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That's MaintainInTheLetterX.com.com. Rikers, am I right? In the wise words of the hangover, we are back. We are back. The boys are back. Sort of, I'm not really. Mike is not here today. Welcome back to another edition of Night Report podcast. I'm joined by my I'm Rich O'Leary of the Night Report publisher, William O'Malley McIco, host, Alie Kroughamel. Aliek, we got to actually a lot more to talk about than I thought. Going into this one, I was writing down things and I only had three things. Now I have about nine things to talk about. Let's just get right into it. Actually, I take it back. I'm not used to this. I have to do the podcast read. This podcast is sponsored by Fandool, the number one sports betting app out there. I don't really have any specific bets, but I got a simple one for people right now. Just bet against the Mets. It's very easy. You win money. They're playing Washington tomorrow, so it could get ugly. Free money. They just got swept by the Rockies. 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When coaching openings happening, this is probably the go-to website for just about everything, just to find out who they're kind of looking at, who they've been connected with previously, if their previous stops and all that. Anyway, even added like players like recruiting like players that people have coached. Oh, yeah. If you checked it out like last month and you have been back, you should certainly go back because there's been a ton of updates since then. Correct. Notable alumni, notable draft picks, all that good stuff. We will get to the draft picks in a little bit. Before that, Rutgers football wrapped up spring ball on Saturday. Greg Chiano spoke with the media. Who was the other one? K.G. Duff, I think? Yes, it was K.G. Duff. So, Alec, you were there. Talk to me a little bit about what Chiano said at the last press or any notable news from that. I wouldn't say notable news. Actually, there was a couple of interesting pieces. So, he asked the spring awards. So, the Douglas A. Smith Award, which is the most improved defensive player, was given to Jesse Fierry, the safety. He's gotten a lot of buzz from a lot of coaches and players throughout camp. Seems like he's going to be a fixture of that kind of studs position that kind of, I guess, was created, soft season, created slash renamed, whatever. So, he had the most improved defensive player. Greg Chiano is really kind of raved about him a lot this offseason, especially in spring. He's been a great student and has done the same as well when we spoke with him a couple of weeks ago. So, it kind of makes sense. And then the Mark Mills second effort award, which was the most improved offensive player that was given to Jordan Houston, the red shirt freshman wide receiver. I think he's a, did he retain his red shirt last year? I think he did. Yeah, good. He got a bang up throughout the year, so he missed a lot of time, unfortunately. But the guy I've been raving about, so that's a good sign. Exactly. And I think it's pretty telling that you're in this award. You don't usually see the underclassmen. Like, you know, guys after one year, you don't usually see them win this kind of award in spring practices. I think you had in the article of the previous winners of the award. I don't think there was any guys who, ahead of their sophomore years, won one of the most improved awards. So, at least nothing I can tell. Fama to Ray, Kobe Asamoa, Christian Dremel, Ireland, Burke, and Holland Pierce. As you can tell, they're all pretty notable players. Maybe not Fama, because he did get hurt in that spring game, which really screwed him over to last season. He probably would have played a lot, but he'll be back this year. So it's good news. And then the Frank Burns award, which is the player that exemplifies mental and physical toughness. Logan Blake won that one as one of the returning tight ends. So, could that be a potential sign that he could have a big role in the tight end? We'll have to wait and see. Also, the big piece of news that came out was Zaire Angoy getting approved for his, what, sixth year of eligibility? At their sixth year? Yes. So it helped back next year. Definitely a big returner to the defensive line room. It made Kishan Griffin's going back too, right? Yeah. That one was announced way before. Why this one took so long compared to the other one made no sense. They were basically the same case and NCAA has its ass backwards. And Angoy was able to practice with the team. So he's been fully integrated with practicing and all that with the team. They just weren't sure if he was going to be able to play, but now that that's been said, he will be able to play. So it'll be a big time returner on the defensive line room. Not a ton of huge takeaways from the presser at least, and not that we would kind of expect it. Especially because there was no spring game this year. He said that he was very excited about how health-wise they came out of the spring. And he didn't tell us of any kind of season ending injuries or things like that. So I guess that's a good sign for now. It's a great sign. Yeah, exactly. And I asked him later on, I asked him about the depth of the team. And he said that, you know, thinks they're in good shape. And he said that, you know, they're probably in solid shape. It's in a solid spot now. I asked him about the spring game as well, because he said, you know, I believe the way he worded it was, was for the well-being of the program that they decided to not have it this year. So he said it was a very difficult decision because he really tries to embrace all the traditions and stuff like that, you know, within the program. So, yeah. So we'll see how all that goes. Other than that, not a ton of takeaways in terms of the presser. He was asked, of course, about Zeyer Angoy coming back. And he said it was definitely big for a leadership standpoint and experience standpoint. Yeah. So other than that, I don't know if you had any other big takeaways. Yeah. So, is that your Angoy actually won the most improved defensive player last year from spring ball? So now I know a lot of people on the boards are kind of a little bit in panic mode saying, like, oh my God, like, they're not running it back with the same two defensive tackles, right? No, they're not going to. Like, you guys got to remember Doug Blue Eli was supposed to play a significant role last year and he's now back and healthy. So I expect him to probably be a starter when it was all said and done. The other spot is where it gets really interesting. They've brought in Rondo Porter. You have Zeyer Angoy back. You have Kishan Griffin. Now, Angoy probably shifts or stays in a three-tech, I would assume, and probably would back up, I would think, Doug Blue Eli, but can't really get too much into depth charts right now because there is an adept chart right now. So I will say though, I told you this off the pond and I'm going to give a different one than what I said before. I want to make a bold prediction. Just because of what we saw in spring ball. Now, we can't reveal what is seen in practice. We can't talk about it. We're sworn to secrecy. But I think it's safe to say, based on the fact that he won the Mark Mills Award, Jordan Houston is going to play a solid role this year, a significant role this year. Just going based on that and going based on the previous winners, they all played significant roles. Whatever season it was. I think Ira Wemberk was a starting center in 