Got tickets to Wednesday and Saturday in Vegas Section 23 row C for one game and D for the other. Will sell them at face value + tax and eat the rest of the fees. I bought a while ago so I got a good deal. DM me for further discussion.

Problem right now there is no set rotation and therefore too many mouths to feed. How deep is Pike's rotation going to be when the team hits Vegas in 5 days? There are 200 minutes (40 x5) of playing time per game to divvy up. I don't believe you can rotate 10 players with each getting significant playing time and maintain cohesion. Assume going forward Bailey & Harper each get 32 minutes and Martini 30 minutes per game on average. Assume also Sommerville gets 25 minutes and Ogbole 10 minutes per game. That leaves 55 minutes per game to divide between Derkack, Hayes, Davis, Williams and Acuff. I would give Derkack 20 minutes, Hayes 18 minutes, Acuff 15 minutes, J Williams 10 minutes and JMike 8 minutes.

Starting this thread back up!

It's officially transfer portal season and there's a lot of movement expected this offseason with guys leaving for the NFL, guys entering the portal and new guys joining the team via the portal since it's essentially free agency.

To make things easier for you, we here at The Knight Report have decided to make this the one stop shop for everything Rutgers Football and the transfer portal this offseason.

Below you can see which players have entered the portal, who's committed to joining the Scarlet Knights via the portal and which prospects that the staff has offered so far.

After her husband was fired, she posted on social media that the school had less than a half million in NIL money while the combined amount for all of their opponents was more than 46 million.
Like it or not, this really shows just how unbalanced the monetary playing field is today. That said, they really should give up the dream of playing with the big boys.

1. Awful performance against a low major. Only reason we won is that Ace Bailey played a great game and hit shots that nobody else can hit. 23 points on 9-15 (2-4) shooting.

2. Defense is still bad. Couldn’t contain Clark, who abused everybody (especially JMike) off the dribble all night on his way to 22 points (10-19 from the field). Let up a ton of open threes, but Merrimack was only 4-24 from deep. We especially struggled on pick and roll and high screen action.

3. Our zone offense was mind numbingly bad, and a lot of the problem was Pike’s ridiculous rotations. In a game where we knew we would face a 3-2 zone the entire game, why did Ogbole play 19 minutes? This should’ve been the game where Martini played 20 minutes at the center spot. Hayes only played 14 minutes. Our best 3-point shooters (Hayes and Martini) only combined to shoot 5 threes, and we only shot 17 threes out of a total of 60 shots (so only 29% of our shots were from deep, a terribly low number against a zone defense). It’s like we didn’t even practice zone offense over the past five days.

4. We kept trying to force the ball into the paint, whether on post entries or dribble drives, but Merrimack’s zone defense did a great job collapsing and forcing tough mid-range jumpers and short floaters, and whereas we were money on short twos in the previous three games, we were awful tonight, short-arming a ton of those shots. We’re we’re just 18-43 on 2-point shots tonight, just 41.8%.

5. I don’t think we scored ANY points in transition, as Merrimack did a superb job of getting back on defense and immediately setting up their zone, and they immediately found their man on defense. So this became a tortuous half-court game.

I think the RU Foundation is having pre-game party in Vegas before the ND game. Does anyone have info or a link to it? Tried searching a few sites and my emails, but can't find info on it.

Thanks and Best of Luck,
Groz

Well done article. The improvements in our passing game have been significant vs. last year, as we're now in the middle of the pack in the B1G as opposed to at the bottom, plus his 14/6 TD//INT ratio is pretty good. Of course, having a great RB and better WRs than last year have helped some, but much of the improvement is clearly due to AK's better accuracy and decision-making.

He’s been exactly what Rutgers has needed. Against Maryland he went 20-of-30 passing for 238 yards with two touchdowns. His throws were strong and accurate. Most importantly, he didn’t turn the ball over.

In the process, Kaliakmanis eclipsed the 2,000-yard mark for the season, becoming the first Rutgers quarterback to do so since Chris Laviano in 2015. Kaliakmanis is 10th in the conference with 2,128 passing yards. He’s thrown 14 touchdowns with six interceptions.

Through the Scarlet Knights’ 12 regular-season games last year, they ranked 124th in passing yards per game (142.0) and 120th in total offense (307.4 yards per game). So far this season those rankings have jumped to 81st (212.8 yards per game) and 76th (382.2), respectively.

It’s not a huge jump, but it’s still been the type of improvement Rutgers needed. The Scarlet Knights were mostly anemic last year offensively.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/s...akmanis-just-what-offense-needed/76425539007/

Looks like Blackstone might be buying Jersey Mike's. I wonder how this will effect our agreement.

It was suggested an NFL thread for teams / games other than Jets Giants Eagles which have their own threads so here it is

Another impressive performance by one of RU's better defensive players.
#6 twice left the field due to injury....and twice returned. And played well.
The list of big plays by this guy would be quite long.

Via @Craig Epstein

This can't be good. Duke is signing three kids, Michigan has 2, Hopkins and Maryland have one each but Rutgers has none. What's the spin?

I was traveling on I95 in October at night (8pm) and while passing through Maryland a giant flash appeared behind me.

I was going above the speed limit but nothing crazy and not nearly as fast as I go on the NJTPK so I didn’t think anything of it. I also never heard of speed cameras on I95.

Today I received a citation in the mail ($80) for going at least 12 mph over the speed limit in a construction zone. Of course it clocked me going exactly 12 mph over (77 mph).

Although it was a construction zone, there was zero construction occurring. I have to imagine half of the cars passing through were getting the same citation.

Anyway - I’m assuming there’s no point in requesting a court date and disputing the citation. If I went this route I’m expecting to wait in line with everyone who had the same citation, only to be required to pay the full amount.

Anyone have experience with this? Do I just pay it and move on?

We are 4-0 with all of 4 our wins by double-digits.

Barely, I know, and I also know we haven’t faced murderers row.

But we never really do to start the season, and the last time this happened was 2020 which turned out to be a pretty damn good team led by juniors and seniors who had been together for years.

The time before that…1982 which also turned out to be a damn good team led by 4 seniors.

1982, 2020, and now 2024…except this time our 3 leading scorers are all freshmen…breathe….

No one will ever elevate him to All American status, but at least last night he wasn't brutal.

Believe Pike said he was +15 while on the court.

If he put up 19 minutes with 6 points and 7 boards a night, that would be huge. Its still amazing to me that he struggles to score from 1 foot away from the rim though.

What match predictions do we have

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