(08-12-2019 08:17 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-12-2019 07:14 PM)RutgersMike Wrote:  The Eastern independents have a long football history with most programs having at least 100 years of having a football program. And one must remember before the Ivy League went non-scholarship, many of those schools were national powers.

Syracuse had some bad years. At one point Penn St. quit playing there. But they were still always "major" and have an MNC in the late 50s and an incredible string of running backs. In contrast, Rutgers really wasn't major much of the period following 1869. BC I'm not as sure about. They were definitely major late 70s early 80s, but I don't know about 50s-60s.

I will admit that Rutgers football history tends to be streaky. The point Is I was trying to make was that a long football history does matter when considering who belongs in the “club”.