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We should fire Pike after this year, however reality is he’ll get fired in March 2024

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Yes, you had so much support before
Lol. Anyone who thought RU reels off 4 straight ranked wins immediately following losses to NW and minny and winning by the skin of our dicks vs nebraska is simply insane.

the things most of us complaining about on the court wise have done a 180. We seem to have found an identity, we seem to now all of a sudden have a guy running things in the half court (paul) and cliff has progressed tremendously.
 
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Its not secret that im not the biggest pike fan as the head coach of a big ten program. He is a GREAT man but a very subpar basketball coach.

1) he doesnt recruit well enough for what this job requires
2) hes stuck in the 80’s with his coaching philosophy
3) he doesnt run an offense

the reason we should fire him after this season is because he refuses to adjust his mindset. Hes too afraid of hurting feelings of players rather than putting winning first. If you think this season is bad whats gonna happen next year when we lose our one player capable of scoring (ron)? Hes shown a reluctancy to really go hard at the transfer portal. Yes hes plugged a hole here and there but hes also turned down guys like jahvon quinerly and luther muhammad who wanted to come home! Think about that!

so what’ll now happen. This year we go 3-17 in big ten play and everyone is disappointed but says, “but guys he got us to the tourney and we hadnt been in 3 decades, give him some leash”. Thats just the loser mindset of this fan base because we have buried the bar of what we should expect here. Next year we follow it up with another awful season and now the noise is palpable but we punt the decision one more year. 2023-2024 season is the 3rd straight bad year and we have no choice but to make a coaching change and now the 2024 season starts with a new coach rebuilding taking a few years to get us back to the tourney where we should expect to be every year.

we could start the proper rebuild with a new coach next season but we all know it wont happen for both financial reasons and because of how low the bar is here. But this is inevitable, everyone sees whats coming but we’ll put it off and settle for having a bad team for more years than we need to. I’ll be sure to bump this in march 2024.

One name: Mike Boynton

This is a terrible take . He wasn’t going to get fired if he went 2-18 in the league. And he shouldn’t .
Now he has one of the best regular season runs in Rutgers history . I mean wow man .
 
Lol. Anyone who thought RU reels off 4 straight ranked wins immediately following losses to NW and minny and winning by the skin of our dicks vs nebraska is simply insane.

the things most of us complaining about on the court wise have done a 180. We seem to have found an identity, we seem to now all of a sudden have a guy running things in the half court (paul) and cliff has progressed tremendously.
The Paul breakout happened at NW. It gave a reason to expect something different but prior to that, sure
 
the amount of people calling for him to be fired could be counted on one hand. Yet some act like there was some incredible groundswell. Carino and On the Banks blog going on and on and on about it creating some false narrative about the RU fanbase and message board. It was phony
Agree . But that one hand is here on this Board and the OP. People need to be called out for this BS .
And the pike lovers also need to understand he may deserve to be fired in 2-3 years. It’s the nature of business.
 
Agree . But that one hand is here on this Board and the OP. People need to be called out for this BS .
And the pike lovers also need to understand he may deserve to be fired in 2-3 years. It’s the nature of business.
“I told you so” is never a good way to be in any setting in life. Unearthing old threads like this is the embodiment of that and I would make this garbage a ban-able offense. Or at least give a time out.
 
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Lol. Anyone who thought RU reels off 4 straight ranked wins immediately following losses to NW and minny and winning by the skin of our dicks vs nebraska is simply insane.

the things most of us complaining about on the court wise have done a 180. We seem to have found an identity, we seem to now all of a sudden have a guy running things in the half court (paul) and cliff has progressed tremendously.
Amazing what’s possible when you don’t try to fire a very high caliber coach after a bad half of a season
 
the amount of people calling for him to be fired could be counted on one hand. Yet some act like there was some incredible groundswell. Carino and On the Banks blog going on and on and on about it creating some false narrative about the RU fanbase and message board. It was phony
Since when do you approve of the vocal minority lol. That’s how we have kids playing concerts In space like bubble pods😎

I don’t like rehashing these old threads just like I don’t like fans who still trash former coaches and players. There is no reason to call this out. But I do hate the vocal minority even more.
 
“I told you so” is never a good way to be in any setting in life. Unearthing old threads like this is the embodiment of that and I would make this garbage a ban-able offense. Or at least give a time out.
Nope . Calling or posting about being right is ok. Being accurate counts and so does being wrong . Posters earn board credibility here.
 
I think almost every regular poster thought there was little chance of a postseason appearance of any kind around the time this thread started. Not many were on the "he should be fired" page. Thank goodness our coaches and players have pulled off an amazing in-season transformation! We still have work to do to dance again, but if we pull that off, Pike has earned a lot of leash for the next few years. Legitimate candidate for B1G coach of the year IMO.
 
No idea what OP was thinking with this one lol.
If everyones realistic, we literally just did something that in the 100+ year history of the sport has never been done before. But everyone here is acting like we shouldve known wed do a 180. Again, im happy we did a 180, people are coming here acting like im gonna say, “nah bro we still suck” lol
 
“I told you so” is never a good way to be in any setting in life. Unearthing old threads like this is the embodiment of that and I would make this garbage a ban-able offense. Or at least give a time out.
Plus , the guy you’re defending is controversial. He seems like a good dude to have beers with . But there are rumors he has been thrown out of the RAC and he has assaulted opposition football players with snowballs (that is substantiated).
 
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Nope . Calling or posting about being right is ok. Being accurate counts and so does being wrong . Posters earn board credibility here.
We’ll have to agree to disagree here. Note my choice of words - just a crappy way to be in life and here. Face it, we have all posted stupid sh$t here, does it always need to be called out?
 
