Expecting 2 losses and then 2 more losses for final disgraceful record below .500 of 14-17 (7-13) and maybe we get into Big Ten tournament were we lose first game, season over.

Why can't they just get rid of priority pints and "mandatory donations"?

Price tickets at the price needed to cover spending by the team.
Just like every other sport.

If you don't want to pay when prices raise, lose your tickets and someone else can buy them.
If you don't have tickets, you have to wait.

It is a little amusing that many complain about "the rich get richer, need to get money out of sports" but then there is a bunch of posts about how we can displace long time fans with richer fans who will donate money money.

Just another side effect of the college sports model or "fans have to give above and beyond to support spending."

USA!!! USA!!!

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KK1827 said:

Look into those shots, points and goals. The ones vs rangers were mostly breakaways from cherry picking/floating. Hes a non-factor when the games get heavy, he shies away from all contact

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That would be the job of someone trying to discredit Hughes in a debate.

I will say he is definitely shying away from contact in this tourney. He was doing this a ton early in the NHL reg season coming back from shoulder surgery but has engaged more as the season went on. It is more obvious in the 4 nations thus far, but and this is what is really important here, he's still highly effective.

Vs the Rag's in the playoffs 2 seasons ago there really was no sign of this. In fact he did lay at least one pretty big hit in that series. I'd say he was more then highly effective in that series, he was dominant. But he hurt the shoulder vs Carolina and wasn't nearly as effective afterwards. Still had 3 goals and 6 points in 5 games.

WOW...never seen such consensus , reasonableness, and non-homorism (made that word up). I totally agree and not because I don't think our guys are great. But what many have said here. Good job.

Prediction another loss and more to come. Final regular season record 14-17 (7-13) and maybe, just maybe, we get in the Big Ten tournament.

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Paul was integral but not the most important imo.

darkcheck said:

I miss the long novels we used to get on why Mag was a terrible player, why 2023-24 was going to be our best team to date and all of us were too foolish to see it, and why when Pike got off defense and finally got with the modern offensive game in 24-25 we’d see a lot of wins and we had no reason for concern in the summer of 24. Good times.

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Don't forget we'd be better once one dimensional Cam left and Gavin arrived

Why do you all get so pissed by weather posts? Just read them if you like and make your own minds up. I don't get the jealousy or rancor with weather posts. Unless there is some back story rivalry, just read or ignore. This board seems to fight over every thread posted, be it sports, politics or weather!

bac2therac said:

Sheesh 0-6

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Lots of league parity. Correction your picks are 0-5.

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DocRU said:

Well, I've watched RU hoops since my freshman year 1968-69.
Thoughts on this year? Well in retrospect almost impossible to win with freshmen period.
We should have realized that.
Hey the 2 greatest frosh in RU history before these 2 guys were Sellers and Dabney. Both scored 19 and 12 per game in their initial seasons. And they were surrounded with John Somogyi who had 20 pg and the 6'9 Armstead at center who was at 13 pg. You know what their record was? 15-11.

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In some way in my opinion it’s easier given all the games these kids play against high level competition so they are more ready in that way then back in the 70’s. However and I think this is more important (again just my opinion) but Dylan and ace are playing against 22, 23 year old very good college basketball players that have been through the wars and in many cases have been with their program for a while. Those guys will have the advantage in closing out games and that’s the way it’s played out. I don’t think we can ignore the illnesses and injuries either if we want to look at things objectively. Doesn’t excuse the record it is what it is but it’s not really surprising at all given everything.

If Steve could be QB coach at BC and then the Dallas Cowboys - why doesn’t Rutgers feel it necessary to hire a QB Coach?

He couldn’t come here in 2022 as QB coach?

RU848789 said:

So, posting what the NWS predicted is wrong? And in a thread that you insisted be started, when I was going to not even start one as I thought we wouldn't get much? That's rich.

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You are saying its not worthy to post threads about 2 inch forecasted events in NJ??? Now that's something giving our parade of 1 inch storm threads this year

RUsojo said:

Ron Harper Jr. This should be cannon by now imo.

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I know this season hasn't gone as expected but shooting Dylan's brother out of a cannon seems like disproportionate retribution.

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Yourself

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RU848789 said:

So, posting what the NWS predicted is wrong? And in a thread that you insisted be started, when I was going to not even start one as I thought we wouldn't get much? That's rich.

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That's the whole point...modeling is bad but perhaps forecasting even worse and Mt holly perpetually OVERDOING amounts for central jersey

A reminder that forecasted amounts always inflated to cover their bases

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I miss the long novels we used to get on why Mag was a terrible player, why 2023-24 was going to be our best team to date and all of us were too foolish to see it, and why when Pike got off defense and finally got with the modern offensive game in 24-25 we’d see a lot of wins and we had no reason for concern in the summer of 24. Good times.

RUBlackout said:

Yes I see a lot of this with the players. All fundamental type stuff AND drive.

Thing is we can only blame them so much as this all falls on the coaches to TEACH, MOTIVATE, and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE.

It’s that last part that makes me scratch my head bc we don’t have that in the program—it only happens with select players. Take Acuff for example. Got beat on a defensive play and gets taken out yet was our only scoring option.

Ace gets beat constantly but stays in the game. Where is the teaching moment? A player like Ace WANTS to get better not coddled. You can tell by just looking at his commitment to FTs or even rebounding from what he says. Use those times to treat everyone equal and watch the change.

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If a player already has that great drive to improve they don't need to be taken out of the game.