The game pissed me off and I was very disappointed vs how I felt after the OSU game- but my reaction was to the so many over-reactions.
Your Standaard for A "Successful" season?
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6 wins and a bowl is a success. That being said we need an honest evaluation of where we are weak and we need to fix those issues. It’s up to schiano to convince the wealthy and businesses that portal money is a good investment. We had the highest rated 12pm on cbs in like 15 years. Go monetize that
At least they will get to mix up the schedule. Losing to Ohio state every year gets old
It’s good to see that the overwhelming majority in the poll see this as a successful season. Of course. And then there’s the posts. Complainers complain.
if you expected a bowl bid this year before the season started, you're right.
If you felt pre season RU wouldn't be good enough to get an invite, RU did better than you thought and the bowl loss shouldn't make the 2023 season unsuccessful.
I don't agree. If a fan of a fictional team expects a zero or one win team, and their team wins two, it doesn't make it a success. My expectations have nothing to do with the success of this team. By any rational measure, a season isn't a success if you lose more games than you win.
Or, admit that people on a message board know nothing in the preseason and their expectations are largely baseless. Then ask the coaches and players if it was a success.
We stop the season today- and you ask the coaches and players if they felt the season was a success.
They would to a person tell you they felt they could have been better- but to a man, they would also tell you it was a successful season.
Regardless- unless you win the final game of any league- players and coaches will always tell you they could be better.
They would to a person tell you they felt they could have been better- but to a man, they would also tell you it was a successful season.
Regardless- unless you win the final game of any league- players and coaches will always tell you they could be better.
so bowl games mean nothing and going to one and losing makes for a bad season.
I don't agree, but can understand someone feeling a season with one more loss than wins makes for a bad season even if the team qualified for a bowl game.
Winning six and qualifying for a bowl, then losing that bowl game is a heck of a lot different than a one win team winning 2 games the next year.
I feel when a team has been losing for years and not eligible for bowl game invites because of those losing seasons and becomes eligible to play in a bowl game. that makes for a successful season at least for that year
Of course after awhile just making a minor bowl and even winning it won't be enough to say the season was a successful one.
But Rutgers football hasn't reached that point> YET
I understand your point of view and I'm not trying to be negative. I'm just a little tougher. Bowls are watered down, and I think you should have to be above, not at, .500 to be eligible. Bowl eligibility is arbitrarily set by the huge number of bowls now in existence.
I can equate it to sales- If I have one sales person crushing it at 300+% of quota and another one struggling to hit 50%. And instead of firing the 2nd sales person, I decide I see something and want to work with them.
The following year- sales person number 2 hits their quota but did not qualify for presidents club- That is a success but neither of us would say it was done or that we are satisfied.
So, we both can be very proud of what we accomplished the past year but there is more to be done.
Our season is similar
considering how badly Chris Ash absolutely decimated the relationships, recruiting, and reputation for being an annual winning program competing for conference titles and Top 25 statuses that Schiano made into the standard expectation for nearly an entire decade and the fact that we already have more wins with 3 games remaining than the past EIGHT seasons and our first non-losing regular season record since joining the Big Ten NINE years ago when Kyle Flood had Schiano's last recruiting class as upperclassmen on a roster filled with future NFL players, this is a VERY successful season already.