Now it’s time to RUN THE TABLE

[Rutgers Chris]

HE LOST TO A TEAM WE OUTSPENT 5x….them to a team we spent 2.5x more then….COACHING MATTERS!!!!

YOU ARE WRONG AS USUAL!!!

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Kaj sanders best defender?!?!? Show your work. What proof is there that’s he’s our best defender? He’s consistently out of position and beaten for big yards. And when he does give up big yardage he magically comes down with egoitis and waits for medical help.

"egoitis" lol...ya' know, I never thought about this...he DOES end up on the ground A LOT, interesting!

 

[tico brown]

Not if you don’t have money to succeed. He told you that he needed a Fieldhouse and adequate NIL to achieve optimal results. Now we’re developing kids on the fly, and are still putting a competitive product out their despite our constraints.

I guess Schiano is such a trash coach that it only took UMass with 50 new players and $2 Million of NIL money to beat Rutgers, by your logic.

 

[rutgersal_rivals139582]

I guess Schiano is such a trash coach that it only took UMass with 50 new players and $2 Million of NIL money to beat Rutgers, by your logic.

Michigan should have lost to western Michigan. It happens.

 

[rutgersal_rivals139582]

Kaj sanders best defender?!?!? Show your work. What proof is there that’s he’s our best defender? He’s consistently out of position and beaten for big yards. And when he does give up big yardage he magically comes down with egoitis and waits for medical help.

He had the athleticism to match up with USC defenders and is credited with 1 pass breakup. He was our most productive defender by far, and ended up with 9 tackles. His improvement was the biggest reason Rutgers played competitively, especially compared with the ‘24 game. Pick 6 was the margin in the game, unlike in ‘24. Defense gave up 14 fewer points than they did in ‘24.

 

[kupuna133]

He had the athleticism to match up with USC defenders and is credited with 1 pass breakup. He was our most productive defender by far, and ended up with 9 tackles. His improvement was the biggest reason Rutgers played competitively, especially compared with the ‘24 game. Pick 6 was the margin in the game, unlike in ‘24. Defense gave up 14 fewer points than they did in ‘24.

Lost me at matching up with USC defenders. Looks like you read the press release. Anyone can read stats and say he’s the best. But if you actually watched the game and keyed on Kaj you would know he is nowhere near being the best defender. And is closer to being the worst and most out of place than being the best.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Michigan should have lost to western Michigan. It happens.

Has ZERO to do with anything.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Lost me at matching up with USC defenders. Looks like you read the press release. Anyone can read stats and say he’s the best. But if you actually watched the game and keyed on Kaj you would know he is nowhere near being the best defender. And is closer to being the worst and most out of place than being the best.

It's not like he's making stops at the LOS lol!

 

[tico brown]

Michigan should have lost to western Michigan. It happens.

Yeah… You’re a professional troll. There’s no way in hell that you believe Rutgers is an on field equal to Michigan.

 

[kupuna133]

It's not like he's making stops at the LOS lol!

Yea. You don’t want your feee safety having that stat. It’s a sign of 2 things. 1) he’s being targeted (which he is) For being bad in coverage. 2) there is a breakdown of the 2 levels in front of him.

 

[tico brown]

UMass is undefeated. Maybe they’re not so bad after all.

Maybe because it only took the UMass Coach one year to straighten them out, not 26 years.

 

[rutgersal_rivals139582]

Maybe because it only took the UMass Coach one year to straighten them out, not 26 years.

He has more nil than anyone else in that league. If we had competitive levels of Big Ten NIL, we would be straightened out in a hurry too. Instead we have to make do with what we have.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

I agree that Rutgers looked remarkably better in the game against USC.

- SC came across the country
- SC's defense is 75th in the nation
- we milked the clock beyond all belief, on both O and D, to keep SC's offense off the field
- SC was missing their future 1st round draft pick WR; we were not...

....yes, we played better, but let's take all factors into account when talking about that game.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

This team will win games. Greg will be back in 2027 as he should.

What's gonna be the excuse (are going to be the excuses), next year, to bring back Greg in 2028?

 

[kupuna133]

He has more nil than anyone else in that league. If we had competitive levels of Big Ten NIL, we would be straightened out in a hurry too. Instead we have to make do with what we have.

Not true.
UMass bottom of MAC for football. UMass actually gave more money in rev share to men’s basketball than to football.

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[AreYouNUTS]

U

Not true.
UMass bottom of MAC for football. UMass actually gave more money in rev share to men’s basketball than to football.

