Dick Weiss on this year's team
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Mike was on the first NCAA team in 75 and was an executive at Xerox. Great guy and great fan of the program.
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Another poster in the thread asked about him. I didn't remember him either so I appreciated the information. It's okay to not be cranky all the time.
I guess it's no different than some of the experts on the football forum. They criticize the recruiting even though none of them have played or coached on any level. Yet they are the most knowledgeable people around.🤣
It's amazing the insights you can glean from a couch.
It's not that hard to figure out his reply was talking about who Mike MacDonald is, not a response to your questioning Weiss' statement, even though he replied to your message.
Weiss also tweeted that Cliff "has NBA potential written all over him". I will take the word of Weiss, who has been doing this for a long time and saw the team practice, over people who have not and are just going by the metrics of losing Johnson and Young.
Come on. He's a sports columnist. That's his opinion.
Just like the experts on this board. No coaching experience. No playing experience. Just their opinions. 😁
If you watched UCLA and DePaul practice do you think you could figure out who was better?
Lets just say I'd be more concerned if Weiss had just attended practice and said " its pretty clear losing Johnson and Young is going to be hard for Rutgers to overcome this year."
A sports columnist who’s nickname happens to be “Hoops”. He knows college basketball.
This is a great point. If he had said that, we would almost all be concerned.
It was "Hoops Weiss" .
Let's just hope he's better at picking BB teams than his toupees.
I don’t care about his rug. Hoops is old school Big 5 Philly guy and the bestIt was "Hoops Weiss" .
Let's just hope he's better at picking BB teams than his toupees.
Oh God. This is serious. I'd rather fly more under the radar. But it sounds like we have a chance to be really good this year.😯
Weiss needs to stop telling our secret. I want us to sneak up on teams
Now not to temper expectations but just being the best team November 1st does not mean by thing by March 1st. I mean, last year, we looked like a top 10 team in actual games and it didn’t end in us looking like a top 10 team in the nation. However, these results are only encouraging and I trust this group + home fans too keep the squad together and focused for the season. As long as we do that, this team is going to be incredible
When you are in the B1G, you don’t sneak up on anyone
I have a pretty good sample size of watching how our “best players” perform in real games. I saw last year how much we relied on guys who have left on the defensive end.
not saying a big year isn’t possible. I just view this year as a rebuilding/transition year. I will be pleasantly surprised if we enter February with a chance at a postseason berth.
Let's punch holes in that theory.
2017-2018, Rutgers was 15-19 (3-15) with Corey Sanders, Mike Williams, and Deshawn Freeman. Mike was the heart of the team, while Corey and Deshawn carried the scoring load. I recall some posters saying the team would be worse the following years without them. Well, let's see how that turned out. Rutgers (2018-2019) went 14-17 (7-13) with a fresh set of characters who replaced the so-called "studs." Guys like Eugene Omoruyi developed, and no one saw that coming. In Pike, we trust. Then there was a group of freshmen who had mixed reviews from plenty of posters on here, yet they played with heart and commitment. The 2018/2019 team was better when you compare the two teams from top to bottom.
Pike has shown each year, his teams get better as he switches the players to match the style he wants to display. We saw midway through the season last year, those so-called studs had chemistry issues that almost torpedoed the season. It is possible to get better through subtraction. You can even use the Eugene Omoruyi situation from 3 seasons ago as another example of removing an important piece to make the team better.
I will be very happy if we never hear another word about Eugene what’s his name again. That crap he pulled after we just announced a game in a foreign country FOR HIM was pathetic.
Who played with more energy on the team than Jacob? So convenient to blame the guy who is gone.
Deshawn Freeman was named captain that year and he was a disaster and it took forever for Pike to reduce his role.
My eyes tell me that the 3 captain worthy players that are here are Caleb, Paul and Cliff. We know they aren’t captains.
Thanks for the heads up. I thought we would be declared national champs already.
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Just a heads up. UCONN is scrimmaging Rutgers at 11AM in Storrs. Hopefully some good info comes out. Looking forward to the Sanogo-Omoruyi matchup. This will be a much better test than Harvard as, according to RU beat writers, RU handled Nova in a scrimmage a couple weekends ago. Ron Harper...
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I had dinner with Hoops about 20 years ago and asked him how he got his nickname. Dick was a Columbia University student at the time and Columbia was playing Penn at the Palestra the following night. Dick who was calling the game or doing color was intently watching the U of P squad going through their practice. One of the radio kids from Penn saw Weiss and yelled out to him that he showed up a day early for the game. His reply was that he was trying to memorize the number of the Penn Squad and relate them to the names so he didn’t need to use the program when calling the game. The Penn individual yelled back “ hey Weiss you know you are crazy, Hoops Crazy”. It got shortened to Hoops. Interesting and knowledgeable reporter that at his age still Loves the Game.
It seems an insane disproportionate number of classic basketball stories come from the Palestra. I have more vivid memories of the 1989 A10 semi there than I do the final at the RAC vs. Penn State. I can still see Craig Carter hanging in the air in the lane for the game-winner vs. Temple that made John Chaney absolutely meltdown in the post game presser. I used to have a videotape of the game showing me run on the floor but it disappeared.
Can not wait for the season !
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