Great article NIL/Portal (Boston Globe)
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How did Xavian Lee or Brayden Smith do against our defense?
Even last year with our great defense.
Every player in the NBA has a better offensive skillset in nearly every aspect than them.
12 players better and bigger than Lee on every team.
Even most centers can adequately shoot 3s.
Caleb McConnell was arguably the best defensive player in the country.
And even his defense can't get him onto an NBA roster because he's so far behind offensively.
RHJ can't get on an NBA roster because his offense and defense are so far behind.
Now design a defense to stop that consistently.
I think in future there will be two year contracts. Gives the kid a chance to transfer once and u get to have a team for two years
The problem is that, with no antitrust exemption or collective bargaining agreement, just about ANY "restriction" on college athletes' movement or compensation is probably illegal.
One-year sit-out rule for transfers? Would be deemed illegal restraint of trade.
Rule only permitting a single transfer in a 4-year period? Would be deemed illegal restraint of trade.
Heck, even a "salary cap" per school could be viewed as an illegal restraint of trade. Salary caps are only permitted in professional sports because of the antitrust exemption AND because each sport is unionized and the collective bargaining agreements allow the caps.
Nothing short of Congressional action can place reasonable guardrails on this NIL/free transfer system that has completely destroyed any semblance of organization in college sports.
RHJs problem is that he doesn’t have a position in the NBA (aside from the fact that the NBA is by far the hardest league to break into). At 6 5 he’s not big enough for a 4 like he played at RU, and not fast enough for the 1,2 or even 3.
We all know Caleb is limited offensively.
Xavian and Brayden both have NBA potential at guard. And Xavian may be one of the funnest players to watch, he’s got a handle.
Hawk,
When was the last time you saw a kid become academically ineligible? Yea, boosters gonna be boosters but the academic side has disappeared. Maybe UNC was ahead of its time with the sham academic courses.
I don’t know why every time someone expresses a preference beyond “winning” it’s hypocritical or something.
Just because winning is often the first priority it doesn’t mean other preferences can’t exist.
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Sure others can exist.
But first priority means above all else.
Hence the term priority.
If you say "I want Rutgers to win. But only if the score is under 70" that's fine.
But then you don't just want Rutgers to win. You want them to win "your way".
Again - which is fine.
Just a little weird to me personally. To put qualifications on your fandom.
If you told me the best odds for Rutgers to win the Big Ten was taking 95% long 2s;- sign me up. Lets go.
It’s funny to watch people who don’t watch the NBA comment on the NBA. The offensive players are exponentially more talented, that they also don’t understand the defense is also on a much higher level, but the superstars in the NBA are almost unstoppable when they are rolling, regardless of what the other team throws at them.
Just to highlight the difference between college and the pros, you could take the best defense Pike has had in his years here, and put that team out against Kyrie Irving, by himself. Kyrie could take the ball from one end, dribble through all 5 players and lay the ball up 10 out of 10 times.
It’s not that. At least not for me. If I thought it was truly possible for Rutgers to win through insanely good offense overcoming a bad defense that couldn’t stop anyone I’d be all for prioritizing offensive studs who can’t defend.
The difference is that elite defense often creates offense at the college level. Rutgers 2023-24 offense was the exception and not the rule in that the offense wasn’t just bad it was historically bad. Our players couldn’t even complete bunny fast break lay ups in transition. Which is why our offense ranked 298th. In general, teams with elite college defenses score points off the turnovers they force. The NBA is different because it’s much harder to cause turnovers at the next level even with the best defenders.
In college, same is not true on the other end. A lights out offense doesn’t do anything for a defense that can’t stop anyone. To win with offense only, you have to sustain lights out scoring possession in and out. I don’t see that in the cards for a Pike coached team. We finished 60th this past season - our best finish ever in Ken Pom offense.
Yup....been saying for a while now (and don't be surprised if it doesn't happen next December)....that football players will be transferring to other schools just in time for the playoffs (yes, I realize there's no "window" open....BUT....who is going to stop them at this point???).
He played all of 11 games. BTW, that season at Duke … he sat next to me at a game at the RAC. A heck of a nice guy. He was there to see a Rutgers player who hailed from North Carolina, who was the brother of one of Kyrie’s friends.
Lot's of folks love to trash the Rutgers fanbase for the NIL budget but perhaps we're not as stupid as folks like to make us out to be (I do contribute a bit). Perhaps we've just decided to put our collective (no pun intended) foot down and say no, too far.
Can’t complain, you gotta adjust. I would have a whole scouting department for overseas youth talent and maybe you can find the next Luka or Wenby. You gotta get ahead of the curve. Find skill. Talent still outshines age in my opinion if you have a lot of talent and skill. I
Oh, I know, but he was special those 11. Don't think he started them all either.
Yep. Think about that. To even say Rutgers success is partially/mostly predicated on the a sum of money collected from it's fanbase to purchase the services of players is insane.
I think I was less excited about this season more than I have been in the last 10 years. Other been being at the Prudential Center and watching Princeton execute an uncontested, layup clinic against Rutgers, I'd say I hardly watched a cumulative 60 minutes of Rutgers basketball this year. NIL killed it for me.