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Al, as usual, MAKING **** UP to fit his narrative.

 

[kupuna133]

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Al, as usual, MAKING **** UP to fit his narrative.

It’s not emotional for you and me. It’s data driven.

 

[OriginalKnight]

Can’t get any from girls except being banned from tailgates.

Lacrosse doesn’t have female fans or tailgates or their own field. Don’t worry about Al getting kicked out. Well let’s be honest, Al wouldn’t be there anyway. He likes scholarship sports.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

It’s not emotional for you and me. It’s data driven.

I mean...it IS emotional. in some ways, for sure, BUT...when it comes down to "keep" or "get fired" you've GOT to take the "emotion" out of it. Period.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Lacrosse doesn’t have female fans or tailgates or their own field. Don’t worry about Al getting kicked out. Well let’s be honest, Al wouldn’t be there anyway. He likes scholarship sports.

Did the lax team run a train on your girlfriend or something? You're nonsense is truly getting tiresome dude. Come on with something new maybe?

 

[kupuna133]

I mean...it IS emotional. in some ways, for sure, BUT...when it comes down to "keep" or "get fired" you've GOT to take the "emotion" out of it. Period.

Absolutely. But you can’t become “emotionally” blinded.

 

[LotusAggressor_rivals]

So s

Don’t listen to the IDIOTS. After 4 games, this is a GOOD Football team that is ready to win some games. We are peaking and playing our best football, and will have an opportunity to beat anyone who comes our way.

• Dylan Lonergan has steadily reduced his turnovers, and did so without reducing his productivity. As long as he continues to get better, and avoid committing turnovers, we’ve got a good chance to beat every remaining team on our schedule
  
  
• USC is better than any remaining opponent, yet a pick6 was our soul difference with them
  
  
• Korey Duff is playing at an All American Level, notching 550 receiving yards in 4 games
  
  
• Antwan Raymond has been playing at an All American Level after the UMass Game. In recent games, he’s shown increasing versatility, catching a number of passes out of the backfield. Clay Thevenin has done solid work as the #2 Back
  
  
• Chris Vigna at Left Tackle and Robert Needham at Left Guard have been a revelation. Needham who struggled at Tackle, has been effective as a Guard, and delivered a number of devastating blocks when he pulled, spurring on the run game. Had this position switch occurred sooner, there is a good likelihood we would have been 3–1. Pass protection has been solid and run blocking has been effective with this new setup.
  
  
• Abram Wright was injured the first two games, and was quietly a productive defender against Howard and U. With Wright and Walker starting against USC, we once again have a LB Corp that can be productive. Allison and Ty Morris have come off the bench and delivered quality reps.
  
  
• Moses Walker is finally having the outsized impact, many of us thought he could have, when he was a highly rated recruit
  
  
• Jessie Ofurie has grown into his role as the stud, and has delivered 16 tackles on the season
  
  
• DBs DK Gilley and Chris Joines are getting better each and every game. This year was their first significant action, and like with most kids, they went through a learning curve
  
  
• Bradlee Jones might be our best portal get. Consistently productive, and seems to have a nose for the football, notching two interceptions against Howard
  
  
• If Bradlee Jones wasn’t our best portal get, then the nod has to go to Sekou Kromah, who has been solid throughout the first four games.
  
  
• S Kaj Sanders has been our best overall defender when he’s played. He was dearly missed during our first two games. He was injured during the Howard Game. Hope he plays against Indiana. I’ll be looking forward to the injury report.

After four games, the talent is finally coalescing into an effective fighting force. It’s one game game, one chop at a time for us. Love our chances against all remaining comers. Korey Duff and Antwan Raymond and the much improved offensive line give us a chance.

It begins with Indiana. For some reason, we’ve had their number in recent years, though we thankfully didn’t play them the last two years.

Blackout Game, Homecoming, 8pm start, a full day of drinking, a full stadium. You couldn’t ask for better conditions.

Time to make it happen!

So a team that YOU said was losing because their cheap fans forced them to shop in the bargain bin for talent and settle for inferior facilities is suddenly going to beat teams that, according to you, have more money, better facilities, and more talent. And when RU inevitably loses most of these games because of inadequate coaching, you will say they lost because their cheap fans won't pony up for better players and a fieldhouse. Rinse and repeat.

 

[MADHAT1]

Did the lax team run a train on your girlfriend or something? You're nonsense is truly getting tiresome dude. Come on with something new maybe?