2022. Holland Pierce. Holland. We are Brown. Brown, you mean? No, he changed his name, Danny. Oh, he did. I must have missed that. Maybe I'm wrong. I swear he changed his name. Yeah. Yes, he did change his name. Ira Wemberk. I missed that. I mean, Holland Pierce. You don't even have to say anything about him. If you're a Rutgers fan and you don't know about Holland Pierce, you're probably not a real Rutgers fan. Because his story was on every single game. They just talked about walk on and turning into an NFL player now. Christian Dremel played a really significant role in 2023. Kobe Asamo. He was the only receiver. Kobe Asamo. We know back. 2024 was very, very good. It was very good in 25. It's probably going to be very good in 26. So, Falmachuray, again, is the only one that didn't really play a significant role, but towards ACL in the spring game. And that was basically it. But yeah, my bold prediction is Jordan Houston will have a significant role for this team this year. It's a guy I've hyped up since he committed. I loved him out of that entire wide receiver group. I know everyone drooled over Vernon Allen in that spring game, but I do think Jordan Houston has the highest ceiling among that fresh or well, right? I'm not sure. I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm sure I'm in a short freshman group. If I remember correctly, Houston made a couple of solid plays in the spring game as well, right? Yeah, he did. Michael Thomas made some plays. And yeah, Thomas made some plays in the season as well. Yeah, the three of them are going to be really good. And I think he talked about that too with wide receiver depth or I'm sorry. David Brock talked about it on Thursday and he said it's like one of the deepest wide receiver rooms they've ever had at Brockers. So that is a huge, huge, huge for the Scarlet Knights, considering they lost Ian Strong and have to replace him. And it's not an easy guy to replace. I think in a really good spot with those second year wide receivers. I'll add, I would say, don't sleep on. I used to have to grab from right there as the fourth guy in that class. I think he also showed some solid promise in the spring game last year and then the Norfolk State game as kind of downfield guy, contested catch guys. So I think they're in a really good spot with those four guys for the future. Now, I need my bold prediction. I need one from you before we move on to something else. I'll say I think there'll be a true freshman that plays more than we think. I don't know which side of the ball. I don't know who yet. I don't have any names again. We can't really. We haven't really been able to see a lot and we can't really report on what we see. But I think on offense or defense, I think there'll be a true freshman that plays four snaps that we may realize. Whether that's a wide receiver because they've done that in the last couple of years like we were just talking about or even Ian Strong as a true freshman in 2023 or KG Duff in 24. I think that's probably the best chance. And that's a wide receiver. But either way, I think on one side of the ball, I think a true freshman will play more than we think. Completely agree with you. I actually going into the spring ball. I think one of my things was everyone asks us about what freshman we think are going to play. And I didn't really see many, but after spring ball, I kind of agree with you 100%. But there's not a whole lot to talk about for spring ball because we really can't talk about it. That's just kind of move on. Let's talk about the NFL draft that just happened. We didn't know if Rutgers was going to get a draft pick or not, but they did early in the seventh round too. And it was Ethan Callack Manus. I think it was pick number 10 in the seventh round going to the Washington commanders. Now the commanders are an interesting situation because they have two very mobile quarterbacks already and Jane Daniels and Marcus Marioda. And they have Sam Hartman, who they signed to a two year deal last year. I know after talking to a guy I know that covers the commanders, he basically told me Sam Hartman stinks. So they just want to get rid of them. So it could be Ethan as QB3. They honestly think there's a chance Ethan could be QB2 because they're tired of watching Marcus Marioda play because Jane Daniels gets hurt way too often. So I don't know. I kind of indifferent on the fit. I don't know how you feel about it personally, but I don't know how to feel about him with a QB room that's all based on mobile QBs and Ethan got some mobility, but not a lot of them. I do think it can't hurt to have some, I guess, like kind of call it like a change up in terms of skill sets. I don't think they need per se all mobile quarterbacks in the room. I think it's fine to have a traditional like pocket pastor type guy because heaven forbid if Marioda has to come in and he gets hurt or something like that, it can kind of throw the defense off of what they're expecting. So I don't think it's a huge deal, but in terms of off the field, I think it's a great fit when Ethan, we posted the video that the commanders posted when Adam Peters GM called him and when they were about to select him. That was one of the. Am I back? I hope I'm back. Yeah, you're back. You're back. You're just like, where did I cut out at? Adam Peters. Okay, so the video that the commanders post with Adam Peters, you could tell that it's a great fit in terms of on and off the field. Yeah, Ethan, I think he really talked a lot about how much the culture means to him coming from a place with a, you know, we're cultures very, very important at Rutgers. I think Dan Quinn's kind of that type of guy, kind of similar to Shiana where he's a big culture guy and things like that. I think it's a great fit in terms of leadership and off the field. And it was always obvious that he's going to be a great interview and a great leadership guy. So we'll see how he does. I mean, you know, maybe he gets put on the practice squad for a lot of the season. So we'll see. I know some people who are commanders fans as well, and I feel like they've kind of said that like, you know, not saying that he's as bad as Tim Boyle, but kind of in that Tim Boyle Bowl where he's kind of like an extra coach on the field where his, I guess, mental side of the game is really important to the team. So maybe, I don't know, maybe Ethan stays on the practice squad or something like that. We'll have to wait and see. Yeah, I think I'll have a shot at least McTeam and that's all you really need. Get him out there. See what he could do. I mean, he's improved a ton. I just put out a video of always 2025 throws and the more I just keep looking at it and watching it over again. I'm like, damn, like he actually had like some really, really good throws, really good touch passes, really good darts. He's even chucking it down the field pretty accurately. It was just a great season for him and it's a shame. He didn't get more wins out of it, but not his fault. It's the other shot of the ball. The ball. Rutgers draft picks in the last few years have a pretty high track record of actually making the team. So I know it's different for quarterbacks, but very true. Now, some of the undrafted free since also have had a pretty good shot of making team years past. They've had four this offseason. Do we want to go through all four? Do we kind of just want to name them off and just talk about who everyone to talk about, I guess, right? Yeah, that works. That's easier. Kenny Fletcher to the Tampa Bay Bucks seems like