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Poor NIL is the biggest reason for our disappointing season

It’s the lack of budget to get the needed talent.
This is why we shop the transfer bargain bin. To expect a bunch of lower division transfers to be able to consistently play at a big ten level was just unrealistic and unsurprisingly didn’t work out. People like you expect chicken salad to be made from chickenshit and it doesn’t work that way.

We need $$$ to recruit the needed talent.
Look at Malique Ewin. He’s the needed talented and we had the needed budget, but we were too proud to negotiate. So we let him go to FSU where he’s a 14 ppg 8 rpg guy. Bad business decision. Bad team building decision. It’s not all “we don’t have money”. Apparently we do, we’ve been led to believe we’re lower middle of the P5 with NIL. Would more be better, sure. But it seems we have enough. It seems to be the decisions made, business and talent evaluation wise, that are to blame. It’s not just this years portal gets that missed. The last 3-4 years there’s 10-15 recruiting and portal misses that we’ve had.
 
Look at Malique Ewin. He’s the needed talented and we had the needed budget, but we were too proud to negotiate. So we let him go to FSU where he’s a 14 ppg 8 rpg guy. Bad business decision. Bad team building decision. It’s not all “we don’t have money”. Apparently we do, we’ve been led to believe we’re lower middle of the P5 with NIL. Would more be better, sure. But it seems we have enough. It seems to be the decisions made, business and talent evaluation wise, that are to blame. It’s not just this years portal gets that missed. The last 3-4 years there’s 10-15 recruiting and portal misses that we’ve had.
If we were too proud to negotiate, we didn’t have the money. That’s what you call spin. We simply cannot compete with FSU because their boosters want to win.

This is the only fanbase that thinks you can win without money, which is why we’ve never won it all. Show me a successful program and I’ll show you a group of boosters that make it happen. Look at UConn, who poached our best player last year. UConn’s success should be ours, but our boosters are not as supportive as theirs. That’s the biggest reason they succeed and we don’t. Dan Hurley, a former assistant for Kevin Bannon, choosing the UConn job, when he could have had ours, tells you all you need to know.

The reason we have a significant amount of misses is that we have to take bigger risks due to lack of resources. It is much, much harder to find players who fall through the cracks thanks to technology.

The “I want to win but I don’t want to donate” attitude is not tenable if we want to build a successful program. It’s time to pony up or shut up.
 
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my point is Ace Bailey is a potentially great player that right now is an OK college basketball player.

Dylan Harper is a a potentially great player that when healthy has been a great college basketball player
Ace is only ok because of the surrounding talent, which leads him to take lower quality shots, because he’s one of two players who can score. Put Ace on Duke and he’s a great player, sad to say.

Dylan has been everything we could have asked for. He just has to stay healthy.
 
Did I miss the “We have more talent than Alabama, Kentucky and Duke” and “We need a basketball field house in order to compete” threads?

Did we skip right to “It’s the fans fault and low NIL. Stop expecting success” thread?
This is the, “our talent is not competitive because there’s not enough money” thread
 
Average cost of an app? Not quite sure what that means.

I've dropped over $5K on attending games over the past 3 years - but I get something back for that money. I have no interest in contributing more $$$ to what amounts to little more than a Rutgers sports OnlyFans.

NIL was intended for players to be able to market themselves for sponsorship deals... not as a grift for fans to drop some cash in a slot and pull a lever hoping for lucky sevens to show up in the portal.
Fans need to drop cash to ensure Rutgers puts a competitive product out on the floor. Giving a little more, along with others doing the same, dramatically improves our chances.
That is the payoff and ROI.
 
No question. But teams have been running layup drills on us all season. Watch the 2nd half of our game at MSG for the latest example. Unfortunately I had to witness it in person (like many others on this board).
Our defensive intensity has slipped this year. This is where losing Cliff, and the lack of quality talent on the roster, has really hurt us. Losing Ogbole, hurt as well.

The layup drills were personally embarrassing.
 
Can't take anyone serious who is bitching about our NIL situation while also saying they contribute zero. 5-10K doesn't matter? Are we serious right now? NIL battles are decided by thousands...not millions. Your donation could be the difference between getting the guy the coaches really want or having to settle for someone further down the line. Esp when you are talking with many fans giving smaller amounts.

