Ouch. They give props to women's soccer, women's basketball and wrestling (kind of), at least.
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Snippets:
We knew Rutgers wasn't going to provide much of a benefit for football
and basketball. Did we understand how bad they were going to suck at
everything else?
I won't pretend to be an aficionado of college men's soccer, but I know
enough to figure out this isn't very good, especially since the only
team the Scarlet Knights were able to beat was Wisconsin, who beat
exactly nobody in Big Ten play.
. With the school lacking a quality facility, compared to the rest of
the conference, coupled with the depth of coaching talent, I don't see
any way this changes dramatically in the near future. Rutgers is really
bad at basketball, and will probably stay that way.
Okay, so maybe the fall and winter were tough for Rutgers. But what
about the spring? Maybe they're just some late bloomers. What about
lacrosse? They play lacrosse pretty well in the northeast, right?
So to recap, not only did Rutgers fail to capture a single league title in their first season, they haven't even come close,
only cracking the top four in two sports. Rutgers finished (or is
currently ranked) last or second to last in an astonishing eight sports.
Their football program was their best male team sport, and they didn't
crack the top six of the conference. Rutgers has been uniformly terrible
at nearly every level.
But hey, TV sets. Location. National brand. Enjoy those hypothetical
Nielsen ratings the next time you have to watch a terrible Rutgers
sporting event in the near future.
Link
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Snippets:
We knew Rutgers wasn't going to provide much of a benefit for football
and basketball. Did we understand how bad they were going to suck at
everything else?
I won't pretend to be an aficionado of college men's soccer, but I know
enough to figure out this isn't very good, especially since the only
team the Scarlet Knights were able to beat was Wisconsin, who beat
exactly nobody in Big Ten play.
. With the school lacking a quality facility, compared to the rest of
the conference, coupled with the depth of coaching talent, I don't see
any way this changes dramatically in the near future. Rutgers is really
bad at basketball, and will probably stay that way.
Okay, so maybe the fall and winter were tough for Rutgers. But what
about the spring? Maybe they're just some late bloomers. What about
lacrosse? They play lacrosse pretty well in the northeast, right?
So to recap, not only did Rutgers fail to capture a single league title in their first season, they haven't even come close,
only cracking the top four in two sports. Rutgers finished (or is
currently ranked) last or second to last in an astonishing eight sports.
Their football program was their best male team sport, and they didn't
crack the top six of the conference. Rutgers has been uniformly terrible
at nearly every level.
But hey, TV sets. Location. National brand. Enjoy those hypothetical
Nielsen ratings the next time you have to watch a terrible Rutgers
sporting event in the near future.
Link