I am glad this was posted. I have attended games since 1971 and have only missed 4 home games at the RAC since it opened. The student section with the Riot Squad are outstanding. I feel that it is an injustice to our students that about 200 seats are lost to possible recruits for football once or twice a year. I saw this yesterday and that entire section did LITTLE OR NO CHEERING FOR RU. Schiano is living off the success of our basketball team. The football team must hold up their part of the bargain. Basketball recruits go to football games for a visit and we are usually taken to the wood shed. We must win at least half of our BIG Ten games instead of getting destroyed. Schiano is making $ 4 million dollars a year and he coached at RU I think for 11 years in his first go around, than two years for the NFL and several years at Ohio State. He supposedly knows every high school in the state so he should be getting so many better recruits. It makes me upset to see so many football recruits sitting in the student section and sitting on their hands and we will most likely only get a couple of these kids to come to RU. It is a travesty. The football team was only 1-8 in BIG TEN games this past season and almost every game was a blow out. The team really needs to step it up already. That is my opinion!
Student seats for Football recruits
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No students were turned away. If the recruits weren’t there the upper corners of the student bleachers would have been empty. The recruits actually made it look more full. Because even with that, the upper corner behind the band was empty the entire first half. Students were still not back fully, and even then they haven’t shown up in as big numbers this year for some reason as in the past
Can you show proof that any student was turned away? My guess is you have preferred those seats were empty since the students are still on break rather than football recruits sit in them.
BTW is it Greg's fault that there is no recruiting area in the RAC like they have at SHI? And what about the years that Greg did this in 1.0 when the basketball team was getting blown out?
It was an unofficial visit. Just because you are visiting a school does not mean you have a rooting interest for the basketball program.
you are a good fan, no doubt....
but I disagree here....I don't think any students were turned away..... if they were, I would then agree to an extent.... I saw empty seats behind the band during the game
we secured the verbal of a 4 star football recruit, after his visit to the RAC..... maybe, just maybe, it helped a bit, with his overall visit, his experience
I will always hate that a bunch of entitled high school athletes and their families are way too cool to cheer at one of the best home venues in college basketball. There was barely a clap by any of them yesterday as they spent the game glued to their phones.
I am an avid follower of both RU hoops and Football, with season tix to both for 30 years. But, for that entire time I have absolutely loathed when football recruits take up seats in the student section Of the RAC.
I am an avid follower of both RU hoops and Football, with season tix to both for 30 years. But, for that entire time I have absolutely loathed when football recruits take up seats in the student section Of the RAC.
1. The ROI on giving these seats to recruits is perceived as very low right now - if the team were winning and/or landing some 4* regularly it wouldn’t be an issue.
2. Maybe the renovation will take care of this issue with more seating
2. Maybe the renovation will take care of this issue with more seating
RU fans: “Don’t ever change a single thing about the RAC.”
Also RU fans: “I can’t stand the disinterested football recruits taking up our student section. Bad Schiano-man!”
Where would you have us put them?
Also RU fans: “I can’t stand the disinterested football recruits taking up our student section. Bad Schiano-man!”
Where would you have us put them?
Even when we already have the best home court advantage in the country people still complain lol (and don’t want football to try to do what it can to improve?)
Maybe the fanbase is drawing their line in the sand with these comments. Something we will all keep an eye on I’m sure as time goes on.
Maybe the fanbase is drawing their line in the sand with these comments. Something we will all keep an eye on I’m sure as time goes on.
Ummmmm- football brought us here - you are sounding like the ungrateful 1000.
If we were still in tge AAC is MBB where it is?
This is the biggest nothing burger complaint I've seen, doing this takes nothing away from the atmosphere of the game and helps out other programs at Rutgers. It isn't just Football.
The crowd should try to get the football recruits involved. That's the better solution. Get them hooked.
why? You’re being treated to a high level exciting game at a school you presumably have some interest in attending. Cheer for the freaking team that is hosting you.
we should ask, does the football section take away from the atmosphere, and does it deny entry to students
that is all that matters..... as far as the atmosphere, it seemed great, could not be better.....so just the second question remains...IMO
edit:.... this particular game was well placed for it because there might have been less students available to go, due to no classes yet
that is all that matters..... as far as the atmosphere, it seemed great, could not be better.....so just the second question remains...IMO
edit:.... this particular game was well placed for it because there might have been less students available to go, due to no classes yet
Bring back Eddie J and there will be plenty of seats for everyone.
Noooo! Loved Eddie as a player. Eddie as a coach was another story. It’s all in the past now.
Consistently winning football games against sub-bar or mediocre BIG10 opponents and maybe an upset every other year would do way more wonders for the Football program than taking them to a basketball game.
If this game was a week later when school was in session and football recruits took up 25% of the section taking away seats from students it would be real lame.
I was most bothered by the midget football team in the student section. There were few little twerps yelling right in the middle of Rutgers free throws. Those kids need to be sent up to the 300s.
If this game was a week later when school was in session and football recruits took up 25% of the section taking away seats from students it would be real lame.
I was most bothered by the midget football team in the student section. There were few little twerps yelling right in the middle of Rutgers free throws. Those kids need to be sent up to the 300s.
I feel like some version of this thread pops up every season.
It does because there are some real lame parts of our fanbase. I feel like I remember this same complaint being lobbied by people when were getting blown out under Eddie Jordan. When the RAC was half full, people still bitched about a few rows of seats being given to other teams in the athletic department, btw it's not just Football who gets these tickets.
There's a great Round Table article just up about the Jr. day with a ton of comments from recruits about the game. (for those saying it is worthless cause they don't care).
I dont think the students have done that good of a job this season...there I said it, not compared to to 2020 or 2022 and quite frankly not even up to Waters or Rice years
Riot Squad very good dont get me wrong. It does seem like the loud music, inflatables seem to take more precedence over cheering and crowd noise
How about, the school knew what it was doing, scheduling the football section when they knew it would not fill up with students
You could look at it like that
Let’s give them credit for once
You then might have a valid complaint
But I think we can say this time it was a smart move if you want to schedule it
How often are students not able to get tickets to the game- have there been complaints by students? I have no idea so would love to hear.
I trust you don't have premium. I asked the guys to post it over here so folks could see the comments direct from those kids on their phones. There's inside info so not likely to happen.
I would have the same concerns had I not read the comments from these recruits.
Put it this way. We need to do everything within Universities power to get these recruits. This is a price we need to pay for football and basketball. We dont get the recruits, we will see more empty seats for students and everyone else...
Maybe limit amount of tickets per game.
Maybe limit amount of tickets per game.
200 seats during mid-winter break when there were open seats for one game? Come on? Meanwhile, you have the Administration/B1G giving away an entire home game, but Schiano is evil.
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There has been a few times that my son could not get a student ticket in the week before a game. He’s in the pep band and was buying for his girlfriend hence waiting until the week of the game - but still student seats were no longer available (I believe it was for Maryland, SHU and Indiana). Of course they can always buy on secondary market and squeeze into the student section.
I’m pretty sure the reason the student section behind the band seems less filled is because the middle section is overfilled.
get ready for a whole section gone and the diminishing of the atmsophere..go back and watch A10 championship video or vids from games from early 90s if you want to see what a real student section looked like