Of course guys cutting big checks are preferred but it ALL matters. But hey you're all posting a ton of messages about how bad things are on a message board. You're doing your part. Can't ask for more outta you...
The game has changed and everything helps. The thing is, it’s not going to work if it’s only the same people giving year after year. We need more participation from everyone. We have strength in numbers. Waiting for our imaginary big fish to walk through the door is like waiting for the Easter Bunny. It’s never gonna happen. It’s all on us because we care.
 
I am not suggesting that but I don’t believe people come in there as a recruit and it’s an advantage relative to much nicer arenas that also have great atmospheres
When recruits visit an empty RAC, it looks like a Dump. When the RAC is filled, and the energy level is palpable, it becomes a competitive advantage because everyone forgets about it’s aesthetics.
 
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Look it's obviously a factor.

I'd be willing to bet our NIL is a tad bit better than Kennesaw State's though. It's certainly better than Seton Hall's and the rest of the scrubs that we struggled to put away in November.

Pike needs to really rethink how he operates. His talent evaluation has generally been dreadful.
Look at the box score. We were significantly outrebounded by Kennesaw State. That probably doesn’t happen if Cliff is patrolling the paint.
 
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Firstly, Hobbs should’ve been hitting every alumni with big and small wallets to fund NIL for this team. That was his job as AD and getting funding for this team was likely the most important task of his tenure.

Given how this season has gone and the fact that many of the transfers Pike handpicked wouldn’t be the best players at the Piscataway 24 hr Fitness, I don’t think anyone is giving him money to go out and build a roster. Pike has proven to be an extremely poor evaluator of talent.
Hobbs would have said NIL fundraising was not in his contract. NIL fundraising is an additional scope of work, and he would have expected to have been compensated accordingly.

The President came out and said, we are going to go slow with this. So we were caught flat footed as we always are because Rutgers is slow to adapt. Ohio State, Miami, and UConn adapted quickly because they already had the apparatus in place to raise money, having done it for many years.
 
yeah, I don't disagree, just saying just because the school finally decided to do it's part, you can't expect generations of abused fans to just fall in line and start pumping in more $. It will probably take a generation of people seeing RU try to be part of the solution before fans become another part.
We don’t have a generation. We need support now. Fans have seen how he’s gotten us to the tournament, he can do so again. He just needs the support.
 
I am not reading this thread. The first page was enough. Maybe this was already covered, but I think some here don't get how many long time college fans fundamentally reject the premise that it is now the individual fans responsibility to cover the cost of being successful in a college athletic program. We might as well pay coaches a lot less and redeploy most of those fund to player procurement if that is the case.

While I struggle mightily with the changes in the financial landscape of college athletics, how did this NIL concept morph into fans paying the "annual compensation" to a lot of minor league level athletes? Do the Binghamton Rumble Ponies or the Westchester Knicks ask the same of their fans? Why is there absolutely no transparency around of any of this? Yet some expect the majority who might contribute to just blindly throw money into the pot and trust that it will be well spent?

I knew from Day 1 this "NIL/Pay for Play" environment would be a struggle for a school like RU, which is located in an area where the cost of living is high and there are many other sports and entertainment alternatives that preclude the building of a large rabid fan base that has nothing better to do with their money that support good ole state U. Its not happening here. When schools like Ohio State are reporting $38MM athletic dept deficits, things are worse than I imagined. Change takes time but until it happens again be prepared for our programs to struggle. The most recent settlement is not the final answer if NIL and Pay for Play remains as sweetners to whatever schools are going to directly pay their "student" athletes.

Pike took a risk when he accepted this opportunity that presented itself. I don't fault him for taking the shot, but it has not worked out thus far and the downside harm to his program longer term maybe greater than he anticipated. If some of you want to make the case its not his fault and it my fault as a declining fan of the program, feel free, because I really don't that much anymore what happens. That is a shame but life is too short.
 
Look at the box score. We were significantly outrebounded by Kennesaw State. That probably doesn’t happen if Cliff is patrolling the paint.
Plus, Kennesaw State has a glorious Fieldhouse, the best for three miles around, and blows us away in NIL reserves.

Nobody expects RU to be ever be a usual top 10-20 program, and NIL is probably a factor in why, but it’s not the reason why we’re 10-10 with a shitty BIg10 roster more than three-fourths comprised of rusted tomato cans and Staten Island landfill.

Pike had grand portal upgrade plans expecting to recruit over existing players who moved down a level for more PT, not for NIL. Instead we’ve got the Martini, Derkack,Hayes and Acuff million-ton anchor.

Sommerville isn’t a legit Big10 big man either. He’s a mid-major backup big.

