But, But, But Pike got us to the dance last year.
- Thread starter SantaFeScarlet
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I’m not so sure about that. But I am concerned that the recruiting, in all forms, may be lazy, or unorganized, or without a real focus, or something. More than anything, personnel is killing us this year.
And how has that turned out so far. He most likely will be transferring also.
If Jones has that much talent he should be playing more in this rotation.
If you can't recruit, you have nothing to coach!
I told everyone over and over again after losing Jacob and Myles in the preseason that this team is mentally weak, that our recruiting has been abysmal, that Pike has completely failed to bring relevant talent here for 2 years now.. and I got completely lambasted. The legions of low expectation-having RU fans came out of the woodwork: fat, dumb and happy that Rutgers has had some recent success, and not comprehending that we're likely headed for the abyss for at least 2 years, with Pike falling way behind the rest of the conference in selling RU as a destination to talented players.
Can you repeat to me what the argument was? This statement has zero relevance to the arguement.
Going to be hard for Agee to be our power forward next year considering he is out of eligibility after this year.
Pike is a nice guy, maybe too nice sometimes. Your team is a reflection of you. No fire or eye of the tiger in this team. He should have built off the last couple years when we snuck up on people. Not sneaking up on anyone anymore and he hasn't built off going to the dance. Sorry to say and it sucks.
Pike gets huge credit for building the program. It’s now how does Hobbs and our fan base see our program. Many are apparently content to be good for 2-3 years, drop off for a few years to rebuild again, and try to be good for another 2-3 year spurt. Others believe that once it’s built a B1G school in the NJ/NYC area should be a perennial NCAA team thinking about making deep runs. Let’s remind ourselves — a small Catholic school within less than 2 hours from here has become a top 10 program and won national titles. Our fans need to think much bigger.
This is rutgers . Our fanbase still talks poetically about losing the NIT. A gif on this board started a thread about making the NIT this year . I am thrilled if we can make the tournament every few years and make runs like you describe
How about Indiana, a former blue blood who hasn't made the tournament in 5 years and held on to their former coach for several mediocre years?
Sure, it'd be great to reach the status of Villanova and a goal to try to achieve, but Nova is one of the 10 best basketball programs in the country for a couple of decades, with a Hall of Fame coach who can recruit blue chippers in his sleep.
It's like you want to go from crawling to going 60mph in a season or two
What happens if we fire Pike and the next coach turns out to be a bum?
I think too many people are just assuming we fire Pike and hire some super stud coach who will up recruiting to stack the roster and we will be contending for a title before you know it
Sure, that COULD happen.... but we could also do worse...
I think too many people are just assuming we fire Pike and hire some super stud coach who will up recruiting to stack the roster and we will be contending for a title before you know it
Sure, that COULD happen.... but we could also do worse...
Good call on the mentality weak piece.
This team has mental weaknesses down to a science
Recruiting FYI (I have gathered these ratings from a nameless site that has numerical ratings which are easy to average):
2020 | |
| Jacob Young | 0.9414 |
| Montez Mathis | 0.9359 |
| Paul Mulcahy | 0.9232 |
| Ron Harper Jr. | 0.9137 |
| Mamadou Ducoure | 0.9097 |
| Caleb McConnell | 0.8678 |
| Shaq Carter | 0.8628 |
| Myles Johnson | 0.8519 |
| Geo Baker | 0.8365 |
| Akwasi Yeboah | 0 |
| Peter Kiss | 0 |
| Average (excluding zeros) | 0.894 |
2023 | |
| Clfford Omoruyi | 0.9813 |
| Jaden Jones | 0.9249 |
| Paul Mulcahy | 0.9232 |
| Mawot Mag | 0.8912 |
| Jalen Miller | 0.8886 |
| Oskar Palmquist | 0.8678 |
| Dean Reiber | 0.8678 |
| Caleb McConnell | 0.8678 |
| Aundre Hyatt | 0.8639 |
| Derek Simpson | 0.8556 |
| Antwone Woolfolk | 0.8328 |
| Ralph Agee | 0 |
| Average (excluding zeros) | 0.888 |
Unless those same fans are GIVING bigger why does it make a difference if they are THINKING bigger?
I'm curious as to what your actual position is because you post a lot of the same stuff over and over again when we lose but never seem to get to what you would like to actually happen.
- Are you advocating for firing Pike? If not then why are you challenging other fans who say he will get a couple more seasons?
- If you are advocating for firing Pike..........
- How is the remainder of his contract getting paid (~$13.5M through the 2025-26 season) - are you planning on ponying up the cash?
- What coach are you recommending to replace him and at what salary (going rate will likely be around $4M - so essentially we will be paying >$7M per season for a Basketball Coach for the next 4 seasons)
Look at all the people who liked this idiotic comment....😀😀😀😀😀.
Mark your words, lol
Pike coached a very good game today…especially the last few minutes. This team was also desperately lacking a leader on the court. We now have one in Paul Mulcahy. He needed confidence. I think the turning point with him was the 2nd half at NW.
laziest post I’ve ever seen..which makes sense when so much of his effort is trashing the team.
To be fair, we don’t know how this team looks next season.
We lose an awful lot, but right now they have it clicking
