Basketball Rutgers Basketball wing Gavin Griffiths enters Transfer Portal
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your post is as dumb as the first time, you posted it, obviously not because Jones didnt play anywhere ever again and Pike wanted GG back
He felt he wanted a more expanded role. Since you can transfer without consequences, he’s decided to just go ahead and do that.
A hyped shooter came to Rutgers, couldn't hack it defensively, wasn't even really making that many shots, and left after a year.
Top players fell into his lap?? You lost it. Blame a coach for everything unless it's something he did well.
You don’t let poison hang around when he quits should have been kicked off team to send a message. Mr nice Pikes learned again.
Gavin was bad this year. Either he wasn't developed or he just isn't that good. Either way transferring for him is in his best interest.
This is why I will never donate to NIL. Kudos to those who have $$ to do so and pay some kid to play here for a year then book.
College sports have been ruined. I’ll be back hopefully once some rules are established.
Everything is NIL related now. NIL “professionalized” college sports..and now almost every athlete in the NCAA is going to do what’s best for their brand..no one should by loyal anymore because of NIL.
It sucks.
Sure it does. Doesn't matter if Mag's gone the entire year was a sh*tshow and it was reported that Mag was a malcontent and troublesome. He had problems with how he was being used and probably got in people's ears they were being used incorrectly or coached wrong.
It's easier to blame others than yourself for your faults. This is all Gavin has seen in a full year of Rutgers. A dysfunctional program and unrest between the players, he wants a change of scenery and did not like what he saw here. IMO Pike was wrong to let Mag sit on the bench and should have sent his packing when the trouble arouse.
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He was pretty bad--both sides of the ball. Bye, Bye!
Two thoughts:
1 - Griffiths - so much for the whole "I will never enter the portal" speech. That's a bad look. What's the deal? Afraid to compete for playing time? You think you deserve a guaranteed 25+ minutes next year, or starting role, or.... after this past season? Not a Loyal Son for sure. I don't wish him any ill will, but I'm certainly not going to wish him well moving forward, either. He bailed on us.
2 - Mag - looking back at it, he should've been kicked off the team as soon as he decided he was done playing for us. Have a conversation between staff and player. "Hey the trainers say you are cleared, you look healthy in practice recently, what's going on?" "I'm not feeling it, coach." "Alright, clear out your locker on your way out of the office."
1 - Griffiths - so much for the whole "I will never enter the portal" speech. That's a bad look. What's the deal? Afraid to compete for playing time? You think you deserve a guaranteed 25+ minutes next year, or starting role, or.... after this past season? Not a Loyal Son for sure. I don't wish him any ill will, but I'm certainly not going to wish him well moving forward, either. He bailed on us.
2 - Mag - looking back at it, he should've been kicked off the team as soon as he decided he was done playing for us. Have a conversation between staff and player. "Hey the trainers say you are cleared, you look healthy in practice recently, what's going on?" "I'm not feeling it, coach." "Alright, clear out your locker on your way out of the office."
Okay - let’s see where he ends up. If he’s riding the back of UConn’s roster you’ll be proven correct.
1. Gavin questions why we don’t run a college level competent offense and his “open” shots are 30/35 ft out!
2. Agreed but larger Pike problem why did he quit? Deemed the reason why we did not make the tournament the year he got hurt. Clearly valued especially coming into last year. (Ppl acted like he was MJ )
highly doubt he’ll end up there if it’s playing time related as is reported. Not disagreeing there.
But to say this has nothing to do with NIL is wrong, everything coaches, players and programs do now are NIL related
Wow, that's a boatload of speculation! And if the trouble maker is leaving still doesn't make any sense to me, is he a mindless drone or does he have the cognitive ability to analyze and evaluate a situation? And they did win 15 games, including many against post season teams, including 4 in a row in Feb when they were as hot as anyone in the B1G, I wouldn't call that dysfunctional, but I guess we see things very differently
The only thing dysfunctional about this team was there ability to put the ball in the hoop
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So, someone in your ear for a year questioning their use and the staff's competence isn't going to have an effect? Pike allowed Mag to fester around the program for months eventually someone will listen. Why is Gavin now suddenly questioning his role and demanding playing time? Obviously, Gavin and Mag had some sort of friendship, otherwise he wouldn't have gone public with his defense of him. I didn't read any other players doing so.