Rutgers and Tampa still just have that connection going on. Eric O'Neill, the Detroit Lions. I know a couple Giants podcasters and Giants writers were actually looking for him to potentially sign with the Giants, which, what was this pointing because I am a Giants fan that would have liked to see that. Cam Miller to Carolina Panthers in DT Sheffield, stay home to the New York Jets. Anything kind of just a try on those? This is the second year in a row that Jets wide, Jets have picked up a slot wide receiver from Rutgers and the undrafted market. They had Dimey and Miller last year. I don't think he ever made the team at a camp, but it's pretty interesting at least. Yeah, I think it's, well, the Lions are still looking for that, you know, next pass rusher next to Eden Hutchinson. It's kind of like wretastic in the backfield, but I think they drafted one or two. So I don't think he's going to go, you know, obviously he has an uphill battle to make the team as an undrafted free agent, but I think there's at least a path to him potentially being a practice squad guy. Kenny Fletcher, the Buccaneers is interesting. You know, they've been kind of looking for an upgrade at tight end, so I don't know how he's going to manage with that. And then, yeah, Cam Miller being on the Panthers as another undrafted guy, I think is an interesting fit. Their defense definitely took a step forward last year. They're still young units, so maybe he can find his way into there. So we'll see. I think this officially, I shouldn't say I think, I know this officially shuts down any chance that Kenny Fletcher comes back. I know everyone's been asking about it. They looked into it a couple times, just wasn't able to make it work. Speaking of the five for five, it sounds like that five for five rule is getting voted on today. So we'll have to wait and see how that affects football, how that affects basketball. I'm assuming we'll probably get a different transfer portal window for both. I just, it's kind of insane how all that works. I don't know if any of them make a squad out of the undrafted free agents. I think if I had to guess out of all of them, part of him wants to say Kenny Fletcher because the reasoning you just said, Alec, before the Tampa Bay Bucks are just kind of desperate for tight end help. And Kenny is super athletic. Maybe he won't be tight. He won't be tight end one. He won't be tight end two, but maybe he can make squat as like a tight end three or even even a tight end four. It really depends on how deep they want to go with the roster there. But I do think out of the four of them, he might have the best shot. I love O'Neill's game. It's just like you said, Detroit just drafted two, two-edged rushers. So it's kind of going to be real difficult for him. I would maybe look out for, and this is probably who you're going to next, but maybe look out for DT Sheffield and the Jets. His size is definitely going to kind of hold them back a little bit. Obviously drafted Omar Cooper and Kenny and City could play tight end, but still pass-catchers. But I just think he has that explosiveness that I think he might be a... The getting the phone call of course. So yeah, we'll have more on Ethan tomorrow. But for now, we have, like I said, every throw of his is on our YouTube channel below if you're watching on YouTube. If you're not, go to our YouTube page, the night report at Rutgers Football One on YouTube and check that out. I think that's really it for football sort of. Let's shift to recruiting because we both went to the Under Armour camp yesterday at Hackensack High School. Couple of talented guys there, couple of Rutgers targets there, Rutgers recruits, couple of Rutgers commits as well. Did anything off the top of your head stand out to you? I thought the line play was pretty solid. That was kind of what I was the biggest fan of on both sides. I thought the offensive line and defensive line, there were definitely some standouts on both ends. I also like some of the frames and the builds that we saw from the defensive line. And there's a lot of guys, more I think more than this year than last year where they have kind of that lengthy and long build and they're definitely on the skinny side but they have a lot of explosiveness. At the edge spot, kind of like a wide-e-cally or obviously we saw them last year when defensive line of VP there. So there were a few guys that kind of stuck out on the defensive line because of that kind of build and explosiveness but I would say the line play, there's some solid skill position play as well but I think the trenches was at set out to be the most. Yeah, I completely agree. Not just the 27 class but I mean, obviously the 27 class had some really good guys between Issa Wittenberg who was a Rutgers target, isn't a Rutgers target anymore. George Parkinson was really, really good. I'm actually a little shocked. He didn't win DL MVP. George Parkinson the fourth to 28 out of Pennsylvania got basically every offer in the book. The defensive MVP was 28 defensive linemen. Simon Numa, Numa. Not really sure how to pronounce that one. At a Tabor Academy up in Massachusetts. It's a guy to keep a close eye on. There's a couple of Rutgers offers too. Kenny Huerta Jones just visited recently a 29 kid. Jeremiah Figaro, 28 kid just visited. Kamaaj Matthews at a Winslow. Yeah, that's the UIN group was really good. The offensive line group had some dudes too and I think the one that probably caught my eye the most or I should say there's two. Terence Smith who has a top five featuring Rutgers, Tennessee, Florida, Auburn and there's a LSU. LSU, yeah. He's visiting all those schools. He'll be at Rutgers May 29th and that's the big weekend for them for official visits. So that will be one to keep a close eye on. One offensive line MVP the other day yesterday. The other, oh two other guys actually. Elijah Jones, a Rutgers target. One of their top targets at guard at a James Monroe High School in upstate New York. Really talented, good build was very stocky and strong in the interior. And then Xavier Folks who really, really intrigued me at a Donovan Catholic, 2029 kid. He's been to campus a couple times, already has Syracuse, Penn State, Rutgers, visited Ohio State. So they're showing interest in them already. So I mean, there was a lot of dudes on the line on both sides that really, really shined. There was a couple of receivers too. Isaiah Alvarez, Arnold Maguera. Who else, who else? I think that's really it for Rutgers targets, right? There wasn't a ton of them. Trying to see, I'm trying to go through this list right now. Let's see. Trying to make. AJ Lopez, the 28 out of the program, it's looked really good. He won wide receiver MVP. I've read a few mentioned, we did see Trent bottles, the safety commit. He was there and so was the tight end commit, Sydney Padilla. We'll have more on both of them on the website soon, but both very high on Rutgers, both very high in this recruiting class. Both are also recruiting other guys pretty heavily. I know Sydney did, Padilla told me he played a big role in Salah Adarewa committing the other tight end. They're kind of two totally different builds. Sydney's 6'3", but it's almost built like he's college ready. Where Salah's I think 6'6", like 250, right? So he's basically a pseudo offensive lineman almost. He's a massive human being. Trent bottles is recruiting Elijah Jones are both from the same area in upstate New York, different schools of course, but they're very familiar with each other. They are part of the same seven on seven