SIAP: Jacob Young considering Oregon?
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Very few players care about this at all.
You have to add “to you.” I don’t know if anyone else is viewing the message that way.
People come people go.
The question is: if there are more coming than those that leave.????????
For the Ducks only a certain amount can come and the number is based on the players on scholarship that has left the program and the number of roster spots allowed to be filled.
My guess: if his little brother wants to be Duck, Joe's Coach at Oregon will add Jacob, if a roster spot is available
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If he does re-emerge at Oregon, it's possible that 40% of the Ducks starting 5 will be Rutgers Scarlet.
Wonder if Eugene got in his ear?
Hope not... but not a happy camper on this one.
Myles I understand (I have lived in and around Long Beach CA for 50 years)... so the UCLA thing makes sense.
Eugene / now Young...is Quackers!
MO
Lots of folks involved. They have to fix the part of the business you describe. That can’t be.
Asking everyone here to "take a breath." will only get this:
>Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room.<
No, this one isn’t “my view”. It’s a fact not an opinion that if he decides to play another year of college ball he wants it to be somewhere other than Rutgers. He said to RU nation “I’m outta here” right away and he’s actively considering other colleges far away from his home and family. I don’t know how strong his academics are but the schools he’s looking at are worse academically than RU and they aren’t even confined to one geographical area so as to say he just really wants to go be in the “Midwest” or “south”. Why he doesn’t want to be at RU is an unknown but clearly he doesn’t want to be here for whatever reason.
Don’t be surprised if Jacob Young is still in scarlet next year
Jacob did get his degree at RU and took graduate classes for at least this past spring semester.
Was just finishing MadHat's Knights in White Satin verse, or so I thought. But yeah, am a fan of Grand Illusion too.
We now return to our regularly scheduled broadcast...
That would be Grand Illusion. Saw them at the RAC. Waited in line for tickets. Saw them with my Douglas girlfriend. Now wife. Not bad.
The exact words in his 3/21 tweet were “Thank you for everything RU nation - JY out”. He can surely change his mind, but that was a pretty direct public statement from him saying that he’s not planning to come back to Rutgers.
I’d love to get him back, but I think the 2021-22 team might actually play better team ball without him. I’m pretty bullish overall on next season regardless. But should we have a down year, a JY transfer to Oregon would make it sting more. It’s one thing to have a rebuild when your stars run out of eligibility or go pro. When they choose to move on to another school (and there’s not a clear academic or personal reason such as going close to home) then it’s not the same thing perception wise. As said, winning would solve that rather quickly!
Regardless of how RU plays in 21-22, the expanded use of the portal as well as the COVID eligibility rules has pretty much thrown a monkey wrench into the specified negative perception of individual schools losing players to transfer.
yes, more than likely he is gone..... yet we can look at the way Baker was pretty much saying goodbye ( hugs, handshakes)at the end of our last home game....it seemed to be a foregone conclusion with him
we can still hope
You say this now and at the moment, your right. Perception across the board is that the transfer market is simply out of control with attribution to Covid.
All I’m saying is - IF (and by no means am I predicting this...) we have a down year while JY leads Oregon to another NCAA run (with Eugene there adding salt to the wound) it would not, at that point, be a good look for us. RU is not alone in this respect. I think you could say the same thing - that it would not reflect well on a lot of tourney teams that had star players move on to other schools should they follow with a down season.
Kind of disagree with this sentiment. Assuming Jacob is gone, he is gone.
What happens to him is not relevant to Rutgers basketball. Would it really be a bad look to Rutgers basketball if a player, who was a free agent, leaves because he didn't get along with players? No program has all players 100% happy,
It would be a bad look it we go 12-19 next year. What happens in Oregon means nothing to RU .
At most schools a rebuild season is expected and understandable every few seasons (except a few reload blue bloods) when star players go pro or run out of eligibility. If it ends up being the case that “RU badly feels the loss of JY” that will be a punch line you’d hear over and over again from announcers calling our games.
Put yourself in a recruits position - do you think they think of it the same when a star player moves on to go pro versus choosing to play college ball somewhere else? I hope I’m wrong and recruits typically don’t give this distinction a fleeting thought. That seems like an awfully Scarlet coated view on this one - I mean it’s a big life decision for them. Think about it - if you were considering a new job and found out that the person you would be replacing resigned for a lateral position at another less prestigious firm wouldn’t you wonder why? Would you not view it differently from a person leaving for a role that was a major title promotion - in which case you wouldn’t give it a second thought right?
Hopefully it’s just me and these kids don’t care about these things because In that situation - JY’s departure would again be spotlighted during the Oregon March Madness games (there would be frequent references considering Oregon would have 2 former RU players starting). Better yet - let’s go 19-12 or better rather than 12-19 and put this entire concern to bed.
Put yourself in a recruits position - do you think they think of it the same when a star player moves on to go pro versus choosing to play college ball somewhere else? I hope I’m wrong and recruits typically don’t give this distinction a fleeting thought. That seems like an awfully Scarlet coated view on this one - I mean it’s a big life decision for them. Think about it - if you were considering a new job and found out that the person you would be replacing resigned for a lateral position at another less prestigious firm wouldn’t you wonder why? Would you not view it differently from a person leaving for a role that was a major title promotion - in which case you wouldn’t give it a second thought right?
Hopefully it’s just me and these kids don’t care about these things because In that situation - JY’s departure would again be spotlighted during the Oregon March Madness games (there would be frequent references considering Oregon would have 2 former RU players starting). Better yet - let’s go 19-12 or better rather than 12-19 and put this entire concern to bed.
….and Myles (defensively).
offensively Baker had the keys, but Young’s play (and Bakers poor play) and energy forced Pikiell’s hand and Young was the man at the end of the season.
No Young and no Myles and this was a 5-15 team at best. Even if Baker and Harper come back we need new guys to be good and returning players to be MUCH improved.
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He scored 14 ppg and led the team in both assists and steals. If we have a down year, there’s no question announcers would speak regularly about us feeling his absence. Whether it reflects worse if he picks another college rather than going pro is certainly debatable - but it’s a given that this will come up in commentary discussion if we have games where we struggle to score.
You may be right, but I don't know how backward looking announcers and talking heads are in the middle of January.
The question could be is if the blame (by announcers and THs) is on Pikiell or leaders of the team or both.
Not sure about blame but talking heads always reflect. They need to come up with things to say to fill conversation during the games. Conversation starter on the wrong side of a blow out - “Rutgers is really missing the presence of Jakob Young in this one, don’t you think?” It’s not just us, would be that way for anyone.
This thread is border line lunacy ...and bring out the worse of us
JY was an intergral Part of our two year ncaa run. There is no doubt about that.
He chose to move on ...and let’s wish him well on his next stop and focus on our program and team
JY was an intergral Part of our two year ncaa run. There is no doubt about that.
He chose to move on ...and let’s wish him well on his next stop and focus on our program and team