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It’s not if just when Pike is gone. Might not make the end of the season.

Like Greg never should have been able to sign an extension. Was under contract and hasn’t been good since he signed his extension.

The season was over before it started
 
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RUgal

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tevans8407 said:
The money excuse is complete nonsense. It doesn't take money to teach proper shot selection. It doesn't take money to teach rebounding. It doesn't take money to learn to how close out on the perimeter. Steve Pikiell needs to be fired yesterday.
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Money will certainly matter to prospective coaches. Even if Pikiell is fired, who will take the job with our current NIL situation? Zinn better have some funds available if she expects to hire someone better than Pikiell.
 
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Mholinko said:
It’s not an excuse for why we’re losing by 50 but it is a reason why we’re never going to be competitive in the big ten and anybody who thinks we will be without an infusion into our budget is crazy

Michigan state got a 390 million dollar athletic donation today 100 million SPECIFICALLY for NIL

Do they need that money no but they sure as hell will benefit from it that’s what we’re competing against
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Next 2 games for Pike are huge
 
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Where’s all the Pike apologists claiming he is and would never be Eddie Jordan bad?

This team has less talent and is worst then Eddie Jordan’s teams
 
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Caliknight said:
This has nothing to do with money. Bad coaching, bad player evaluation all equals getting beat by 50 points to a conference team.

Embarrassment levels only reached by Jordan
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Money might not matter to you or be the reason you wanna roll with but nobody is going to touch this job without some financial promises or commitments

you guys not wanting to acknowledge the canary in the coal mine will realize even if it doesn’t matter to you and you wanna win without it nobody is going to take a bottom tier big ten job without some commitment from the school to actually try and win
 
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Keli needs to beef-up R so-called Athletics Excellence Fund and just get rid of Pike. I get she's laser-focused on NIL and the early reports are encouraging, but we need to walk & chew gum at the same time. $50/mo from just 25k RU fans = $15mill/yr, it just can't be that hard to organize by RU Athletics Admin.
 
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biochemist001

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colonel_rutgers said:
I don’t think he’s done. Look, I think we have some pieces but nowhere near what we need to compete with deep pockets of Michigan. I really like Powers, Mark, and Zrno. We will always struggle without a competent front court. I really feel that Myles Johnson was our best big man and we will struggle until we can find a player or 2 on the front court who can make a difference. And how long ago did Myles leave the program? It’s been a while. Francis and JaMichael are over their head a bit. You really can’t use today’s game as a barometer for this year. I’ll be more critical about losses to teams in the B1G not named Michigan, Purdue, Illinois and Michigan State this year.
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Cliff was better than Myles.
 
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Fran has always had Pikes number with the offenses he runs, and now Pike cant even piece together a competent defense. He will have possibly the two best players on the court with Roberts and Powers and they are better than CCSU. A loss at home after we get smoked by SHU will be full blown disaster territory
 
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Mholinko said:
It’s not an excuse for why we’re losing by 50 but it is a reason why we’re never going to be competitive in the big ten and anybody who thinks we will be without an infusion into our budget is crazy

Michigan state got a 390 million dollar athletic donation today 100 million SPECIFICALLY for NIL

Do they need that money no but they sure as hell will benefit from it that’s what we’re competing against
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Makes me wanna 😢

MSU receives record-breaking $401 million commitment - The State News https://share.google/lMnfxIxvISDxM68u4
 
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G- RUnit

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Way too much hand-wringing over this loss.

UM has just demolished RANKED Auburn and RANKED Gonzaga by similar margins and scoring total on a NEUTRAL court.

We played UMichigan just as well on Michigan’s HOME court as Gonzaga and arguably Auburn did on a neutral court.

Michigan may be having a season for the ages. Announcers were calling these three games the most dominant performance by a college basketball team in the past decade to 15 years.

Think the attacks a tad over the top. If our loss was HORRIFIC then what does that say about the similar Gonzaga and Auburn losses.
 
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Michigan beat Gonzaga by 40. My problem is going to touney we recruit Reiber and Jalen Miller. Two big misses.
 
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G- RUnit said:
Way toohand wringing over this loss.

UM has just demolished RANKED Auburn and RANKED Gonzaga by similar margins and scoring the same amounts on a NEUTRAL court.

We played UMichigan just as well on their HOME court as Gonzaga and arguably Auburn did on a neutral court.