program. So that's really it. There wasn't a whole lot to report from the camp, unfortunately, but what we do have is a bunch of articles coming out between, we had two today between Taryn Smith and who's the guy you talk to. Tell me Mahoney. You had a really good quote about Rutgers, saying it was the best visit ever so far. But you think about Jib Turner, like trying to think what else, that's it's really it from the camp, right? There's not a whole lot. I know we saw one of the guys that stood out on the defensive line, Aiden Ezaraku. I was a younger brother of Donovan Ezaraku, he's now a cowboy from Williamstown High School. He's got a lot of high level offers, so probably, not likely that Rutgers is able to get involved there. Yeah, now Tia, I also just transferred to Kalaisboro, I think. Maybe, I don't know if it's like, I'll take a word for it. I believe it's Kalaisboro, but anyway, not the point. Colt Lumphurst was there too. We talked to him two weeks ago, a week and a half ago, he's still very high on Rutgers, he'll be on campus for an, or he's not officially set for his official visit for Rutgers yet, but he's working on it. I know they're pushing for that May 29th weekend, I don't know if he'll get done or not, he's technically a Connecticut native, but he is playing at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. JT Jouracy, the Dom Bosco, or Dom Bosco, tight end, committed to Texas, was there. JT2, I'm just going through the list now. Yeah, basically just stay tuned to our social media accounts, whether it's Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, we'll have all the videos and all these clips of one-on-one drills and all the other good stuff. A couple of them are already out and some of them are pressing catches. One thing on one person as well, I believe Alabama just got a really high level quarterback commit like a couple days ago. So I wonder if that's going to maybe impact him staying committed to Alabama or what. I know the weird thing with him in Alabama is that he had a tight ends coach he committed to, the tight ends coach moved to a different position there, I forget where he's at now. So they have a new tight ends coach and they're kind of just still trying to build that relationship a little bit. So I'd be a little shocked if he stays at Alabama. I don't know if I end up at Rutgers or not, but Rutgers is the lone school recruiting him as a wide receiver, which is really interesting. And they're selling him on the idea of being an ex-KJ Duff because similar build, six, six, like 200 pounds. Now obviously he'll build up that muscle and stuff like that, but yeah, I mean, not a whole lot to go from based off that camp. But speaking of recruiting. I was going to say there are a few interesting quarterbacks as well, obviously throwing the ball. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing overly crazy to write home about. I was funny, one of the most impressive quarterbacks that we saw was Justin Merriman from St. Francis. He's a 20-29 kid who has some NFL bloodlines. Yeah, we didn't know that until I know we were at a beer BS and I was like, I love that kid. That kid's really good. He's the best out of these group right now. And then all of a sudden we find out there, I go, yeah, that's Sean Merriman's kid. I'm like, oh, that makes a lot more sense. Anyone's quarterback MVP and I'm like, still got it. That's all that matters. Yeah. Pick a guy beforehand, has no idea who he is. There we go. And I win's QB MVP. Got to love it. Yeah, another one that's me, another 20-29 kid, Ramir Rivera from Red Bank Catholic. He was probably one of the better throwers of the football. I don't think he has the, you know, he doesn't have the same height that some of the other guys do. So that might end her in a little bit. But I thought he threw the ball really well. And I think there were a couple of other, I guess I'll say Rutgers adjacent guys. Yeah, there's not really like a Rutgers quarterback recruit there. The most, the highly, geez, can't say the word. The kid thereafter the most at quarterback right now is Logan Flaherty out of Florida. We had an article on him recently. He was a UCF commit when he visited. He decommitted it two days later. So, sounds like they're doing pretty good there. What else? Recruiting wise, there are two kids that have now sent their, well, three kids technically. Terence Smith told us that he has a commitment date of June 15th. He'll be at Rutgers on the 29th, like I said before. Aiden Gibson, four star running back out of South Carolina that they're very heavily involved with, was on campus last Wednesday, set a commitment date on Friday. We'll now decide on May 1st later this week. It sounds like it's down to a couple schools right now. I was pretty confident in Rutgers originally, but it sounds like there's a little bit of a bidding war going on. If you want to learn more about that, we have it all in message boards. I'm not going to throw it all out here just yet. We will let the members know first, obviously. So, if you're not on the board too, sign up, it's only $1 right now for, I think, the first week. So, quick dollar, go check it out. You don't like it, cancel. I highly doubt that you won't like it though, just saying. Third guy to just send his commitment date is Dejan Yarburo out of Arizona. He was on campus this spring. Just had a commitment date for June 27th and a top five list of Cal Florida State, Mississippi State, Washington, and Rutgers. All over the country, nowhere near Arizona, which is a good sign, I guess, right? And Jim Turner's known him for a while. He's very high on Jim Turner's coaching ability. So that could end up helping Rutgers in the long run. We'll wait and see what happens because he's going to take these official visits first and then kind of go from there, but he's like a top 25 interior offensive lineman. I think he's a top 10 recruit in Arizona. I think he's a top 10 runner for this class. It seems like they're kind of going down to the, that kind of region of the country between Arizona, between Texas, between Oklahoma, trying to get some kids out of there because Jim Turner has those connections down there to coaches and obviously is trying to guys, a bunch of guys down there too. So it will pay off. I'm indifferent on it personally because it's a hard, hard sell to get the kids from down there up to New Jersey. It's a totally different world, as most of you already know. I don't think there's anything else. You got anything else? Or you switch to basketball? Grooton. Grooton wise, I don't think so. But yeah, just make sure you stay tuned for any of the content that we put out from yesterday's camp. Yeah, a lot of official visits are being set still. I think they just had their first corner back commit, a corner back commit. Cornerback are a crew also just set an official visit in Amaria. Wilson. There's a whole list of every official visitor on campus right now. So are not a lot of people who are interested in the campus right now on campus next month and the month after that because it's like the late May weekend turns into all the June weekend. So stay tuned for all that. Shout out to Yankees G94, a regular on the show. Thank you for the donation, my friend. I'm going to show you a little bit more about the show. I can't really say much about it, but I wouldn't worry about it though. Let's just put it like that. He will be on the field at kickoff. Hopefully not on kickoff. He'll be on the field in the first drive of the offense. But yeah, I wouldn't