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Message: [QUOTE="lne001, post: 1387981, member: 5473"] Up until the early 70's Rutgers was a male only school, with some 4,000+ students, who played Ivy League schools, Yankee Conference schools, Lehigh, Laffayette and Bucknell. Sports were an extracurricular activity at best, but they were competitive at that level. In the early 80's they decided to go bigger time in football and basketball, but with absolutely no financial support. This resulted in absolute failure, as would be expected. It was over 20 years later before they finally starting making any real efforts with the hiring of Schiano, but financials were still a burden. Today it is a school with 42,000 students and an administration which finally thinks sports might be worth something. Membership in the B1G will rectify the financials shortly. Will they became a sports factory overnight? Of course not. Could they become one eventually? Who knows. [/QUOTE]