Hope to see a good run on the Big Ten Tournament. It’s Rutgers postseason and I hope they make the best of it.
Seems doubtful, but if he did get $1 million, given what star players are getting paid, he earned it.
Considering Hobbs did ZERO as far a raising NIL money, I wonder if Pike had personally called every season ticket holder & begged for donations to keep Cliff, how much he could have raised? Having run fundraisers for RU for many years I think he might have been able to raise around $50,000, not near enough to keep or buy anyone of value.
I just did a whole diatribe on my opinion of Pike saying he was far from perfect and I get some of the criticism. What is infuriating is people thinking that lack of NIL is not an excuse for finishing in the bottom of the conference. We are doing a lot better than teams who are in a similar financial position and therefore Pike is punching above his weight. How do people expect us to beat teams with 7 times the payroll? He has already proven that he could get to the top performers in conference Pre-NIL. There is no other coach willing to work under similar restrictions that would perform better than Pike
where do you get the narrative that people were not thinking we werent winning any conference games...you keep repeating a lie, you even claimed the mods said it when I believed they predcited 6-14 and I also predicted 6-14 so that was not winning zero conference games. I still think Pikes coaching is outdated for this new system....turnover and heavy use of portal every year where you have to have your roster read to play from day 1 not mid February.
the reality is that in 10 years RU has never made it past the quarters and only appeared their 2x, losing to Purdue after winning two games and then finishing as a 4 seed getting a bye to quarters and wallopped by Iowa and sentenced to Dayton.
yup..and in case anyone reads your quote of me, mine had a typo..not 4-0 last 9 but 4 - 9 last 8 years.
Fair post. Happy you have come around to our team has improved and placed us in an appropriate mediocre category. Yes , we are not an NCAA team and hopefully Pike can get a very competent 4 and 5 in the portal and maybe one more scorer / 3 wing 2 way player if he is lucky . Then he has to blend them together with the hopeful returnees.
yeah alot of emotional responses after losing to central connecticut state understable...but in preseason prediction everyone was at least 3 and up to 8 even and the mods 6 and there is a reason we do BEFORE THE SEASON prediction threads
I'll say it again..if we only had held on the beat MSU. That win would in itself have had a significant positive impact on season performance. Just a couple of seconds, a foul shot, a possession.
Check the portal from last year.
I respect and admire Pike as much s anyone on these boards. What he did to elevate the program from the depths of despair should be praised for years. But asa long suffering Rutgers alum and fan, I want more. I want our teams and our coaches to be judged against the best . Nebraska sucked just a few years ago and now they're in the NCAAs and seeded #2 in the big Ten tournament. It can happen quickly. And in football Indiana went from being a "basketball school" to having won a National Championship. We've waited long enough to be part of the conversation. But we need to demand it , we need to expect it and most of all we need to support it with our money.
I would rather save the win against Michigan State for tomorrow
That's nice, but since Tom Young left Rutgers has never been considered a top program.
You have been trending in the wrong direction since you signed on here.
“I can’t attack his ideas, so I’ll attack the individual”
Not sure if you watched Tom Young teams or not. TY was there 12 years and he went to 4 NCAA tournaments. He did go to a final four, but that was with his predecessors players. He certainly wasn't a consistent tourney team. Is that your definition of a top program?
I feel similarly. This team is very fun to watch. It's like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get
But his teams were considered top programs for awhile and that's what I'm talking about.
Go look at the schedule Rutgers played under Young and compare it to our current schedule. We played in the Eastern 8 and later the Atlantic 10 which was a just step better than the current Atlantic 10. During his 12 years at Rutgers, Young beat 10 ranked teams compared to 18 in 10 years by Pike. Young made the dance 4 times and Pike made it twice but really would have been 3 times if not for Covid. They were definitely in that year
After 4 losing seasons, including last year with two great players, he just became a good coach by beating a team below us in the standings that had only 6 players and was playing on 24 hours rest. He might be Big 10 coach of the year.
You have your opinion of Young and I have mine.
You are a complete imbecile if you think Pikiel is any where near as good as Young. Also, teams like Temple, St.Bonaventure, and Princeton back then would destroy the Temple, St. Bonaventure, and Princeton teams today.
Temple was the only program you name that was any type of team that could compete in the BIG1G. Princeton wasn't in the conference
