October 13th, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
Any spikes on 4th down?
October 13th, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
Glad they're in the B1G
October 13th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
You know what the really sad part is? This game closed out the "easy" part of their schedule. They finish out their season vs. Northwestern, @ Wisconsin, vs. Michigan, vs. PSU and @ MSU.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:55 PM ^
Good lord that is a GAUNTLET. Especially for Rutgers. I almost feel bad for them.
October 14th, 2018 at 1:40 PM ^
To be fair, rutger would struggle with the MAC East Division.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:04 PM ^
Ash is so fired which he deserves for even volunteering for that mission.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
More importantly, he deserves it for talking shit about Michigan after he took the job.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:42 PM ^
Ash is simply playing down so as to get that first pick in the draft. 3D chess.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:11 PM ^
You can't fault him for taking the pay raise and thinking he could right the ship at Rutgers, though he clearly didn't consider the other teams in the division.
But trying to start a rivalry with Michigan and his whole competing satellite camps war? Pressuring HS coaches to bring their coaches to his camp and forcing kids to choose between the 2? Yeah, he deserves to be fired for that and should never be a head coach again.
October 14th, 2018 at 6:21 AM ^
Not to mention he looks like a chode.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^
Sitkowski - he has all of 2^(-3) (completion rate), 2^(-2) (interception rate), 2^(-1),(yards per) 2^1, 2^2, 2^3 and 2^4 in his box score line.
OK, that's really me being a math dork.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:14 PM ^
Against the team Shea tore up last week??
October 13th, 2018 at 4:41 PM ^
Shea is going to collectively skullfuck the entire Rutgers defense.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:16 PM ^
So you are saying Rutgers was really spreading the ball around today?
October 13th, 2018 at 4:48 PM ^
Yeah, he's the Jay Cutler of the NCAA. He hits all open defensive players.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:17 PM ^
Rutgers probably doesn’t want to show too much before the meat of their schedule kicks in
October 13th, 2018 at 4:40 PM ^
Don’t just limit the plays, leave the whole damn playbook back at the office.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:45 PM ^
They're saving it for the Michigan game.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:24 PM ^
Well, I'm impressed....
Wonder what's their passing rating? Can it be negative.?
October 13th, 2018 at 4:54 PM ^
Looked it up on ESPN. Sitkowski's was -37. Rescigno's was -200. I didn't even know that was possible.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:07 PM ^
Neither did I so thanks for doing the research.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:26 PM ^
Great Ceasar's Ghost. With the INTs, that has to set some record for passing futility
October 13th, 2018 at 4:34 PM ^
Meh... It's Rutgers. Probably set a record for completion rate AND total yards.
Thanks Delaney. The Big needed this infusion of talent.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:38 PM ^
That has to be a worse stat line than when they played us in 2016. And that’s hard to do.
Ash may be fired before this year is over. He seems to have lost his team, because it’s not so much that they’re losing. It’s how badly they’re losing and how much they’re getting humiliated in each and every game. They were huge underdogs, at home, to a mediocre MAC team. And got absolutely spanked by said MAC team.
If this was year one, it’d be somewhat excusable. But in year three, he has somehow found a way to make Rutgers regress from where it was when he came in. His ass is gone before December 1st.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:44 PM ^
That has to be a worse stat line than when they played us in 2016. And that’s hard to do.
Not quite. Rutgers went 2-18 for 5 yards in the 2016 game.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:47 PM ^
Did they get a 1st down in today's game?
October 13th, 2018 at 4:50 PM ^
14 in fact. They ran the ball OK actually.
October 13th, 2018 at 6:23 PM ^
IIRC at least one of those completions was a glorified handoff on a jet sweep where the ball was tossed forward six inches.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:39 PM ^
Teal circles for everyone!
October 13th, 2018 at 4:45 PM ^
Well, at least no pick sixes. Someone chased down a guy who got 44 yds of return.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:46 PM ^
Was it the yard line?
October 13th, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^
Rutgers had 3rd & 10 at their 25 yd line, picked off at MD 45 yd line, returned to Rutgers 11 yd line. So close! (Not really, but how could you not score that on Rutgers, man?)
October 13th, 2018 at 4:51 PM ^
Sitkowski's numbers for the season are just insanely bad:
86-161, 750 yards (4.66 yds/a), 3 Tds, 11 INT
October 13th, 2018 at 4:55 PM ^
Actually, as of today that's 758 yards, 3 TDs and 15 INT.
October 13th, 2018 at 4:53 PM ^
I’m starting understand why Arturs teammates call him Ray Charles.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:01 PM ^
O be nice!
That's technically 7 completions.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:03 PM ^
Are we still recruiting NJ as well as we did a few years ago?
October 13th, 2018 at 5:05 PM ^
After each such debacle two questions naturally arise:
1. Why is Rutgers in the Big Ten conference? and 2. Why does Chris Ash still have a job?
I went on line and interestingly - the people in New Jersey wonder the same thing.
Here is what a local beat reporter notes.
https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2018/09/please_rutgers_fans_enough_second_guessing_the_big.html
https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2018/09/revisiting_chris_ashs_contract_extension_why_rutge.html
It turns out there are a lot of people at Rutgers who evidently want them to stay in the conference for non-football reasons. Chris Ash also has a great agent/lawyer. So there is a life lesson from this:
1. When negotiating a contract - think and plan ahead and get good help. This guy may not need another job after Rutgers.
2. There are a lot of people in NJ and Rutgers who don't think they are a good fit either in football but bigger forces are at work.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:07 PM ^
fuck chris ash...
October 13th, 2018 at 5:13 PM ^
Wasn't their QB named Giovanni when they beat Hoke?
October 13th, 2018 at 5:14 PM ^
I see why they didn’t want to pick up that kickoff.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:21 PM ^
Ash failed when he invited Urb to NJ to co-host a recruiting event....
October 13th, 2018 at 5:23 PM ^
Remember when Michigan was heavily pursuing Sitkowski?
Yeesh!
October 13th, 2018 at 5:40 PM ^
Then his senior year at IMG he put up numbers similar to what he did today and we were like "naaahhh"
October 13th, 2018 at 5:47 PM ^
Along with everybody else including Miami, the school he was committed to at the time.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:29 PM ^
Good call Delaney. ILL.
October 13th, 2018 at 5:46 PM ^
Anyone remember the Rutgers guy in the beginning of the season? Wow that guy.
October 13th, 2018 at 6:16 PM ^
Rutgers will always have 2006
October 13th, 2018 at 6:24 PM ^
How long before we can move on from that program being in the conference? Honestly, not joking.*
*I know joking about it bothers some on here.