"Rutgers was the crown jewel of conference expansion"

The hilarious part of this is that Rutgers does have no in state competition for recruits. But they're so fucking terrible that Michigan can pluck those recruits at will.

A lot of facts there to be honest, but he failed to realize that Rutgers doesn't have the right "cook" to put all the ingredients together.

I finally read the story - entertainingly amusing!  I like that UM has "pios fans" and that OSU is a "somber" environment.  Honestly, I've never considered OSU to be somber...  They are a lot of things, none of which could be considered 'somber'!

But I was interested to learn that fallacy #1 - Rutgers is a university, not a college!  That makes all the difference, now I know Rutgers is truely on the rise...  I fear for Michigan's future.

 

HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!   AHHH!! I just can't keep a straight face saying that!

BTW, how hard is it for the NY metro area (~20M in population) to fill a ~50,000 seat stadium when its the only game in town?  But congrats on that, Rutgers...

Offtackle Empire is garbage. They are very biased against Michigan (only written like 3 things pertaining to Michigan in the last 5 months or so, which is odd for the presumed conference favorite).

And Michigan is Rutgers' rival target #1. Why would Delany let this monster into the Big Ten? So scared of the day when they find a Rutgers Teddy bear on the block M in Michigan stadium!

The only angst Rutgers ever causes in the Midwest is when we regretfully remember that they're still actually in the Big Ten.

This article was the author's final exam in Trolling 101, and he got an A+. There is no way he actually believes any of what was written, yet he got all of us (and probably every other legit college sports publication out there) rolling up tons of comments, generating hundreds of thousands of page views his rag would've never gotten. He's probably already leveraged this story into a better job.

No one in the NYC metro area gives a crap about Rutgers.  If they wanted to penetrate that market they would have been better off getting Notre Dame (still the most popular team in NY by far, unfortunately) or maybe Syracuse.

I understand fanboyism. I understand loving your team.

I don't understand complete idiocy.

And the shouting match between Dantonio and Flood over who is overlooked the most. It's almost like Rutgers looked at MSU's mindset and said, "Yeah, we want to be like those guys," and ran with it.

Well if some random Rutgers homer (didn't know those existed) says it on the Internet, it must be true.

I don't really get it. You're coming off a 4-8 season, your entire athletic program from top to bottom is a complete joke. It's coming off scandal after scandal, and after you've gone out and made a good (but very unproven) hire, you think all of a sudden Michigans, Ohio States, and Alabamas of the world are trembling in their cleats. What has Rutgers done, ever, in the entire history of their program, to make elite programs have cause for concern?

Lotttt of tough talk and shit smacking from a school that has done nothing of any sort to earn that right. In a loaded Eastern division, with their state's top talent getting picked clean every single year, they'll be lucky to win 8 games a year.

It's a joke, guys, from a site that usually refers to the school as "Buttgers."

The rest of my day is going to be filled with smiles because of this article.

now every idiot has a platform to voice their moronic opinion. 

Hey, if Rutgers is so desirable as an expansion target, can we convince some OTHER conference to take them?  I've heard the Big 12 is a few teams short these days......

To provide some context (as a regular commenter at OTE) this article was a guest piece written by a Rutgers fan in response to another guest piece posted the day before talking about whether Rutgers was a paper tiger or not. Instead of a team preview during 4th of July week, OTE paused the previews and just ran fanshots. Unfortunately, we got 1,000+ Rutgers comments in two days.

Rutgers has always had the ingredients for success that the author references, yet they've never become a power. It's not like Rutgers is all of a sudden in a recruiting hotbed and a highly populated region; that's been the case forever and they're still the worst athletic department in the Big Ten.

Can they improve? Sure, but it'll take a catalyst beyond what they already have, because what they already have isn't nearly enough.

I had my laugh for today, Thank You.

Before they can be the "LSU" of the Big Ten, they'll have to topple Purdue and Illinois:

http://www.winsipedia.com/rutgers/vs/purdue

http://www.winsipedia.com/rutgers/vs/illinois

 

As for being a Big Dog in the conference? Lol:

http://www.winsipedia.com/rutgers/vs/michigan

http://www.winsipedia.com/rutgers/vs/ohio-state

 

Crown Jewel? More like a rhinestone.

This was written by The Onion, right?

Program peaked in 1869.

NOPE.

I would bet any amount of money that guy doesn't have a single name of anyone associated with the Big Ten who has expressed even an iota of angst about Rutgers dominating the conference.

I think this writer is living in Space

even if all that turned out to be true, the actual motives for inviting them were entirely about NY tv market. Far and away the most important consideration should be football success, and it was clearly not even a factor. I can think of a number of teams in various conferences that were supposed to be 'uplifted' simply by their invitation and it didn't work that way, but it doesn't matter. It's not our job to be in the business of making shit programs successful and in the process, throw away a game a year that could be spent playing arkansas or whoever instead

I've never cared about Rutgers in my entire life, until recently.  Now, I want Harbaugh and crew to beat them senseless.  Run up the score on those jackasses.

How long now has Rutgers been rebuilding?

Someone actually claims Rutgers as "the crown jewel of conference expansion?" Did I hear this right?

Rutgers is not a crown jewel. Maybe more like a rock on a gravel road that only gets traffic when the farmer's wife calls the cops because grandpa's drunk again.

of the conference.

Seriously though, I was having a shitty day with the weather and all until I read the article. I am now having a hilarious shitty day. :'D

Hell yes. We gained a new rival.

Yugo is the crown jewel of automotive engineering.

Penn State was the first attempt at conference expansion. So maybe it's all relative in the big picture. I Miss the old days of 10 teams.

This is some next-level type of delusion, lol.