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.
Kansas State basketball has benefitted from the transfer portal, mostly in the last two seasons, especially when Jerome Tang took over the head coach position.
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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.
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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.