TV loves to promote the U of Iowa Children’s Cancer Center at halftime plus Kirk Ferentz is an icon . They have held a high level in sports for decades and I don’t think anyone should question that . If it were Rutgers we would be doing cartwheels and backflips . Rutgers needs to do a better job promoting its game day environment in downtown NB and the game. That comes with the caveat … Gotta Win .
I remember sitting in a high school class in the 1980s, and we had some jock substitute teacher not willing to teach us anything except about sports, which was just fine in English class. I remember he quizzed the class, which had a few football players in it- "Anyone plan to go to Iowa?" The class burst out in laughter, and he made us do 100 pushups (last part is a lie). But anyway, my dumb little story may indicate that outside of the East Coast, Iowa is seen as a college football major brand. Sorry to say, but Rutgers is not---yet. We had a moment in 2006, when we were there, but we did not hang around long enough.
When Ole Miss was losing for years and years they and TV still pushed the tailgate scene in The Grove.. no actual tailgates involved.. and they used to say Ole Miss loses games but has never lost a tailgate.
Where are you seeing that? The only officially announced games.
We won’t get there as long as we have fans who are really not fans of Rutgers.
That is all speculation. If they were set they would have been announced.
