For those espousing that SHU is ducking Rutgers I'll note this.
Penn State reached out to SHU in December after negotiating with our school as long as a year or so ago to play a H/H. The only date they could offer this year was Dec 6, the same date that RU wanted to play us. We accepted as Willard wanted to construct as difficult a schedule as possible.
Unknown to many is that we reached out to 2 other schools in the recent AP top 10 to play them H/H. Unfortunately they decided late they could not play us leaving Seton Hall looking for 2 more games. Those games soon became the Louisville 'tournament'.
Rhode Island and Wager were already games agreed upon so Seton Hall hit the quota that the Big East suggested, 5 OOC games in Nov/Dec. That is why Willard is looking to play Rutgers in Jan or Feb.
Rutgers got left in the cold and I can understand why Pikiell is upset.
If SHU did anything wrong I would suggest that they got back to RU a little late and maybe better communications might have resolved the issues both schools are now facing with the game.
Penn State reached out to SHU in December after negotiating with our school as long as a year or so ago to play a H/H. The only date they could offer this year was Dec 6, the same date that RU wanted to play us. We accepted as Willard wanted to construct as difficult a schedule as possible.
Unknown to many is that we reached out to 2 other schools in the recent AP top 10 to play them H/H. Unfortunately they decided late they could not play us leaving Seton Hall looking for 2 more games. Those games soon became the Louisville 'tournament'.
Rhode Island and Wager were already games agreed upon so Seton Hall hit the quota that the Big East suggested, 5 OOC games in Nov/Dec. That is why Willard is looking to play Rutgers in Jan or Feb.
Rutgers got left in the cold and I can understand why Pikiell is upset.
If SHU did anything wrong I would suggest that they got back to RU a little late and maybe better communications might have resolved the issues both schools are now facing with the game.
