Best chance ever to beat Miami?

Shelby65

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As I’ve said above..I think Greg’s biggest strength is game planning..and giving him 3 weeks to game plan for Miami is huge. I do hope we come out strong.

I think Greg’s weakness is adjusting when the other team adjusts from the norm…so we’ll see how it plays out.

RU and Greg are plenty capable of winning easily..especially with lots of hurricanes opting out
Disagree with the entire ‘game planning’ premise. Sounds good, but is that truly a thing ? No. We will do what we have done all season. We can’t fix in three weeks what we couldn’t fix in three years (GW). We will have to run for 175 to win, less if we cause turnovers and have short fields.

Ordinarily it would be the same for Miami…doing usual Miami things….but being down to QB4 might force them into different plays.
 

rob kight

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Kbee you are right on... Per the APP in 2002- "a one-win Rutgers team was leading the defending national champions and top-ranked team in the nation, 17-14, with 14 minutes remaining in what could have been the unlikeliest college football upset of all-time." "Of the 22 offensive and defensive starters for Miami in that game, 19 played in the NFL and 17 became NFL Draft picks, including 10 first-rounders."

At the end of the 1st half, a 100 yard pick 6 by Rutgers Nate Jones off Ken Dorsey was nullified by a phantom pass interference call. Miami scored on the next play...
Those were the days when Miami May have already been testing NIL.
 

DJ Spanky

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Our dynamic Schiano offense can’t score more than 17 against .500 or better teams. Doubt he can do it against a depleted bowl team, so it will be a close game. Plus, Miami returns punts.

24-17 Canes.

24-7 over Northwestern who finished the season 8-5.

Ian Strong 11 yard TD pass from Gavin Wimsatt 7-0
Gavin Wimsatt 6 yard TD run 14-0
Jai Patel 32 yard FG 17-0
Kyle Monangai 15 yard TD run 24-0

 
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mdk02

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24-7 over Northwestern who finished the season 8-5.

Ian Strong 11 yard TD pass from Gavin Wimsatt 7-0
Gavin Wimsatt 6 yard TD run 14-0
Jai Patel 32 yard FG 17-0
Kyle Monangai 15 yard TD run 24-0


Doesn't count because it was an interim coach. The fact that he was B1G COY is irrelevant.
 
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LotusAggressor_rivals

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I was at that game.
Heartbreaking. Unfortunately all too common for long-time Rutgers fans.
It was a phantom call on Jones pick six. I was with some friends who weren't Rutgers fans, but they all agreed that it was a bogus penalty call. And we had end zone seats that gave us a great view of the play...right in front of us.
I was at that game too. That call on the pick six was awful. That's the kind of call that champions always seem to get.
 
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RV-GORU

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calliKbee you are right on... Per the APP in 2002- "a one-win Rutgers team was leading the defending national champions and top-ranked team in the nation, 17-14, with 14 minutes remaining in what could have been the unlikeliest college football upset of all-time." "Of the 22 offensive and defensive starters for Miami in that game, 19 played in the NFL and 17 became NFL Draft picks, including 10 first-rounders."

At the end of the 1st half, a 100 yard pick 6 by Rutgers Nate Jones off Ken Dorsey was nullified by a phantom pass interference call. Miami scored on the next play...
I was at TouchDown Club meeting the week after that game. Coach was talking about fans in the stands calling their friends about a possible upset. Schiano pointed down to the field and said we fell short but it was the beginning of something special that was happening at Rutgers. It was a very inspiring at the time.
 

wheezer

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I just watched parts of this game. There's not even a good camera angle of any part of the play so it's impossible to see what happened. From the actual interception and everybody's positioning I don't see how a holding call could have been made unless it was very early in the play.
Been a long time, and one other thing about that play has had me confused ever since it happened

I thought after the play that one official was signalling Jones had stepped out of bounds around the 40 yard line
Of course all the attention was centered on the PI call that negated the run anyway
Since they ruled it PI, that step out of bounds was never clarified, but it is possible it might not have been a td if no PI was called, and we would have had the ball near midfield, based on that

If someone has access to that tape of the game was wondering if they could look for that
 
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Extra Point_rivals157299

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well we know about the 'experts' lol

but my view is simply that we should be able to run on them effectively and they should not be able to run on us. If we don't beat them by 14, it's an issue with the top. Gav really shouldn't hurt us in this game. I watched most of Miami's games the past few days, I feel pretty good

Miami has lost a lot of depth plus starting qb. the depleted secondary is huge for us
Their linemen and linebackers are pretty large, and they will be defending the run game. GW will have to put the ball in the air to win.
 

