BWAHAHAHA….. Greg could've had IU's roster last year and not made the playoffs let alone win any titles (B1G or National). What don't you understand about this?
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The Right portal additions will make us WINNERS next year
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Once again, YOU said that this team, with a struggling QB and defenders who don't belong at this level, was going to run the table the rest of the season. And when they predictably got beaten, you pivoted and said this roster is bargain bin chicken sh#t because we aren't spending enough money. All the while ignoring the obvious, that Schiano's coaching is completely inadequate.
The building formerly known as "Cole Field House." The site of my high school graduation!
Cal man, again this isn’t 1965. Be mature. Choose appropriate slang re: the misguided dolt.
Do we have the funds for this?
If so, then Schiano gets no more free pass.
Right?
If Schiano has the money for these portal additions and the team doesn't win - no more complaining about money.
He had money this past year to do some of this, but blockhead couldn't hire a DC until Feb. unlike the rest of college football, and they lost a lot of better targets due to Greg's snail pace of hiring.
But what Al isn't mentioning is $1.5m for a DE or $1m for a DT is what OSU, Texas Tech and other top NIL programs spend on those positions. Are you choosing Rutgers over a strong chance to play in the CFP?
Exactly my point.
Is the purpose of this thread basically "If Rutgers is able to spend like OSU, they can win next year."
Well no duh.
The point is how successful can Rutgers be with their likely level of spending.
Al keeps up with this "well we need more money if you want to expect championships and competing with OSU. Stop expecting championships with no money."
Nobody is saying that though.
Everyone acknowledges we aren't winning the B1G with our money.
It's are we maximizing the money we do have.
The results this season show that we can't beat UMass and BC despite having MORE money. When it comes to competing with lower tier programs, money hasn't been the issue. Coaching has been the issue. If Schiano were the coach that Al thinks he is, many of the losses we've seen in the last 3 seasons up to this point would have been wins.
This is exactly the point that needs to continue to be made. The problem needs to be addressed at the current level of funding and not at some future yet unknown level of funding.
Most of us know that Schiano is more of a Culture Builder than an innovative evaluator of talent or gameday coach. While re-building a culture was appropriate coming off the Ash era - to elevate the floor - his inadequacies elsewhere as a HC have been not more greatly exposed in an era where NIL and Portal Talent evaluation is much more a factor in the success formula. Regardless......I expect that Al will keep spinning in circles on this board.
Not going to comment on the Al/pro-Al/anti-Al ongoing issue, but with respect to the portal, NIL etc., Mr. rutgersAl needs to grasp that it is a very competitive and dynamic market. QBs, OL, DL are desired by every program, and the amount of $$ required can change in a blink. PSU found that out last offseason - many of the players we wanted and needed were already committed elsewhere. We did what we could, but all you need do is look at our record to know it was a suboptimal situation. Rutgers can compete for some, but Als wishlist is going to be very difficult to fulfill.
I’m not a fan of the current state of college football - learned to love college football in the 70s and 80s, when “Dear Old State” mattered, when you saw players for 3-4 seasons, and we played regional rivals, plus a couple national rivals (ND, Bama, Miami). Times change, but not always for the best.
And yet Maryland is terrible which works AGAINST your point. How exactly has that Fieldhouse helped them??
Aha….so NIL isn’t everything and coaching matters. It took a few thousand posts but you finally got there.
Um. Greg himself went to the excuse well and said the DC hire distracted from the portal results so in addition to the impact of not having a DC in place in terms of affecting interest from players, Greg himself was distracted by the hiring of the DC.
This feels like a 2nd grade math problem. If Coach ‘X’ and his DC can spend 100% of their time on the portal and Coach ‘Y’ spends 50% of his time on the portal and 50% hiring a DC, who will have better results?
When you look at 2008, this statement isn’t that crazy. Al BTW predicted a natty before 2908 and excuses the failure by saying Teel had a bad start and that he didn’t mind as he enjoyed the season.
Wasn't their head coach quoted "that kids would change in a garbage can now as long as they are paid"?
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