O I agree, he's got enough goodwill built up and contract to survive last year and a potential disaster this year. But it'll be a slow death if this year continues to spiral, he won't be able to recruit and what transfer portal guy would want to come here?
Unfortunately, even if Rutgers has a losing season, Pike will not be fired since there is no AD and no university president to hold Pike accountable. So he will be back next year no matter what.
College basketball teams don't know how to run effective pick and rolls. That's reserved for the NBA.
and thats why my interest may be waning as NIL becomes embeded in college sports. At some point its not fun and Im in no interest in watching an arms race of paying for players to dribble a ball at a school
We don't even have an AD around who can make that decision.
It saddens me to like this post but I agree 100 percent.
do you think Pike has the cajones to force these players to play defense, I dont, they already decided they do not want to and thats that. its ace and dylans team
He won’t get canned, you’re right. But his seat should be getting warm and if next year is another bad year, he may be gone after next year.
So where is the development of guess around them? Why do we have to field an entire roster through the portal?
You're forgetting this is Rutgers. For 30 years, we had only two or three seasons in which we had a legitimate chance of dancing.
This is literally no different from anything I've been saying to this point. The only difference is that people are finally starting to look at what I'm saying and understand it's true
I said should. Not that he would.
because of Pikes lousy recruiting from previous years which made him force them off the team.
We all came to a realization last year that last year’s team lacked the ability to shoot, score, and just play offense. Similarly, today was it for me with this year’s team and a realization. They lack the ability to stay in front of their man with effort, to pick up their teammates when beaten by their man by rotating with team defense, to box out and fight for rebounds, etc.. I already saw it in games, we all have this year, but today turned a corner with me that I don’t see hope for it changing. Similar to how last year’s team lacked offensive ability, this year’s team just lacks defensive ability. We thought maybe Vegas gave hope but the defense was not very good out in Vegas either. Choose any reason why that is the case that you like, but they just don’t have it on defense just like last year’s team didn’t have it on offense.
This explains our fanbase in a nutshell. Settle for some progress bc our history has been so bad.
Exactly. As bad as last year was, everyone made excuses for it, gave Pike another free pass, and pointed towards this season as our big reward. Now it looks like our reward is nothing more than another kick in the nuts. The problem is Pike completely failed to build a competitive roster around Ace and Dylan, his two unicorn recruits who fell to him. Everything else is just an outcome of that failure. i think it has become clear that Pike's floor and ceiling are about the same thing.
They are the meek, beaten puppies of RU fanhood. Everything is calibrated off the horrors of years past. As long as someone isn't kicking them, they want to build them a statue and give out a lifetime contract. Never any understanding of current day reality or forward looking expectations.
I just don't think they can play defense. Some players are lost and some players don't have the athletic ability.
We don't seem to have any plan or awareness on offense.
That’s what it looks like….
Oh, as you may know, it troubles me that most here think Schiano walks on water.
