(09-15-2015 11:56 AM)jskwrite Wrote: (09-15-2015 10:32 AM)connecticutguy Wrote: It's clear the Big 10 should have taken UConn instead of Rutgers. They can still add UConn so if Rutgers has to drop out of the Big because of scandals, the Big has a solid university as a member.
I still say they should have taken another P5 or waited... couple Maryland with another ACC school or a Big 12 school.
I could go on and on about Rutgers vs. UConn. Rutgers fans seem to be a bit delusional about their program and its interest (especially in NYC). UConn football is pretty low now... (throw Syracuse in there as there's more Syracuse interest in NYC than there is Rutgers interest) but Syracuse has proven they can win a Big East and UConn has proven they can rise to the level of their league.
here it is .. one more time. I have posed this question many times and never even gotten a response.
Going to put it in bold.
Rutgers had over a decade in the best recruiting area in the country to become competitive in basketball in a league comparable to the Big 10 (in basketball) and they were the second worst team in the Big East over that period against a lot of catholic/non-public schools with a lot fewer resources. No NCAA appearances. Only one season in the top half of the league. Why am I to think that Rutgers is ever going to be good at football (when it's harder to build a football program than a basketball one) in a great football league like the Big 10 when they never were competitive in basketball in the Big East?
I don't know. I think this is a it of an unfair commentary. As much as I find it hard to defend RU - as their fans would never do the same for my alma mater - fair is fair.
Right now, the RU AD is going through some turmoil. But to infer that this will be the permanent state of things is unfair...IMO. Just as it would be unfair to say, for example, that Uconn FB will never be any good based on a limited sample (5 winning seasons in 11 seasons in an FBS conference). It's just not fair.
As far as RU fans being delusional. Yup, they probably are. So aren't BC, SU, Uconn, Pitt, UL, fans...etc...etc. It's the nature of being fans. It's what we do. (If you doubt me, just look at your own Uconn board and see the reaction of many fans to 5-point wins at home over an FCS team and an historically weak Service Academy team.). Again, WE ALL are guilty of this!
Finally, to conflate the current spate of bad news coming out of the RU AD with a general argument that they should not have been invited to the BiG smacks of agenda-driven self interest, IMO. EVERY school at one time or another has had its share of embarrassing incidents, a fact which we like to conveniently forget when another school's ox is being gored. We trip all over ourselves to voice various rationales when these things happen to our schools, but we become a virtual "hanging judge Landis" when it happens to some other school - especially if it fits our narrow agendas.
Just my 2 cents.