I will be at an event next month with Pat Hobbs, Umme Salim-Beasley, Gymnastics Head Coach, Scott Goodale, Wrestling Head Coach & Mike O’Neill, Women’s Soccer Head Coach. We have already been advised that Hobbs is ready to address any and all questions related to NIL and the portal. While many won't be passionate RU sports fans, this should be a raucous event.
Maybe team chemistry would have been better if Pike gave minutes to the players that deserved and earned them last year.
Pike let him, a freshman, play 20+ mins most nights through HORRIFIC shooting and defensive performances. The kid shot 32% from the field and 28% from three.
His minutes got cut right into the 4 game winning streak where he played 14/20/12/7.
if he was a 3 star out of high school the narrative would’ve been pikiell missed on another unheralded guy.
For all that loyalty this is how he was rewarded. Luckily pikiell has woken up to reality of roster management in the NIL era after last year and there is no more Mr nice guy ie pushing out the dead weight.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a "Pikes can do no wrong" guy and I really wish we had more offensive schemes than we run to help create shot opportunities.
Give me the guys that want to be here.
Give me the guys that want to be here.
You will get guys that are bad because they dont have value in the open market
Again, a boatload of speculation. We don't know if any of this is true, especially demanding playing time. I don't know how he could shoot 32% from the field and 60% from the FT line and expect a bigger or guaranteed role next year; if anything he should be questioning his ability to play high major ball and the need to step down to an easier level, there's some speculation that makes sense
Pike is closer to being gone than he is coaching in the new arena. The list of excuses can only get to be so long.
Team on the court is trending in the wrong direction and now we have culture problems , kids quitting mid season, and high praised recruits walking away after one year.
Seats hot
San Diego state made the national champion last year doing almost just that
The age of athletes “wanting to be” at
Program is actually heading in the right direction. Best class in RU history coming in. 2nd best class in nation.
Good times ahead
You think Rutgers is the only school that’s having major players hit the transfer portal? It’s hilarious how delusional some of you are 😂
Utah state says hi too. They had zero players on their roster in June..win a very good MWC 9 months later then won an ncaa tourney game.
The overreaction on this board today about losing a 5 ppg and 2 rpg forward is hilarious
Yea there’s tons of examples. I wanted to give him one with tourney success cause you know he would have scoffed at Utah state.
On the court direction
The best recruit in school history, who actually came to school who was never developed and just walked out the front door. Next years class on paper is very strong but not here yet.
I'll see where he lands before knocking him.
A good program , he's someone that is well thought of.
A lesser program, he might have lost some of his luster major programs say when he
was being recruited out of high school because of the way he played his freshman year
The way he played this year wasn't up to expectations , but as a soph might
have learned the college game and prove to be as talented as thought, just needed time to adjust.
Pike shouldn't be blamed, the transfer system now makes it easy for a player to leave for what he hopes is greener pastures after performing poorly at the place he's leaving .
Knowing he can move to a lesser program for one season, play well and have the majors going after him.
College basketball is a mercenary system that schools are places to play until another school offers a better showcase and/or NIL money
A good program , he's someone that is well thought of.
A lesser program, he might have lost some of his luster major programs say when he
was being recruited out of high school because of the way he played his freshman year
The way he played this year wasn't up to expectations , but as a soph might
have learned the college game and prove to be as talented as thought, just needed time to adjust.
Pike shouldn't be blamed, the transfer system now makes it easy for a player to leave for what he hopes is greener pastures after performing poorly at the place he's leaving .
Knowing he can move to a lesser program for one season, play well and have the majors going after him.
College basketball is a mercenary system that schools are places to play until another school offers a better showcase and/or NIL money
Also what was hilarious was the amount of fans on this board that were killing me by saying gavin shouldn't have been playing
Well of course they aren’t here yet. But when they get here our team on the court should be one of the best to ever play here.
