If Pike has NIL money he will get good players. If he doesn’t then you will get a repeat of this year next year.How does Rutgers attract difference make type recruits from the transfer portal after such a disaster of a season?Wishful thinking isn't the answer.
I didn’t scour anything, I’m in a Facebook (I know RC 90 I’m old) RU group and I opened FB and it was right at the top. I checked her first to make sure someone else didn’t already post and I posted because I thought someone else might want to read. If you don’t like a post title you don’t have to read it.I have no idea how you can come to the conclusion that I “just want to pretend no one is noticing nationally” when I literally said that Pike deserves every bullet he’s going to get in the media.
My point is that you (and maybe others) seem to have made it your agenda to scour every corner of the internet for negative Rutgers bball articles and run here to post them all. For what? Information we all already know.
Could have had EwinIf Pike has NIL money he will get good players. If he doesn’t then you will get a repeat of this year next year.
let's also add a Thread Topic for all the "we're cheap it's all because we're cheap and don't donate enough to NIL" thread too then :)You mean the threads or the articles? I didn't read the article.
(1) Yes but
(2) put it in his other thread about the same general topic. We don't need an individual thread for every random article
Could have had Ewin
Pikiell is the Kenny Powers to your Stevie, he is not deserving of your loyaltyI keep reading this everywhere but nobody knows that for a fact.
We have no idea what was exactly happening or being discussed in the negotiations…or how many times he came back asking for more.
Also, we could have ponied up even more and then he could have easily just continued entertaining offers from other schools and gone to the highest bidder.
Most of these transfers are interested in driving up their payday.
When you have a small bucket of NIL to fill a roster relative to most other Power 4 schools there are situations where you have to make decisions and move on.
wisconsin is in top 25 and projected 4 seed and their NIL isnt good. Purdue isnt paying out 4-5 million either. Neither did Oregon or UCLA this year.You are delusional. you are not coming to grips with reality. $4-5M is the minimum to be a top 25 team. Maryland for example, got a $10M donation just for mens basketball.
The good news with the house legislation coming up is all of it will be somewhat stabilized in 2026-2027 season pending legal challenges. The bad news is every single school will be emptying their "war chests" by july 1st this year. this season will be nuts.
Based on this, expect the same season maybe worse.
Pikiell is the Kenny Powers to your Stevie, he is not deserving of your loyalty
I know but you implicitly made an excuse for him not landing EwinI didn’t mention Pikiell one time in that post.
I only got that from the moderators who I think are more in tune than all of us. …..it’s not just a river in EgyptI keep reading this everywhere but nobody knows that for a fact.
We have no idea what was exactly happening or being discussed in the negotiations…or how many times he came back asking for more.
Also, we could have ponied up even more and then he could have easily just continued entertaining offers from other schools and gone to the highest bidder.
Most of these transfers are interested in driving up their payday.
When you have a small bucket of NIL to fill a roster relative to most other Power 4 schools there are situations where you have to make decisions and move on.
I know but you implicitly made an excuse for him not landing Ewin
Very true, and Dylan and Ace were a part of the bad defense this team played, whether individual defense or part of the team defense. Everyone was bad on the defensive side, but they played their part as well in that. They were good offensively, no doubt as they were the offense for this team, but they were just as lost as everybody else defensively.Few things........
1. The run that brought us back in to the game came when Harper was on the bench
2. Harper got absolutely toasted off the dribble in the 2nd to last possession of the game and shot an air ball in the last possession.
I don't want to hear it Harper had nothing to do with the loss. He was getting beat all day defensively. Defense and offense are equally important.
I only got that from the moderators who I think are more in tune than all of us. …..it’s not just a river in Egypt
wisconsin is in top 25 and projected 4 seed and their NIL isnt good. Purdue isnt paying out 4-5 million either. Neither did Oregon or UCLA this year.
Kansas State had a top 10 NIL in the country and went 16-17. Arkansas had to make a late push to make the NCAA as a 10 seed despite top 5 NIL
agree it’s not always that simple, although I think in this case it pretty much was. not buying the whole “well what if he just keeps asking for more money?”… that’s what a negotiation is, and that’s where we need a GM who can assign a relative value to these players and draw an appropriate line on NIL we can offer them. Pike apparently wasn’t even willing to negotiate, which you simply need to do in this era.That’s your interpretation.
I’ve been critical of Pikiell plenty times on this board, so not sure why you would assume that.