worry about anything there. I'm just going to go through some of the questions real quickly on here. I have to answer the questions sort of. I would not say that is a fact by any means. Just leave it at that. Who is out blocking tight? Who is our blocking tight end? Okay. From Garden State Gardener. There's a couple guys. I mean, I think it's fair to say that Logan Blake's impressed quite a bit for the Soul Fact that he won one of the spring awards. I'd keep a close eye on him. He's also the guy with the most snaps on the team right now. So in the past. I think probably the main champions would probably be the favorite. Yeah. Just for the Soul Fact that no one else has played snaps. I think Ben Rothard hasn't played snaps. DJ Howardton and Brady Owens are just brand new to the program. So I do still think they'll probably take a peek in the tight end portal still because there are still some guys just kind of hanging around looking for a spot. Also, if this five for five goes through later today or maybe not even later today or later this week, later this month, whatever, we know they're discussing it today with NCWA Council. If it goes through, there's likely going to be another window for those guys that have a fifth year eligibility that didn't get drafted or just are sitting out there and aren't good enough for the NFL. So I could see him hitting up that portal window again for a tight end if possible. Yeah, that's going to be an abject disaster. If it all goes through and it just kind of like plops on to the pops on to the table of coaches like now. It's like NIL over again when when they first introduced and I was like, all right, July 1st, 2021 boom players can get paid. Let's do whatever you want. Here goes all the money and they still haven't added roles to that. We're five years later. Yeah, it's going to be a disaster, I think. Coach Ed asked what the guarantee were guarantees for the undrafted free agents were. I don't know if they're out there. They're not always fully public, I believe. I think it depends on the individual guy. Sometimes they're published by the agents or something like that, like with the some of the national reporters or whatever. Other times not so much. So I guess we'll have to wait and see if it ever becomes available. Yeah, I didn't I do think it does become available eventually. I don't know when exactly, but like some of them, like you said, the agents have posted, like, for example, they're not going to be able to get the agency. And then exactly, but like some of them, like you said, the agents have posted, like, for example, the cuts town kid that signed with the Giants got like, we got a $250,000 guarantee. As a signee and then got a $275,000 signing bonus. And I'm like, Oh, shit, like that's what I'm money for cuts down kids. So they obviously are pretty high on him. But that's just kind of how it works. I don't think there's any public yet, but we will keep you updated on the board as soon as they are. Let's talk about your favorite sport, Alk. Women's basketball. We were going to go men's basketball first, but there's not a whole lot to talk about there. They're kind of in a wait and see mode right now, because everyone's waiting for that five for five. Is the five for five going through? Is it not? It does. There's a whole new portal window. So everyone's saving whatever money they have left to kind of go through that. They are still looking at current portal guys still between a backup center. We know they want to guard what everyone's in wait and see mode. So let's just shift right to women's basketball. A lot going on recently. New commitment. Former head coach has gone. Let's just talk about the current program right now. They just landed a damn good one today in Pitt transfer, Fatima d'Acati. Yeah, so since last time we talked, they've landed two forwards now out of the transfer portal. First it was in Ayatamis out of Howard on Friday. And then this afternoon, Fatima, I think it's jicote, at least that's what it said on our Georgia page. That's all right. I'm sure we'll eventually learn all these as the time goes along. But yeah, so two really important front court additions. They're really short enough to front court by this point. When you look at the, you know, they brought back a money last year, which I was honestly surprised. I didn't think she would come back. She would return, but she opted to spend her final year at Rutgers. You have her in the mix. You now have Thomas in the mix. She will at 6'2", probably play more before. And then at 6'5", jicote, I think, as of right now, I'm kind of calling it now. I think she'll start at the five if I had to guess. So I think this front court's in a solid spot. And then you bring back Precious Young Wheeler as well, who played depth for last year. You bring in Marya Kinde from the JUCO ranks. I think she's going to be the kind of developmental forward that they kind of bring her along slowly, let her get up to speed in big 10 play. Because obviously they really like her ceiling as a player. I do think, yeah, I'm really interested to see how the rest of this roster kind of works itself out. They have two scholarships remaining now. They had another visitor on campus last week, Tara Day. So some may remember, from Newark, played at University High School, and then Blair Academy for her last year as a post-grad prep year. I played to Paul, then St. John's, and then was at Purdue this past season, played well against Rutgers when they played. It looks like she's committed to Florida. I can't totally tell based on social media captions. But it seems like she's committed to Florida, I think. I haven't been able to get confirmation, yes, but I'm saying probably. Also alongside potentially Tara Day in that Florida back court, Kiamen McMillar, she committed there this morning. And our Florida site on On3 Action is a really cool story on the backstory between her and the coaching staff at Florida. So I definitely recommend checking that out if you're interested in reading it. I'll give you a little bit of an insight on it. Tammy Reese, the new Florida head coach who was at Rhode Island last year, actually first offered McMillar when she was in, I guess, offered as much as you can do, when she was in fifth grade, when she was an assistant at Syracuse 10 years ago. And I just really kind of grew from there. So I definitely recommend checking that out. But focusing on Rutgers, yeah, I think I'm probably a jicote and me up all though. And I guess probably Gio Lampey as well. There's probably the three additions that I'm the highest on. Pitt was a really bad team last year, like worse than Rutgers. You know, if you look at their schedule, like they lost to Division III Scranton. Now obviously Scranton, I think ended up winning the D3 national title over NYU, but still you should not be losing to Division III team as an ACC team. They lost to Drexel, Lafayette, Ball State, Duquesne, and then they're only winning ACC play was against Boston College. So it was a bit of a disaster year. Thought Rutgers was bad last year. Pitt was a trophy. Yeah, Rutgers at least beat Lafayette. Pitt lost them by 17. But with jicote, yeah, she was their best player. She was the only player with an above average offensive rating according to Bartowarvik where 100 is average. She was the only one with an above average offensive rating. She, let's see, I gotta bring up the numbers. So the on off numbers, I almost had to spit out, I almost spit out my water when I read it. The on off numbers, I just have