Rutgers beat writer suggests adding Army, Navy to B1G for 2020
Army and Navy are free to pursue competitions after the Patriot League's decision to cancel fall sports.
The Big Ten should offer the academies affiliate membership today.
Click the link below for the writer's rationale
Yes, because this site just loves it when we play service academies.
Only if part of the deal is to lose Rutgers in the process
Rutgers: looking for some wins. Not necessarily gonna find 'em.
Who needs shins or knees?
I thought Notre Dame was just going to play them six times each?
Fuck all of that. 1. I hate playing service academies 2. Adding more teams and more games increases the COVID risk and thus increases the risk of a cancelled season (if we even have one to begin with).
Do people still really think there will be a season this year, let alone that we should be adding games and teams to our schedule?
I think there's cause for hope that there can be a season. I wouldn't bet on it, but it's not dead. Cases are pretty low in the Big footprint.
I hate the idea of adding Army and Navy but I get Rutgers and Maryland wanting to keep more games close-ish rather than playing more West div teams.
I think a good compromise would be to let them out of a couple west div games each to play Army and Navy.
This isn't as crazy as it might initially seem. Adding high-end academics might eventually be the best strategy for the BIG if OSU and the SEC continue to go in the other direction.
Even if they are added (which strikes me as silly and also irrelevant since unfortunately I doubt we'll see a season this fall) Rutgers would STILL lose to every B1G team.
The team that no one wants in the conference is starting to invite others...
This is the kid at the party that no one knows (and no one knows who invited him) who starts inviting his friends to show up. GTFO, all of you!
The article suggests this as a short term arrangement for Olympic sports and not football.
Yeah, and then they end up like Notre Dame and the ACC and get stuck in our conference for football sometime down the road and we're somehow forced to play them in football annually. Best to avoid that slippery slope.
Congratulations! The first person to have actually read the proposal !!! I am always amazed that so many people seem to intentionally avoid understanding the facts of a situation before forming an opinion. I guess that makes it easier to defend their opinion when they can make up their own facts.
insert Michael Scott GIF - No, No, Hell No!
Would rather just kick out the east coast wing (PSU, UMD, RU) of the conference. Let them schedule Army and Navy lol
PSU could get back to scheduling Gordie Lockbaum's Holy Cross every year.
Note to those with reading comprehension issues, this is not involving football.
Army and Navy are in the Patriot league for non-football sports. It's still a bad idea, but it's not a bad idea that causes issues with the meme that the site established.
It always amazes me when people jump in to comment on an article they haven’t even skimmed. I imagine if you did a survey asking Mgoblog readers how often they clicked on a link before commenting on a post about said link, only a very small number would say that they usually click on the link first.
not to be too argumentative, but life is way too darned short for me to waste three minutes of it going to go read some random rutger beat writer's take on literally anything.
as you say, it's a dumb idea, whether we're talking about football or lightweight rowing.
This is definitely a place where a bit of a summary would be helpful. The writer focuses on non-revenue sports and explicitly suggests football would not be impacted.
From that perspective, one could see why it makes sense from the perspective of Rutgers and Maryland. I do think that the writer ignores some of the large challenges to adding another variable to an already uncertain issue.
In light of the rancor that has gripped this board and for which I am not entirely unguilty myself...
Can we all unite just this one time and all say FOH to this absolutely terrible idea?
Terrible idea. They shouldn't ever be scheduled.
no, they definitely shouldn't.
i'm not wild about playing army and navy, either.
Oh hell no.
I thought about how nice it would be to have twelve games at first, then I thought of our dl's knees. No thank you.
There are many ways to honor our men and women in uniform. Playing the service academies is not one of them.
I’d rather sit through a fucking root canal.
If MSU couldn't beat Army in the 1984 Cherry Bowl (h/t Ace), what makes Rutgers think they can beat them?
I get why it would be appealing from a marketing perspective but...nope.
HA, shut up Rutgers
Don't mess with conferences at all during this. An overlooked factor in potentially having a season is the relationship between institutions, ADs, and the league office.
Trust, communication, and potential consequences from the league are needed in an environment with this much volatility. It can still go terribly awry, but everyone you invite into the thing is a new risk with more unknowns than the current members.
Oh, so Rutger thinks he's calling the shots now? YOU'RE LUCKY YOUR WEAK ASS IS STILL IN THE B1G, RUTGER!
stolen valor; the rutger plan to get a conference win each season
I enjoyed when we played Navy at home in the early 70s - so much fun to pass up a midshipman.
1971 46-0
1972 35-7
1973 14-0
1974 52-0
No love for the 1976 game? We won 70-14.
Drop Michigan state and Nebraska and raise the academic standards of the league
fuck that nonsense
I see the Rutgers logic - they're not liking the travel one bit. But wouldn't it make more sense to lend them back to the Big East for a year or two (or forever) and make an arrangement with the MAC to solve these schedule issues?
I've got an idea, how about NO?
michigan fan suggests rutgers should go the hell back to the big east. or the patriot league, if they want to play teams at their level.
I’m sorry. I apologize.
it’s breathtaking that there are so many stupid people on this board who don’t take 45 seconds to scroll through an article.
We claim to be “Harvard West”. We act like morons. Why?
Do better. Be better.
You'd think a Rutgers writer would come up with B1G candidates they can actually beat.
Who could they beat? Maybe William and Mary without the Bills.