And then don’t even get Shelby started about the JMiss horror show on both ends of the court.

So no, it’s not about NIL. It’s about a complete miss on almost everyone coming and going for the last few years.
 
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FWIW...its both guys.

The coaching has not been good here and NIL could be better but honestly, hoops is running out of excuses.

We pay top 25 in the country level money
We have a top 10 home court advantage
We have a beautiful new practice facility
NIL might be average but you have a lot of tailwind to carry you here.
True, but the contention here is that The coaching would be better if he had the budget to recruit better players. Once we take care of the NIL issue, then we can look at other issues.
 
I am not reading this thread. The first page was enough. Maybe this was already covered, but I think some here don't get how many long time college fans fundamentally reject the premise that it is now the individual fans responsibility to cover the cost of being successful in a college athletic program. We might as well pay coaches a lot less and redeploy most of those fund to player procurement if that is the case.

While I struggle mightily with the changes in the financial landscape of college athletics, how did this NIL concept morph into fans paying the "annual compensation" to a lot of minor league level athletes? Do the Binghamton Rumble Ponies or the Westchester Knicks ask the same of their fans? Why is there absolutely no transparency around of any of this? Yet some expect the majority who might contribute to just blindly throw money into the pot and trust that it will be well spent?

I knew from Day 1 this "NIL/Pay for Play" environment would be a struggle for a school like RU, which is located in an area where the cost of living is high and there are many other sports and entertainment alternatives that preclude the building of a large rabid fan base that has nothing better to do with their money that support good ole state U. Its not happening here. When schools like Ohio State are reporting $38MM athletic dept deficits, things are worse than I imagined. Change takes time but until it happens again be prepared for our programs to struggle. The most recent settlement is not the final answer if NIL and Pay for Play remains as sweetners to whatever schools are going to directly pay their "student" athletes.

Pike took a risk when he accepted this opportunity that presented itself. I don't fault him for taking the shot, but it has not worked out thus far and the downside harm to his program longer term maybe greater than he anticipated. If some of you want to make the case its not his fault and it my fault as a declining fan of the program, feel free, because I really don't that much anymore what happens. That is a shame but life is too short.
The simple fact is most Championship Teams have always had boosters paying players. These payments happened in the shadows, under the table.

Now it makes sense why Rutgers did not pursue big time football till the 80’s. The powers that be determined that we did not have adequate alumni support. And they were right.

The only difference with today, is that paying players has become legalized via unanimous Supreme Court decision, and that is how NIL was born.

We’re not focused on whose fault it is. We’re focused on fixing problems. Today, more than ever, success comes with a price. People either pay it, or live with the consequences.

Toss Pike, and we are still left with the same problems, with the newer coach having to recruit from a pool of players that are less likely to succeed.
 
If we were too proud to negotiate, we didn’t have the money. That’s what you call spin. We simply cannot compete with FSU because their boosters want to win.

This is the only fanbase that thinks you can win without money, which is why we’ve never won it all. Show me a successful program and I’ll show you a group of boosters that make it happen. Look at UConn, who poached our best player last year. UConn’s success should be ours, but our boosters are not as supportive as theirs. That’s the biggest reason they succeed and we don’t. Dan Hurley, a former assistant for Kevin Bannon, choosing the UConn job, when he could have had ours, tells you all you need to know.

The reason we have a significant amount of misses is that we have to take bigger risks due to lack of resources. It is much, much harder to find players who fall through the cracks thanks to technology.

The “I want to win but I don’t want to donate” attitude is not tenable if we want to build a successful program. It’s time to pony up or shut up.
Respectfully I disagree with the fact that it was spin, we had additional money because we chose to spend it on the portal gets after Ewin. Ewin was early in the process. We chose to spread it thin rather than secure a portal center.

Also not really fair you chose UConn. Are you going to tell me every team in the NET top 50 has more resources than us? Look at the run Kansas St made recently in the ncaas with all transfers. It can be done, albeit not easy, but getting the right portal players and demanding discipline from them and coaching them up. That doesn’t mean being their “Buddy” and letting them goof off in pregame warmups with a dunk contest for example.

Finally many of those recruiting misses were before the NIL era so the lack of resources doesn’t really play.
 
He’s in shape. Problem is the rest of our frontcourt is too soft so he has to try for every rebound and on O he and Harper have to take most of our shots to have any chance at winning.

It’s too much.
 
Respectfully I disagree with the fact that it was spin, we had additional money because we chose to spend it on the portal gets after Ewin. Ewin was early in the process. We chose to spread it thin rather than secure a portal center.