For example, I’ll be the first to say it’s also Pikiell job to raise NIL.
But everything isn’t always 100% Pikiell’s fault.
Lots of people continue to ignore the fact that we are up against the same obstacles we’ve been up against for decades when it comes to support and commitments from fans and donors.
Hence my overall point - sometimes its not always as simple as “we could have had Elwin”.
agree it’s not always that simple, although I think in this case it pretty much was. not buying the whole “well what if he just keeps asking for more money?”… that’s what a negotiation is, and that’s where we need a GM who can assign a relative value to these players and draw an appropriate line on NIL we can offer them. Pike apparently wasn’t even willing to negotiate, which you simply need to do in this era.
and yes it’s not 100% Pike’s fault, but it has to be at least like 50% his fault. He has full control over the roster, the game plan, the non-conference schedule. sure, he may be slightly hamstrung by our NIL situation, but there are coaches out there doing more with less and who didn’t have two 5-star recruits already locked in regardless of the money.
no im addressing his hyperbole as I just rattled off schools from the big 10 that didnt have huge 5 million nils this seasonAre you actually trying to argue that more NIL doesn’t give you a better chance of being successful?
Of course there are always outliers.
So when Richie reports our HS recruits Ware goes 1/9 from the Ft line in a game and Mark only scored 8 in a game is he also not being truthful?
Defaults to personal insults = loser of the argumentJfc you have some serious comprehension issues.
This conversation is a bit too advanced for you, clearly.
Defaults to personal insults = loser of the argument
Thanks for taking your head out of the sand to participate, kindly put it back
It was a yes or no question. You answer no discussion over. It’s worse than politics on here between those that think we’re just fine because it’s not Eddie Jordan and those that see the program on a downward trend with no changes. I just wanted to have a discussion but you turned it to personal attacks.
Thanks spelling police. Obviously you know what I meant. Waste of time engaging with you. Take good care!You attacked my “compression” yesterday in another thread.
Do you already forget that?
Thanks spelling police. Obviously you know what I meant. Waste of time engaging with you. Take good care!
Weird that CBS didn’t reach out to Otto Kornas for comment.Every tweet too!!
Fair assessment of the failure at the portal and the failure of positive impacts from Jeremiah , JMike ( not even mentioned ) or Manny. That is 7 players that didn’t do what they were supposed to do and did it worse than any other transfers in the country. Wow.![]()
How transfer portal miscalculations derailed Rutgers' most anticipated season of college basketball ever
Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey were great, but coach Steve Pikiell failed to deliver necessary pieces around themwww.cbssports.com
“Historic Squander of Talent”
I am sorry......if i was starving and someone gave me food and then continued to feed me for a few weeks. Then gave me steak (that he went out and got) I wouldn't complain that my carrots were undercooked.
So many fans on this board are fans PRIMARILY because of Pike.
If Pike has NIL money he will get good players. If he doesn’t then you will get a repeat of this year next year.
he was dead last in the portal out of 78 other programs. let that sink in, dead last! every portal player he took, with the exception of maybe Acuff, was a huge reach, and even a net negative for the team.Wonder what part of this was bad evaluation vs lack of NIL?
No one really knows the answer to that question. All we know is that our NIL was shit and that the vast majority of the fans/alumni refuse to help but will blame Pike. Can’t have it both ways. We lost a rim protector because Alabama paid a million. We got a division 2 player. We got no power 5 transfers to come here. That tells me Pike had no money.Do you think HC Pike got the absolute best players he could - considering the circumstances?
Obviously he can't get the best players overall.
But of the smaller pool available, did he get the best?
I would argue expecting significant contributions from JWill, Davis and Derkack is a misappropriation of those limited resources.
It's not about "what he could do if he had unlimited resources" it's about "what can he do with the resources available."
Yes, definitely. Maybe if we get four of the top five NBA lottery picks next year, we can win a game in our conference tournament. Maybe.the $$$$$$$$$.. That's it. Support NIL and we will get all the pieces we need
ignoring it does not change anything. we are in a new era of basketball. Spencer left for money, Cliff left for money, etc...
we need $5M just to be relevant. SEC schools are paying every single player on the roster all six figures.
Harper and Bailey came here for free?The article should have mentioned NIL money and the lack of it
A lot of the problem was poor use of what talent there was.Wonder what part of this was bad evaluation vs lack of NIL?