Desmond Claude??
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I thought the Tweets are saying it’s a bidding war between Duke and a couple other blue bloods? I’d be thrilled but seems highly unlikely.
There was a quote a while ago from him saying he wants to play alongside another high profile guard and compete for a championship. That doesn’t exactly put Rutgers near the top of the list.
There was a quote a while ago from him saying he wants to play alongside another high profile guard and compete for a championship. That doesn’t exactly put Rutgers near the top of the list.
Yeah. He is out of our price range and a powerful example of how some programs will over pay for a guy who'd sit on their bench instead of starting at a lesser program. I bet he ends up at Kentucky.
If that was true, and we’re now “done”, I really don’t think Pike would’ve taken Francis. He’s going to have to answer to a lot of that’s the case. It would mean Francis had to get a huge bag. If not, we should have money left for one more real player.
I thought I saw a Tweet that UK is out. Not them.
Maybe he’s not out of our range. We supposedly had between $4 and $5. That’s a huge range. We couldn’t have spent more that $2M on the returnees and frosh combined. And Buchanan, Zrno, Fall and Francis probably didn’t total more than another $2M. That could mean we have $1M and change left if we actually have $5M.
don’t know for sure that we don’t have $1M left.
He has made it known that he wants to go to a team that can make a deep run. That is certainly not us.
Correct. We’re not getting him. But that doesn’t mean we’ve run out of money and are at $0 budget.
More like a slow walk to the bottom of the B1G Ten .
Read somewhere he wants to be option 1 on offense. Saw Kentucky is out too.
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Report: Top programs pursuing Desmond Claude in transfer portal
On Monday, Jeff Borzello revealed who is in contact with USC transfer Desmond Claude, who is one of the most-coveted guards in the portal.
You nor anyone else has any idea how much we had to spend on frosh & returnees, nor how much Buchanan or anyone else cost. No way to know if we have money left until we are done in the portal, mindless speculation can start untrue rumors like last year about Sommerville not allowing Pike to recruit another big, which became urban fact on message boards
Hello!! We can promise him Option 1. Hope Pike can get this done.Read somewhere he wants to be option 1 on offense. Saw Kentucky is out too.
Report: Top programs pursuing Desmond Claude in transfer portal
On Monday, Jeff Borzello revealed who is in contact with USC transfer Desmond Claude, who is one of the most-coveted guards in the portal.
In all seriousness - he’s probably $2M+ if the Florida kid would be $7M. No?
There’d be no reason for him to leave USC for Rutgers unless he just really wants to come back here. We can only hope.
Heard Pike's best offer was a 50 dollar gift to the river road tavern to try and lure him to piscataway.. we're waiting to hear back from his agent.
Why’s this even a thread? We have not even close to the $$$ needed to get a guy like this whom I don’t even think is worth the $$$ he’s asking for or the role he’s demanding
That explains it. You are drunk when you post.
“In his next school, sources said, Claude is looking for a proven backcourt mate to share playmaking & a team built for a deep run.”
I would say he’s out.
Jmike is very proven … to be an average to below average point guard
Keep reading lol.. a team built for a deep run ….. this team is built to maybe make the big10 tourney.
You need to drink a lot to watch Rutgers Basketball at the moment.
Your sources are wrong! ....
We went all in with an all-you-can-eat coupon to Stuff Yer Face.
Until the season starts, RU is a lock to make the Big Dance and possibly win the B1G Tourney along with undisputed regular season conference championship.
After first game then everything turns into a definite maybe.
As season progresses, then we'll see how good or bad the team looks and chances of regular season and post season success to look forward to or be disjointed about .
Right now failure isn't an option when hoping Pike can make this program something to be proud of in the 2025-26 season and the cbi isn't a goal to be proud of when hoping Rutgers MBB will be a winner this year
Pessimism has set in for many RUMBB fans because of past failures , I still have an optimistic feeling about how RU will do and maybe without 2 superstars on roster the team will have to rely on each other , every game, to get the win instead of looking for one or both of the freshman superstars to get the win on their own
Maybe if we get one more decent player. We’re not going to have enough with the 12 we have to be competitive unless 2 of the frosh are day one stars.
Claude is running out of options and may have overplayed his hand a bit.....teams with players returning to school instead of staying in the NBA draft, now are out of the running for Claude......Bama was supposedly the most recent option, but they've spent their money on other players.