Also not really fair you chose UConn. Are you going to tell me every team in the NET top 50 has more resources than us? Look at the run Kansas St made recently in the ncaas with all transfers. It can be done, albeit not easy, but getting the right portal players and demanding discipline from them and coaching them up. That doesn’t mean being their “Buddy” and letting them goof off in pregame warmups with a dunk contest for example.

Finally many of those recruiting misses were before the NIL era so the lack of resources doesn’t really play.
My point is we should have had the money to outbid FSU for Ewin, and also land whomever else we wanted to get. We did not have that.

So Pike had to make tough decisions on how to optimally allocate our NIL resources because our NIL resources are scarce. He was not in position to blow the budget on one player, because he needed other players. Bottomline: the budget needs to be a lot bigger.

Schiano is doing the same thing, which I totally detest, taking lower division kids and hoping their ability will scale to this level. Meanwhile Miami Football is recruiting whomever they want because their alumni and supporters care about Footballs success.

Kansas State had the NIL support to land quality Div IA basketball transfers while we’re scrapping the bargain bin. There really is no comparison.


This only further proves the point that we need more money to succeed.

UConn is an appropriate comparison because they are in the same geographic area, with a Coach that was a former Rutgers assistant.

But even if we look at St John’s, we see the same thing. Alumni spent money to bring in quality transfers, and now they are 17-3 overall, 8-1 in conference.



So now the question is why can UConn, Kansas State, and St John’s afford quality transfers and Rutgers cannot? The answer is that UConn, Kansas State, and St John’s have bigger NIL budgets. Ours needs to go up substantially to compete.
 
My point is we should have had the money to outbid FSU for Ewin, and also land whomever else we wanted to get. We did not have that.

So Pike had to make tough decisions on how to optimally allocate our NIL resources because our NIL resources are scarce. He was not in position to blow the budget on one player, because he needed other players. Bottomline: the budget needs to be a lot bigger.

Schiano is doing the same thing, which I totally detest, taking lower division kids and hoping their ability will scale to this level. Meanwhile Miami Football is recruiting whomever they want because their alumni and supporters care about Footballs success.

Kansas State had the NIL support to land quality Div IA basketball transfers while we’re scrapping the bargain bin. There really is no comparison.


This only further proves the point that we need more money to succeed.

UConn is an appropriate comparison because they are in the same geographic area, with a Coach that was a former Rutgers assistant.

But even if we look at St John’s, we see the same thing. Alumni spent money to bring in quality transfers, and now they are 17-3 overall, 8-1 in conference.



So now the question is why can UConn, Kansas State, and St John’s afford quality transfers and Rutgers cannot? The answer is that UConn, Kansas State, and St John’s have bigger NIL budgets. Ours needs to go up substantially to compete.
Agree with you we need more money. I can personally feel Pike made a bad decision there when a center with Dylan and Ace was out number one need. I’m not saying that review I wanted Ewin here then.

What’s the numbers on KS st vs our NIL budget.

And St John’s has one of the biggest whales ever so that one actually helps our argument on this side.

Btw very much enjoying this convo with you. Thanks. Hopefully it leads to more donors of all sizes.
 
People spent money to get something in return - a trip to MSG and a basketball game. How many of those 17K would have attended if it cost an extra $300 per ticket for no additional return? Many fans are already dropping several hundred dollars a year on season tickets/parking/etc - to ask them for another $300 that they get zero additional benefit from is not going to get many takers.

It's basically asking people to give money to charity... but it doesn't have any charitable benefit and it's not even tax deductible (like the same donation to the University itself would be)

Also, the "living in poverty" is a misunderstanding of just how little "extra" cash most people have. 80% of the country has less than $5K in savings. For those that do have that much, what percent do you think are willing to part with $300 (per year!) for nothing in return.

If someone has enough disposable income to toss $5-10K toward their favorite college team, that's great - but most people probably aren't financially comfortable enough to even toss $50 in that particular bucket.

Also the "not doing anything of substance" - every ticket someone buys for a game and every time they pay for parking, they're doing something of substance for the team. It's the team's job to give enough entertainment value back to the fans that makes people want to spend their $$$ on watching the team play.

The added benefit they get should be to watch a better team. Will one persons $300 take us to the promise land? Of course not, but many people donating smaller amounts will 100% have an effect.

