I wish this crappy little narrative would end already. Blah, blah, blah, Schiano. His team still sucked eggs last year, but he is lauded as some sort of god, while Pike is the anti-Christ. Fact is, Greg has been around Rutgers a lot longer and had a deeper list of contacts to work from. Maybe he could have spent some more time on transfer portal evaluations on defense instead of putting that joke of a defense on the field for 12 games. You don't know anything about what Pike did. He tried.
Keyboard warriors spewing hate towards a guy who has had the modern era of basketball pass him "buy" with no help from his AD or Rutgers.
Rutgers could not even get him a GM, while Schiano's staff got more and more bloated while Pisari was in charge And Schiano's team still stunk it up last year. But not a peep from the Schianoites who think he is wonderful.
"I used to do 70% basketball, 30% events and going places. It's probably flipped. It's probably 30% now and 70% figuring out this landscape, which is changing every day. The rules are changing every day on how to navigate this landscape. It's nothing I have all the answers for. If I have them on a Tuesday, the next time I am on a Zoom, the next Tuesday, I find out to forget about that rule."
"I have to do a really good job of navigating the obstacles of having enough money in the collective and in the settlement and in the rev share," he said. "…It's hard to navigate. I want to get a GM. I am into the GM role. I think we need that. I know I need that."
And when will that occur?
"We are in the process of finding one soon," Pikiell said. "I don't know when it's going to be posted. Most places have done that three years ago, so we're behind in that area. I know, personally, it would help me a great deal."
