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Everyone seems to understand that except a small few.Where each Rutgers head coach (and their contract) stands entering AD Keli Zinn’s 1st season
Here is where each head coach at Rutgers stands entering Keli Zinn's first season as the athletic director.
It would cost $22 million to fire Pikiell and Brandin Knight after this season. They are not going anywhere.
Where is Rutgers getting $22 million to pay them off AND another $10-15 million for a new staff at a time where they have to set aside $21 million for the athletes?
Do they have to pay that in a lump sum? Or is that paid out over the course of the years left on the contract?
Depends on the specifics of the contract, but as a rule, it is paid out over the length of the contract. If the coach gets another coaching job, the salary from the new job reduces the amount owed.
Simple - the loan payments that are deducted from RU's full share are about done and the increasing TV revenue payouts from the new contract offset a lot of the $4m/year that Pike would stand to receive.
People quit all the time when things aren’t going well and they realize they have lost the support of the University. Yes, many people stick around, but if you have lower level options, can be better to leave than destroying your reputation.Where each Rutgers head coach (and their contract) stands entering AD Keli Zinn’s 1st season
Here is where each head coach at Rutgers stands entering Keli Zinn's first season as the athletic director.
It would cost $22 million to fire Pikiell and Brandin Knight after this season. They are not going anywhere.
Wait until his 20th loss this season. Successful leaders from the SEC don't f around.
Somewhere from RU's $5B annual budget. It's a rounding error.
The same key program boosters who were unable to surround Dylan and Ace with any semblance of talent? Dude they don't exist. And even if they did, put their money to use in the NIL space instead. $4M a year would transform this program no matter who is coaching it.
Folks from LSU/SEC don't play that game. He will be out on his butt if this season is a train wreck.
What do you mean “given the hand he was dealt”? He’s mostly responsible for the current state of the program.
Football can barely get by?
Going 12-19 and way behind on NIL and if Best players are leaving makes things far from a slam dunk he is back
Doesn't matter, now a days the HC must be able to bring in the players, the money it takes to fill a talented roster that makes up a winning program.
That’s right, I forgot we celebrate a recruiting win over penn st, and a 7-5 season in football and deem the lame losers bowl we go to as successFootball can barely get by?
Yeah that’s why they have outbid State Penn for several players. The two programs are operating totally different when it comes to NIL. Greg went and found outside sources to build his fund. Pike appears to have sat on his hands.
All that hard work Greg is doing and still going 5-7 to 7-5. There is no doubt that Greg has done a great job with NIL. He has way more connections. Pike is by all means a very good coach who hasn’t had luck fund raising for NIL. Most coaches don’t need to figure out NIL, they have AD staff that in charge of that. RU majorly failed there. Suggesting Pike is sitting on his hands is a clear indication you are out of touch with the situation.Football can barely get by?
Yeah that’s why they have outbid State Penn for several players. The two programs are operating totally different when it comes to NIL. Greg went and found outside sources to build his fund. Pike appears to have sat on his hands.
MBB has it way easier with no truly dominant teams in the league other than Purdue. Much harder to win in football and Greg doesn't have the luxury of playing 6-7 teams with NET rankings in the 300s or high 200s. The two MAC teams on this year's schedule are much tougher than anything Pike is usually willing to book.
How many recruit/transfer battles did Pike win this year over blue blood programs? How many for the '26 class?
Where did you get 22 million from? This fugure is wayyy offWhere each Rutgers head coach (and their contract) stands entering AD Keli Zinn’s 1st season
Here is where each head coach at Rutgers stands entering Keli Zinn's first season as the athletic director.
It would cost $22 million to fire Pikiell and Brandin Knight after this season. They are not going anywhere.
It's accurate. They are owed the remaining salary on their contracts if we fire them.
Teams/coaches are measured vs your piers in conference. So even if what you are saying is true and basketball is easier (that would go for every Big Ten school too, so everyone must have it easy), the measuring stick is always vs your conference in your sport. Greg has performed at about the same level vs the conference as Pikes. Even if you cherry pick games to include or not. If I hear you right, mediocre is okay because football is harder than basketball?
With the number of tall athletic players Pike has and the way the Big Ten refs let the home team beat up on the away team along with the atmosphere at the RAC, I don’t see this team being Jordan or Littlepage bad. If they get lucky with a couple of Freshmen or transfers, this team could be better than last year’s team.
This "return to roots" narrative is all predicated on the ONE group of players that had success under Pike's tenure at Rutgers. I like Pike and I am very impressed with what he's done with this program, but people act like he's rebuilt the program from the ground up with Jimmies and Joes time and time again when, in reality, he had one really good, cohesive group of guys at a time before NIL and before players could transfer in and out of a program with impunity. That core group represents his only two Tournament appearance teams at Rutgers. Unless we think there is a national defensive player of the year award winner, two two-time All-B1G defensive players, and a two-time All-B1G player in this group, then there is no comparison to speak of.
