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WGLTAUD said:
http://www.espn.com/blog/collegebas...r-basketball-players-that-didnt-go-to-rutgers


This is completely embarrassing. We might as well have unpaid interns running RU sports marketing at this point. At least it would be free.
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This just proves, like it or not, that ONE of our rivals is Ucheat..er ah UConn.

Remember the FG that clanked off the crossbar - ensuring a Rutgers "W"? Remember the Savage to Brown catch / run for 80 yards with less than 30 seconds to go to beat
the rabid huskies on their home field?

Not suggesting we let them into B1G (they don't qualify anyway: AAU)...but we might want to continue to play them in several sports just to keep the angst / interest going.

How are they different from Temple (there are those on this board who would advocate playing them)?

Here's hoping we beat UW ....more DOGS!

MO
 
MO: my point is that the folks writing, editing, & producing the stories are smack dab in the middle of UConn country.
 
Ahhh all you amateurs.

This is PERFECT.

How many people now know that Rutgers staff coached those players?

How many people knew that before this "lame" tweet?

No such thing as bad press. People are talking. Rutgers is in the news.\

Sure it would be great if we had something much more positive to say... but this works.. for now.
 
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Lol this is actually pretty funny.

I initially read the thread title and got scared... I thought another terrible scandal was afoot. Haha As long as we aren't getting in trouble, i'll take this publicity with arms wide open
 
mikemarc1 said:
Not really. Lots of press both ways..some are defending us.

Either way...if the worst of our issues are people laughing at a TWEET, we've come a long way!!!
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They are not laughing at the tweet..they are laughing at the program...if Julie was still AD the NJ press would have a field day
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Not the end of the world and maybe, just maybe, it will take attention away from just how bad a program Pikiell took over.
If that lame tweet comes up while talking to a recruit RU is going after, all the recruiter has to say is this HC & staff is different than the ones that Rutgers MBB used to have
and point out how the current RU MBB leadership helped the players they coached get ahead.
 
Uhhhh.....bad tweet - what are they thinking in the basketball department? Also saw a commercial from them where they were trying to be witty and it was a head scratcher.....not sure what is going on over there.
 
bac2therac said:
They are not laughing at the tweet..they are laughing at the program...if Julie was still AD the NJ press would have a field day
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They've been laughing at our program for years now...not because of a tweet. This is SUCH a non-story.
 
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That is such a political stretch. It is like saying Rutgers is responsible for all of those great Ohio State football players. Our coach was the one who coached them.
 
Extra Point said:
That is such a political stretch. It is like saying Rutgers is responsible for all of those great Ohio State football players. Our coach was the one who coached them.
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We're the birthplace of college football. We're responsible for it all. [cheers] :cool2:[banana]
 
With cfb starting in earnest tonight, this story will be out of the news cycle by this evening if not sooner, too much other stuff to discuss this weekend.
 
Rutgers’ twitter ‘gaffe’ is a pretty standard recruiting technique

So what do they have to pitch to recruits? How can they market the Rutgers program? How do they make it appealing to the loads of talent playing basketball in New Jersey high schools? By selling kids on what these coaches were able to accomplish with the players they actually have worked with, the stars from their former schools. If you don’t think that is what Rutgers’ new staff — or any new staff, for that matter — is using as a recruiting pitch then you don’t know a damn thing about recruiting.

Or Rutgers.

The program has no basketball history worth mentioning. None. But neither did SMU when Larry Brown took over, and he turned the Mustangs into a program perennially in or around the top 25 that literally beat out Kentucky for a recruit (Emmanuel Mudiay).

Do you think that Brown was selling players on SMU’s past or his past? Did he say “Come hoop at a football school in a football state” or did he brag about coaching Allen Iverson and the rings he won with Kansas in 1988 and Detroit in 2004?

The bottom line is this: The tweet missed its mark, highlighting player earnings over professional success, and the responses to it have been pretty hilarious.

But I also find it funny that people are up in arms about Rutgers promoting the players their brand new coaching staff has worked with, because if you don’t think that Jim Fox uses Steph Curry to recruit to Appalachian State or Rick Barnes references Kevin Durant in his pitches to Tennessee targets, I have a bridge in Brooklyn you can buy.

