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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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    2026 NCAA Tournament Thread \ ALL Games-ALL Rounds

    Watching the tourney every year, you realize how cruel it can be. Top 25 all year, first overall pick, and after day one you’re home on the couch with everyone else. Same for Wisconsin, etc. makes you realize you just need to keep making the tourney because any one season is a crapshoot. VCU...
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    We are deluding ourselves

    At this point it’s clear Pike does not excel at wholesale roster changes. Our best shot is similar to football- retain what you can, develop, and when they do finally break through (KJ Duff) pay up to keep them. Throwing the entire roster in the trash every year won’t work.
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    We are deluding ourselves

    Agreed- making the tourney is the expectation. I don’t think that’s unreasonable. Finish top half in the league and you’re in
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    We are deluding ourselves

    Where is your goalpost
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    We are deluding ourselves

    The hope and goal for Zinn is to get us into that the fat part of the bell curve of NIL spending. As long as we are in the ballpark for spending, with good coaching, we should be a bubble team.
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    We are deluding ourselves

    luckily the NCAA tourney is not a ranking of 1-68 based on NIL. you have to play the games. Oregon went 12-20. you look at all the teams that didn't make the tourney and say we are hopeless unless we have more NIL. I look at that result and conclude that NIL is not everything.
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