RUskoolie said:

I have been looking into this, I think there should be a large decibel meter in the RAC that fans can see. Maybe on one of the 4 pillars, or maybe at the bottom of the student section or at the top. Would be fun to see how high the number can hit and I think it would wind up intimidating teams over the long haul. Can't be that crazy expensive to add I would think. I think I would be willing to spear fundraising for it, I am that serious about it.

Here is one company

Stadium Noise Monitoring

Real-time stadium noise levels displayed right to the scoreboard improve fan engagement. Learn the benefits stadium noise monitoring.

www.larsondavis.com

Thoughts?

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Great idea!!!

You gotta play to your strengths and the RAC and the noise level is something that needs to be capitalized on. They DO know this - pike cheering on the crowd, the “make some noise” graphics, etc but your idea would really point that out .

I like it

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RUPD would use the data to write the Athletic Department a noise violation summons

Pike has been a terrible conference tournament coach even dating back to his days at stony Brook. I don’t want to pin my hopes to winning the BTT

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RedTeam1994 said:

Agree fully.

But look on the bright side - the very difficult schedule is actually an opportunity

If we were in this same situation but had mostly home games against the bottom 3rd of the league there may not have been any opportunity to make up enough ground

But

The difficult schedule comprised of opportunities for Q1 wins and road wins…. there’s a road there to possibly make the tourney

And with Ace playing as he is now, with Dylan healthy, with the “others” playing better, with the defense and rebounding issues vastly improved….

There’s still a chance. However small

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The difficult schedule is quite literally the only reason why they have any hopes for a NCAA bid, unlikely as it may be.

robjknight said:

Win the tourney and definitely in. Win 6 ore conference games and then 2 in the Big tourney should put us in the last four.

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Last 4 in ?

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yesrutgers01 said:

Shows why we don’t change our standards on the type of students we bring in to play football.

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Very impressive for anyone to write a book, especially one on such serious issues

RUJMM78 said:

Its rather late in the season to expect a long winning streak especially with so many games on the road.

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This is untrue.

A few weeks ago I posted about winning streaks ... having trouble finding the post. But it was in a thread about NC State and their run last season to win the ACC championship last season to make the NCAA - then their run in the NCAA to the Final Four.

In that post I listed all the JUST BIG TEN teams in recent years that had late season surprising winning streaks. There were several: Northwestern Penn State, Maryland ... maybe Iowa one year ... all had late-season winning streaks that carried them form not even ON the bubble to an at large bid. I do not have time this moment to recreate that analysis - may get to it later today. My POINT is that several Big 10 teams with double digit losses late in the season cl0sed the season with 5-6 game winning streaks, and/or 7 of 9 wins, to get them onto the bubble, and then invited as an at-large.

Though I think it will be difficult, it is POSSIBLE. And I still think the odds are RU is out unless they win the Big 10 tourney ... of course finishing 9th or better in the conference (which is still possible, even with a 4-4 finish) helps that since it means 1 less game RU would have to win to win the Big 10 tourney.

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Greene Rice FIG said:

1. You are miscategorizing the way i think and i admit to being wrong
2. Sorry, but unless we make the NCAAs was i not right?

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Re: 1 - your MO is well established on this board. If you conceded some things on this thread it would be out of character for you (atleast as far your on-board behavior) and perhaps due to fact that’s lions analysis was so well thought out that you’d look foolish to refute it?

Re:2 - no you’re not right

If we don’t make the NCAAs it would not because we have Ace and Dylan it would largely be due to: (1) not getting good enough players to support them; (2) Dylan’s health and injury issues (3) the team not playing good d and rebounding early in the season (causing 2 very bad WTF losses)

In fact the ONLY reason we still have slight hopes for the NCAA is because: (1) Ace (as a young frosh) has found his game and is playing like a future NBA star and (2) Dylan is back, seemingly healthy, and also playing like a future NBA star.

Those two aren’t the reason our chances are slim - quite the opposite - they are , by far, the MAIN reasons we still have a chance (along with additional reasons like improved play by the “others” and improved d and rebounding).

But those additional reasons are minor - without Ace and Dylan playing like future NBA stars we have ZERO chance of making the tourney.

If we have ANY chance it is because of them

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rutgersdave said:

Brought back some MSFT, GOOG, AMZN, BDX,UNH the last two days after their fall. Hope the market fall further so I can buy more. Also started buying ET, O, EPD, VZ, and PFE for dividend exposure.

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I sold MSFT last week. Got impatient after it basically did nothing in my portfolio over the past year. Not sure I see many catalysts for it unless I’m missing something with co-pilot and the fact that AI laptops have gone nowhere. Also losing a bit of confidence in GOOG although I’ve held it for 10 years and they always seem to figure it out. I’d like to buy Amazon and more Netflix on dips. My guess is Trump has been rather quiet the past week or two so he’s due for rattling some cages which will spook the market.

mikeyo said:

If he never did anything else but taking a true Cinderella team in Providence to the 1987
Final Four, he'd still be one of the greats

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Weren’t they a six seed and they beat lower seeds until an upset of Georgetown in the regional finals who they had lost to twice previously? Obviously a very good team not really a Cinderella run unless I am missing something.

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PSAL_Hoops said:

I’m not sure what game you were watching exactly to say J Will was “bad” on D in the first half. We went up 23-6 with J Will logging most if not all of the minutes in the first 10 minutes. I’m not sure how you could argue Acuff would’ve been a better choice.

At the 7:51 mark, Illinois had 11 total points. Again - J Will had played most of that time. Yes, he commits a dumb foul after a turnover at the 6:38 mark and pick up his second foul but at that point following the FTs, Illinois still only had 15 points.

J Will sat the remainder of the half with the 2 fouls. Acuff got a turn in there by the way. Illinois nearly doubled their points finishing with 29 at the half. What am I missing?

And to your other point - J Will isn’t a high usage type of player at all. He’s not a great shooter and he’s comfortable playing while not being the one to attempt that many shots. In 25 minutes he recorded 7 shots - made 3 of them and scored 13 points on fairly low usage. If anyone took too many shots it was Dylan Grant.

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Sorry to circle back to thjs, but rewatching first half. You're first paragraph here. JWill plays four minutes and is taken out at 6-2. He returns to the game five minutes later and the lead has gone to 19-6. He missed most of big run. Minute later he scores on one end then comes down and gets beat on a cut, but an off ball foul saves him. Then he commits the foul on the three after the lead hits 23-6. He was playing D w active hands, but Jac has missed two open 3's w JWill in front of him. Commits the 10 sec turnover, although I'm not sure that was ten, then sends Jac to the foul line with his foul.

I don't think he was as bad as I originally thought, but really wasn't a big reason for the lead.

RedTeam1994 said:

You’re being exceedingly fair ;)

My experience with him - he has a position (in this case RU would do better by not having having generational talent on this team… crazy I know): Every comment he makes is to support that position and any comment/ analysis that contradicts that gets ignored nor twisted.

Maybe in this case your commentary is so convincing/ well thought out that he had to concede on a few things (as you said above) - if so, kudos to you

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1. You are miscategorizing the way i think and i admit to being wrong
2. Sorry, but unless we make the NCAAs was i not right?
3. Yes, i am more hard on our best players when it comes to defending

The surprise was Dow going 35% at the faceoff X

If he never did anything else but taking a true Cinderella team in Providence to the 1987
Final Four, he'd still be one of the greats