What is your beef with Rutgers?

[uconnell]

I was just on the MD board and ACC fans are giving them crap because they're leaving and RU and Cuse fans are giving us crap because we're not leaving.

Now we have NYC Wanker who is such a creep and wonders why the ladies dump him after a couple of dates. Why does he live in Greenwich instead of New Jersey?

 

[Coach Flood]

I gotta admit, for the most part you guys were pretty civil about my question. There is definitely some gold here in the responses.

 

[ruthetiger]

No offense, but I'm not going to read through the responses to this inflammatory garbage. Just so you know, this poster goes by NYCBanker on the Rutgers Rivals Board, and he is a huge troll over there, posting wild stuff just to elicit responses from people. If this were my board, I'd just ban him and be done with his garbage.

Hey spanky. Whats up? Didn't expect to see you here.

 

[ruthetiger]

Oh, Spanky. You and your wild stories. NYCBanker is a troll. Beer kills brain cells. I'm just going to go back to that... building thingy... where my bed and TV is...

Cz...long time no speak.

 

[Srqhusky]

I gotta admit, for the most part you guys were pretty civil about my question. There is definitely some gold here in the responses.

Your welcome to come back any time your life in New Jersey lacks excitement

 

[DJ Spanky]

Your welcome to come back any time your life in New Jersey lacks excitement

Ummmm.....just so you know, he actually lives in Connecticut.

 

[DJ Spanky]

Hey spanky. Whats up? Didn't expect to see you here.

Ah, I followed his thread over from Rivals just to see how much of a tool bag he made of himself on other boards.

 

[J187Money]

Flood - to be honest I never gave Rutgers a passing thought. Other than to pencil in a win or two when going through the hoops schedule.

We were starting to develop an interesting football rivalry. Too bad that will end. Hate? Most people are just messing around. CT people like to make NJ jokes about everything.

Generally I'm indifferent.

 

[Waquoit]

Just got stuck behind a jack-off going slow in the left lane of the parkway. Of course, he had the Rutty "R" on the back of the car. UConn fans get on the engine or stay to the right.

 

[Dann]

Just got stuck behind a jack-off going slow in the left lane of the parkway. Of course, he had the Rutty "R" on the back of the car. UConn fans get on the engine or stay to the right.

Block R huh?

That's nice that Rutgers gets the appeal of a great car sticker to spread the reach of the fanbase. I remember uconn tried the block c and half assed it. If it was me I would send one out with every fball and bball season ticket and one in every alum monthly mag to get the party started. Instead we killed the block c. Nice job uconn.

 

[Husky25]

Why is it a joke? That's like saying that Sam Houston State shouldn't be named after the hero of the Alamo, or Johns Hopkins, James Madison, John Jay??? That is a dumb comment! The kin of Colonel Rutgers is tied very deeply into the University.

And come on dude. Nobody's offended. You have to admit, it is sort of entertaining.

Sam Houston State is not their state's flagship university. Neither is Johns Hopkins, James Madison or virtually any other institution named after an important figure of historically significance.

To answer the OP's question. I don't really feel one way or another toward Rutgers. I think Boston College is UConn's main rival. It doesn't matter that BC and UConn haven't played in 10 years. The mutual hatred between the fan bases is palpable. I've always thought there was more of a mutual respect between Rutgers and UConn fans. Even when Rutgers won in gut-wrenching fashion at Rentschler immediately after the death of Jasper Howard, it still was just ho-hum...possibly because UConn fans were so emotionally spent.

 

[ruthetiger]

I think you might be right. There is more respect for the 2 programs than there is hatred. Both have been through their fair share of tragedies. And on top of that, we both have a mutual hatred for that school up North in Siberia, NY.

 

[Palatine]

I have no beef with Rutgers University.

I do find their fans to be delusional when it comes to their athletic program.

 

[CTMike]

I'll also be man enough to admit that I'm jealous that Rutgers was selected for the B1G. It certainly wasn't Rutgers history of winning that got them in, so it reinforces my previous point of their smug elitism without any substance.

 

[uconnbaseball]

My beef with Rutgers is that they find themselves in a stable conference situation despite having an inferior overall athletic department to UConn. I respect the improvement they have made on the football field and don't wish them ill will, especially if they put in a good word for us.

 

[1999.2004.2011]

The University of Connecticut wins championships.
The State University of New Jersey doesn't win at anything.

 

[pj]

I like Rutgers, thought they and BC and West Virginia were our best football rivals, and looked forward to building more of a regional rivalry as our football program advanced. I hope that is still possible with our eventual entry into the B1G. I expect Rutgers football to do well in the B1G, maybe surpassing Penn State and becoming the eastern counterpart of Nebraska and Wisconsin, and I hope they do because the more the B1G gets traction in the northeast, the more they'll see the merits of entering New England and getting another school with NYC pull. If entering the virgin 9 million person NJ market pays off big, further growth in the 35 mn person NY-NE market is even more likely to pay off. Why should they let BC / the ACC have the only New England college program, and BC/Cuse/the ACC the only NY/NE programs? When UConn would beat BC+Cuse combined easily in market share?

Rutgers has made tremendous progress in recent years with the B1G invitation, investments in facilities, and progress on the field. UConn has also made progress, but not enough.

Ultimately, the reason Rutgers is in the B1G is that they are the flagship university of the state that is #11 in population, and their campus is the only high-level athletics program physically located in the NYC DMA. UConn is out because we are flagship of the #29 state and the campus is somewhat remote from the population centers of Connecticut and NYC. A secondary reason is that UConn has invested in basketball while Rutgers has invested in football. A third is that New Jersey invested in building up Rutgers' research programs, while Connecticut was content to let Yale and other private schools build the state's research capabilities; so Rutgers is AAU but UConn is not.

In short, the premise of the original post is wrong. We don't hate Rutgers. We are respectful (and a bit jealous) of your success and want to share in it. With repeated rejection, I have come to hate the ACC. I would love nothing more than to join Rutgers in the B1G and drive the ACC to minor conference status in the northeast.

 

[Fishy]

I don't have any sort of issues with Rutgers.

New Jersey is crowded. The Big Ten liked that.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I really liked our football rivalry. I think our programs were very comparable with Rutgers having the head to head edge.

Fact is we have similar football programs, similar academics, while UConn has an elite men's basketball program, while Rutgers has a lot more people in their state.

I guess my main beef would be that Rutgers acts like they somehow earned their Big10 invite add opposed to just being located in a state with a bigger population than CT.

Just like Cuse, BC, etc. just because you're in a better conference right now, doesn't suddenly make you a better program.

Rutgers won the lottery. Congrats. Hopefully we'll join you someday, buy coming to our forum abd talking about your good fortune is pretty ridiculous.

 

[UCFBfan]

I really liked our football rivalry. I think our programs were very comparable with Rutgers having the head to head edge.

Fact is we have similar football programs, similar academics, while UConn has an elite men's basketball program, while Rutgers has a lot more people in their state.

I guess my main beef would be that Rutgers acts like they somehow earned their Big10 invite add opposed to just being located in a state with a bigger population than CT.

Just like Cuse, BC, etc. just because you're in a better conference right now, doesn't suddenly make you a better program.

Rutgers won the lottery. Congrats. Hopefully we'll join you someday, buy coming to our forum abd talking about your good fortune is pretty ridiculous.

Amen. Couldn't have said it better.

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