(02-18-2016 11:06 AM)Noworriesbro Wrote: (02-18-2016 10:24 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: (02-18-2016 09:23 AM)Noworriesbro Wrote: (02-18-2016 08:29 AM)Hank Schrader Wrote: everyone's an insider these days...
sure is, everyone on twitter posting what they heard today...lol. this has been going on for years and decades, its quite a game.
i will say this though, i def stand by what i predicted and how rutgers got into the big, anyone with a brain can find out the stories all line up , except for the gw fans and the have nots, who shouldnt be allowed to even post here as they ruin this forum. those guys are the ultimate downers.
but one thing i would say that would alter my projection is i wouldnt rule out the wild card move of texas to the acc because the acc will let them bring some friends unlike the pac. the problem is the pac has the money, so texas will have to decide and im sure money wins everytime but there is a chance the acc, if they do it right, could end up with texas and notre dame.
LOL. Enjoy losing 25 games a year in basketball for the forseeable future. By the way, when midpack A-10 schools have to worry about scheduling a B1G team because even if they beat you by 40 points it craters their RPI....you're not helping your conference.
When you spend decades at sub Sun Belt levels of football performance, then have one good (but not great season), then fall right back to the basement....you're not helping your conference.
And you're currently ranked as a peer of American University in the latest rankings. Not bad, but you aren't a peer of Michigan or Northwestern.
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Have not? That would be Rutgers. They 'have not' been to a NCAA tournament in 25 years. They 'have not' won a NCAA tournament game in 33 years. In football, they 'have not' had a conference championship in decades of playing in lower level P5. They 'have not' won many high profile or even medium profile wins.
Do you have ANY wins in the last 10 years that a real P5 team would point to and say ... 'see we did that'?
And yet, many of their fans confuse getting a bid to the P5 with actually belonging there. And try to use the strengths of others to cheerlead separation that they didn't earn and they'd never have if the cable TV contracts were designed differently.
good thing none of that matters when you look at future and potential. give a school like rutgers 40 mil a year instead of 4 mil a year and im willing to bet things will change in the future. you come off as raging that a school so terrible in basketball is getting a big boy seat.
again, when did winning have anything to do with moving up in conferences? thats why the decision makers are smarter than you. its about money my friend, thats why rutgers got in, thats why any other school will get in, because they bring money and whatever small time school you like is not. deal with it
Give Rutgers 100 mill a year and they'd blow it.
What did you do in basketball when you got a Big East bid...Nothing
What did you do in football when you got a BCS slot...Nothing
How have you done in football or basketball in the B1G in 1.5 seasons.. More of the same
Smart? Rutgers' Athletic Department? Rutgers Athletic Department has made more news than its sports teams recently. And for all the wrong reasons. When I think RU Athletic Department, the word "Circus" comes to mind.
GW has an endowment 50% larger than RU's. Its also a better school than RU according to many rankings. Congrats on getting passed by Clemson in the academic rankings.
And the money won't be there for long. You see everything is going 'a la carte' within the next 5-10 years. And Rutgers isn't going to have a lot of value in that scenario.
But look at this way, having Rutgers in the conference will allow B1G ten teams with real P5 fanbases to have marketing/alumni events and fill your stadium/arena with their fans.
By all means, continue to put up some more nonexistent metrics that are unobservable to anyone outside of your conference as to why you bring any incremental academic value or any athletic value whatsoever to the B1G conference.
Btw, I'm not mad because GW is in the Atlantic 10. We've done more there than you did. And we do more there than you ever will in the B1G. And its not because we're all that. But you certainly aren't even close to GW in basketball. Nor am I mad that USA isn't in the P5. We're doing just fine in the Belt (and we actually had a better football win than you guys did last year btw). We're not all that. But we'll continue to do more with less while Rutgers just becomes a cautionary tale about realignment gone wrong.
Where I get irritated is when RU fans try to pretend that they're a 'real P5' and start trying to cheerlead separation that has no basis in fan support, athletic success, or even academic prowess. By the way, you don't see TCU, Louisville, or West Virginia fans on here screeching about how much better they are than the G5. Something to think about.
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