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    Juawan Harris

    My son and I follow RU baseball (and most of the teams for that matter) closely. We met Harris at the RU-Miami baseball series last year when he was a HS senior. Very nice young man. His speed, together with his apparent ability to get on base, is a game changer. Not only is it tough to throw...
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    Ash absolutely buries Flood regime

    It's not a question of sugarcoating - I have no problem what he says to players privately, no matter how harsh, but you don't publicly insult your players. Period. There is nothing to be gained from it. Do it in the locker room to the team or to individuals in private. You don't publicly call...
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    Ash absolutely buries Flood regime

    You need to go back and re-read my post. I agree it is 100% accurate, but so are a lot of things that smart managers want to say but don't. There are ways to point out flaws, but to publicly insult your team and the program isn't one of them. He has now done this on more than one occasion...
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    Ash absolutely buries Flood regime

    I like Ash's work ethic, reminds me of GS - hard work yields results in most cases. So in that regard, we couldn't ask for more in a new coach. However, I think bashing the prior regime (and, in essence his current team other than graduating seniors), no matter how accurate his statements are...
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    OT: Rutgers Women's Soccer Recruiting class is ranked...

    Agreed, though I believe that the strongest players in the class are from the NJ area. But all good.
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    OT: Rutgers Women's Soccer Recruiting class is ranked...

    Very impressive. Great job by the staff. A couple of the players have absolutely sick credentials.
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    OT - Racism alive and well at universities

    The reality is that if there were no quotas and it were based purely on grades, the demographics of every elite school would look like Berkeley and UCLA - the Asian community has achieved what they have academically purely on merit and quotas against them are quite unfair. It's reminiscent of...
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    Is UT the environment you really want your son to live in?

    Awful. Sadly, this type of "bunker mentality" (ie, code of silence applies no matter how heinous the acts of one of the group involved) - goes on in many realms including the military, police forces and other groups, but the fact that a university lets people get away with it as here is...
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    We will know in 366 days...

    It is likely too early for a funeral as to Ash's potential. However, he certainly did nothing in this class to dispell my concerns voiced when he was hired as to his recruiting abilities. And I remain the only person apparently on earth who thought several parts of his acceptance speech were...
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    So are Soccer, Lacrosse, Tennis moving to Livingston?

    As the dad of a college-recruited (including by RU) tennis player, I can't emphasize enough how much RU needs new tennis facilities to compete for recruits - as I've said before many, many DIII schools (let alone almost all of the 300+ D1's at every level) have courts and related facilities that...
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    Rene Decommited

    As I said when he was hired, Ash had no recruiting bona fides and no local contacts which could make up for recruiting ability deficits and since then he's done nothing in his staff hires to shore this up. Decommits happen, of course, but to lose arguably our two best recruits without getting a...
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    The curious case of Ted Fields

    In my view, anyone who gets an ivy-league offer with a schollie (must be need based, but generally can get it if you're a top recruit) is nuts to turn it down. While it might lessen your chances for the NFL (lessen, but not kill, if you have the talent - ie, Ryan Fitzpatrick) its hard not to...
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    Campanille Hired at BC

    Ash's breaking good RU Jersey ties despite his lacking any of his own or bringing any new ones in is a very difficult thing to understand.
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    ASH Needs to Get of his A$$ and get us some RECRUITS!

    When Ash was hired I was pilloried on this board when I questioned the hire by stating that he's a guy with absolutely no connection in any way to RU,NJ or even the region and that would hurt his ability top recruit. So, while I am not surprised at all by his slow (ie, non-existent) start in...
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    Hobbs gets it when he talks about Basketball

    A good game coach or a good recruiter trumps good facilities. Doug Graber im his second recruiting your recruited four of top 100 players (according to one of the lists- that was before rivals, etc) in the country with the worst facilities of any major program.
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    What factors influence recruit commitments?

    - This is anecdotal but I can tell you from my daughter's experience as a fairly heavily recruited tennis player in this year's class (she was contacted by about 100 schools but only seriously considered a few) the following - in the order listed - were critical - it is not directly analogous to...
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    Does betting against RU equate to being a bad fan?

    I have never bet against RU and never would, but if I were so inclined, betting against RU basketball these days is easy money.
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    OT (or not): RU Endowment Finally Reaches $1B Mark

    Many have Billion dollar endowments (though Maryland's is surprisingly low for a major U with law and Med schools). The elite schools all have billion dollar endowments, even most of the small ones. Amherst (1800 students) and Middlebury (2400 undergrads) each have billion dollar endowments.
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    Asbury Park Press Editorial-Rutgers Doubles Down-B1G Mistake?

    This is provincial garbage from a provincial source. So let me get this straight, we should not model ourselves or try to emulate places like Michigan, UVA, UCLA, etc. - great academics and great athletics? I guess they think maybe we should model ourselves on minor players like the U of Rhode...
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    Recruit & Player Reactions

    Fair points. It's just that I've lived through Anderson and Shea and those guys had the exact same stellar reputations to sell as Ash and it didn't help them an iota in recruiting and hence in winning. This was not a well thought through hire and the lack of institutional memory of the Anderson...
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