I think it might have asked Cal out for a date when Cal was playing a lax game and cal's response put him on his *** and the"Original Knight ( dressed in white satin) never got over that and now is trying to get even through it's messages on this board.

 

[PSAL_Hoops]

The defense played well enough to win, against USC, full stop. That should be good enough to win vs everyone else, full stop. Dylan Lonergan’s play will more likely determine the outcomes of remaining games, than the defense. The defense isn’t going to be good, but it’s good enough to.

What’s wrong with you? The fact that the offense was productive against USC’s mediocre defense does not mean the defense played “well”. The offense did a good job of eating clock to prevent them from getting the ball. We stopped them from scoring a grand total of 2 times the entire game.

The reality is, USC will probably be one of the weakest defenses we will face in the BIG this season. We’re not going to be forcing more than a handful of punts this season against anyone. So any win will have to come shoot out style. We have playmakers so we should pull off a few “unexpected” wins but that’s about it. And to be clear, any win is unexpected.

 

[rutgersal_rivals139582]

What’s wrong with you? The fact that the offense was productive against USC’s mediocre defense does not mean the defense played “well”. The offense did a good job of eating clock to prevent them from getting the ball. We stopped them from scoring a grand total of 2 times the entire game.

The reality is, USC will probably be one of the weakest defenses we will face in the BIG this season. We’re not going to be forcing more than a handful of punts this season against anyone. So any win will have to come shoot out style. We have playmakers so we should pull off a few “unexpected” wins but that’s about it. And to be clear, any win is unexpected.

Are you for real? Let’s just ignore the 4 and 5 stars all over USCs defense, especially the best freshman in America, Wafle. Let’s also overlook that they are coached by Gary Peterson. Our offense did an excellent against one of the best defensive rosters in America. Duff and Raymond earned their NFL paychecks against USC. It took talent and execution to do well against USCs defense, and our offense did what they had to do, aside from two mistakes.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Are you for real? Let’s just ignore the 4 and 5 stars all over USCs defense, especially the best freshman in America, Wafle. Let’s also overlook that they are coached by Gary Peterson. Our offense did an excellent against one of the best defensive rosters in America. Duff and Raymond earned their NFL paychecks against USC. It took talent and execution to do well against USCs defense, and our offense did what they had to do, aside from two mistakes.

You are beyond delusional. USC has the 75th ranked Total D in the nation bro. Get a clue.

 

[rutgersal_rivals139582]

You are beyond delusional. USC has the 75th ranked Total D in the nation bro. Get a clue.

You couldn’t find a clue with a map. USC blew a ton of money on that defense. Luke Wafle alone is worth $2M to $3M. Lots of future NFLers on that defense, especially Prophet Brown who got the pick6..

 

[MADHAT1]

You couldn’t find a clue with a map. USC blew a ton of money on that defense. Luke Wafle alone is worth $2M to $3M. Lots of future NFLers on that defense, especially Prophet Brown who got the pick6..

money doesn't mean production, only means paying for the perceived talent.
So far the money wasn't well spent , compared to the result
Nuts does have a clue

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The Rutgers D is ranked 80, so from that standpoint we might claim , in defense, USC is the Rutgers of the west

 

[rutgersal_rivals139582]

So s

So a team that YOU said was losing because their cheap fans forced them to shop in the bargain bin for talent and settle for inferior facilities is suddenly going to beat teams that, according to you, have more money, better facilities, and more talent. And when RU inevitably loses most of these games because of inadequate coaching, you will say they lost because their cheap fans won't pony up for better players and a fieldhouse. Rinse and repeat.

You need to keep up. It’s taken 4 games for many of our portal kids to acclimate to this level. Bradlee Jones in particular is playing like he belongs. If people sufficiently donated to NIL, we’d be getting transfers from Div 1 schools not Drake. Our portal class is not up to par because our fans did not pony up. But the kids are doing their best to get better every game and that’s all we can ask for.

 

[RU on Manns Planet]

What you need to understand is that NIL is a key determinant of talent level.

I think I’ve been off the board for about a year
and I was positive that after the first two games of the season that you would have finally come around and realized that your entire ‘NIL manifesto’ has been blown to smithereens because just like so many people told you, winning takes a lot more than NIL. Instead, in the face of additional and more damning data, you seem to be doubling down on it which is frankly incomprehensible.

if NIL is a ‘key determinant of talent level’, then how did a team with 1/10 of our NIL out play, out physical and out skill us?

