DHajekRC84 said:

His seat is already hot. Unfortunately we're stuck with it burning.
Wait till season Tix renewals and all the Tix available for game day sale next year.

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All in your mind. None of that is real.

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zebnatto said:

It wasn’t Dylan, it wasn’t Ace.

It was Pike.

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Nope… Dylan didn’t take control or call for it and DRIVE it. When he did, he scored. Easily. It was JWILL hogging it, and missing.

bethlehemfan said:

I’m done. I was gonna bail last year but with the recruiting figured I’d hang in there.

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Dumped my season tickets during the Fred Hill error. Best decision of my sports life.

rubjk said:

Not true on the ball movement. Our best games this year we had good ball movement.

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Nope. Who pray tell passes with purpose ? Cuts ? Nobody. Never a coordinated 4 pass sequence.

Except for Martini, who of course understands team offense coming from Princeton, everyone is a shot hunter taking shots proportional to their place in the pecking order.

Harper’s high assist games were drives, drawing double teams and passes for layups. That’s not ball movement. That’s winging it.

fluoxetine said:

For the 800th time, coaching out his contract is not “holding us hostage” you dumb mother****er

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They will find a way to get rid of pike imo unless the program shows some life next year. This is clearly not working and the home record is becoming an embarrassment

FIJI'83 said:

Did it work last year ? What about 2 years ago? What about 3 years ago when they lost in the play-in? Old Pike was just as bad as he is now even the good teams he had under performed

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You think Rutgers is going to the tournament every year?

I thought this might be a joke from the title…..it goes, “if Pike had balls, he would be my Uncle, but he doesn’t so he’s my Aunt.”

richthedentist said:

He had nothing tonight and he came out out of locker room wearing some contraption on his knee has not had any of the quickness he had against Alabama he can’t get by anybody anymore

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Soft as tissue paper. A kid that age shouldn't be getting hurt so much.

PhillyRU said:

We not only lost/gave terrible efforts but also our young guys Grant, Sommerville and Dortch barely played. I just don't get it

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Amazing isn’t it.

Grant was playing well in first half in terms of being aggressive without scoring or the ball. Doesn’t get okay.
Lathan scores in the paint..plays against guys with 3 fouls each and we don’t even give him a look.

It’s bad coaching and if no one can see that go back and watch our inbounds plays

I’m done. I was gonna bail last year but with the recruiting figured I’d hang in there.

jerzeyguy said:

You don't like Lino Mark? I think he'll be good and he fits Pike's program

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I think Lino Mark is better than Nwuli, but it doesn't matter, neither will progress under Pike.

wheezer said:

Every game we give up too many layups

We either lose a guy on defense or one can get all the way to the hoop uncontested

We lose games on defense imo

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That’s what happens when your best players are freshmen. What’s most disappointing is the veterans and how sloppy they have been.

This year has been one hell of a rug pull. Feel sorry for all the saps that bought season tickets.

rpiseman said:

He’s gonna hold us hostage and coach out his contract. Hes here till at least 2028. He’s gonna collect $3.5 million to run this program further into the ground than he already has

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For the 800th time, coaching out his contract is not “holding us hostage” you dumb mother****er

RW90 said:

That's what I can't figure out. Roster construction, recruiting and NIL aside, does the blame lay more with the coaching or the players?

Put it another way, could another staff get more out of this roster? I can't decide.

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Sure. To an extent. Just running a functional offense alone would help. But there just aren't enough B1G caliber players on this roster. Only so much you can coach up here

richthedentist said:

So Rutgers used what was supposed to be our best team since “75/76” and raised the seat fee/surcharge enormously for this year do they have the audacity to charge the same amount next year and how many people won’t be willing to pay this after this sht show of a year?
Just wondering

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I probably won’t be…for various reasons but after 45 plus years I might be done

Corycord1 said:

I’m all for Pike bashing, mostly this season. It’s been a disaster no doubt. But tonight was about effort, the stars played like they could care less about the result of the game.

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Bad body language from both Harper and Bailey. Clearly their hearts are not in this.

Came out from the gym just now and it's snowing. Got a light covering on everything.

He's not getting fired. He has way too many years left on his contract.

The only hope is he accepts that he's not equipped to be successful in this new shitty age of college basketball, and negotiates some kind of settlement to do good by the program and hand over the keys to someone else. The anti-CVS.

He's clearly a good man, so maybe that actually happens.

If not, he needs to at minimum clean house with his assistant coaches. Replace them with people with fresh ideas. Who can actually coach a functional offense.

He also needs to embrace NIL. And he needs to get someone to help him evaluate talent.

$30 parking my ass

Pivetta to Padres. 4 years $55 million. Opt outs after 2 and 3.

Could be a sign of a Cease trade.

rpiseman said:

Given last year and the utter disgrace that is this season, what’s the rationale that Pike deserves to keep his job?

Yes…..I understand he’ll be here till 2030 because he’ll hold us hostage for the $3.5 million a year Hobbs promised.

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A) he’s not holding anyone hostage.
B) he has proven to be a very good coach over the course of his career.
C) Rutgers owes him a lot of money
D) this season was a failed experiment. Given the chance to do it again everyone would still take Dylan and Ace.
E) NIL funds were not there for this year. Schiano didn’t have much either. Pike needs to embrace NIL (Like Greg did the past few
months) to get the right roster.
F) 2023-24 Pike got screwed with 2 starters leaving in May and the Mag Injury.
G) 2015-2018 he improved every year. 2019-2023 he built tournament quality teams. The past two seasons were unfortunate and a step backwards with departures and injuries. Progress isn’t linear.

He’s not leaving, unless he wants to.