And no coach had an AD actively working against NIL and providing none.
lol his schedule is ten times harder than any other coach and I would be willing to bet that even Tom Young has hardly any victories against ranked teams
Pike and Greg are on the same 2 year evaluation period by Zinn/Tate. They won’t be terminated before then, but the possibility increases after that based on results. Until then RU fans may as well support the current coaches because little is changing short term.
So more wins against top 25 teams really isn't a good metric to utilize them, no?
Tom Young was far from perfect too. People used to complain he was very lazy on recruiting trail. I am willing to bet he has single digits wins against top 25 teams and he was here for two more years than Pike who has 17
Yes it is because Rutgers schedule is infinitely harder now than it was when we were in the Atlantic 10 or Big East. Every conference game is a dog fight and the constant competition is extremely draining. It was a lot easier to get up for a top opponent knowing you played a few patsy's like Duquesne before it
It is a show of support. But, on the other hand was she going to come out and tell Recco that Pike is on the clock, better make something happen and that he’s a lame duck coach if things don’t change real quick? Also, that albatross of a contract for Pike that her predecessor left her with is also helping to generate this “show of support”, how much who knows. I don’t think that radio interview was a 10 more years vote of confidence. What I took from that interview is that she said she will fix the NIL problem, therefore there will be no more excuses for not winning. If the NIL is increased to levels of most around the country and Pike does not win next year with another losing record, I fully expect he is gone and Zinn gets to make her hire and not deal with Hobbs hire.
Stop speaking for the fanbase with your spin on what the fanbase thinks.
Never happen. Who’s going to fire her ? The president who brought her here?
The ‘nothing else’ was better than this year’s bottom feeder additions. Francis a good addition, but Nwuli, Mark, Buchanan, etc. … weak.
Totally disagree with Shelby. Nwuli, Mark, Zrno and Powers have a lot of promise
You shouldn’t even call yourself a fan…go root for another team then
It’s his job bring in the players. The low level of talent is his fault
Not being argumentative and not saying it’s you Diddy but we have to stop with the “Pike is competitive even though the roster doesn’t have Big Ten talent” and “we have to keep the non big ten talented roster together”. While technically roster has 15 now Pike cannot continue playing 12. He has to get back to, for success and NIL reasons, a 2019-2021 mentality of 7 maybe 8 guys getting the majority of the minutes (and time). Francis sure, but he’s not a pg and I don’t want two 6’ guards on the team. Grant but whispers have him looking for his bag already. Buchanan might be a good 7th guy. Not too many others unless you’re retaining them as the 10th or 11th with little NiL
I didn’t say it was 2. I said 1-2. And that is a guess, not what I want to happen. It sounds like NIL for next season will be better but not great. The new AD office is pushing to fix NIL by 2027-28 season. My guess is Zinn will give Pike the benefit of having a competitive NIL and a competitive roster.
If Rutgers coaching staff knew how to run a half court offense,the team should have achieved a winning season.Somebody needs to be held accountable. for the losing seasons.
and as I mentioned earlier, if KZ was the AD, Cliffy could have been "retained" and if so, odds are RU was dancing
yeah finally listened to it and i didnt come out with the impression of any 2 year deal to get it done. Its one year to prove what you can do and get things back. Also remember Rutgers does not exist in a vacuum in the Big 10.
I took it as she was putting it on notice to the fans (listeners) that NIL will be more competitive and therefore better results are expected. I see this as Pike is on notice to shape up next year or ship out. Votes of confidence are really only issued for people that you don’t have confidence in. The reality is they are more a Vote of Lack of Confidence as the coach/individual usually gets fired in the near future following the alleged Vote of Confidence. Vote of Confidence = Kiss of Death.
Amazing what confirmation bias can do.
Pike has a better chance with money than Schiano. Both will get the opportunity to show what they can do with support. If they don't produce, they will then be gone.
This couldn't be further from the truth. The stuff she's working on has never even been close to happening here. If she can close even half of it the dept. will be completely transformed.
There is still a lot of work to do by they've already exceeded the goal the set. We need a lot more, but things in NIL are changing rapidly, as are future sponsorship deals. I won't give too much away but that woman is on 24/7. I just hope we can keep her after she starts posting some of these big wins. She will be highly sought after when this ship gets turned around and how she was able to do it.
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