Directors' Cup Standings with UConn in B1G

[huskyrob1]

It's hard to believe that across the board UConn is barely ahead of Rutgers in all sports standings!

Rutgers is awful in ALL the major sports and a lot of the minor ones, and trends show it's only getting worse. The biggest eye openers are what's happened to Rutgers football and women's basketball (once a national power lead by a HOF coach). Uconn is definitely ahead, not just barely................

B1G disappointment? Results of each Rutgers team on 4-year anniversary


........and please do not give me they're up against better competition crappola. Rutgers was not nearly this bad in football when they played in the Big East football conference, which had awesome competition.

 

[dayooper]

Rutgers is awful in ALL the major sports and a lot of the minor ones, and trends show it's only getting worse. The biggest eye openers are what's happened to Rutgers football and women's basketball (once a national power lead by a HOF coach). UConn is definitely ahead, not just barely......

B1G disappointment? Results of each Rutgers team on 4-year anniversary


...and please do not give me they're up against better competition crappola. Rutgers was not nearly this bad in football when they played in the Big East football conference, which had awesome competition.

Greg Schiano was the reason why they had the success in football they did during the end of the Big East era. He built that program and handed it off to Kyle Flood, who dropped the ball. The only other success they have had is when they were independents and in the smaller conferences.

 

[huskyrob1]

Greg Schiano was the reason why they had the success in football they did during the end of the Big East era. He built that program and handed it off to Kyle Flood, who dropped the ball. The only other success they have had is when they were independents and in the smaller conferences.

Yeah true about Schiano, but what has happened to women's basketball is an even bigger eye opener. C. Vivian Stringer had great great teams while in the Big East that were ranked somewhere in the top 10 or top 5 every year, a couple of final fours or eights IIRC. Beat both UCONN and Tennessee at home back when Pat Summit was coaching. Since joining the Big Ten they have fallen off a cliff from a national power to a doormat. I think the end of rivalries with Uconn and Tennessee killed women's basketball at Rutgers, and in football I would say the end of any rivalry has hurt both schools, the same can be said for BC, Cuse, and Pitt to a lesser extent.

 

[HoopsFan21]

But Pitt is still hard to figure...You never know which Pitt will take the field. Pitt beats the Big Ten Champ, Penn State, and the National Champion, Clemson....and loses by 23 to Miami.

And WVU will never forget.....as they were in their 11 win year and a possible play at #1...along comes 5-7 Pitt...those dastards.

Had Pitt played Penn State after about week 5 or 6, they would have had their you know what handed to them. That Penn State team was dramatically different from October on than it was during the first month, and rightfully so given the upheaval that program has dealt with in the past few years. I still don't know how Penn State, Michigan, and Wisconsin rated so high. What exactly do those schools do to get such high ranks without ever winning anything?

 

[huskymedic]

No Field Hockey and WBB national championships will do that to you...

UConn Finishes 15th In Women's Capital One Cup
http://www.capitalonecup.com/docs/complete-capital-one-cup-standings.pdf

 

[billybud]

Had Pitt played Penn State after about week 5 or 6, they would have had their you know what handed to them. That Penn State team was dramatically different from October on than it was during the first month, and rightfully so given the upheaval that program has dealt with in the past few years. I still don't know how Penn State, Michigan, and Wisconsin rated so high. What exactly do those schools do to get such high ranks without ever winning anything?

Penn State did play Ohio State in week 7...won 24-21

Maybe Ohio State would not have been so blasted if they had played Clemson in week 2?

 

[billybud]

But then again, since Pitt beat Clemson in week 11, as they did...maybe the week played made no real difference.