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    OT: Can't remember when......

    In the Derek Jeter documentary, he talked about how much he hated Roger Clemens because he used to hit him with pitches all the time. When Clemens went to the Yankees, Jeter realized he was just ferociously competitive and a loyal teammate, and respected him a ton.
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    Basketball Rutgers big man Emmanuel Ogbole is entering the Transfer Portal

    😂😂
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    Basketball Rutgers big man Emmanuel Ogbole is entering the Transfer Portal

    Season | Primary Center | PPG | RPG ------------|-------------------|------|----- 2011–12 | Gilvydas Biruta | 9.7 | 5.3 2012–13 | Wally Judge | 7.1 | 5.4 2013–14 | Wally Judge | 7.5 | 6.3 2014–15 | Greg Lewis | 3.3 | 3.5 2015–16 | Greg Lewis...
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    BB Recruiting Rutgers Basketball lands CCSU transfer forward Darin Smith Jr.

    20 pts / game last year career 40% 3 pt shooter 88% free throw shooter I like it
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    Portal Targets

    This is a really good cautionary tale for ANY portal player- you see those stats for a player on a big ten team- that looks pretty solid, he must be a solid piece. If you watched all season you know he disappeared at times, etc. any portal player is a wildcard in that regard.
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    Knight interviewing at UNC

    Bingo- coaches that are recruiters first are less valuable. The GM and NIL do all the recruiting.
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    Wow!

    Before this game I felt you were nervous they would make a run and trick people into thinking this roster was adequate. That didn’t happen, so thats one positive.
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    2027 NCAA for RU?

    Exactly, 21-23 is the problem. There was an air pocket in our recruiting and we have been trying to make wholesale changes to the roster ever since, failing each year.
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    NIL and Recruiting

    Also made a sweet 16 which mccaffrey never did in 15 years!
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    2027 NCAA for RU?

    Before NIL there was always the debate about coaches who could or couldn't recruit, and did more with less, or vice versa. Randy Edsall at UCONN football- many on this board loved him for doing "more with less". Dave Wannestadt- Pitt football coach- always had great recruiting classes but did...
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    2027 NCAA for RU?

    Article "As was outlined during the search, Iowa’s ability to pay players, both with revenue-sharing and NIL dollars (the latter via the Iowa SWARM Collective), will be the biggest key in what type of roster McCollum can initially put together. If Iowa can be in the $4.5 million range, which...
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    2027 NCAA for RU?

    Stirtz was a D2 player that followed his coach to Drake and then Iowa. McCollum has squeezed the most out of him. Stirtz had 13 points on 0-9 3 pt shooting, so they had to get production from somewhere else. They got it from Tavion Banks, a 3 star JUCO transfer, and Folguieras who hit the game...
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    2027 NCAA for RU?

    Pikes salary is the same as Iowas coach, and we will have roughly the same NIL. So why isn’t a 9 seed in the tourney realistic?
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    Dybansta

    I forget who it was, maybe Theo Epstein, the old Red Sox/ cubs GM, that said the best you can hope for is to keep making the playoffs. Once you’re in, who knows what happens. But keep getting in and eventually you will break through. Let’s just start making the tourney.
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    NIL and Recruiting

    Iowa is a perfectly reasonable comp. According to this article their NIL is only around 4 mil. Let’s just say it’s 8-10 mil, which is our goal. They went 10-10 in conference, 9 seed in the NCAA tourney in coaches first season. Anyone crying that our NIL makes it impossible for Pikiell is making...
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