Great articles. I will ALWAYS be a huge fan of Dylan's and Ace's for their decisions to cast their lots with RU. Dylan is a young man who, I'm sure, did not envision the health issues he encountered this year. He seems so uber talented and smart. As for Ace, this is a young man that came here as a 3, possibly a 2. He was asked to sometimes play here as a 4, sometimes as a 5. He never complained after he arrived here about that. He also never wavered in his original verbal commitment, not once. He seems so effortlessly gifted physically, its amazing. Neither of them generated any vibe of poor attitude, despite some fans wondering aloud about when they would throw in the towel during the season. We ended up with these two young men through $$$$ machinations that I'm pretty sure most fans still do not understand. That Pike did not end up putting the best possible supporting cast together for these two stars....well I can't say that I was surprised by that. Do you think that Pike, the ex-AD, Schiano or anybody in this Athletic Department ever dreamed that RU would get two players like this...in one recruiting cycle/class???? I'd be lying if I said I thought so. It was like when Phil Sellers committed here in 1972.... I said, "WHAT???!!!". It's no wonder we had no idea how to best handle our good fortune. Short of having the sensational-year-that never-happened, this type of exit by Dylan and Ace is the best we can hope for. We provided a cocoon of safety for these kids for a year - they seem to be leaving appreciative and with absence of malice. I hope Pike and Schiano can continue to evolve in this still-new era of NIL and multiple free agent/non-contractual portals. Life at Rutgers is usually "there's always next year "...it will likely always continue that way. Go Dylan! Go Ace! Go RU!