MADHAT1

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Doesn't count because it was an interim coach. The fact that he was B1G COY is irrelevant.
Guess that game be voided and because he was an interim HC his COY award be rescinded because interim HCs aren't any good.
Next wins over first time HCs shouldn't count, because basically that's what the man was
and COY honors withheld until they have a couple of years being a HC under their belt.

All the excuses for wins not being worthy are because of the dislike for Greg and not wanting the program to look like it did something good under him.
Nitpicking wins, over bowl bound programs who preformed better then expected , under their new HC that won COY is just trying to find reasons (any at all) to complain about
to make RU FB look like losers that don't deserve to be in the Pinstripe but should be considered a bottom 10 program..

Shame some just can't stand a little sucess for the program , because they don't like the man running it , that many RU FB fans are beginning to feel is makeing good things happen under him
 
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JerseyNoles

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I thought we had a solid chance in 94
Rain, sellout crowd, goal posts greased so students couldn't tear them down
We lost 24-3 but had some chances IIRC
 

MGSA99

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I thought we had a solid chance in 94
Rain, sellout crowd, goal posts greased so students couldn't tear them down
We lost 24-3 but had some chances IIRC
Greasing the poles was an idiotic thing. Miami saw that during pregame warm-ups and used it as bulletin board material.
 

Caliknight

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Our entire team is back. Miami has tons of opt outs and transfers. Cristobal is a terrible coach.

If we don’t win this game it will be an upset. We are even favored in the point spread now.

We should run all over this team.
 
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JayDogSmooth

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I will legitimately, be shocked if we don’t win this game

GS does his best coaching in bowls, We’ll have over a month to prepare, Miami has a ton of doubts, they were projected to be elite this year, and have underachieved, Manny is not a good coach, and they have a history of not playing well in ball games outside the state of Florida, let alone 1500 miles from home in weather not conducive to their strengths
 

LotusAggressor_rivals

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well we know about the 'experts' lol

but my view is simply that we should be able to run on them effectively and they should not be able to run on us. If we don't beat them by 14, it's an issue with the top. Gav really shouldn't hurt us in this game. I watched most of Miami's games the past few days, I feel pretty good

Miami has lost a lot of depth plus starting qb. the depleted secondary is huge for us
You can only take advantage of a depleted secondary if you throw the ball.
 

yesrutgers01

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Cupcake Va Tech 41 - Tulane 20.
This dumb *** shelby- never realizes when people are just smarter than him...

There have been 1 or 2 times he was correct and I will either let him know I was wrong or just say I agree with him...

But when he wants to throw out "facts" I am going to check and I am going to call his *** out- he will come back with something stupid now- but there are times that one must just say- I was wrong and your are correct.

And those that never have the ability to do that - and then double down- game on...
 

RU-Kidding

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This dumb *** shelby- never realizes when people are just smarter than him...

There have been 1 or 2 times he was correct and I will either let him know I was wrong or just say I agree with him...

But when he wants to throw out "facts" I am going to check and I am going to call his *** out- he will come back with something stupid now- but there are times that one must just say- I was wrong and your are correct.

And those that never have the ability to do that - and then double down- game on...

"I don't check sources" - Shelby65, 12/20/2023
 
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Shelby65

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Ok, was off by a TD. Was wrong about the .500 benchmark. Still, I think 17 is our max barring multiple TOs in plus territory against Miami.
 

DJ Spanky

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Our dynamic Schiano offense can’t score more than 17 against .500 or better teams. Doubt he can do it against a depleted bowl team, so it will be a close game. Plus, Miami returns punts.

24-17 Canes.

35-16 over Virginia Tech who finished the season 7-6.

Kyle Monangai 19 yard TD run 7-0
Gavin Wimsatt 34 yard TD run 14-3
Christian Dremel 4 yard TD pass from Gavin Wimsatt 21-3
Kyle Monangai 55 yard TD run 28-16
Kyle Monangai 12 yard TD run 35-16

 
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RU from Jersey_rivals

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I seem to recall the last time RU had a real shot at beating Miami the goal posts were greased at Rutgers Stadium. It obviously didn't work out that day but I think tomorrow will be different.