Is Badalau gone. ?

RAC93

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Is anyone actually looking for him? The question of “is my wallet gone?”, “are my keys or my cell gone?” Much more relevant and significant. But if Badalau were “gone”, then let him go.
 

NickRU714

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What about retention?
Multi year contracts?
All that nonsense and fake tears many cry about the lack of loyalty by players?

Funny how all the "Pike needs his players for multiple years to develop them. Players should be forced to stay for 2 or more years at a school" goes out the window when the player appears to not be any good.
 

ScarletDave

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What about retention?
Multi year contracts?
All that nonsense and fake tears many cry about the lack of loyalty by players?

Funny how all the "Pike needs his players for multiple years to develop them. Players should be forced to stay for 2 or more years at a school" goes out the window when the player appears to not be any good.
Yea it’s true. We want to keep Powers to develop him to hit his ceiling. Badalou stinks so we want him gone. What’s hard to understand
 

Saint Puppy

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I had hopes for Badalau as a shooter when he joined the team. He could have been a fan favorite at the RAC.

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I thought he was going to be the best player on RU at the beginning of the season. I felt like he had an inconsistent start and just never recovered. I got Gavin Griffiths vibes from him. Anyway no way he should stay.
 

RUInsanityToo

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Yea it’s true. We want to keep Powers to develop him to hit his ceiling. Badalou stinks so we want him gone. What’s hard to understand

The majority of fans here have indicated that they don't like the free agent frenzy instability of rosters that the portal has created in College basketball. Many have even claimed that they are losing interest in college sports because of it and NIL.

Those types of expressed feelings seem kind of disingenuous when at the same time many of the same fans seem quite happy to want the team to leverage the portal rules to quickly turn over the roster every season in order to bring in new players and throw out what they consider the players who are trash.
 

RedTeamUpstream94

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The majority of fans here have indicated that they don't like the free agent frenzy instability of rosters that the portal has created in College basketball. Many have even claimed that they are losing interest in college sports because of it and NIL.

Those types of expressed feelings seem kind of disingenuous when at the same time many of the same fans seem quite happy to want the team to leverage the portal rules to quickly turn over the roster every season in order to bring in new players and throw out what they consider the players who are trash.

i don’t think it’s disingenuous

I really hate the state of college sports right now with the rampant free agency

but it is what it is

So Rutgers needs to play the free agency game just like everyone else

Don’t hate the player, hate the game
 

RUfan1977

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Does Pike ever talk bad about anyone? I take everything he says with a grain of salt
The worst I remember him talking bad about a player was when he talked about how Mag was doing great in practice day after day, but then darn come game day he wasn’t healthy enough to play.
 

NickRU714

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I doubt any coaches talk bad about any current players.

It would be interesting how often they provide such high praise on players who totally under delivery.

Chol, Hayes, Badalau - who will be "best shooter in camp" next season?