Listen, you gotta stop with the "people don't have it" crap. Obviously if you don't have it you aren't going to give it. No one is asking a person who can't make ends meet to donate to RU's NIL. But don't tell me A TON of RU fans who live in the tri state area don't have $25 a month. They do...

And like you said further down in the thread, you choose not to give. And that is your right and I get why people don't. I actually give more of the money I donate to RU to facilities over NIL (although I do both). What is annoying to me (and why I posted in this thread in the first place) are the posters who don't give, say it's not on them to give and what they would give doesn't matter, and then go on to bash everything wrong relentlessly every day in every thread. We all need to own that we are part of the problem as well. How much better would we be right now if Pike had another million from smaller donations? How about 2? I'd argue a lot....
 
Agree with you we need more money. I can personally feel Pike made a bad decision there when a center with Dylan and Ace was out number one need. I’m not saying that review I wanted Ewin here then.

What’s the numbers on KS st vs our NIL budget.

And St John’s has one of the biggest whales ever so that one actually helps our argument on this side.

Btw very much enjoying this convo with you. Thanks. Hopefully it leads to more donors of all sizes.
Pike is human. He’s made mistakes. But we’ve got to put him in position to minimize the mistakes he makes. We have to do the same with Schiano as well.

We can’t rely on finding a Cam Spencer every year, because that way, we’re relying on luck. This year, our luck ran out. Enjoying this conversation as well.
 
Plus, Kennesaw State has a glorious Fieldhouse, the best for three miles around, and blows us away in NIL reserves.

Nobody expects RU to be ever be a usual top 10-20 program, and NIL is probably a factor in why, but it’s not the reason why we’re 10-10 with a shitty BIg10 roster more than three-fourths comprised of rusted tomato cans and Staten Island landfill.

Pike had grand portal upgrade plans expecting to recruit over existing players who moved down a level for more PT, not for NIL. Instead we’ve got the Martini, Derkack,Hayes and Acuff million-ton anchor.

Sommerville isn’t a legit Big10 big man either. He’s a mid-major backup big.

And then don’t even get Shelby started about the JMiss horror show on both ends of the court.

So no, it’s not about NIL. It’s about a complete miss on almost everyone coming and going for the last few years.
Why was everyone we brought in a complete MISS?

BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE BUDGET TO BRING IN LEGIT TRANSFERS!!!

Look at the transfers St Johns brought in.
- Center from USC
- Guard from Seton Hall
- Forward from North Texas


So we rolled the dice and brought in kids, from the bargain bin, whom we thought had Big 10 potential. This year, our luck ran out. Tough to find a kid with Cam Spencer impact.

The way we’re choosing players from the portal, it’s like we’re playing craps. This year we rolled a 7 out.
 
Why was everyone we brought in a complete MISS?

BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE BUDGET TO BRING IN LEGIT TRANSFERS!!!

Look at the transfers St Johns brought in.
- Center from USC
- Guard from Seton Hall
- Forward from North Texas


So we rolled the dice and brought in kids, from the bargain bin, whom we thought had Big 10 potential. This year, our luck ran out. Tough to find a kid with Cam Spencer impact.

The way we’re choosing players from the portal, it’s like we’re playing craps. This year we rolled a 7 out.
So then why are Simpson and Woolfolk on other teams ? NIL LoL ? Shelby will tell you why. They were informed there’d less playing time with the incoming freshmen and the pursuit of shooters and offense improvement generally. We also know why Davis was retained.

So no, this dumpster fire isn’t due to NIL shortcomings. It was due to changing the philosophy away from defense and ridding the roster of those kinds of players (keeping only Davis unfortunately as a favor to Ace) and adding 4 stiffs who are too slow and can only hit wide open jumpers which the offense doesn’t create for them anyway since Ace and Dylan are only looking to compile gaudy ppg for the draft.

Since the two stars are not paid with RU NIL (were free to RU) of course we had enough to target better players than we got.

Complete strategy fail. Coach Custer.

We certainly could have done better at the 5. Lathan is completely outmatched on D and not a legit b10 center. Slow, soft, selfish.
 
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Why was everyone we brought in a complete MISS?

BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE BUDGET TO BRING IN LEGIT TRANSFERS!!!

Look at the transfers St Johns brought in.
- Center from USC
- Guard from Seton Hall
- Forward from North Texas


So we rolled the dice and brought in kids, from the bargain bin, whom we thought had Big 10 potential. This year, our luck ran out. Tough to find a kid with Cam Spencer impact.

