You really lack the ability to do simple chains of logic. You said you tried to make me look foolish with your idea of sarcasm. That's also known as "trolling". And you sure wasted plenty of time if that was your objective.
I won't dispute that the major reason for bringing in Rutgers was a cash grab, but it was definitely more than that. Another long term benefit of Rutgers is accessing the fertile recruiting grounds of NJ. I found an article on SBNation that counts blue chip football recruits (4* and 5*) by state from 2013-2017. NJ came in 12th with 41. I can't find counts for the other sport. But, using a different source (https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/2017RES_RecruitMaps-Final-20170613.pdf) here are per capita rankings for men's sport recruiting. I counted the states myself so I could have miscounted a little, but it's close enough.
There is always a next year
Pikiell is doing good work with you guys. He was a great hire for you.
Pikiell was a great hire for them but he still has a lot of work to do. That being said, RU's football team still sucks, and as we all know it is football that drives the bus and revenue for the athletic department. Rutgers needs to hire a crackerjack football coach and I don't see that happening anytime soon as it's an uphill battle. It's really a laughing stock. Rutgers football has more decommits and transfers than any P5 team out there.
I don't think Rutgers is a laughing stock. They are light years ahead of UConn football, would have crushed UConn over the last 4 years and they won the CR lottery! Not exactly a laughing stock. A laughing stock would be a school that finishes near or at the bottom of a G5 conference and is essentially noncompetitive against P5 opponents, not to mention most of its own conference, and whose crown jewel program is frequently surrounded by controversy and investigation.
Yes they are ahead of UConn football, but since Randy Edsall has taken control of the program, I would say they are not ahead by much. As for being a laughing stock, if the P5 has one, Rutgers is it. Like I said, Rutgers needs a really good football coach to rescue that program, they already have the other necessary tools, but they still suck and lose out on recruits to many G5 programs, including UConn.
When you have 30 or 40 three, four, or five star kids on a team and only 11 can play as the number one on the depth chart you are going to have that. Some kids don't like competition and keeping those kids in the fold by a coaching staff in flux is difficult. The high profile decommits and transfers from Rutgers by what few top recruits they have is for completely different reasons. Just ask Travis Jones.
One more win than us against a Big 10 schedule... tough for us to be throwing stones. Wins against Perdue, Illinois, and Maryland (and Morgan St.).
I don't know what you are smoking to think Wake Forest football is a laughing stock??? First of all they are a tiny tiny school, yet they were 8-4 last year, played a very tough schedule and unlike Rutgers were not blown out by anyone. Their four losses were relatively close.
Would have been interesting to see AAC Uconn with a new coach play a 5-7 Eastern Michigan team? Lol
Was there a point in that post?
Wake also has a much better hoops history.
Wake Forest has 8 NCAA team championships in 4 different sports. Wake Forest is 8-4 in bowl games, and defeated Texas A&M last month. Wake Forest is 28-23 in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament with 23 appearances including 2017. These are not laughing stock records.
There was also a time, before current, when there was a level of academic excellence projected by a conference. Wake is head and shoulders above Rutgers and Wake added to the ACC reputation.
Stop digging.
