, Ken Norton, Ray Scott, Phil Rizzuto, Jim Karvellas, Beau Bock, Chris Webber, Brian Jordan, Artis Gilmore, Bobby Wine, Jeff Torborg, Bailey Robertson and last week: Brandon Jacobs.
Also walked by Joe Theismann and Cathy Lee Crosby at a blackjack table at Caesars in Vegas.
Amazing how many people you've met.

Pike Failed the Fans, Minimal Effort Towards NIL Raising Would’ve Made For a Special Season

Your head is in the clouds.
Sorry KYK, no Fortune 500 Boardroom is investing in Rutgers Basketball because there is no ROI. Your ideas are not practical because there are no whales looking to save Rutgers Basketball. If there were, they would have been investing all these years.

The only people that might invest in Rutgers Basketball are those who care. It’s a non starter for everyone else.
then you have answered your question

rutgers does not belong at the big boy table...it belongs in the acc or aac with other schools with small fanbases, limited resources and extremely limited sucess on the field or court. There is nothing this school has done on the court or field to deserve a spot

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The April deadline is ridiculous.

Have no idea how many games you're paying for, who they're playing, or who's on the team.

I'll probably let mine lapse this year and take my chances
definitely considering giving it up after 30 years...knowing that the next 2 years figure to be as ugly as it was in the Hill years....not sure i can stomach that and without any vision from the athletic department...i have heard some sentiment from some other longtime season ticket holders

If die hards are fencing it then yeah this basketball program is in serious trouble

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I agree with you I’m posing a question to the diehards that say money isn’t the problem or part of the solution
Whales. And don’t give me the “whales want to see 200 more fans pony up $10 a month by skipping lunch for a day so we can have $24k for NIL”. All the other B1G team have whales. Is it our job to get the whales too? We’re already being asked to give more than we can. Blood from a stone. You guys beat a dead horse. You want money, find the money. It’s not going to come from the 30 something with a mortgage and kids to put through college who forks over a good chunk of money for game tickets and concessions. And maybe those people are out there. Now find 10,000 of them to make a tangible difference. That still only gives you $1.2mm.

Yes our ticket pricing and parking might be low. It’s called market pricing. Pro sports compete for too much of the NJ sports fans dollar. The pricing is what it is because we have to have “technical” sellouts and can’t fill a football stadium. Raise the pricing it will get worse.

Also those schools with whales win. What’s our ceiling now with NIL? The NIT. Say you found 20,000 of above donors. Is the ceiling one win in the ncaas over 9 years. Winning solved problems. At some point you have to overachieve and we’re doing the opposite. Can’t even inbound a dam basketball.

Pike had a good few years of recruit, retain and develop. The game has changed. Richies podcast yesterday said how Pitino doesn’t even visit hs homes anymore. Just hit the portal and negotiate. That’s not Pikes style. Recruiting donors isn’t either. He doesn’t need to make excuses you guys do it for him. Overachieve, get more money. Find the whales. You’re sure as not going to get the required money but beating is who give what we can budget over the head time and time again.

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We are the lowest priced tickets face value and season tickets in the league

Instead of deflecting as to what you think ISNT the problem how about constructing a realistic path to success

Don’t just say recruit better … that requires more than a smile now
WE DO NOT HAVE AN ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING YOU

Minnesota-UCLA a disastrous result if you want RU in the Big Ten tournament

Setting up for an epic season finale on 3/9 at Jersey Mike’s ! A win and get in the BIG Ten tournament ! Our very own March madnesss moment in Piscataway ! Just what Harper and Bailey came here for . The hype for our biggest home game in years will be insane
There are games to be played before the Minnesota matchup which will determine the importance of the game.The game against Washinhgton tonight has relevance.
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