Football Rutgers gets rolled by Illinois, falls 35-13

RUgal

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Only Tate knows, but RU is a big step up academically (is AAU) and he’s from the north I believe. My guess is, these are the reasons, not for power conflict reasons.
Tate definitely had issues with the governor:
“When Jeff Landry became governor last year, he immediately began re-designing the Board of Supervisors -- selecting a new chair and appointing several of his campaign donors.

‘It's fair to say that there were questions about governing philosophy.’

At the end of 2024, Landry's new influence over LSU became clear when he demanded the removal of two law school professors for political comments made during classes

 
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Shelby65

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Tate definitely had issues with the governor:
“When Jeff Landry became governor last year, he immediately began re-designing the Board of Supervisors -- selecting a new chair and appointing several of his campaign donors.

‘It's fair to say that there were questions about governing philosophy.’

At the end of 2024, Landry's new influence over LSU became clear when he demanded the removal of two law school professors for political comments made during classes

Just wait…our possible next governor is a Trumper too.
 
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rutgersguy2

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Tate definitely had issues with the governor:
“When Jeff Landry became governor last year, he immediately began re-designing the Board of Supervisors -- selecting a new chair and appointing several of his campaign donors.

‘It's fair to say that there were questions about governing philosophy.’

At the end of 2024, Landry's new influence over LSU became clear when he demanded the removal of two law school professors for political comments made during classes

I heard similar on a pod, that outside influence was part of why he left.
 

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Well - the wheels have certainly fallen off. Can’t believe how much this team regressed.

Nobody here can say we would worse off at this point if we retained Brown as DC. The talent pool would be better.
Can’t say we’d be any better with Fran on D either. Syracuse is near the bottom of the weak ACC in all 2025 defensive categories after 2years of portal replacements and high school recruiting. Many up Syracuse way want him to ditch DC Robinson whose D has given up Rutgers-like numbers this season.
 

Section124

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I knew I should have bet the house against us today. Easiest bet ever. Seems like Schiano never wins these noon B1G away games unless it’s Purdue.
 
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Section124

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Is his 28% Big10 winning percentage due to noon away games ?
I asked Google AI and Chat GPT to help me out with that but no luck so far. 🙂. Surprisingly it did bring up some wins. A blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while.

I just want this team to compete. We can’t do that running what seems like the same 3 plays and this defense. This whole staff needs to go. Keli needs to make her mark on this program soon. Can’t imagine any talent is here next year after the portal opens.

The worst part is I make my annual donation around this time. Usually it’s nice to have a win to make me feel better that I am throwing my cash away.
 

Shelby65

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I asked Google AI and Chat GPT to help me out with that but no luck so far. 🙂. Surprisingly it did bring up some wins. A blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while.

I just want this team to compete. We can’t do that running what seems like the same 3 plays and this defense. This whole staff needs to go. Keli needs to make her mark on this program soon. Can’t imagine any talent is here next year after the portal opens.

The worst part is I make my annual donation around this time. Usually it’s nice to have a win to make me feel better that I am throwing my cash away.
Unfortunately, the way the game is played is to extend your own runway so it will be her own best play to delay hiring her own HC until she has to, which won’t be for another 3 years at least, probably 4. Making it much worse, our few big money people are staunch Schiano supporters.

Grifter Greg knows he’s safe for as long as he wants to steal salary.