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Yeah, this is puzzling to me, too. I mean, it's not like Rutgers was dominating the Big East in football (or basketball either for that matter). The Big Ten and Rutgers knew what they were getting - and so far it has played out pretty much just as expected.

I don't get it either. Rutgers had the chance to join one of the 2 or 3 best conferences in all of college. Not only sports, but overall. The B1G gains access to the NY/NJ markets (along with recruiting grounds) and Rutgers upped their prestige level along with income level.

I think people forget that in the 10 seasons between 1976 & 1985 Northwestern Football only won 13 games..... TOTAL.

And their Men's Basketball team hadn't made the tourny until last year.

People need to, in the words of the great Aaron Rodgers R-E-L-A-X!

Give them time to get into that B1G money and incorporate that new found cash flow into their athletics....

I don't know how to explain this to you. Rutgers fans are an odd lot. Our limited core fan base is very uninformed about college sports in general and irrational in its thinking. We literally hit the Powerball with the Big 10 invite. Yet there are those among us who still pine for the days when our football schedule was dominated by Ivy and Patriot schools.

(09-27-2018 08:19 AM)mikeinsec127 Wrote:  I don't know how to explain this to you. Rutgers fans are an odd lot. Our limited core fan base is very uninformed about college sports in general and irrational in its thinking. We literally hit the Powerball with the Big 10 invite. Yet there are those among us who still pine for the days when our football schedule was dominated by Ivy and Patriot schools.

That's about as good of an explanation as I've ever heard.

(09-27-2018 08:38 AM)TerpsNPhoenix Wrote:  

(09-27-2018 08:19 AM)mikeinsec127 Wrote:  I don't know how to explain this to you. Rutgers fans are an odd lot. Our limited core fan base is very uninformed about college sports in general and irrational in its thinking. We literally hit the Powerball with the Big 10 invite. Yet there are those among us who still pine for the days when our football schedule was dominated by Ivy and Patriot schools.

That's about as good of an explanation as I've ever heard.

The other thing that's a bit irrational is that the measuring stick of success in the area is the Yankees, which almost no other team in sports actually hits. The casual fan will jump on the bandwagon after a big win (MSU in 2004, Louisville in 2006) but won't stick around unless success is sustained (e.g. New Hampshire loss in 2004, Cincinnati loss in 2006, slow starts in 2007 and 2009). Losing to Kansas and Buffalo drives them completely away.

In 20 years, big time college football in the Northeast region will be dead.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigat...29491.html

I actually do get it. As a school everything has been a no brainer, but if you told me a school I was rooting for could be good at a lower level or terrible at a higher, I would take the lower in an instant. Now, this is nothing permentant but as a fan, I can understand some feeling of things would be more fun if big moves had never happenend.

(09-27-2018 02:19 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  I actually do get it. As a school everything has been a no brainer, but if you told me a school I was rooting for could be good at a lower level or terrible at a higher, I would take the lower in an instant. Now, this is nothing permentant but as a fan, I can understand some feeling of things would be more fun if big moves had never happenend.

Makes sense.

Better to be the big fish in a little pond instead of a little fish in a big pond.

(09-27-2018 02:54 PM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  

(09-27-2018 02:19 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  I actually do get it. As a school everything has been a no brainer, but if you told me a school I was rooting for could be good at a lower level or terrible at a higher, I would take the lower in an instant. Now, this is nothing permentant but as a fan, I can understand some feeling of things would be more fun if big moves had never happenend.

Makes sense.

Better to be the big fish in a little pond instead of a little fish in a big pond.

It would be a totally Rutgers thing to do if they voluntarily dropped out of the Big Ten. Could you imagine any other school doing something like that? I want Rutgers in the B10 and I don't think they are the mistake many claim them to be. Just get bowl eligible for a little while and the people will quiet down aside from the trolls.

It is quite interesting to imagine who would have been paired with Maryland if not Rutgers. Would anyone else have been good enough? Would Maryland come on their own? I assume any other ACC school would have been ahead of Rutgers along with Oklahoma. Maybe Kansas but I think the Big 12 had a GoR by then.

(09-28-2018 08:35 PM)GE and MTS Wrote:  It would be a totally Rutgers thing to do if they voluntarily dropped out of the Big Ten. Could you imagine any other school doing something like that? I want Rutgers in the B10 and I don't think they are the mistake many claim them to be. Just get bowl eligible for a little while and the people will quiet down aside from the trolls.

It is quite interesting to imagine who would have been paired with Maryland if not Rutgers. Would anyone else have been good enough? Would Maryland come on their own? I assume any other ACC school would have been ahead of Rutgers along with Oklahoma. Maybe Kansas but I think the Big 12 had a GoR by then.

True story...In 1976 our football team went 11-0 and ended the season ranked #17. They were invited to play in the inaugural game of the Independence Bowl vs McNeese St. This would have been the first bowl RU went to. We always adhered to the old school Northeastern tradition of not going to bowl games. The end of season bowls were considered exhibition games and interfered with the fall final exam schedules. Since they were undefeated and ranked, the administration relented and was going to accept the bowl invite. But there were rumors that the team felt slighted that they were not invited to a more prestigious bowl. The administration decided to allow the players to vote on whether or not to go to the bowl. The majority voted to stay home, so RU passed on going.

(09-28-2018 08:35 PM)GE and MTS Wrote:  It is quite interesting to imagine who would have been paired with Maryland if not Rutgers. Would anyone else have been good enough? Would Maryland come on their own? I assume any other ACC school would have been ahead of Rutgers along with Oklahoma. Maybe Kansas but I think the Big 12 had a GoR by then.

Nothing was going to stop Maryland from accepting a Big Ten invitation. It already had a "Big Ten administration" in power that was looking for an excuse to move the school from the ACC. I'm sure that Maryland didn't shed any tears over the fact that no other ACC school would be accompanying it to the Big Ten. That said, I suspect Delaney would've stopped at 15 if Rutgers wasn't available or favored by Big Ten school presidents.