Rutgers - The "Pride" of the B1G: Rutgers Investigating Up to Eight Football Players in Connection to Credit Card Fraud
"The Rutgers University Police Department is investigating the potential fraudulent use of credit cards by as many as eight Rutgers football players, Keith Sargeant of NJ.com reports."
Rutgers does it again - proving that it was a GREAT idea for Delaney to invite them into the B1G!
(Obvious sarcasm is obvious)
"Earlier this week, the Scarlet Knights dismissed defensive back K.J. Gray and linebacker Brendan DeVera for violating team rules, but no other detail was provided about the rules they breached. Gray told NJ.com that his lawyer told him "to keep quiet about the situation" when he was asked if his dismissal was linked to the investigation. He also told NJ.com he is "very optimistic" he will be able to transfer to another school."
#ThanksDelaney
Meant to include this as well, but apparently cannot edit OP: "Rutgers coach Chris Ash did not respond to NJ.com when they reached out for a comment."
"Rutgers coach Chris Ash did not respond to NJ.com when they reached out for a comment."
He was trying to think of something more eloquent than "Oh, shit".
When can we kick them out of the Big Ten?
When the cable bubble bursts
2020, when they are scheduled to start collecting a full share of revenue, would be the best time to boot Rutgers.
Chris Ash will be our next WR coach.
Chris Ash almost in tears when he heard the news:
Ahmir Mitchell showed them the way
Nah man, he's way too chill to do something like this. I know you don't have to leave your couch to commit this crime, but it does involve putting down the Cheetos.
There's only one way this investigation can end:
Video of Chris Ash --- sans Rutgers R, of course --- buying stuff on the Princeton campus while using Kyle Flood's stolen credit card.
I am shocked that something like this would occur at the greatest college football program in our galaxy's history.
....and at our biggest rival!
I mean... at least they dismissed players. That's more than we can say about Florida or what any other SEC team would do.
Florida suspended their star receiver for the entire season last year due to the credit card stuff knowing he was leaving for the draft at season's end.
He must have had at least a 2.5gpa. If they kicked him off the team they would have lost the GPA and their entire average comes down.
How could they possibly know better? /s
Anyway, this seems like the last season for Ash.
Ash just got a huge extension through 2022 last year. Unless they can fire him for cause, I think he is there for at least another 3-4 years.
Is it possible that Chris Ash ends up with more player arrests than wins at Rutgers?
With only 6 wins to his name, it is possible. Imagine looking at your schedule and trying to convince yourself there might be a game you're favored in.
On another note, Ahmir Mitchell is transferring to Arizona Western College
Is Mitchell implicated in this?
Fat cat and slices are expensive. I'm sure it was all just a misunderstanding.
You're pretty much guaranteed to get busted doing petty harebrained credit card schemes, dumbass football players of America (at least of Rutgers and Florida).
If you're going to do crime do crime better, geez.
At least they can look forward to a successful season to sooth their aching hearts.
I think I meant soothe.
Good lord, kick these clowns out of the conference ..please, now, do it...please
If the Big Ten just stopped scheduling them, you think theyd get the hint and just leave...
Nope, have to cut off the B1G money train.
They would gladly play a bunch of MAC or FCS teams to register some wins, but they need the $ to keep their AD even close to viable.
So the 2 dismissed players are not allowed to transfer to other B1G schools as well as powerhouses - U of Buffalo, Kansas, and wait for it....Texas State University! WTF Butgers???
Texas State Armadillos? Who would want to play in Paul Blake's shadow anyways... That man was a generational talent!
RU plays Texas State (and KU and Buffalo) OOC this September.
Why such a difficult non-conference schedule? Do they not even care about making the playoffs?
I think we should open with Rutgers each year. The most storied program versus the team that played a version of rugby and claimed later it was actually football. This will give our team a chance to scrimage.
So right at the top of the cable bubble, right before streaming services start taking off, the B1G Ten invites Rutgers into the league in order to secure the 'New York' cable market.
Remind my never to invest with the B1G Ten.
Hmm, how well has the Big Ten done financially?
1st conference to launch their own TV network, in the face of a ton of naysayers and against a strong push back from cable providers. It's still the most profitable network of its kind.
Negotiated huge TV contracts after adding Rutgers that have many years left on them.
Consistently have the most profitable bowl tie ins.
I get not liking the move to add Rutgers, but I'm not seeing any bad financial decisions. They even are making Rutgers wait 7 years before they get a full share of revenue.
Indeed, such are the hysterical and enigmatic knights of Pascataway. Nay, we shalt not address them as a university of knights, but as cud, for they are at best partially digested food, returned from the first stomach of ruminants to the mouth for further mastication.
Is it wrong that I want Rutgers to do poorly because their head coach came from Urban Meyer and the Buckeyes?
I also want Maryland to do well because of Durkin. Lol.
Mildly contrarian view: I feel they deserve partial credit for investigating the situation promptly and acting on what they find.
Don't get me wrong, I think Chris Ash is in over his head, and he has drawn the mistaken conclusion that the fastest road to success in the B1G is irrational loathing of Michigan. I think the administration of the Rutgers athletic department has been a dumpster fire. And, I think adding them to the Conference was a crass money-grab based on the delusional assumption that the cabel TV market will forever be what it was in 1995. However, I'm just as OK with them in the Conference as some of the other teams that for years have had lame football programs.
Sad to think that Rutgers may not be last in the morality standings in the Big 10.......
Did Antonio Callaway decide to go back to school or something?
January 24th, 2021 at 12:19 AM ^
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