Nevermind Georgia, Al. We’re bottom feeders and it’s because of the coach, not anything more.
The Next Two Years are Free
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We’re not bottom feeders because we beat Indiana. The coach inherited a bottom feeder which lost to Indiana. We’re making progress.
The team's a work in progress, trying to make a good program from a terrible one, just like what happened when G1 took the reigns in 2001
| 2001 | Rutgers | 2–9 | 0–7 | 8th | |||
| 2002 | Rutgers | 1–11 | 0–7 | 8th | |||
| 2003 | Rutgers | 5–7 | 2–5 | 7th | |||
| 2004 | Rutgers | 4–7 | 1–5 | 6th | |||
| 2005 | Rutgers | 7–5 | 4–3 | 3rd | L Insight | ||
| 2006 | Rutgers | 11–2 | 5–2 | T–2nd | W Texas | 12 | 12 |
| 2007 | Rutgers | 8–5 | 3–4 | T–5th | W International | ||
| 2008 | Rutgers | 8–5 | 5–2 | T–2nd | W Papajohns.com | ||
| 2009 | Rutgers | 9–4 | 3–4 | T–4th | W St. Petersburg | ||
| 2010 | Rutgers | 4–8 | 1–6 | 8th | |||
| 2011 | Rutgers | 9–4 | 4–3 | T–4th | W Pinstripe |
With so much progress that in Year 4 we're not sure if our QB of The Future knows how to throw the ball.
It’s is a monster class because it’s filled with high caliber 3*, who are going to make us competitive with most of the Big Ten. We might even be able to give the elite a serious challenge. Look at the quality of offers our commitments have to determine the quality of the class.
Until the shovel is in the ground, I won’t be anticipating any impact from the fieldhouse. Know it’s going to be built . Just don’t know when.
We should have everything we need to be competitive by 2025.
Our QB of the future is entering his senior year of high school.
surprise surprise for you if Gavin or Evan throw some sunshine in KC's O
Can Maryland keep up in the Big Ten? Inside the Terps' quest for consistent success
Maryland has improved under Mike Locksley, but it's still trying to unlock its football potential heading into its 10th Big Ten season.
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Who needs a field house? No need for a field house afterall. "They'd get dressed in a trash can for $25,000"
Maybe we should bring him in a year early. It worked out really well for the last guy.
You and I have a different definition of monster class. Pike has a monster in 24. Classes full of 3 stars aren't even noteworthy in the B1G.
Can Maryland keep up in the Big Ten? Inside the Terps' quest for consistent success
Maryland has improved under Mike Locksley, but it's still trying to unlock its football potential heading into its 10th Big Ten season.
Who needs a field house? No need for a field house afterall. "They'd get dressed in a trash can for $25,000"
NIL isn’t a factor for us in attracting players. It’s only a factor in retention. Can’t afford to have no NIL and subpar facilities. Our new football Fieldhouse is going to be built.
This is a special class of 3*, not unlike the 2005 class of Ray Rice, Jason McCourty, Devin McCourty, Kevin Malast and others. That was a Monster Class and so is the ‘24 Class, as this Class is going to make us winners.
Not saying it won’t or shouldn’t be built. Would love to see it fast tracked. I’m a realist though. Maryland learned it’s not a panacea.
Maryland proves that just throwing money at a football program doesn't get wins. So does Texas A&M.
Lookie, lookie, lookie, lookie!!! One of the founding members of the He Man Schiano Haters Club crawled out of the woodwork!
and that beating indiana means progress
holy **** some of our fans are absolutely bonkers
Al, what do you do for a living?
He's clearly in marketing for either a) a certain athletics program, b) message board geniuses, or c) Gary Schiano.
It doesn’t mean “progress” per se in a vaccum. The point is that the Nebraska loss wasn’t on Schiano. “His way” results in a win. “His way” also results in a less lopsided loss to Iowa. Sure - Evan threw for 300 yards but the aggressive play resulted in turnovers that gifted Iowa 17 of their 27 points.