 

[RU on Manns Planet]

Yeah… You’re a professional troll. There’s no way in hell that you believe Rutgers is an on field equal to Michigan.

There’s no way that he can believe most of what he is posting. It’s been awhile since I’ve been on the board, but I used to accuse him due to his posting style to secretly be trying to sink Schiano because literally the only thing that comes out of his posts are all sorts of responses trashing Schiano which most people on these board really aren’t setting out to do.

 

[RU on Manns Planet]

He has more nil than anyone else in that league. If we had competitive levels of Big Ten NIL, we would be straightened out in a hurry too. Instead we have to make do with what we have.

We lost to a team with 1/10 the NIL and then lost to another team with significantly less NIL. The entire ‘NIL is everything manifesto’ has been blown to smithereens and everything a good portion of the board has been explaining to you for a few years has been proven to be even more correct than before this season.

If you really still believe all of this, then in a few weeks you will have been proven correct when we will have beaten Indiana and a couple of other teams and then in my opinion, you can come back on here and try to make a case, but until then, nothing you say makes any sense at all.

 

[rureadyforsomefootball]

So s

So a team that YOU said was losing because their cheap fans forced them to shop in the bargain bin for talent and settle for inferior facilities is suddenly going to beat teams that, according to you, have more money, better facilities, and more talent. And when RU inevitably loses most of these games because of inadequate coaching, you will say they lost because their cheap fans won't pony up for better players and a fieldhouse. Rinse and repeat.

100%$ accurate!!! I've been checking in everyday since the BC game to see RutgersAl's excuse for another of his guarantee victories to turn out WRONG. You nailed it with the Rinse and Repeat line, lmfao @ Al

 

[rureadyforsomefootball]

Are you for real? Let’s just ignore the 4 and 5 stars all over USCs defense, especially the best freshman in America, Wafle. Let’s also overlook that they are coached by Gary Peterson. Our offense did an excellent against one of the best defensive rosters in America. Duff and Raymond earned their NFL paychecks against USC. It took talent and execution to do well against USCs defense, and our offense did what they had to do, aside from two mistakes.

Did you ever just think that we were USC's- - - UMASS?

 

[AnonAmoose26]

I can't believe you guys continue to rationally argue with this troll.

 

[RU on Manns Planet]

I was just reminded that Iowa has about the same NIL as Rutgers does.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

You couldn’t find a clue with a map. USC blew a ton of money on that defense. Luke Wafle alone is worth $2M to $3M. Lots of future NFLers on that defense, especially Prophet Brown who got the pick6..

75th in Total D is a FACT and all that matters:

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs

 

[RUChet]

The Howard game should be looked at as an opportunity where we got quality reps against a bad opponent. I think we finally have the optimal personnel out there, especially on the offensive line, which has seen the biggest improvement in recent games. Mistakes are the nature of the game. The biggest thing is the quarterback has to limit his turnovers. He does that, and we can beat every remaining opponent. The USC game showed we can play with everyone.

No such thing as quality reps vs one of the worst FCS teams. That’s like the Knicks getting quality reps vs RU - Howard is awful

 

[OriginalKnight]

Did the lax team run a train on your girlfriend or something? You're nonsense is truly getting tiresome dude. Come on with something new maybe?

It’s your not you’re

 

[Caliknight]

What you need to understand is that NIL is a key determinant of talent level. The Fieldhouse would have helped attract the best talent, which is leaving NJ in droves, because Rutgers Football’s value proposition isn’t strong enough.

We were developing talent on the fly because we don’t have enough experienced, talented players. Give us Miami’s NIL budget, and we’re easily 4-0. Because we would have paid for a better quarterback and better defensive lineman. That’s why a team like Miami really doesn’t have any holes in their roster. Because they had enough NIL to fill them in. Now our talent is ready to go, because of the lumps we’ve taken the first four games.

Because of our constraints, the pass rush is pretty much nonexistent, making it more difficult for the back 7 to do their jobs. They struggled over the first two games because they were acclimating to this level of play. They were exponentially better against USC and Howard. #4 just got beat by a better player when we faced USC. There haven’t been the coverage breakdowns we’ve observed in the past. The kids are doing a much better job at understanding their assignments and properly filling in gaps.

youre right that there is a big difference between competing and winning. The difference is in the level of execution. We have to be able to make it happen against better teams, beginning with Indiana. Even given our constraints, we have the potential to do so. Time to make it happen.

We have more money than UMass and BC. Combined. Yet your boy still got punked. I see why you like him. You’re both laughingstocks