(03-04-2016 03:06 PM)Tim Johnson Wrote: Rutgers gets paid well to be the bottom of the bottom, I wonder how their fans feel about being a big loser vs making money. I know they loved going to the big when it happened.
Well, we're not paid yet! We're probably doing slightly better than we did while we were in the Big East, but we won't get a full share of Big 10 revenue until 2021.
Obviously no one was happy with the results for football this year. Flood was hired to save a recruiting class, and that class should have been on the field last year as upperclassmen. Obviously, the strategy failed. But in 2014, we had a couple of conference wins and won our bowl game. I'm hopeful that Ash can get us back in the right direction.
Women's Soccer and Wrestling both had great years -- Final four for soccer and Wrestling finished the season ranked. We recently had some conference champions in track.
Basketball is an entirely different story, it went downhill when I was an undergrad in the 80s and hasn't done much better since. This year was particularly bad and painful to watch.
As far as the conference move goes, we're in a conference of peer schools, moreso than we ever were in the Big East/American.
(03-04-2016 03:39 PM)KnightLight Wrote: Many High Schools have better basketball facilities/arenas than Rutgers...as no clue what they did even with all of their Big East $$$ as they never even bothered to build a basketball practice facility nor do major renovation of their terrible gym.
Money was spent on Football. Basketball has been poorly supported since the RAC was built in the 70s. As I indicated above, basketball was profitable through the Waters years, so no real reason to invest in it.
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Things could be worse, you could be Rutgers basketball.
