Isolated outpost in a garbage dump. You have to have at least one other local team. Plus, RU would eph-up their own funeral. Although we seem to be pretty uniquely incompetent in the last 10 years.
Um..............no, not exactly. Had nothing to do with athletics and everything to do with a large amount of money the Big Ten would gain each year by Rutgers being a member of the Big Ten. All that mattered at the time were cable boxes, the number of which in the past seven years has decreased significantly due to cord cutting. The Big Ten didn't forsee how streaming technology could destroy the cable box model, now it's stuck with a laughing stock of the conference while it brings in much much less money. At least UConn has a basketball tradition brand in both men's and women's, Rutgers has zero, nothing. UConn has a huge opportunity here to bury Rutgers as the premier flagship school in the NYC metro area, they just need to fix football, and that starts with dumping Randy Edsall. If UConn men's basketball is a surprise this season, and I think it will be, that will fan things further in terms of recruiting for Hurley and Tom Moore.