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Here’s the defense of Pikiell (prior to last year), and of his contract extension. When he was hired, Rutgers was coming off 10 losing seasons in a row, with a single top-100 finish on Ken Pom. By year 3, he had them more competitive - 78th on KenPom, 70 spots better than predicted. He followed that with a 20 win season to start a streak of four straight winning seasons, driven by elite defense. By Rutgers standards, being competitive in the Big Ten was a huge win! 2024 was bad, with a losing record and an anemic offense. To follow that with a losing season with Harper and Bailey was really bad for him, and the CCSU loss is a new low. All indications are he is a really good guy, it’s easy to root for a UConn alum, and he had success at Stony Brook. I just don’t know how he can restore fan confidence if he doesn’t turn this season around quickly.
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RuffRuff said:
Love Mick or hate him, the guy is great for a sound bite. He's the West Coast Hurley. We need these two guys in the same league.
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If Hurley were a leprechaun
 
ToolzieFan said:
Here’s the defense of Pikiell (prior to last year), and of his contract extension. When he was hired, Rutgers was coming off 10 losing seasons in a row, with a single top-100 finish on Ken Pom. By year 3, he had them more competitive - 78th on KenPom, 70 spots better than predicted. He followed that with a 20 win season to start a streak of four straight winning seasons, driven by elite defense. By Rutgers standards, being competitive in the Big Ten was a huge win! 2024 was bad, with a losing record and an anemic offense. To follow that with a losing season with Harper and Bailey was really bad for him, and the CCSU loss is a new low. All indications are he is a really good guy, it’s easy to root for a UConn alum, and he had success at Stony Brook. I just don’t know how he can restore fan confidence if he doesn’t turn this season around quickly.
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He had two lottery picks last year and did not even make the NIT. It comes a time in life when you just have to move on. Rutgers needs to move on.
 
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NJHusky said:
Yup. They added the B1G network to every household at 1per month just in Nj. I’m guessing they added it to nyc too since it’s the same media market. So B1G prob got in excess of 15m/month for giving Rutty 25 m per year. Makes total sense

Now if residents had the ability to selectively drop/substitute channels their revenue would prob drop by >50% imo
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I have Spectrum for internet and cable. We have no other choice where I live. Spectrum now offers an option which allows my wife and I to get all the local network channels plus a choice of 15 channels from a list of channels. Some of the channels are not available with this package. Fortunately I was able to chose FS1, FS2, ESPN, ESPN2, CBS Sports Network, Tru TV, and TNT and a few others. It costs $125/ month for the Choice package plus internet. Internet alone would have cost me $85. Added Peacock for $25. So I'm covered for mens and women's bb.

Purchased ESPN+ for this month to watch the two UConn football games. Dropping that next week. $11 for those two games.

As an added bonus I do not contribute one penny to the ACC, SEC and BTN which I did before the Choice option was available.

It will be terrific if all cable and streaming options do this. I'd love nothing more than see the power conferences wither on the vine along with the media companies that have a stake in their networks.
 
ctchamps said:
I have Spectrum for internet and cable. We have no other choice where I live. Spectrum now offers an option which allows my wife and I to get all the local network channels plus a choice of 15 channels from a list of channels. Some of the channels are not available with this package. Fortunately I was able to chose FS1, FS2, ESPN, ESPN2, CBS Sports Network, Tru TV, and TNT and a few others. It costs $125/ month for the Choice package plus internet. Internet alone would have cost me $85. Added Peacock for $25. So I'm covered for mens and women's bb.

Purchased ESPN+ for this month to watch the two UConn football games. Dropping that next week. $11 for those two games.

As an added bonus I do not contribute one penny to the ACC, SEC and BTN which I did before the Choice option was available.

It will be terrific if all cable and streaming options do this. I'd love nothing more than see the power conferences wither on the vine along with the media companies that have a stake in their networks.
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That’s awesome and how it would be if anti trust laws were enforced
 
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storrsroars said:
Pitt has resources. A decent coach can make them a tourney team. Capel is not that coach.
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I wish I was ready to capture it (couldn’t rewind) - but they showed a replay with a sign in the background that said “The Zoo” or “Welcome to the Zoo” or something like that … and there was one lonely person sitting in the middle of the whole section. A zoo unto himself.
 
Gurleyman said:
I wish I was ready to capture it (couldn’t rewind) - but they showed a replay with a sign in the background that said “The Zoo” or “Welcome to the Zoo” or something like that … and there was one lonely person sitting in the middle of the whole section. A zoo unto himself.
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It's really a shame. The Pete is a great place to watch a game when the team is good and when the Zoo is packed. It's been a minute.
 
storrsroars said:
It's really a shame. The Pete is a great place to watch a game when the team is good and when the Zoo is packed. It's been a minute.
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They have been abhorrent since they ran off Dixon, almost ten years ago, and they were already on the downturn since they left the BE. Three tournament appearances (as 9, 10, 11 seeds) since joining the ACC in 2013, and only one post Dixon. In the time of quick turnover for coaches, I'm not sure how they haven't ditched Capel yet.

They definitely seem to have made the choice to follow the BC path after leaving the Big East for the ACC.
 
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With UMass beating Oregon State today I took a look. Guess who occupies the last two spots in the West Coast Conference right now. No conference games yet. CR is a biznatch

3-4 Oregon State Beavers
2-3 Washing State Cougars
 
Creighton lost to Baylor.
Seton Hall with a convincing upset win over #23 NC State
Kansas holds off Notre Dame wins by 10 (hope Peterson isn’t just bailing on them)
St. John’s leads Iowa State by 2. Game is live now.
 
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Are the Fruit actually good this year? Up 23-14 over Houston. Betsey and Anthony are lighting it up.
 
Kiyan is secretly very good. He’s what they wanted Bronny to be
 
KingAG said:
Kiyan is secretly very good. He’s what they wanted Bronny to be
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don't think it's a secret at this point, competition was subpar but his early season performances were strong
 
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