The point I’m making here is that Schiano’s blueprint would’ve had us at 5-2 with the losses being @ OSU and a close home loss to Iowa (something like 10-3…). Completely different trajectory. Nobody getting fired mid season. That would’ve been progress.
Al, do you really want people to start bringing up your ‘predictions’ from the past? Mr Pot, may I introduce you to Miss Kettle.
Much as we all wish we did per your predictions throughout the years we should have 4-5 NC’s at this point and firmly established ourselves as ‘The USC of the East’…. Bro, you literally are pissing off fellow Rutgers fans over your love affair with Schiano, seek help
Those predictions have nothing to do with this thread. He used the wrong word in “free” but he’s basically just saying that If GW doesn’t work out this year, Schiano will get one more chance to make things “work”with someone else.
I’m quoting “work”because you and some others seem to think certain other coaches would have us as a regular 9+ win team. Your entitled to believe that, but the reality is Al is right that if Schiano delivers a 7 win team in 2025 or before that, he’s probably not going anywhere (unless maybe if we start losing toTemple or Wagner types) . You may not agree with that (and whether Al agrees isn’t even relevant). His post here is attributing the time as “free” because he’s predicting what would actually happen which is likely spot on.
To paraphrase a 9 page thread - we don't have the money to fire Schiano and hire a new coach in the next two years so Schiano still has some time to turn this ship around.
What he's saying is it would be nice if the team did better in the next two seasons but if they don't no biggie. Nobody should really expect improvement in less than 6 years (!)--long after more than one of his classes has graduated. What a sweet deal for the coach, fans with very low expectations and demands while he banks more money each year than most people will earn in a lifetime.
If this is the case, who is the guy who hired all of these “inexperienced coaches” when they needed to develop the players they had at the time?
The team that was inherited lacked talent, which is why experienced coaches wanted no part of this job. it was going to take a lot of work to replenish the roster. The hardest recruiting work has been done and my hat is off to Nunzio and Auggie, who did a good job.
Now that the talent has been significantly replenished, it’s up to the new coaches to take things to the next level, and we are off to a rousing start, landing Crumpler and Black, among others. Get Brown and Duff and we’re good to go.
Then going forward, we will have a good pipeline of talent, recruiting NC, FL, NY, PA, and NJ. Wouldn’t be surprised to see us pop over to CA to get a few players. If Jersey kids don’t want to jump aboard, we’ll get enough talent from elsewhere.
We will see improvement over the next two years, though we might not see the amount of wins we all want to see.
It’s a sweet deal for you too. You don’t buy tickets. You don’t donate. You don’t pay the coach. Yet you will get to see improvement, without venturing anything. Not sure what your problem is. You don’t have a stake in Rutgers Footballs success.
Nope. This is the intent:
Since We don’t support the program enough to recruit highly rated football players, the coaches recruit players with high potential so that some might contribute at a high level once they develop. This takes time. Two more years and we’ll be good to go.
We’re not going to be successful emulating the strategies that other teams are using and going after the same players. We have to differentiate ourselves so that we can be successful. We are going to be defensive oriented and we are going to run the ball.
This provides us our best opportunity for success.
We may not beat OSU, PSU, or Michigan for now, but we should have an opportunity to beat everyone else.
Absolutely I will not give money to the football program while it wastes it on bad coaches. I give money to other teams that spend it better.
Had we hired Mario Cristobal, whom Tim Pernetti offered but was turned down because it wasn’t enough money, Rutgers would have been a winning program the last 10 years, at the least. For 800K more Mario would have come,imo. And by now, we would have been USC of the East.
He would have left for Miami at some point and then Schiano would have slid back in. Instead we made the wrong hire, and we’re wandering the wilderness until 2020.
Pre-1980 football will not win in today's game. You will never be able to score enough points. Even the great SEC defenses give up points.