Big 10 tourney: Rutgers-Nebby Game Thread
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I don't know how you guys do it, I've been on the Bball forum for two hours and i already hate my life.
If I had done this all season i would've jumped off the GWB
If I had done this all season i would've jumped off the GWB
If you think a new coach is going to magically win here next year , I have a bridge to sell you all.
I don't expect to win next year. i expect a coach to start rebuilding a real program. Sorry, that is not Jordan.
And the full roster team next year with Jordan as coach is a 12 win team
I'd just like to see something that would give me some hope.
haha but yet you think it will win 8 games next year in league and be 500 overall with this team...its not about next year for me..most RU fans are willing to sacrifice a year for moving the program forward in the future
Nebby won 6 conference games this year...do you realize how much better we have to get to reach Nebby...11th place..and sorry Freeman/Johnson are not going to do it and certainly not with Eddie as coach
Nebby won 6 conference games this year...do you realize how much better we have to get to reach Nebby...11th place..and sorry Freeman/Johnson are not going to do it and certainly not with Eddie as coach
damning commentary in post game on BTN about the acceptance of mediocrity and losing culture and working as hard as you can to change it....not a good look on Eddie even though they didnt mention his name
We will be terrible again next year. We need a coach to start to turn it around. That's the best we can hope for.
fans who are mired in mediocrity and small victories rather than striving to be a winner. I think Flood and his fans epitomized it. Ash is the stark contrast who means business. I think our fanbase grew up watching RU play against Lehigh, Princeton, Lafaytette and Colgate...we have new football fans but the same hoop fans from the 70s..very loyal people but college hoops has changed in 40 years and RU got left behind
Hobbs looks like the guy to finally push us into the future...something Bob should have done when RU got in the Big East
Cannot disagree with your emphatic point on Eddie's lack of emphasis on defense . That will be his downfall and the reason he is let go. I thought with a full roster and guys not playing out of position and not worried about fouling out, things would change. But the games down the stretch they did not change , especially tonite. I thought the team tried hard, continued to listen to Eddie, except for tonite the lack of effort on defense and rebounding was outrageously bad. Tonite was the first night that not one player nor one coach gave a shit about losing the game. One last chance for the seniors to give it their all and the underclass men wanting to send them out going down fighting. Never happened !
We need a culture change first and then we need to recruit better , which is hard to do for a team with a 10 year straight losing record.
Very tough to be a Rutgers fan.
The acceptance of mediocrity has been going on for decades because the total emphasis of the athletic department has been on football.
Who wouldn't have loved Eddie to work here. But it's best to start over now, not in 12 months
How many of you guys are on suicide watch? In the end, it is just a game. The situation will play out as it will, and no amount of uproar on the board will affect our AD, unlike some years back when an illiterate clamor arose for firing Gary Waters and hiring Fred Hill Jr, and apparently had some effect on the former AD, who had extended Waters' contract after a rousing NIT run for fear he would lose him. You refugees from the free football board have my permission to step back from the computer, practice deep breathing exercises and go about whatever lives you have until they announce the new coach. You can then start whining and saying it should have been X or Y.
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Football was our best shot to get into a P5 conference. It worked. Now the payback starts.
You keep on saying 8 and I consistently said 6-8 Big 10 wins , so at least get my posts right ! Second, early on I said Eddie has to change his ways on defense. I got a good back and forth going with RUChoppin , that Eddie had to pull the switch on defense. I cited Tom Crean and Indiana and how when decided to play defense and they stopped losing and they are the team that will be a tough out in the tourney. Ru Choppin didn't agree with the Crean analogy, but every Big 10 analyst has said ,what I said, that when they turned up the defense and commuted to it, they became dangerous
we arent close to 6...dont know how to win and dont know how to play defense...long way to go. Nebby had only 6 wins this year and finished below 500 for the season....much like I told you way back..they would be in the bottom 4 or 5 even if they were better. Northwestern has been fighting for years to get into the top 8 of the league...a much better year this year but not even a bubble contender. Its not easy to move up.
The only reason Nebraska finished with 6 wins is that they lost Shields for 4-5 games and it took him some time to get back in the flow.. That is what happens when injuries take over and you lose your best player. That Nebraska team that beat us the first time, beat Michigan State shortly after beating us. They were heading to the top middle of the big 10 before the injuries . If you have a healthy roster you have a chance to move up in the big 10.
the schedule also got tougher..not so sure they would have won any of those games given the opponent
the league is unforgiving..Id say about 3/4s of this league have suffered severe impact injuries this year.
Well done. Few have ever attacked and killed a position that no one took as well as you just did. You are to be congratulated.
Yeah , and the minute the injuries occurred, teams could not compete , Illinois, Minnesota(suspensions and injuries , Joey King) , Nebraska , Michigan State when they lost Denzel , and Rutgers. Yes Rutgers too BAC! Like you said this league is unforgiving and many decent teams that will make you pay if you are not at full strength.
Very true. You left out, however, that the minute before the injuries occurred Rutgers couldn't compete either. Frankly, it was for a couple of years before the injuries occurred.
Indiana lost their best player and won the league. Michigan had major injuries and are still on the bubble. OSU had a big injury but beat Iowa. Ilinois had as many injuries as RU and we couldnt beat them. Injuries are part of the game. So are supsensions apparently
Indiana lost 1 player but they are 10 deep with Big 10 talent, and they only started winning consistently when they turned up the defense. Michigan lost their best player , Lavert, and they are not the same and are 3-9 against the top 75-100 and will likely be on the wrong side of the bubble if they lose tomorrow. Ohio State lost nobody for most of the year, until Tate in the last 2, but their problem is their youth. Illinois still had Hill and Dunn, 2 of the better players in the Big 10. Cannot compare their injuries and suspensions to ours !!
that's awesome, thanks for posting. my son going to go nuts when he sees.
Illinois had two players out from the beginning of the year..against RU they didnt have their big man. They had one player over 6f7 just like RU..and RU had every opportunity to win but lost
Wrong. They had 2 other 6'10 and 6'9 players and one of them Morgan had 20 points against us in the triple overtime game We had no one else to put in and Lewis played hurt the whole year.
wrong..they had Morgan and that was it..their big guy who started hurt himself in the previous game. Morgan had a career high...this was the game at the RAC
at Illinois he was back
