Plum Street said:

It’s a good game going on .
Go Cliff

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29PAS said:

American

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PiscatawayMike said:

He wanted a great education and graduated from Rutgers, which he promised his mother.

This season, he traded in his Adidas bag for a Gucci bag. Nothing wrong with that.

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Plum Street said:

Rutgers grad Cliff O playing really well. Still early . But I guess this is what he wanted coming out of RC as a big time recruit . He’s grabbing every rebound in sight in a huge 1 vs 2 matchup

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Caliknight said:

Looks like DOGE removed the goal line from your Syracuse team, eh retard?

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ScarletKid2008 said:

NIL is not being supported by the “regular” fans . The programs that are winning with NIL are essentially riding their 1-3 whales.

Annoying posters on this board keep screaming it’s because our fan base is cheap.
1. We don’t have the history or size of fan base so that’s not going to magically get “willed” into existence
2. People giving 100, 300, or even 1-3k per year are going to make such a little dent. Basically wasting time and resources and breathe even taking about check writers under $25k per year.

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RutgersRaRa said:

Taking your word for the assertion that we had the financial advantage (in total dollars) in almost every game we played, this doesn't factor in how the money is distributed. The vast majority of our money, whatever the source of that money and whether we will have it moving forward, was allocated to two players. Hypothetically, let's say they each got $1mm and the other ten players split the remaining $500k and therefore averaged $50k each. These (hypothetical) numbers would give us a total NIL of $2.5mm. For argument's sake, let's assign $2mm NIL to each of the other teams we play. We are at a dollar advantage.

But are we at a talent advantage? Rarely, and here's why. Let's say a team could get a modern-day Alan Iverson for $2mm (or Zach Edey, who inside folks tell me actually got $2mm), and there was no money left for other quality players. So there's one superstar and no talent around him. Where would that team finish? At the bottom.

Now let's say a team spent their $2mm on five very good players each getting $400k, how do you think they would do against a team with only one or two elite players and little talent elsewhere? The five very good players would dominate them.

Now back to Pike. He likely wasn't given a pile of money to go out and find players and he decided to spend it all on two players--the dynamic was in the opposite direction. Two players had an interest in us and we had to find the money to keep them from going elsewhere, and the money was evidently gotten. If this scenario is what happened, then our talent was concentrated in two players (young, mind you, not experienced) with the remaining cast as works in progress (Lathan, Grant, Dortch, all freshmen), or hopeful and relatively inexpensive contributors such as Derkack, Martini and Acuff.

If Pike ends up with a nice budget to keep Lathan, Grant and Dortch and to get portal players to complement them at a higher level than MAAC-level guys, it will change the complexion of the team. How the talent is distributed is as important as the total dollars on the floor.

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Greene Rice FIG said:

thats where I got it from...so my source is pretty suspect at this point.

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mikemarc1 said:

Thats possible. I think that’s alot of games in a small window, though. Unless there’s no knockout round and top 2 in each group play for championship. I suppose that could work.

I think they have to have more than 8 teams if they truly want to showcase the worlds best.

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MadRU said:

Flyer

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jaydogsmooth1 said:

WWE - The Rock backstage at a house Show, Brett Hart while he was signing autographs at Bound Brook Ford, Dolph Ziggler at Jacksonville Airport, Eric Bischoff at an MSG house show

Rutgers - Schiano, Pike, Uncle Bob, a bunch of football and bball players, Jim Calhoun and the 04 Uconn team, Rick Pitino and the 05 Louisville team, Al Skinne and the 05 Boston College team
FSU - Jimbo, Ham, Norvell, Gene, Peter, Charlie, bunch of others from all different sports
NCAA - Jim Boeheim at Pastabilities in Syracuse

Music - Trech from Naughty by Nature on a plane
ESPN - Marty w/the blonde hair in an airport, Steven A. Smith at his old show

MLB - Darryl Strawberry, Jimmy Rollins (short), Julio Franco (massive hands), Don Mattingly, Gerald and Bernie Williams, Luis Polonia, Jack Cust
NHL - Henrik Lundquivst at EWR, Ken Daneyko signing autographs at both Verizon and TD Bank in Bridgewater
NBA - George Muerseon, Jason Williams (buddy played AAU w/him in 8th grade)
NFL - Ndakiaman Suh (scary dude), John Mara, Jim Nantz, Pat Summeral, Mike Tannenbaum, Antonio Perace, Hakeem Nicks, Jesse Armstead, John Mara, Steve Tisch, Ahmad Bradshaw, Matt Ionnindis and Jason Cabinda (NFL guys that played for HC), bunch of late 80's Giants players

Random - Welendez family at Church, Vanilla Ice at Tallahassee Airport, Chris Sims at EWR, Soap Susan Lucci in NYC and at Garden City Hotel, John Stewart and Montell Williams on their shows, Doc Emerick, Ian Eagle, Larry Janeski (Basement systems inc.), Bill Raferty and Lou Carneseca at MSG, Marlins Man at the Orange Bowl

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tom1944 said:

Would Tuesday be an appropriate start?

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