to show them to you based on. I know, you showed me this morning and I was like, whoa, wait, what? So that, so net rating, oops, that's the, that's the, so net rating is how, it's basically plus minus, but it's extrapolated to points per 100 possessions. So when she was on the court, they were getting out scored by 13.7 points per 100 possessions. But when she was off the court, they were getting out scored by 31.5 points per 100 possessions. The difference being 17.7, that's the 93rd percentile in the country, offensive rating, 90.6 with her on the floor, 71.4 with her off the floor. That's the 99th percentile difference. And an effective field goal percentage also 99th percentile and difference. So kind of insane, she was their best player last year. And now she comes to Rutgers. Also what sticks out is her college basketball analytics page. What also sticks out? The block rate, 82% dial, and the personal fouls per 40 minutes, 95% dial. So I can make a little nice little graph here. We'll go on the X-axis, I guess we'll go. Let's see, where's personal fouls? Personal fouls per 40 minutes, and then on the opposite axis we'll go. Blocks, block rate. Let's see. Almost there. I know. It's alphabetically, there we go, block performance. So you can see, she is very high up there in terms of personal house per 40 minutes and block rate. Oh, that's blocked on offense. Hold on. There we go. Still very good, where she has a very low foul rate and a very high block rate. So she's proven to be a really solid grip protector. She's also very efficient with 57% true shooting percentage on a low usage rate. So she was efficient on both ends of the floor. So I think this is a really solid addition. Thomas led Howard to the NCAA tournament. They won the MIAC this past year. She was the MIAC Player of the Year, averaged over, averaged 17 points and eight rebounds a game. And she was similar to the Chicate, their best player, their best offensive player. She was also the only player on Howard with an above average offensive rating. Really solid rebounders as well. Got to the free throw line plenty. I do think it was also interesting if you look at some of her numbers this past season compared to her previous stops in her career. She attempted 39 three pointers last season compared to 16 in her first three years all combined. So it seemed like she really tried to add the three pointer to her arsenal. She also dunked in the game this year. Apparently, according to Bart Dorevik, I've been able to actually find it, but it does have a list as dunking in one game. Yeah, so her efficiency kind of took a little bit of a dip, but that also kind of was coinciding with a bigger usage with a higher usage rate, which would kind of expect when you take a bigger role. So she was at Howard for two years. She was good and then got even better this past year. She comes to Rutgers with one year of eligibility left. I think she'll start at the four if I had to guess right now. She was a Kentucky for her first two years. She was actually a teammate of Janay Walker when they were both in the first three years. She was a sophomore in November at Kentucky. She was suspended indefinitely and then was later dismissed from the team in January due to a disciplinary matter. It was never actually put out there what the disciplinary matter was, but it's been two or three years now. By the time we hit November, it'll be three years since whatever happened happened. There hasn't been a problem since at least nothing that I can find. So I think it's safe to say that that's kind of behind her at this point. So I don't think there should be any concerns there. Jocate, who was the other one that she committed from Howard was listening Thomas is an eye. Thomas, I should know that. It's my middle name. Lamply, Paul, though, who's the fifth starter? In your mind, let's see. I think I would say Mia, Paul, those probably probably has. Oh, you already mentioned Paul. I think so. I'll bring up the scholarship chart now just so we can kind of visualize it. So they still have two scholarships remaining for this upcoming season. I'll just get that out of the way. I think, yeah, so you have a fairly large senior class here, two juniors, five sophomores, the freshmen. I think if I had to go off the top of my head right now, I would say the starting lineup would probably be. I think Mia, Paul, those going to win. Oh, geez, why is that still getting away? I'd say Mia, Paul, those probably has the inside track to get in the starting point guard role. I'm trying to think now because there's a lot of different ways they could go. I think Lauren Swan certainly has a chance starting at the two. She definitely flashed some high level shop making last year, but she was basically injured for the entire year. So we'll see what she can do with a fully healthy off season. See what she can do as a junior. The three is going to be interesting. It's also going to be interesting to see how they kind of manage the lineup, whether they want to play bigger, whether they want to play smaller. I think they will have some flexibility in that regard. You could go Zekara Perkins or you could go with what Gila Lampley. Perkins was started last year and Lampley came off the bench on Mississippi State, but I think they both have kind of similar skill sets there. I think Perkins could play honestly. She could play two through four. She has some ball handling experience over the last couple of years as like a secondary ball handler. So she could kind of play all over the lineup. I think Lampley could also definitely have a starting role as well. So I think they'll kind of share time, but I think they'll definitely kind of battle it out for a starting spot. The four is going to be interesting because again, Thomas, I think if I had to say right now, she probably had the inside track to get in that role. I'm money Lester could also potentially go come into play at the four. And then I think like I said earlier, I think Jacote probably starts at the five. But again, you could do a lot of different things like Lester started at the five for a lot of the year. She'll start at the four at times alongside Janae Walker. So I think there's a lot of versatility. There's a lot of lineup versatility for what you can do. I think Lester and Jacote could probably share the floor together because Lester showed some range. She was willing to shoot more three. She was willing to create from outside. She's able to play inside outside. Obviously kind of the same thing with Thomas as well. So I think there's a lot of different ways that they could go. But I think, yeah, I would say Mia Paul, those probably the favorite to start at point guard if I had to guess right now. I would say Swan certainly has a chance for the two. Either Perkins or Lampley for the three. Thomas or Lester for the four and then Jacote for the five. All right. Awesome. Now another question we have here and I think this is where we might disagree a little bit. I know we talked about it yesterday, so that's the funny part. But I personally think based on what they both teams have added so far, whether it's via high school, transfer portal, retaining players, whatever, I think the women's team will have a better record. Now it's hard to say too because we don't know Gary's read us as like scheduling philosophy. Like is he going to go out there and just schedule a bunch of dogs and they had a conference? That's what I personally like doing more because there's no such thing as a bad loss when you're losing to