He knows a bad win-loss record calls his tenure into question.
I was there, and it was most definitely a home game for them. Less than a 3 hour drive they had about 1k fans vs our 40. They were loud the whole time and since nobody else was there, it had an impact. It was in essence a home game for them for sure.
Risk adverse is how i like to describe it.
I will defend Pikiell on scheduling because he knows how difficult wins will be in the B1G for a Rutgers team that still lacks consistent scorers .At the same time its alarming the difficulty Rutgers has this year and past years in dominating mediocre out of conference opponents.After four games ,opponents have figured out Rutgers weakness is out side shooting and thus play zone defense.Rutgers doesn't respond because they lack shooters from the corners and ball movement to attack a zone.
People bashing the schedule, please keep in mind this was supposed to be South Carolina. We also got knocked from the Gavitt games. That’s two big blows to the schedule. Seton Hall, Pitt, South Carolina, and a Big East team is not terrible. On top of that, we play 18 Big Ten games. People talk about how bad our schedule is, yet our SOS is always pretty darn high. Don’t get me wrong, I do get the frustration, but please keep some of that in mind.
My point is we play 18 conference games and our overall strength of schedule was fine last year. I would like then to play better teams, but they looked terrible against St. John’s and Seton Hall last year. We beat Miami, but we also looked like crap against them. So what’s the point? You get two early conference games mixed in December. Maybe we’re not good
Those who analyze - sure. But the W-L column always holds weight regardless of SOS.
