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Trouble in Ruttyland

whaler11 said:
It came up a few weeks ago on the Stanford Steve/Fallica podcast. They asked Chris Andrews who runs some books in Vegas. He said Rutgers -2.
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Was that at Rutgers or the Rent?
 
Why? Is either team better at home when no one is there to cheer them on anyway?
 
Hoophound said:
Why? Is either team better at home when no one is there to cheer them on anyway?
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UConn may draw 763 at home but they are so bad on the road they cause permanent blindness.

At home they just lose by 6 touchdowns. On the road websites post 5k words on the historic beatdown they took.
 
Has anyone seen Rutgers play? Have they given up on Ash? I will say...UConn players appear to still be putting out an effort.
 
Imagine losing every game forever? That’s the road Rutty is headed down, at least we get 10k at our games imagine getting no one?
 
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There's some whistling past our own graveyard here. Unless the P5 contracts they will always be in a better football spot then we are. We could easily see home crowds of 5k by the end of this season.
 
TRest said:
There's some whistling past our own graveyard here. Unless the P5 contracts they will always be in a better football spot then we are. We could easily see home crowds of 5k by the end of this season.
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Is there really a fan that doesn’t know that here?
 
Rutgers is a perpetual basket case. Always has been and, appearantly, even with BiG affiliation, always will be.
 
uconndogs said:
Rutgers is a perpetual basket case. Always has been and, appearantly, even with BiG affiliation, always will be.
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It is stunning to see the ability to shoot themselves in the foot even after getting the golden ticket.
 
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The Ivy League draws better than Rutgers. L O L.

Princeton is actually ranked right now.
 
Rutty leads Northwestern in the 4th. They would slaughter us.
 
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Rutgers' last 4 games (off next week) are at Wisconsin, home Michigan, home Penn St, at Michigan St. They are not expected to win any of those games and likely won't even be in any of them. What do they get for going 1-11 and 0-9 in the B1G? Guess, they will keep cashing those checks while the true football teams pick the heck out of the best talent.
 
I was an RU season ticket holder for a number of years. It started during Terry Shea's tenure and went through Schiano. I started going because the tickets were cheap as a young (grad) alum, they played good teams (not as good as current B1G) and some friends would tailgate. I wasn't a big fan, so I didn't really care when they were getting curb-stomped by everyone. I got into it more when Schiano turned them around, but I still never become fully vested. I stopped when I moved further north and my kids started youth sports so life didn't allow for tailgating and games that were an hour away without gameday traffic.

That being said, I don't think the school really cares. They got where they wanted to be for decades, and now they don't see an incentive in rocking the boat. I also know they alienated some long time fans with the post-Mike Rice firing of Pernetti. That guy is so polarizing. I know people that I trust who love him and loathe him.
 
Chuck said:
I was an RU season ticket holder for a number of years. It started during Terry Shea's tenure and went through Schiano. I started going because the tickets were cheap as a young (grad) alum, they played good teams (not as good as current B1G) and some friends would tailgate. I wasn't a big fan, so I didn't really care when they were getting curb-stomped by everyone. I got into it more when Schiano turned them around, but I still never become fully vested. I stopped when I moved further north and my kids started youth sports so life didn't allow for tailgating and games that were an hour away without gameday traffic.

That being said, I don't think the school really cares. They got where they wanted to be for decades, and now they don't see an incentive in rocking the boat. I also know they alienated some long time fans with the post-Mike Rice firing of Pernetti. That guy is so polarizing. I know people that I trust who love him and loathe him.
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I agree with you. Rutgers doesn't care if they ever win a game again. They have what they have always dreamed of and will continue to cash their checks from the Big Ten with a smile on their faces.
 
I read the other day they're slated to get a partial payout from the Big Ten this year of a paltry 24 million.
 
The thing that bugs me most about Rutgers is the name. Its the University of New Jersey. But they don't call it that, and try to make it sound like Princeton, or Cirnell, or Lehigh or Bucknell. Rutgers.

Its the University of New Jersey. Seems like they havevalways beenbembarrassed to call it that.
 
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Carl Spackler said:
The thing that bugs me most about Rutgers is the name. Its the University of New Jersey. But they don't call it that, and try to make it sound like Princeton, or Cirnell, or Lehigh or Bucknell. Rutgers.

Its the University of New Jersey. Seems like they havevalways beenbembarrassed to call it that.
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Princeton was founded as the College of New Jersey back in Colonial days and thus, I believed 'owned' the University of New Jersey name. Queens College, also founded before 1776. The school eventually went bankrupt and was brought back by a guy with the last name Rutgers, thus the name change to Rutgers College in the 1820's. In the 1860's it became the land-grand state university for New Jersey.

Anyone want to come-up with new names for Rutgers after it got saved by the B1G?
 
Mr. Conehead said:
The school eventually went bankrupt and was brought back by a guy with the last name Rutgers, thus the name change to Rutgers College in the 1820's
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Nice. Most people don't know this or that it was defunct for a few years. RU uses the founding date of Queen's College, but that institution shut it's door. RU was founded in the 1800's as you point out.
 
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CL82 said:
Nice. Most people don't know this or that it was defunct for a few years. RU uses the founding date of Queen's College, but that institution shut it's door. RU was founded in the 100's as you point out.
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See - this is the stuff I'm talking about. it's the University of New Jersey, but they won't call it the University of New Jersey and they use some dude's name, to make it SOUND like an Ivy or Pennsylvania lacrosse school or Patriot league team or something, when they're really founded on a college that went out of business.

University of New Jersey.
 
Carl Spackler said:
See - this is the stuff I'm talking about. it's the University of New Jersey, but they won't call it the University of New Jersey and they use some dude's name, to make it SOUND like an Ivy or Pennsylvania lacrosse school or Patriot league team or something, when they're really founded on a college that went out of business.

University of New Jersey.
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They do have this on the letterhead:
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It was played up more a few years ago when the legislature made a push for it.
 
Rutgers ain't the birthplace of college football. That would be Harvard. Parke Davis lied.
 
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