a Q1 team. There's a bad loss when you're losing to a Q4 team, which Rutgers men's did last year. So it's tough. We don't really know what a scheduling philosophy is, but I do think women's is going to have a lot better team this year. And I think this season ticket sales are kind of talking about it a little bit. Well, yeah, that was the next question as well. Yeah, we'll get to that. It's tough to say right now because in the same vein, we don't know how this coaching staff is as a collective staff or what kind of philosophy they're going to run or things like that. So it's tough to say right now. And also someone like to try to test students. What's her role going to be as a true freshman? She showed a lot of talent with the DM the Academy as they won Chipotle Nationals this year alongside GG Battles. So yeah, I think that it's tough. If you go off of what LSU has done in recent years, they've always kind of scheduled kind of somewhat Rutgers over the last few years. They schedule a lot of the low major local schools in the area. I wouldn't be surprised if they follow that route as well. Now, could they play in a big time NTE? I could certainly see it if they get an invite to one. We'll have to wait and see how that which she can self out. It's just too tough this area now because I think there's just too much unknown. But in the big 10 sphere, I do think they have moved themselves into probably middle of the pack in terms of their talent level. So, you know, if this upcoming season they keep up a lot of the production that they've been able to put out in terms of the postseason. Probably say 12 or 13 teams are at the very least in bubble consideration. Obviously the number that make it is going to fluctuate year to year. But usually how it's been the last few years, it's been the top 13 teams, 13, 14 I guess. And then the bottom five are kind of on two different tiers. So if I had to guess, I think they'll, I wouldn't be surprised if they find themselves in some kind of bubble consideration. Maybe kind of buoyed by the fact that the big 10 is one of it's not the toughest conference in the country. You know, if they get some wins early on in the conference, they'd spend on how that shakes itself out. They could find themselves as like an upstart, you know, look out in like the next four out or something like that. But I think, I don't think they're going to make the NCAA tournament this year. Just because there's a lot of unknowns that I can't really predict that just yet. I'm staying there on the bubble. I'm confident. I'm just so confident in this team, confident in this coaching staff. They just have the juice and now we obviously, like you said, we have to still see them coach a game like they haven't done it yet. They're not, he's never been a head coach before. Only one that's been a head coach before is Manisha Reedus, his sister, but she was a head coach at the D2 level, I recall correctly. So, big jump. Preston, like Preston Beverly has some head coaching experience on the lower levels. I think he was D3 and NIA, maybe you co as well. So he has head coaching experience. There's no Division I head coaching experience. But then you look at someone like Daphne Mitchell, who's been alongside K. Mulkey for what, 13 years now? Or, no, I'm not anymore. And then Reedus has been alongside Mulkey for three or four years. So, yeah, there's just too many unknowns. I think if they make the WVIT, I think that would be a pretty solid first year. And it seems like the recruiting momentum for the future is definitely on the up and up as well. So, we'll have to wait and see. I mean, look, I think if they can take, again, if they make the WVIT, that's a sizable step forward from the last few years. So, on... I think people are just looking for a step forward and a step in the right direction in terms of rebuilding this program. Yeah. I'm intrigued by what the schedule is going to be like because we know for a fact that one side of this wants to make it happen. Seton Hall wants to play rockers and women's basketball too. I suggested the idea and I'm going to throw this out there and hey, Kelly's in, feel free to take it. I think personally they should do a double header between men's and women's every year. Make it the Garden State Hardwood Classic. You can get a different trophy if you want. Or just make it like a double trophy put like men's records on the left side, women's records on the right side, something like that. But I do think the women's team should be playing. We know Seton Hall's been trying to get it going for a couple years now with rockers and the previous women's basketball coach just had no interest whatsoever. So whatever it is what it is at this point. But I do think that there's got to be some way that they have to get it going on the women's side too. And I think a double header is the perfect one to just say, hey, come to the first game, you get a ticket to the second game. I wouldn't be surprised if Rita's is kind of on that as well because of how much they've kind of have sized like New Jersey recruiting and keeping the best talent home. You know, what better way to try to keep the best talent in the state home than you know, kind of reigning supremacy over your state opponents. In the same vein, I wouldn't be surprised if they continue playing Princeton as well. I know they have a new coach, but Lauren Gosling is who got hired and replace. Sarah Fles, Carla Barouba. She was the associate head coach. So there's a lot of continuity there. So I wouldn't be at all surprises. See Princeton and hopefully, I don't know, maybe hopefully Seton Hall on the schedule as well. Here's what LSU schedule will look like this season. To give a bit of like a marker, I guess. So you have Houston Christian, Southeastern Louisiana, Georgia Southern. That's Charlotte to Lane. Like say they opened up the schedule with a lot of the lower majors. Then they played Duke. I think this was like a one of those like neutral site classic type games and then a lot of low majors after that as well. So I would not. Yeah, I would not be surprised if they kind of, you know, keep up that. I guess. Like that trend that you know, but Rutgers has kept up that trend as well. They've played a lot of local low majors as well. If they want to get some wins early. Yeah, I think it makes the most sense personally for a first year coach. I just prefer better games. So that's just me personally. I will say I don't think Rutgers is going to beat anyone 115 to 26 this year. That is insane. Actually, geez. Yeah. And this, I think this game was supposed to be a little bit better before this season, but I think Southeastern Louisiana's head coach and end up going to Steven at Boston, I think, within their own conference. So they kind of gotten rocked by that and they lost a lot of good players. So. Never. We spoke about it before, but bring it up again. Someone asked about it, the one 4617. What was the season ticket sales record that women's basketball just broke? And what was it previously? I think I have. Oh, even better. Rutgers women's basketball and Seton Hall will be playing December 8th. I want to break that news right now. Oh, there we go. Breaking news live on the podcast. There we go. The series is renewed. It will be at Rutgers to start. They're in the beginning stages of kind of planning it all and making it a whole event, basically just what the men's have. So it does sound like it is going to happen. Wow, I'm good. Wow. I mean, they took our advice quickly. Yeah, that was amazing. That's