Chuba Ohams announcing tomorrow
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Aleem Ford, another skinny wing player, wow, staff is really confident in Diallo and Shaq protecting the rim and rebounding next year...
"Locking" up this class? Interesting way to refer to how EJ arrived at this class. Somehow, locking it up just doesn't seem right.
Nor does the belief that this team's roster will be static up to and through even next year's recruiting season. Nor does the notion that keeping a not-good coach around for another year won't do further and deep damage but instead will be a good thing. Nor does the notion that one more year of this will do anything but make it harder on the next guy and worse for RU overall. And, most of all, nor does the notion that it's worth waiting yet another year to determine whether what we've been seeing with EJ, all the way down to this year's recruiting debacle and team performance, has all been a mirage and he might turn out to be a coach we should extend.
Sometimes I wonder whether the act of even discussing whether EJ has earned another year has simply masked what a crazy, historically, unfathomably bad season this has been, how revealing and terrible it was to swing and miss on all recruiting in the fall, and how incomprehensible it is to have some NJ basketball coaches saying in an article that they don't see our coach or know his assistants. Another year won't be a good thing in any way. It will be bad. There won't be a silver lining to it. And the only reason it might happen is money, but that would be short-sighted.
It's comical.
This guy I never heard of is talked up for weeks by the Eddie fan club. While he's predicted 100% to RU we hear about his potential, length, etc. See the early posts in this thread.
Then he picks Fordam and there is immediately a new narrative of why we want no part of him. Also, we have better targets. The guys endlessly touting him clam up and the prospect who was talked up for weeks never existed. No one questions Eddie's talent evaluation or ability to close.
The funny (or maybe sad) thing is that the spin is so easy with this level of prospect because they're so under the radar. The next CJ Fair one minute, damaged goods the next...
Good luck with that...roster turnover happens at every program and has been a given with Eddie as each year multiple players left or renegged on their verbal
I'm not saying Eddie HAS to return next year, I am just saying we don't have to extend him after this season in order to keep recruiting viable.
Also - if Eddie's limited contract is such an issue, why are these 3 Spring verbals coming on board if Eddie currently only has 2 years on contract remaining?
And if we fire Jordan, I really don't want to lose Sanders. Maybe you don't keep Jordan just for that reason, but it is a consideration.
Again, I am not in love with Jordan by any means.
Ohio even put me on his ignore list because of my criticisms of EJ!
If Eddie doesn't win next season, history suggests that both he and Sanders will be gone anyway.
Freeman will be a grad transfer candidate. So we're either rebuilding this year or after next unless Eddie wins enough games to warrant an extension or a fifth season.
How many conference games next year is good enough to keep Eddie? 4? 6? Did we see enough from Foreman, Diallo and Doorson to project that?
We played at St. John's (270-280 KenPom team) without two of their players and blew a big second half lead. Who played for us? Corey, Freeman, Mike, DJ, Diallo, Laurent, Grier, Lewis, Goode, Bishop. 10 guys. We were missing Doorson. That's it. Same as Wake Forest game.
Hard to project 4-6 conference wins when we lose Grier, Lewis and Bishop and gain a reserve guard transfer and three raw freshman.
Freeman will be a grad transfer candidate. So we're either rebuilding this year or after next unless Eddie wins enough games to warrant an extension or a fifth season.
How many conference games next year is good enough to keep Eddie? 4? 6? Did we see enough from Foreman, Diallo and Doorson to project that?
We played at St. John's (270-280 KenPom team) without two of their players and blew a big second half lead. Who played for us? Corey, Freeman, Mike, DJ, Diallo, Laurent, Grier, Lewis, Goode, Bishop. 10 guys. We were missing Doorson. That's it. Same as Wake Forest game.
Hard to project 4-6 conference wins when we lose Grier, Lewis and Bishop and gain a reserve guard transfer and three raw freshman.
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One player equals 4-5 wins?! Not even Corey was good enough to equal 4-5 wins this season and he's awesome. That's nothing against Nigel he's a baller but no one player coming here nxet year is equal to that many wins.
Since my post was deleted - FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON - I'll try again:
How the hell do we lost yet another kid to Fordham? Isn't this the 2nd time Eddie has lost out to them now?
How the hell do we lost yet another kid to Fordham? Isn't this the 2nd time Eddie has lost out to them now?
No
I'd just hate to start all over again.
If we get a new coach this year, will Sanders leave, and how many players will also leave?
Will the new coach have any players left?
Would the new coach have more to work with after 2017 vice after 2016?
I still wouldn't make any decisions until this season is over.
Then I'd evaluate where we are.
If we totally tank and the team just gives up, then it's an easy decision.
If we keep fighting and show some progress with such a small healthy roster, ehh, maybe he stays.
If we do hire a new coach, do the 3/4 Spring signees still come to RU, or do they have the option to leave?
Just wondering, when we do hire a new coach, how many scholllies will he be able to offer?
I'm sure there would be some transfers whenever this happens.
It would suck if the new guy comes in and has no open spots his 1st year. Hard to make a splash that way.
We stopped recruiting Ohams a couple of weeks ago. I would have saved everyone the trouble of this thread if I knew anyone cared...hard to tell from reading the boards these days.
Thanks, didn't realize how outrageous the Kansas State backcourt must have been last year so that the Monster Baller could only get starts when someone was injured. Hey, who were those guys?
BK is an island of calm in a sea of very angry and bitter sharks..
Skills are important in basketball, too. That's something that Rutgers teams have lacked for the better part of the last 30 years. All of the better teams in the B1G have guys with length and long arms. Their lengthy long-armed guys can play defense and shoot the damn ball.
It's a shame that a program insider who could provide a lot of information has been driven off by the same 5 or so clowns constantly beating the drum of negativity. They will not be content until the entire board consists of the same 5 posters saying the same thing over and over.
One of these guys tried the same thing on the women's basketball board...thankfully she shot that down and that board is focused on fans discussing basketball in a positive and respectful manner.
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The same nonsense was heard on the football boards when verbals flipped and then the response was that the players were not that good in the first place.Its called sour grapes regardless the sport.
