OT: Cam Spencer today

Shelby65

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He's UConn's best player. Not best prospect, but best player. He'd be our best ball handler, best 3 PT shooter, best FT shooter, best rebounding guard, best steal guy.
x1000. And now with no consistent perimeter scorers on this team, and no inside game either, all we’ve got is a slashing guard mid-range shooting shitshow.
 

Mr_Twister

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who left the football program.
As for Cam, he committed to Loyola of Maryland out of High School , then on to RU for a year before moving on to UConn.
He is the new breed of mercenary that jumps to where he thinks it's best for him.
As for feeder program???
My opinion is : RU MBB is a taker more than a feeder when it comes to the comings and goings of its players
I’m not starting the basketball departure list with Dean Reiber.
 

Mr_Twister

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Not this season with football… what we lost we came in with better.
We need significantly better. When teams like Coastal Carolina and JMU, the last couple of years, have better QBs than us we are not getting it done in the portal.
 

Knight Shift

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Putting on a show at the Garden against the Johnnies. Boy do I miss him.
morgan freeman idgaf GIF
 

DHajekRC84

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Cam is a good player and Rutgers misses his talent.
But Spencer is a mercenary that takes his talent to where it will benefit him best.
Nothing wrong with that.
Consider him a rental, just like so many other college players are today, that felt he'd get a better deal by leaving RU than if he stayed
Felt? He nailed it!
He spent 3 years at LM. With his talent you think he should have just stayed in the Patriot League?

Go ask Pike why he couldn't keep him. I bet money was never the no. 1 reason. At least not NIL.
 
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DHajekRC84

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That’s the problem. We have to get to a point where it’s in proven player’s best interest to stay. It’s amusing some of the nudnicks here who thought Spencer’s departure is no big deal.
Not to mention how enjoyable it was to watch him play the game. Most just think about the scoring. When my wife picks out a guy you know he's special.
 
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He's a great player for sure and only made one mistake that I noticed all season last year. It cost us the Minnesota game and the tournament but he did so many good things that won a lot of games for us too. His greatest asset is he doesn't get rattled and he takes like 10000 - 3 pointers every week as practice.
 

Yeah Baby

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We need significantly better. When teams like Coastal Carolina and JMU, the last couple of years, have better QBs than us we are not getting it done in the portal.
I would love to see those teams against our schedule this past year. Stats would be paltry at best.
 

Mr_Twister

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who left the football program.
As for Cam, he committed to Loyola of Maryland out of High School , then on to RU for a year before moving on to UConn.
He is the new breed of mercenary that jumps to where he thinks it's best for him.
As for feeder program???
My opinion is : RU MBB is a taker more than a feeder when it comes to the comings and goings of its players
Let’s start with our offensive linemen who left for Ohio State and Missouri, who became all-conference players for their adopted teams.
 

anon1753890747

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Anyone who said he slow STFU
Anyone who said he was not our best transfer STFU
Anyone who said our guard play was keeping us down STFU
Anyone who said he was not a P5 D1 bball STFU
You know who you are, we know who you are .
You could not have been more glaringly wrong.
Your post and opinions on bball are a joke.
We don’t want to hear what you have to say.
You are either clueless, or have some sort of agenda.
 

bitnez

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There’s nothing like another Cam Spencer love fest thread to get me excited. You’d think that Pike kicked him off the team. The guy showed up for year and moved on. I get that some feel better calling him a “Rutgers man”. I can almost guarantee you he’ll always think of himself as a UConn guy.
 
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anon1753890747

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He's a great player for sure and only made one mistake that I noticed all season last year. It cost us the Minnesota game and the tournament but he did so many good things that won a lot of games for us too. His greatest asset is he doesn't get rattled and he takes like 10000 - 3 pointers every week as practice.
Are you saying he cost us a tournament bid last year?
 

DHajekRC84

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RUInsanityToo

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Anyone who said he slow STFU
Anyone who said he was not our best transfer STFU
Anyone who said our guard play was keeping us down STFU
Anyone who said he was not a P5 D1 bball STFU
You know who you are, we know who you are .
You could not have been more glaringly wrong.
Your post and opinions on bball are a joke.
We don’t want to hear what you have to say.
You are either clueless, or have some sort of agenda.

Most of us didn't say any of that, however it seems you have some major anger issues regarding a forum that is pretty much comprised of non-insider overly emotional fan opinions and projections.