what happens when you do a live pod. You know? Yeah, no, that's huge. That's awesome. It's going to be a home and home going forward. So that is a that's big news for Rutgers. I love this show. We're just talking about the season tickets. Do you know what the record was? I have a text sent out right now and someone's looking into it for me, but I don't have an answer at the moment. I do not either, unfortunately, but I mean, don't I? The fact that yeah, you have last year's. I would not say that that was a record. No, maybe. Maybe the wrong way. I do well. I don't know. But the fact that, you know, it's not even May and they've already set the record and I don't totally know where the record kind of the record is kind of date back to. Even if it was like when the program was in its heyday, under Steve Evian Stringer in the 2000s, like if you're already beating that record, that is really, really impressive. Just already. I mean, even if it's modern day, the fact that you're doing it in a month and a half, you're already breaking the season ticket record is very impressive. Women's basket. Oh, okay. Might have been a bad record. Women's basketball saw a decrease in total season tickets sold from 2024 to 2025 to 2025 to 26 down in its total of 767 tickets sold. I expected to be a lot more than that, obviously. It wouldn't shock me if they were approaching the 1500 mark. Maybe it's not fair. I think so. I mean, how much of the men have this year? I know you got the men had this season 4,964. Yes, from maybe 1500, maybe even 2000, I think it could be an estimate. It's a huge increase too. Plus, there's going to be some good talent coming to the rack this year too. Yeah. The LA schools are making their return trip to New Jersey this year so you can see Juju Watkins hopefully is on stage healthy. Obviously, you see the reigning national champions in UCLA. I mean, I've seen a lot of people just say like, you know, they're kind of following along with some of the latest news. Hey, this seems fun. Let me buy some season tickets just to see how it goes. So I think there's a lot of excitement. I think the staff has done a really good job of continuing to foster that excitement and really put it to good use. Yeah. That's pretty much it. I think, right? Football under armor cam, bunch of recruiting updates. There's a lot more recruiting updates on the board right now. So check that out on the night report.com. Unfortunately, if you missed the 50% sale, it's over. But fortunately, you can sign up for a dollar again, dollar for the first seven days, first week, first week, I think. Same thing, right? So you can check out the boards for a dollar. You don't like it cancel within that first week. But again, you're going to get hooked on it because the boards are just the most amazing thing ever known to man. There's some really high highs and some really low lows. But yeah, check us out on the message boards. Check us out on the night report.com. Check out all our content. We'll have a lot more from the under armor camp throughout the week. Plenty of recruiting updates from women's basketball, football, men's basketball. We'll have a couple more soon waiting for that five to five to get approved or denied. Sounds like if I had to guess, we'll get approved and it sounds like we're going to have chaos again in the summer with two portal boys. Yeah, yeah, now it wasn't fun. But so far, so good for just about the entire off season. It seems like between the football program sounds like they're on the up and up. Men's basketball added some pretty good transfers. I think they have a top 20 recruiting class right now via the portal. Women's basketball, there's not rankings out there, but I would have to assume they would probably be in the top 20 in terms of additions. Kokey's Washington found a new job. She's now at SMU joining as an assistant coach that does help Rutgers a little bit in terms of the buyout. So that will be helpful. It's also not like a no name school. And I also think it was in your contract required that you had to find and try to look for a job at least. And that's like the BS they always throw in there. But yeah, I don't know how much she would make as an assistant at SMU. But at the very least, it would chip into that buyout a little bit, which is $1.675 million from her last year's for contract being bought out. And she also gets to work for a Dia Barnes who I for if they won a national championship or made the national championship game at Arizona. So yeah, pretty solid. They had some solid talent and also it's funny. Sometimes there's. There's some funny I guess. It's funny how cyclical I guess the college basketball work can be Gary Reedus was at SMU for a year. And now Kokey's Washington is heading to SMU as an assistant. I don't know. It's funny how that works sometimes. Yeah, it is a whole giant circle on this coaching world. But still trying to find out what the exact number was for the season ticket thing. I was hoping I can get it before, but it doesn't sound like I'm going to be able to get it ahead of time. When we do get it, it'll be on the board. So that's why you should go check it out. Exactly. It'll probably be on article two. I would just click that article if I were you personally. There's a bunch of baseball going on. There's not really anything else going on. MLS is playing. So I'm just going to wait until recruiting season starts heating up and it will heat up around a month from now. And official visits start for Rutgers that first weekend is always a big one. I think last year they had like five or six commitments. The year before I believe there was 10 commitments in the first week. So or from that first weekend at least. Maybe it doesn't always happen right after it usually kind of scattered throughout the week after. That is for over also sponsored by coaching ties to check them out, especially for all the I guess there's not really anymore coaching firings. But I guess there could be. You never know what the wait and see coaching firings coaches leaving. There's rumors about guys leaving for the NBA. Once those guys get kicked out of the playoffs, we'll see what happens there. But I think that is just bored that too. Yeah. And coaching ties is fun. I know I was around with. Yeah, I sat around on it way too long. It's like a brain rot. But for college basketball and football fans. But that's pretty much it. If you got anything else, there's at it. All right. We'll probably be back. Hopefully at the end of the week. If you like the show, please take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe. It really does help the show to grow. Thank you for listening. Show notes: In this episode of The Knight Report podcast, hosts Richie O'Leary, and Alec Crouthamel break down the final Rutgers Football spring practice. After that, the guys recap the Under Armour camp on Sunday afternoon and offer an update on a top recruiting target who is deciding soon. Then they switch to women's basketball recruiting, which continues to be on a tear via the Transfer Portal. 0:00 Intro 4:30 Rutgers Football Spring Ball Recap 6:00 Spring Awards Breakdown 9:15 Zaire Angoy Approved for Sixth Year 11:00 Bold Predictions for 2026 Season 14:30 NFL Draft – Athan Kaliakmanis to Washington Commanders 18:00 Undrafted Free Agents 22:30 Under Armour Camp Recap 26:00 Rutgers Football Recruiting Updates 31:00 Rutgers Women's Basketball to renew rivalry 32:30 Rutgers Women's Basketball Portal Additions 43:00 Season Ticket Sales Record 45:00 Outro & Upcoming Content