The way we’re choosing players from the portal, it’s like we’re playing craps. This year we rolled a 7 out.
There’s been transfer misses from before NIL. From before Spencer.
 
So then why are Simpson and Woolfolk on other teams ? NIL LoL ? Shelby will tell you why. They were informed there’d less playing time with the incoming freshmen and the pursuit of shooters and offense improvement generally. We also know why Davis was retained.

So no, this dumpster fire isn’t due to NIL shortcomings. It was due to changing the philosophy away from defense and ridding the roster of those kinds of players (keeping only Davis unfortunately as a favor to Ace) and adding 4 stiffs who are too slow and can only hit wide open jumpers which the offense doesn’t create for them anyway since Ace and Dylan are only looking to compile gaudy ppg for the draft.

Since the two stars are not paid with RU NIL (were free to RU) of course we had enough to target better players than we got.

The issue isn’t that we changed the defensive philosophy. It’s that we don’t have adequate personnel to execute our new more offensive oriented philosophy. We don’t have enough kids who can score.

Had we had adequate NIL, we would have landed better transfers and would have had more players who could consistently score.
 
So then why are Simpson and Woolfolk on other teams ? NIL LoL ? Shelby will tell you why. They were informed there’d less playing time with the incoming freshmen and the pursuit of shooters and offense improvement generally. We also know why Davis was retained.

So no, this dumpster fire isn’t due to NIL shortcomings. It was due to changing the philosophy away from defense and ridding the roster of those kinds of players (keeping only Davis unfortunately as a favor to Ace) and adding 4 stiffs who are too slow and can only hit wide open jumpers which the offense doesn’t create for them anyway since Ace and Dylan are only looking to compile gaudy ppg for the draft.

Since the two stars are not paid with RU NIL (were free to RU) of course we had enough to target better players than we got.

Complete strategy fail. Coach Custer.

We certainly could have done better at the 5. Lathan is completely outmatched on D and not a legit b10 center. Slow, soft, selfish.
Was just about to post something similar. We have the NIL to get a productive guy or two. We don't have the NIL to replace an entire roster. We tried to spread it too wide.
 
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Why was everyone we brought in a complete MISS?

BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE BUDGET TO BRING IN LEGIT TRANSFERS!!!

Look at the transfers St Johns brought in.
- Center from USC
- Guard from Seton Hall
- Forward from North Texas


So we rolled the dice and brought in kids, from the bargain bin, whom we thought had Big 10 potential. This year, our luck ran out. Tough to find a kid with Cam Spencer impact.

The way we’re choosing players from the portal, it’s like we’re playing craps. This year we rolled a 7 out.
St. Johns might not be a useful comparison. They have a billionaire alum named Mike Repole
 
Was just about to post something similar. We have the NIL to get a productive guy or two. We don't have the NIL to replace an entire roster. We tried to spread it too wide.
No matter you want to say it, we need more NIL to land the quality players we want to land.
 
It’s the lack of budget to get the needed talent.
This is why we shop the transfer bargain bin. To expect a bunch of lower division transfers to be able to consistently play at a big ten level was just unrealistic and unsurprisingly didn’t work out. People like you expect chicken salad to be made from chickenshit and it doesn’t work that way.

We need $$$ to recruit the needed talent.
Our coaching staff is at maybe 50% hit rate on success with talent evaluation for who can help and succeed in the few years in the new recruiting and transfer portal world. Way too low. Moreover, the talent they recruit doesn't fit into their own team philosophy that is some playground iso-ball on offense and tough D that cannot score.
 
Our coaching staff is at maybe 50% hit rate on success with talent evaluation for who can help and succeed in the few years in the new recruiting and transfer portal world. Way too low. Moreover, the talent they recruit doesn't fit into their own team philosophy that is some playground iso-ball on offense and tough D that cannot score.
Because of the pool of players he is selecting from. Look at the pool Maryland and St John’s is selecting from. Links provided above.
 
Because of the pool of players he is selecting from. Look at the pool Maryland and St John’s is selecting from. Links provided above.
If Pikiell thinks NIL is the problem, he needs to sit down with Schiano and learn fast on how its done. Then he has to up his coaching game.
 
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If Pikiell thinks NIL is the problem, he needs to sit down with Schiano and learn fast on how it’s done. Then he has to up his coaching game.
Maybe I missed it, but what has Schiano achieved? 7-6 and gagged the third-rate Rate Bowl? I actually think he’s a good coach, just don’t see what gold standard he’s set that Pikes should be aspiring to.
 
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