Brhino

October 10th, 2016 at 10:02 AM ^

As pointed out in the comments in the linked article, the author is a Iowa Hawkeyes guy.  You remember Iowa, AKA "the team that only beat Rutgers by 7". 

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LSAClassOf2000

October 10th, 2016 at 10:30 AM ^

Many are praising the swift decision by Jim Delany, who was criticized heavily for expanding the B1G to New Jersey in the first place. The Big Ten teams remaining on Rutgers’ schedule this year will be given an extra bye week since going through the motions of playing Rutgers is a glorified bye week anyway.

If only this were real, if only....

That being said, I am now kind of curious to see how Illinois' walk-ons will fare against Rutgers' first string. I am thinking that game is closer, but perhaps a team that has suffered two straight weeks of the football version of saturation bombing can't even manage Illinois now. 

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mgobaran

October 10th, 2016 at 11:20 AM ^

This was a bad satirical piece. First, you don't write "(Satire)" in the title. 2nd, it has to be somewhat believable, or stick to real life in one way or another. Delany admitting a mistake would never ever happen. Just poorly executed imo.

Thanks for the share anyways OP

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ABOUBENADHEM

October 10th, 2016 at 11:52 AM ^

B1G?  They are an easy win, they are a Power 5 school, and we'd just have to replace them with a game against someone like Furman, Presbyterian, etc., that we'd end up agreeing to pay $1 million to.  Seems like we have a pretty good set up like it is.  Rutgers thinks we are a rivalry game and they allow us to "tune up" with them on the schedule each year.

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JonnyHintz

October 10th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^

They're an embarrassment. Having them represent the B1G is embarrassing on so many levels. Athletically, they're bad at everything not called women's soccer, except being randomly good at lacrosse one year. Academically, they're near the bottom of the conference. They bring nothing to this conference, and their association with the B1G has been nothing short of an embarrassment and a failure.

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Elmer

October 10th, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^

Football is so dependant on the coach. If Rutgers makes a good hire, they could be an average Big10 team in a few years. I doubt it will happen, but crappy programs can turn around. See K- State.

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JonnyHintz

October 10th, 2016 at 1:44 PM ^

Fact is, Rutgers is in a division that prevents that. They're never going to attain success because they're forced to play from behind against Michigan and Ohio State. I don't even see them attaining Penn State or MSU status. Problem for Rutgers, they have Ohio State, Michigan, and Clemson running rampant in their recruiting territory right now. They don't have the national pull to make up for that elsewhere. It's a daunting task to get Rutgers up to competitive levels. And any coach capable of doing so, would likely never be caught dead there.

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GoBlueInIowa

October 10th, 2016 at 1:52 PM ^

They do certainly suck, but I have seen a really nice pickup in our ability to recruit New Jersey and if having them in their league makes it easier to pull in the likes of Peppers and Gary, then so be it.



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DMack

October 10th, 2016 at 7:47 PM ^

I just wanted to say I was LMFAO as Michigan beat Rutgers like they stole something. I honestly thought Harb. took his foot off the gas because he started to feel sorry for them. He could have left the starters in and scored 100.

At some point he stopped throwing the ball but they still couldn´t  stop the run either. Serves their coach right for starting something over the summer he couldn´t finish. Now watch what we do to his ex-boss.

RESPECT!!!!! 

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