Could be. He looks tired to me though and they've only played 5 cupcakes. He was really waving his hands wildly tonight on sideline to best Central Connecticut State. A sad spectacle.
We must fire Pike or the program is doomed
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Bingo! He's getting tired. I think he will leave on his own like Maryland coach a few years ago.
Nah, that's just the irrational side talking. A few years ago you were saying the opposite about Pike.
Do you mean the Virginia coach? Willard only left MD because he had better offers, which I don’t think will happen for Pikiell. I agree that he looks tired, and has since Cam and Paul left. Maybe he and Zinn can negotiate a buyout that lets him leave gracefully and lets Rutgers save some money.
Knight as an interim coach would be worse than him.I think he’s gone at the end of the season if not beforehand. Theshow is just starting and will be full blown dysentery as the calendar turns to a new year.
To keep claiming he is a developmental coach is laughable.
I remember when half this board was afraid UCONN would steal him away - LOL.
Nah. Go back to Willard predecessor at MD, Mark Turgeon
Her Job! Find the money and make tough decisions . If she is Big Time neither Pike or Greg finish their contracts and are gone.
Firing them and bringing in her guys is big time and displays true leadership. It shows that our AD and more importantly President are not just lip service individuals. They lead with conviction based on the standard they have communicated.
The smart corporate think for them is to ride our both awful contracts blame the previous regimes and extend their careers.
After these lame duck coaches are finally gone they will get 1 if not 2 HC hires for both sports. Extending their careers for over a decade.
Which is it Keli? Big time true leader or big time politician?
Basketball vs football is not apples to apples. Greggy is a clown who can’t be gone fast enough
You mean Schiano, not Pike. Pike’s body of work outshines Schiano’s by far.
I love pike and will always be grateful for what he did for the program, but I don’t think his style works in the NIL era of college sports. I HATE what NIL has done to college sports. It’s going to end pike’s career
which COULD happen. not saying a sure thing but within the realm of possibility.
I at least give him credit for developing under the radar players like Myles Johnson, Geo Baker, Caleb McConnel and Eugene Omoruyi.
The football team? BC is 1-10 and Florida State and Wisconsin have losing records. Greg at least tried to raise money. Pike has recruited too many Jalen Miller type players.. Basketball will be in last place though.
Correct, much easier to fix things in basketball with smaller rosters which Pike could have done if he took Greg's lead in finding the money on his own.
Nope. Only thing I could see is him agreeing to resign if they pay him $10mm rather than $20mm.
I remember thinking if he got us to the tournament, he would be beloved forever here; a figurtive statue built for him. And I'm grateful for the good years and even the early ones where the team was scrappy and worked their butts off, even if they weren't winning a ton of games.
Unfortunately, I've hit the point where it's clear that he's trying to coach the 2019-22 era of basketball when it's completely changed (both NIL and style of play). Pike gets this year and next to get and figure something out, because we don't have the funds to pay him and a new coach. It sucks that the breakup has to happen this way, because we had some really fun times. Credit NIL for being a primary contributor to the new game, and that really sucks.
I would jump across the table right now to accept that deal
I agree. Much more difficult to resurrect a football program than a basketball program. Especially in this conference. GS has his faults and has not done a great job this season. That said, he at least recruits, while being forced to attack the NIL element himself, with embarrassingly little support from the school (until now, hopefully.) Basketball has not adapted one bit. Recruiting has fallen off the table and we’re left scrounging for low major projects that we hope are somehow developed by this flailing coaching staff. Nearly every summer, SP volunteers his team as his “favorite” or “best ever” and every year for the last 4, the results are worse. I think SP is a good man and was a good face for the program in helping pull us out of being a laughingstock. But 2023-24 was bad. 2024-25 was a national embarrassment. And this year will just be long and sad. The program is cratering.
I believe the buyout would drop to $9M after this season. Either way, suggesting he’s going to walk is crazy.
And he’s supposed to be a good defensive coach and we can’t guard the pick ad rol nor the 3 point line where does one see the good defensive coach
By the Numbers: Steve Pikiell receives extension from Rutgers
Here are the full details of Steve Pikiell’s new contract extension.
www.onthebanks.com
Did he get a deal on top of the one referenced here?
The buyout is if Pike were to leave for another team not what RU owes him on the contract.
Not sure why so many are suddenly getting this mixed up.
The difference between GS and pike is GS doesn’t lose these types of games in either iteration him on the banks … he cleans up in non conference and finds a way to get bowl eligible year after year once he has a structure in place
anybody asking to fire GS simply have unrealistic expectations for the football program and need to be reminded the grass has been dead as a doornail on the other side with his replacements. We’re just never ever going to be a 9-11 win program in football in the b10 unless the university community COMPLETELY changed its processes and focus and devoted an enormous amount of resources to revenue sports which we simply don’t have
basketball as mentioned is far far easier to turn around in the NIL era and that is part of the problem … 5 years ago you were rewarded in hoops for developing players who stayed 3-4-5 years and teams with 1 and dones and transferred struggled … now every player is a 1 and done because of the portal and NIL so those coaches who embrace that free agency and play and coach a style that caters to that are winning
players don’t have the time or willingness to sit and learn on the bench for 2 years they want to get paid and they want to play and they want to perform and put up numbers so they can get the next pay day
pike isn’t it but the problem runs a lot deeper than pike
anybody asking to fire GS simply have unrealistic expectations for the football program and need to be reminded the grass has been dead as a doornail on the other side with his replacements. We’re just never ever going to be a 9-11 win program in football in the b10 unless the university community COMPLETELY changed its processes and focus and devoted an enormous amount of resources to revenue sports which we simply don’t have
basketball as mentioned is far far easier to turn around in the NIL era and that is part of the problem … 5 years ago you were rewarded in hoops for developing players who stayed 3-4-5 years and teams with 1 and dones and transferred struggled … now every player is a 1 and done because of the portal and NIL so those coaches who embrace that free agency and play and coach a style that caters to that are winning
players don’t have the time or willingness to sit and learn on the bench for 2 years they want to get paid and they want to play and they want to perform and put up numbers so they can get the next pay day
pike isn’t it but the problem runs a lot deeper than pike
Assuming a buyout is on the table (which I’d have to imagine it’s not), wouldn’t it be money better spent to pour even half that amount into NIL and have a roster that can legitimately compete in conference and tourney? Then winning programs solve fundraising/money problems themselves.
If Myles Johnson scored vs. Houston, we’d be having this same discussion next year instead of this year.
the balancing act for Kelli is whether to bite the bullet and find $20 million or waste another year potentially putting RU in an even worse abyss going forward. Its almost guaranteed next year will suck to. Sure RU will have more money for the portal but so does every other school. Plus Pike recruited way too many freshmen who will have to be run off the team. There is no such thing as building. Every year is its own...thats why some of the fans here posting about developing and retaining have been so far off the mark..you cant do that off a 12-19 season
You also see a lot of the smart coaches clamoring it’s a waste to recruit freshmen who won’t play or contribute in a meaningful way just get them later when they are ready
you could truly argue we’re going to end the pike era in a worse place than the Jordan era because of all the off the court reasons we aren’t a winning program
If Im Keli I woud put Chris Caputo 4th year head coach at GW and former assistant under Laranagua at Miami on speed dial