Looks like they are now done.Idiots for going back to campus daily.Seems so obvious with the issues on their football team.
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Sucks to be them. You wanna go to the tourney then lock it up before conference championship week.
I have my doubts about its legitimacy. They got to that magic number 2 wins over .500, If they lost to FSU today back to one over .500, they got near the bubble in NET, Coach K can use this as an out, they would have been in if not for the positive test. His reputation and NCAA streak probably can stay intact due to mitigating circumstances. If they are named in the tournament, they can sit on a false positive result. Anything Duke does is well thought out, calculated maneuvers.
I wonder how things would have been different if this was a big year for them
This is the best thing to happen to them. Now instead of saying they didnt make the tournament becasue they sucked they will say it was covid. I just get a laugh out of people blaming their poor performance this year on covid, meanwhile rutgers is having one of it best year's ever......
its interesting that schools who are used to treating players like rock starts are the ones struggling the most...Kentucky, Duke, UNC although they recovered. There may be something to that and their looseness in general and now with things restricted their players have not adapted to a new environment.
I truly believe some schools better than others at handing restrictions.
I truly believe some schools better than others at handing restrictions.
Yes and we can thank murphy for keeping the covid spread low thanks to great policies! As a result , rutgers football and basketball were able to complete full successful seasons . No arguing that facts that both teams had their best season in years !
find me some guy's brothers sister's, cousin who knows someone who once walked through the training facility who may have had asymptomatic positive test once, maybe....
OH MY GOD! we can't go on. yeah! totally an "asterisk" year - doesn't even count.
lol blue bloods......
OH MY GOD! we can't go on. yeah! totally an "asterisk" year - doesn't even count.
lol blue bloods......
Zero doubt. I add teams to that sentence. It is a combination of the school and the the team itself as a unit to do the right things to be safe.
it isn’t easy
luck is involved and as for RU football many of its players got the virus before season started-heck my grandson's entire fraternity at RU had it in early September-by the way athlete's on various RU teams, I won't say which, attended parties at his house in September
That's an interesting thought and I would not doubt it. I also felt the presence of resources for testing, etc. or lack thereof would have an impact. But lack of resources clearly isn't an issue at places like Duke or Kentucky.
What did you expect? The memories of Jason, Dahntay and Uncle Monty still burn here like eternal flames.
Yes- you win valuable prizes! Who was the Blue guy who posted here connected to? Can't remember if it was LT as well.
The best thing about that story was the guy ringels, who was involved . I think he was douby’s aau coach or handler. Fred hill tried to pull some shady stuff and he still couldn’t get Thomas ! Rip ringels !
Yes- Ringels was a well-known NYC hoops coach who re-located to NJ. Sadly, he died way too young in a car accident. I think the other poster I am thinking of is Luther Blue.
Yes but the story is interesting . Fred hill basically told ringels and douby to say he wasn’t going to declare for the draft until lance Thomas signed . Basically ringels and douby wanted no part in leading Thomas on . It was ugly.
Not sure if serious, but I suspect you are. So I will bite, what measurable statistics do you use to conclude "great policies"? NJ leads the US in covid deaths per capita; 2,681 deaths per 1M residents, well more than double NC's 1,108. Not sure one needs to go any deeper than the deaths per capita.
Looking at the positive cases per capita is another way to look, and here NJ is much better than deaths; NJ's 93,066 cases per 1M is actually mid of the pack for the US states although still higher than NC's 83,888.
The facts : both mens hoops and football had their best seasons in years . That is no debate .
Wasn’t meant to get in a political debate. Under his policies these two teams were able to stay covid free during the regular season.
Don’t want to get into politics. Simply Thank the man and move on . Or simply don’t thank the man and move on . No reason to come in here debating
OK Plum, I will thank Schiano, Pikiell, their staffs and all the players for being smart and careful. You can throw kisses to Murph if you like.
That's who I was thinking of. Also, remember the SJU Maven dude? That guy always had good info.
Duke would have been middle of the road at best in the B1G this year. Izzo beat them at Duke with one of his worst teams in years.