Michigan may be having a season for the ages. Announcers were calling these three games the most dominant performance by a college basketball team in the past decade to 15 years.
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So maybe we suck just a little less.
 
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G- RUnit said:
Way too much hand-wringing over this loss.

UM has just demolished RANKED Auburn and RANKED Gonzaga by similar margins and scoring total on a NEUTRAL court.

We played UMichigan just as well on Michigan’s HOME court as Gonzaga and arguably Auburn did on a neutral court.

Michigan may be having a season for the ages. Announcers were calling these three games the most dominant performance by a college basketball team in the past decade to 15 years.

Think the attacks a tad over the top. If our loss was HORRIFIC then what does that say about the similar Gonzaga and Auburn losses.
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The team sucks, they’ll lose by less to worse teams than Michigan but an L is still an L and Pike is still a lame duck. There’s no way to contort the analysis to come to a different conclusion.
 
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G- RUnit said:
Way too much hand-wringing over this loss.

UM has just demolished RANKED Auburn and RANKED Gonzaga by similar margins and scoring total on a NEUTRAL court.

We played UMichigan just as well on Michigan’s HOME court as Gonzaga and arguably Auburn did on a neutral court.

Michigan may be having a season for the ages. Announcers were calling these three games the most dominant performance by a college basketball team in the past decade to 15 years.

Think the attacks a tad over the top. If our loss was HORRIFIC then what does that say about the similar Gonzaga and Auburn losses.
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I think you are verging on the delusional my friend.
 
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DHajekRC1984

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Caliknight said:
This has nothing to do with money. Bad coaching, bad player evaluation all equals getting beat by 50 points to a conference team.

Embarrassment levels only reached by Jordan.
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Steve Pikiel is a crap D1 high level coach. Period, Full Stop. Saw his ineptitude in the NCAA games years ago. Nice he got us there but he's way out of his league. Thanks Hobbs you a hole.
 
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G- RUnit said:
Way too much hand-wringing over this loss.

UM has just demolished RANKED Auburn and RANKED Gonzaga by similar margins and scoring total on a NEUTRAL court.

We played UMichigan just as well on Michigan’s HOME court as Gonzaga and arguably Auburn did on a neutral court.

Michigan may be having a season for the ages. Announcers were calling these three games the most dominant performance by a college basketball team in the past decade to 15 years.

Think the attacks a tad over the top. If our loss was HORRIFIC then what does that say about the similar Gonzaga and Auburn losses.
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LOL.. have you watched ANY Rutgers Basketball this year so far? "my wife just got screwed by my neighbor, but that's ok. He's been screwing all the ladies on our street ".
 
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Thank God I am at an Earth Wind and Fire concert. Hopefully it will ease the pain of the last week of RU sports.
 
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fatsam98 said:
This really ain't the game to judge this program by. Honestly surprised anyone wasted their time watching it

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I said the same thing nobody’s wants to hear it

this game is a waste to dry to draw any conclusions about the team

Michigan is having a historic start to the season

doesn’t make it a less embarrassing loss but there’s really no takeaways from the game

that being said my feelings that the program is in a bad place exist regardless… the administration has their work cut out for them
 
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It’s not if just when Pike is gone. Might not make the end of the season.

Like Greg never should have been able to sign an extension. Was under contract and hasn’t been good since he signed his extension.

The season was over before it started
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THIS IS RUTGERS .THEY WILL NEVER FIRE PIKE MIDSEASON .
 
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Shell21 said:
yep. we have barley any skilled players . and we are limited athletically and have limited shooting. You can’t tell me pike couldn’t have gotten more skilled players or better athletes for the same money. at least one or two. it’s horrendous roster management two years in a row with generational talent last year. put anyone with a pulse around those two and we dance
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id take any of the players Seton Hall brought in over our portal adds in Buchanan Euros and Francis. Seton Hall brought in men,and dogs. And they are all in the same NIL range as our additions
 
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Shell21

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MCKnight said:
id take any of the players Seton Hall brought in over our portal adds in Buchanan Euros and Francis. Seton Hall brought in men,and dogs. And they are all in the same NIL range as our additions
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pikes eye for talent has faded . looks who he’s brought in since geo /harper crew graduated? spencer for one year and that’s it. i don’t count ace and d harp because that wasn’t him. How many busts / how many difference makers? i don’t think there are any i can think of . how many busts/ non difference makers? pretty much everyone else .
 
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