Judging by the way the flu has gone through Harper and Williams and if Bailey was just coming down with the flu my hunch is he will not play tomorrow night and if he is out please don't have him on the bench I just don't understand that logic by our medical staff; You have a highly contagious virus and the players previously have been on the bench with the flu
Does Ace play Tomorrow Night?
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I think logically it makes sense that if it just started getting bad on Sunday, that doesn't bode well for tomorrow. Hopefully it doesn't hit him as hard because a loss tomorrow could derail any hope for a postseason tournament.
And me too; This year is the highest rate of flu cases in 15 years so its not just RU unfortunately just our Rutgers luck that it hits THIS year
He should not have been at the game Sunday, he should have been in bed. Doing that Sunday jeopardizes the chances of him playing tomorrow. Don't understand these medical decisions.
The amount of injuries around the country with other programs (not just RU), makes these situations more ridiculous than many realize. The teams like Baylor (down their starting 5 for a couple of games), and more importantly for RU, a organization like the NCAA is going to make a determination that the team has a complete resume, when it doesn't.
The reality is that every player and program should be evaluated based on where that team is at the end of the aeason and not based on a Q1 victory in the Battle of Atlantis or Maui, when teams before Thanksgiving are not the same as they are around President's Day or certainly in early March.
The fact that clearly more talented teams like Texas A&M a couple of years ago, got shut out of the NCAAs, because a phantom committee decided that almost winning 4 games in 4 days means nothing, but a November loss means more, is just dumb.
Put the most talented and skilled players into March Madness and evaluate the rosters based on when they are full strength. To compare Northwestern at full strength to Rutgers at full strength, is not the same thing.
This is not lobbying for RU to be given an exception for not winning enough games, but I also know RU would not have defeated Northwestern and Nebraska on the road or Illinois or UCLA at the RAC, if it was the same lineup or players healthy like it has been for parts of January and February......claiming late November vs Monmouth and Merrimack is important to blow teams out, defeats the purpose of player development.
I'd rather see a team or roster get rewarded for player development during November and December and building up towards a pinnacle competition in mid March, than proving something by how many points RU defeats Seton Hall or Columbia by in December.....Seton Hall is worse now than December and so is Columbia.....RU, despite the record saying 12-12, is better than that, if Dylan Harper is healthy and doesn't miss games with the flu and now Ace Bailey might as well.
This is not the same thing as Mawot Mag tearing his ACL and not coming back to play or in the situation of Iowa, missing Owen Freeman with a broken bone in his hand.....Common sense would indicate a season ending injury should be viewed differently than a rolled ankle or flu bug that takes away 25% of a conference schedule from a player.
Cannot wait to have these bigger conferences break away from the NCAA and have their own tournament, for NIL money, in Vegas every March and let the fans migrate there every spring. Spread the games out in the 3 Vegas venues and make it a real "bowl like" tournament. Enough of games in Spokane Washington or Albuquerque New Mexico, with 3 days notice to travel.
The reality is that every player and program should be evaluated based on where that team is at the end of the aeason and not based on a Q1 victory in the Battle of Atlantis or Maui, when teams before Thanksgiving are not the same as they are around President's Day or certainly in early March.
The fact that clearly more talented teams like Texas A&M a couple of years ago, got shut out of the NCAAs, because a phantom committee decided that almost winning 4 games in 4 days means nothing, but a November loss means more, is just dumb.
Put the most talented and skilled players into March Madness and evaluate the rosters based on when they are full strength. To compare Northwestern at full strength to Rutgers at full strength, is not the same thing.
This is not lobbying for RU to be given an exception for not winning enough games, but I also know RU would not have defeated Northwestern and Nebraska on the road or Illinois or UCLA at the RAC, if it was the same lineup or players healthy like it has been for parts of January and February......claiming late November vs Monmouth and Merrimack is important to blow teams out, defeats the purpose of player development.
I'd rather see a team or roster get rewarded for player development during November and December and building up towards a pinnacle competition in mid March, than proving something by how many points RU defeats Seton Hall or Columbia by in December.....Seton Hall is worse now than December and so is Columbia.....RU, despite the record saying 12-12, is better than that, if Dylan Harper is healthy and doesn't miss games with the flu and now Ace Bailey might as well.
This is not the same thing as Mawot Mag tearing his ACL and not coming back to play or in the situation of Iowa, missing Owen Freeman with a broken bone in his hand.....Common sense would indicate a season ending injury should be viewed differently than a rolled ankle or flu bug that takes away 25% of a conference schedule from a player.
Cannot wait to have these bigger conferences break away from the NCAA and have their own tournament, for NIL money, in Vegas every March and let the fans migrate there every spring. Spread the games out in the 3 Vegas venues and make it a real "bowl like" tournament. Enough of games in Spokane Washington or Albuquerque New Mexico, with 3 days notice to travel.