The great news for you is that I'm sure you can find UConn games on TV replay somewhere in the interwebs and focus obsessively on his play while jerking off to what might have been had he stayed at RU.
 
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anon1753890747

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Most of us didn't say any of that, however it seems you have some major anger issues regarding a forum that is pretty much comprised of non-insider overly emotional fan opinions and projections.

The great news for you is that I'm sure you can find UConn games on TV replay somewhere in the interwebs and focus obsessively on his play while jerking off to what might have been had he stayed at RU.
Nice
Lots of assumptions
You may want a mirror
 
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RUBOB72

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Let’s start with our offensive linemen who left for Ohio State and Missouri, who became all-conference players for their adopted teams.
Yes Ohio State and you can’t blame him at the time … who was the Missouri guy?
 

NickRU714

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I would love to see those teams against our schedule this past year. Stats would be paltry at best.

This is always a bad response.
Those teams haven't been receiving the same tens of millions of $$ Rutgers has to bolster their program.
 

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In the last 2:32 vs Minnesota he had 2 TOs and missed a critical FT.
I thought you might be referring to his defense on the game winning shot... I guess he went for the steal, which left Battle open for a second, and then ended up getting faked out of his jock in a desperate attempt to block the shot... But you can't say he didn't try...

I wouldn't necessarily hold the missed FT against him though... In the last 2:32 that you referred to, he went to the line 6 times and made 5.

 
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RUBOB72

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Jonah Jackson and Mike Maietti were both grad transfers in 2019. Both did well after spending 4 years at Rutgers… Schiano was just returning to Rutgers so I’m not convinced (by some posters who show up every so often ) that we are a feeder school. In todays college football world we see the reason why the B1G and SEC are threatening the NCAA’s hold on the $$$$
 

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Jonah Jackson and Mike Maietti were both grad transfers in 2019. Both did well after spending 4 years at Rutgers… Schiano was just returning to Rutgers so I’m not convinced (by some posters who show up every so often ) that we are a feeder school. In todays college football world we see the reason why the B1G and SEC are threatening the NCAA’s hold on the $$$$
You have to count Jackson and Maietti. They bailed on us. So how would you rate our transfer portal success versus others in the Big Ten when it comes to hoops and football?
 

MADHAT1

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Some who arrived from other programs need to be counted as well as the loses.
To name a few old and new :
Michael Dwumfour, Brendan White, Aron Cruickshank, Sean Ryan, Christian Braswell, Tre Avery, Aaron Lewis , Noah Vedral and “Flip” Dixon.
The Minnesotan QB coming in might be a plus, but until he proves that he's just another addition..Naseim Brantley is another one that transferred in that might be a good pick up
Eric Rodgers might prove himself in 2024 after playing in all 13 games last year .

But in today's basketball transfer environment, every program can be considered a feeder school and mercenaries like Cam as much of the landscape as those who who stay their full eligibility.
Also some who leave as grad transfers do it because of academics, thinking of life after basketball as much as going to other programs because of that program might help them make the pros better than the one they left .
 
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RUBOB72

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You have to count Jackson and Maietti. They bailed on us. So how would you rate our transfer portal success versus others in the Big Ten when it comes to hoops and football?
No the reason is not because of Schiano… it was because of the 5 years of Flood and Ash… The name of the game is not so much winning but NIL $$$$. Our staff is quickly gaining wide respect . Schiano has proven he can put guys into the NFL… the problem of lack of facilities is being corrected. Rutgers is more different than it ever was in my time there.
 

RUBOB72

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Some who arrived from other programs need to be counted as well as the loses.
To name a few old and new :
Michael Dwumfour, Brendan White, Aron Cruickshank, Sean Ryan, Christian Braswell, Tre Avery, Aaron Lewis , Noah Vedral and “Flip” Dixon.
The Minnesotan QB coming in might be a plus, but until he proves that he's just another addition..Naseim Brantley is another one that transferred in that might be a good pick up
Eric Rodgers might prove himself in 2024 after playing in all 13 games last year .

But in today's basketball transfer environment, every program can be considered a feeder school and mercenaries like Cam as much of the landscape as those who who stay their full eligibility.
Also some who leave as grad transfers do it because of academics, thinking of life after basketball as much as going to other programs because of that program might help them make the pros better than the one they left .
I said before here some “ Rutgers” posters look at things in a one sided way… always seem to leave the important things out like players who did transfer here and under Schiano. This is our year if either of the QB’s takes the next step.
 
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