Not buying NIL that much. I mean he gave it all away last year. I think it was the fans and he felt slighted by what he thought his role would be.
Basketball BREAKING -- Rutgers senior guard Paul Mulcahy plans to enter the transfer portal, he announced:
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It's not his religion that was funny. It's that he used religious imagery in talking about his basketball games. A bit over the top.
That’d be me. I definitely didn’t see this coming at all. We’d better get some help in the portal or next season will see some major regression.
Paul also saw last year, knows, and told its Derek’s team and his ego could not take it! Wish him the best
I don’t agree with crucifying Paul Mulcahy here. I think this says a lot more about the new system than anything else.
The teams that win in march are those with small quick skillful guards who play fast, not the teams with 6 foot 7 inch point guards who ball hog and slow down the whole offense
Believe me or not. My insight is solid.
It is about the perceived attention going to the future recruits vs the current roster.
Cam transferred in! Paul's only leaving for his extra Covid year. He played for 4 years at RU.
I don't knock him, I knock the new process in place, with NIL's, and the post grad transfer to the highest bidder
If nothing changes, college basketball becomes too much of a business for my liking
Maybe we will get used to this, but for now it is very distasteful
He announced his intention to enter the portal he is not in the portal just yet.
Pike should have known :
“If she’s from Bayonne, leave her alone “
“If she’s from Bayonne, leave her alone “
Grad transfers have been a thing for a while. The first one I heard of happened in 2012 but the rule probably existed long before that.
I’m not happy with him, but it’s still not quite as bad as with Cam because Paul was undecided from the start. There’s a difference between accepting graduate school admission and then rescinding.
Its amazing payers enter the portal now when they have a new NIL deal all negotiated and finished up. I thought it was supposed to be enter the portal and then see who is interested in you. NCAA is a complete disaster.
Common with that. Lol
Only reason Paul would start next year for us is because Pike is loyal af. Under any other circumstance with Noah and Derek, he would be coming off the bench. If we are a higher program feeder …. Those programs will starve.
Does holding onto the ball when you're open for a shot count as playing his ass off?
No
Mocking him for his religious beliefs shows an utter lack of class and maturity
Grow up
I respect Cam more.
it’s worse than Cam. Cam was already a hired gun. Also, we didn’t need Paul…until Cam left. Now, a month after Cam announced, he pulls this crap. Much much worse.
Let’s be honest, he had a miserable season and he was unhappy
Why is he leaving? Maybe he wants to trip a few Rutgers players, who knows.
Paul couldn’t beat his man off the dribble on offense, keep his man in front of him on defense, and refused to shoot the ball unless wide open. Also couldn’t stop tripping the opposing team. Adios clown.
Then leave two months ago.
No - I’m not happy with either leaving, but in Paul’s case it’s closer to what JY and Mathis did in leaving.
Cam deliberately misled Rutgers. Probably felt if he had “given proper notice” it would’ve made his on campus April workouts awkward and didn’t want that distraction. That, and only that, is what wasn’t cool. If he had been undecided all along nobody would be calling him out.
He was undecided openly all along and I assume not legally eligible for the portal until after graduation anyway. We don’t know what was said behind closed doors to Pike after Noah was brought in to play PG.
^^^This^^^
My sentiment exactly. I graduated in 1973 and am prouder today than that day to be an alumnus of Rutgers. For the last 60 years my daIly schedule has largely been built around RU sporting events. The current state of football and basketball sucks. Name, Image and Likeness was never intended to be free agency for college sports. It hurts not to care anymore.
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maybe.
but, honestly, we on this board are irrelevant.
its all about what the coaches knew. were either of them upfront with the coaches? were the coaches blindsided like us fans? did either mislead the coaches of their intentions?
e.g., if Paul had been upfront with Pike all along ("hey coach dont count on me coming back" but only publicly announced just now and maybe that prompted Pike to pick up Fernandes as insurance? then IMHO criticism is not really deserved.
on other hand if he's been telling Pike the opposite (or nothing) all along then, yes, youd be 100% right... this would be worse than Cam (certainly as it relates to timing)
but we know none of this so really our opinions on here (including mine) are meaningless and ignorant
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unfortunately now we have a very small PG, a small SG who is not really a shooter, and no bench at the guard position. This has a long season written all over it right now.
in the end maybe we end up losing Cam and Paul, but the second we lost Baye Njongo to NIL, the Mag rumors started to swirl
We locked him up
And then we lost Cam and Paul.
Im wondering if teams saw what happened in how we lost Baye and thought our grad transfers would be easy targets
These guys waited until May/June to transfer. I don’t think that was part of the plan.
Yes, I recognize that their value went up after the portal closed but this is probably something to keep an eye on. You’re gonna see more of it
We locked him up
And then we lost Cam and Paul.
Im wondering if teams saw what happened in how we lost Baye and thought our grad transfers would be easy targets
These guys waited until May/June to transfer. I don’t think that was part of the plan.
Yes, I recognize that their value went up after the portal closed but this is probably something to keep an eye on. You’re gonna see more of it
He plays like he did at the end of last year he’s going to quickly find out all fan bases are exactly the same
Except you won’t win many B1G games with two small guards and no bench…so there won’t be a “March”
Pikiell is living in the stone age. His koom-bah-yah approach to locker room chemistry has screwed us time and time again. Myles, JY, Mathis defecting probably moved us from a Sweet 16 team to a first four. Holding on to Rieber, Miller, and Palm for an extra year cost us a bid. We have been sleepwalking through this offseason and now have 4 open scholarships and a starter returning from ACL surgery. We are essentially 8 deep at this very minute and that consists of a frosh PG, and an unproven redshirt