Read the whole thing here: http://collegebasketball.nbcsports....fe-is-a-pretty-standard-recruiting-technique/
 
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Scarlet_Scourge said:
Rutgers’ twitter ‘gaffe’ is a pretty standard recruiting technique
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Read the whole thing here: http://collegebasketball.nbcsports....fe-is-a-pretty-standard-recruiting-technique/
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From that link:

"That’s an image of six UConn grads and two Pitt grads with the title “$1.1 billion earned”, which, on the surface, doesn’t really make any sense, right? Those eight guys — names like Shabazz Napier and Ray Allen and Steven Adams and Rip Hamilton — have no connection to the Scarlet Knights beyond the occasional beating back when they were still in college."

Umm.. we beat those UCONN and PITT teams occasionally also. We beat Napier but not Allen or Hamilton. We beat Adams at Pitt as well.

Again.. it makes perfect sense to talk about the success the new coaches have had elsewhere... but maybe you ask for positive comments from those players you plan to use in such a campaign before you go out and use them. Then when the mockery begins you can double-down and post the comments by those guys (or better, ask them to tweet in support).

But in any event, the more people that know that Rutgers coaches coached those players and had a hand in their success, the better.
 
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Extra Point said:
That is such a political stretch. It is like saying Rutgers is responsible for all of those great Ohio State football players. Our coach was the one who coached them.
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I'm not sure if you have been paying attention but that is EXACTLY Ash's pitch...just saying, his NC ring does help and it has zero to do with Rutgers
 
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Sounds like a brilliant strategy to get people to talk about RU basketball. Nothing wrong with coaches making it known what players they have coached in the past regardless of whether it was at another school.
 
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Extra Point said:
That is such a political stretch. It is like saying Rutgers is responsible for all of those great Ohio State football players. Our coach was the one who coached them.
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You don't think Ash talks about coaching Eli Apple when he is recruiting DB's? It is the coaches not the school that develops players.
 
Extra Point said:
That is such a political stretch. It is like saying Rutgers is responsible for all of those great Ohio State football players. Our coach was the one who coached them.
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If you have been paying attention this is exactly what our football program has been conveying. Especially coach ash using every media event with a OSU player connection possible. And it's been working.

Again it's only weird because they put $1.1B cha-Ching.
 
yesrutgers01 said:
I'm not sure if you have been paying attention but that is EXACTLY Ash's pitch...just saying, his NC ring does help and it has zero to do with Rutgers
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The difference is that Urban Meyer understand that if Ash is successful, then it makes him look good. Coaching tree/legacy and all that good stuff.

Uconn on the other hand is extremely jealous of Rutgers. They just can not for the life of them understand that football drives the bus in conference expansion.
 
If UCONN is upset then I am happy. I wouldn't play them in anything.
 
The tweet is a bit of a stretch, these guys were not the hc's for those guys, but they did work them, and now everyone knows it.

And in college sports it is as much, if not more about selling a coaching staff as it is about selling the school.

I think this works well for RU.
 
miketd1 said:
MO: my point is that the folks writing, editing, & producing the stories are smack dab in the middle of UConn country.
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yes ...I know.

But of course Rutgers could have been the site of the College Football Hall of Fame...and we fumbled.
A grad of Rutgers founded ESPN... where is he? What does he say about the bias shown by UCheat sychophants
posing as a news / sports org.?

I find it frustrating that Rutgers touches a lot of lives....some more influential than others- and seems to be spurned
more than expected.

If Rassmussien, Marcus, Stern etc. spoke up, ponied up....we'd be MUCH further along in challenging for a B1G / NC.

Here's hoping!

MO
http://www.espnfounder.com/how_it_started.htm
 
RU-05 said:
The tweet is a bit of a stretch, these guys were not the hc's for those guys, but they did work them, and now everyone knows it.

And in college sports it is as much, if not more about selling a coaching staff as it is about selling the school.

I think this works well for RU.
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I agree 100%

We have to sell the coaching staff past success, what the hell else are we going to sell? That we finally got AC in the RAC this year?

Uconn is just super butthurt. Haters are going to hate. F Ucan't.
 
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