I disagree wholeheartedly. The first game of the season is 1/30th and the last game of the season is 1/30th. Otherwise why have a season at all. What you’re talking about is a made-for-TV special, which is somewhat what the NCAA is BUT in theory there is still supposed to be fairness towards it, like all the other championships. You have the SEC mindset that Alabama football should have been in the playoffs at 9-3, forget the earlier losses to Vanderbilt and 6-6 Oklahoma
Without being there you don't know. The flu could have hit the morning of the game at which point he didn't feel that bad.
I thought he was sick a few days prior to Sunday’s game? I thought a weight loss number was thrown out during the game by the announcers. If Sunday was like day 3 then he may be good by tomorrow night. Only time will tell I guess.
They referred to Jwill about the flu and him losing 12lbs over a week due to it
Me too...2nd day of it and Its bad..nauseous not hungry and can't sleep
Looks like I'll miss the game tomorrow 😢🤢
I was sick yesterday but still had energy to workout with no issues..went to another level today
I think what Hawk is saying is that there should be some focus on the games in the last month of the season.
I do agree with you that a team’s entire resume should be taken into account. Our losses to Kennesaw and Princeton happened, and they must be taken into consideration.
That said, I do think that the Committee should go back to using a team’s final 10 games as one of many “metrics” in the overall calculus. Final 10 games should be on the Team Sheets so that a team’s progress is taken into account.
Well then let’s win the rest of our games and see how it plays out
The dentist with anger management issues is now trying to play doctor. 😄
I don't get why these guys can't play through the flu... Isaac Haas played with chlamydia for years.
i just got over it. If Ace was me Day 5 might be able to play with Advil and by Day 7 would be close to 100%
Ace is younger and maybe didnt have what i had
Ace is younger and maybe didnt have what i had
Wow, never thought that March Madness could be topped, however this idea could have some legs
Man all these guys losing all this weight? I think i need to get the flu!
March Madness is the most fun thing in American sports. David v. Goliath is a huge part of its appeal. Yes the committee is imperfect but that’s life. A big conference breakaway ….. snooze.
I've had multiple cases where I've been sick, then felt better and basically felt 100% while doing normal things (e.g. walking around, going to work, etc.). Then I tried to go for a run that would not normally be difficult for me and I basically felt like I was about to die and couldn't finish more than like 2/3rds of it.
My point being that it isn't that weird imo that someone wouldn't know they couldn't be effective until they actually tried. It's also not that weird that Harper was able to be out and about at the women's basketball games and stuff while he still wasn't able to be effective on the court.
My point being that it isn't that weird imo that someone wouldn't know they couldn't be effective until they actually tried. It's also not that weird that Harper was able to be out and about at the women's basketball games and stuff while he still wasn't able to be effective on the court.
Absolutely
Who hasn’t experienced this… you’re feeling “a bit under the weather” (not even a bad cold and not the flu) - so you go to work and function just fine all day but walking upstairs gets you completely out of breath (and I mean much more than usual LOL)
As a fan I’ve never missed watching a game due to the flu. You do what you have to do.
I watched from the couch vs. Illinois...went back and forth about 10X until i made the right choice to stay home. Would have worn a mask if I went.
I’m at the residual stage of Flu-A, wasn’t great, max temp was around 102.5 and no stomach problems. The guys on the team sound like they’re getting a strain that also has a stomach component to it alongside the upper respiratory infection which sucks and is why they’re all losing weight.
I'm thinking it sounds more like noro virus which is also going around. All flu's, no matter the strain are generally respiratory viruses.
You can’t play with nausea or the liquid shits…period.
Those two are the weight losers and take your energy
Those two are the weight losers and take your energy
I had the 'flu' back in the early '90s and have taken the flu shot ever since. I never want to have the Flu again.
Are the players getting offered flu shots and refusing to take them? Have they taken the flu shot and really have
normal bad colds?
Personally I think that people are getting those bad colds and just calling them 'the Flu' because with the Flu you feel
really sick and can't get out of bed. Seems our guys are on the bench and practicing, but not playing.
Are the players getting offered flu shots and refusing to take them? Have they taken the flu shot and really have
normal bad colds?
Personally I think that people are getting those bad colds and just calling them 'the Flu' because with the Flu you feel
really sick and can't get out of bed. Seems our guys are on the bench and practicing, but not playing.
When I’m not feeling so hot, my hot wife makes me hot tea and for a hot minute I’ll consider going to the game but hot damn, if the team gets hot then I stay on the couch. Don’t wanna take the heat for jinxing them.
Pike said in a presser recently that they all had the flu shot. Yeah the flu puts you bed, period. I had it several years ago and never want that again. I really do think some people call almost anything the flu. That being said, who knows what these kids had, lots of stuff going around this winter.
Driving 78 West towards 81 or PA Tpke you hit a town called Shartlesville. Can you imaging living in that town?
Once back in the late 1980s I was driving back to college and my car (which was an old junker) broke down in Shartlesville. I wound up killing time at the Dairy Queen until a couple of pledges came to pick me up.
This strand is no joke. Waves of nausea all last night and only had a banana which was upchucked an hour later. Be vigilant out there
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