Plus , the guy you’re defending is controversial. He seems like a good dude to have beers with . But there are rumors he has been thrown out of the RAC and he has assaulted opposition football players with snowballs (that is substantiated).
LOL.

1) never been kicked out of the RAC
2) true I did hit tavon austin with a snowball in 2011. The whole student section was throwing snowballs, i just happened to have the pea shooter

also, youre all acting like it was predictable yet our own guys admit theyre now a different team than when i made this post

Its almost like people want me to root against RU haha
 
We’ll have to agree to disagree here. Note my choice of words - just a crappy way to be in life and here. Face it, we have all posted stupid sh$t here, does it always need to be called out?
Does Pike deserve to have basketball know nothings call for his firing after our first tourney run in 30-40 years?

Kyk will defend this to the grave, he doesn’t need you to do it for him, and if he turned out to be right somehow you know he’d bump it for years. Unclutch your pearls.
 
Does Pike deserve to have basketball know nothings call for his firing after our first tourney run in 30-40 years?

Kyk will defend this to the grave, he doesn’t need you to do it for him, and if he turned out to be right somehow you know he’d bump it for years. Unclutch your pearls.
I’m really not defending one poster or another. Just can’t stand the “I told you so” resurrecting of threads which has become a giant waste of time on the board during a great time.
 
Does Pike deserve to have basketball know nothings call for his firing after our first tourney run in 30-40 years?

Kyk will defend this to the grave, he doesn’t need you to do it for him, and if he turned out to be right somehow you know he’d bump it for years. Unclutch your pearls.
If i bumped threads i was right in the board would be filled with old threads. The only old thread i can recall bumping was me saying after attending the 2017 nebraska game that ash needed to go and people continued to defend him
 
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I’m really not defending one poster or another. Just can’t stand the “I told you so” resurrecting of threads which has become a giant waste of time on the board during a great time.
Payback for the waste of time earlier this season. Free to scroll past it if you prefer.
 
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If i bumped threads i was right in the board would be filled with old threads. The only old thread i can recall bumping was me saying after attending the 2017 nebraska game that ash needed to go and people continued to defend him
You weren’t even right about which school you’d root for moving forward after that Nebraska game
 
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I’m really not defending one poster or another. Just can’t stand the “I told you so” resurrecting of threads which has become a giant waste of time on the board during a great time.
You arguing about it is an even worse waste of time. Board police are the worst.

(This is an ironic post.)
 
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Does Pike deserve to have basketball know nothings call for his firing after our first tourney run in 30-40 years?

Kyk will defend this to the grave, he doesn’t need you to do it for him, and if he turned out to be right somehow you know he’d bump it for years. Unclutch your pearls.
I read your full post again - wow, what an over reaction. Try and enjoy this run and chill out.
 
I read your full post again - wow, what an over reaction. Try and enjoy this run and chill out.
I’m chill, like I was in November when this was first posted. Enjoy your board policing I guess
 
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We’ll have to agree to disagree here. Note my choice of words - just a crappy way to be in life and here. Face it, we have all posted stupid sh$t here, does it always need to be called out?
You said “in life “ . I might agree with you there . But this place isn’t life and shouldn’t be life to anyone . It’s a place to talk sports. So talking trash and taking some ribbing is part of the deal . None of this stuff matters in the scheme of life
 
You said “in life “ . I might agree with you there . But this place isn’t life and shouldn’t be life to anyone . It’s a place to talk sports. So talking trash and taking some ribbing is part of the deal . None of this stuff matters in the scheme of life
True. Still a negative way to be. But if you enjoy that, go for it. Just seems like a waste of time in the middle of the run we’re on.
 
LOL.

1) never been kicked out of the RAC
2) true I did hit tavon austin with a snowball in 2011. The whole student section was throwing snowballs, i just happened to have the pea shooter

also, youre all acting like it was predictable yet our own guys admit theyre now a different team than when i made this post

Its almost like people want me to root against RU haha

3 . I said you seem like a good dude to get beers with .
That’s a pretty high compliment I can give to a complete stranger.

You’re take on pike is perplexing . Do you still want him fired this year or anytime in next year ?
 
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True. Still a negative way to be. But if you enjoy that, go for it. Just seems like a waste of time in the middle of the run we’re on.
Being right counts in life . Board credibility counts here. It is a great run sure. But this isn’t life. I wouldn’t take a college /semi pro sports message board seriously. Enjoy the games and the discussions that go with it . Then log off and go about real life , where this stuff means nothing
 
Everyone knows we were playing poorly early in the season and we were the most inconsistent team in the country so it was frustrating


It's not that... its the Pike sucks and should be fired stuff that people want an apology tour about.

Pike is a hero for what he has done for Rutgers Basketball.

Absolutely epic #dumpsterfire when he gets here after Rice scandal and Jordan on court, turns it around in 3 years to an NCAA team then should have gotten a deep run last year. That should have earned him some trust and good will. Couldn't reasonably expect any coach to turn it around so fast, and the anti Pikers call for his head before the season is even over
 
If everyones realistic, we literally just did something that in the 100+ year history of the sport has never been done before. But everyone here is acting like we shouldve known wed do a 180. Again, im happy we did a 180, people are coming here acting like im gonna say, “nah bro we still suck” lol
The team turning it around isn't that crazy.

But the real point is that calling for Pike to be fired, after coaching the team into the tourney for the first times in 30 years, was looney tunes.

The not so unpredictable turnaround just highlights that point.
 
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