ceranm said:

This conversation every year kills me. Can we just pin the below and be done with it.

1. The RAC is a better home-court advantage than MSG - full-stop. However, MSG still provides a nice homecourt advantage and is a cool experience for some fans and the players
2. It is frustrating that we have to give up a conference home game for this, particularly given most/all other Big ten teams do not do this. In the future, we should strive to make it a OOC game. However, given point 1 above, it being a BIG home game is not the end of the world given MSG provides a nice homecourt advantage and is a cool experience for some fans and the players.

Click to expand...

DJ Spanky said:

Those numbers at least for Rutgers home games are sold and distributed tickets, not actual turnstyle numbers.

Click to expand...

Knight Shift said:

Or the Fieldhouse of dreams? 😂
This financial mismanagement is sad and hilarious at the same time.

Click to expand...

beaced said:

Didn'see you through the tears of joy,It has been 48 years since then,will we ever see 0 losses again?

Click to expand...

DHajekRC84 said:

Insulting. I graduated from RC with enough credits for either a Business Admin or Eco degree but chose Eco. I don't think I even knew about the RBS option but then again I was working my ass off to pay for the education. But that's OK. I did well enough to retire and set for life at 55.

Click to expand...

The RUT said:

Does RU have a GM in football or basketball?

Pat McAfee keeps having on Belichick and his “GM” Lombardi.

Definitely comes across as very NFL/business like, it’s weird.

Click to expand...

beaced said:

Didn'see you through the tears of joy,It has been 48 years since then,will we ever see 0 losses again?

Click to expand...

bigmatt718 said:

Yep. Econ was the de facto safety major at Rutgers for kids who wanted to major in something business related but couldn't get into RBS.

Click to expand...

ashokan said:

A good thing about going to a place like RU is that its not going to close.
That might sound too dire but colleges are closing at rate of one a week and the pace is accelerating.
Colleges can lose accreditation for shaky finances.

"About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO.

So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that their new school will also close, often with little or no warning. "

SUNY is over 160 million in debt and some colleges will crash

"“Gov. Hochul’s goal of revitalizing SUNY and making it the best public higher education system in the nation cannot happen when all but six of its campuses are in serious financial jeopardy,"

Oswego, Fredonia, Buffalo St, Potsdam, SUNY Maritime in trouble - "A recent SUNY report indicates that, if current expense and revenue trends persist, the system will face an annual budget shortfall of over $1 billion in 10 years.

Click to expand...

LeapinLou said:

It's definitely hard to figure this thing out sometimes. Without playing, we advanced more spots than Illinois dropped after losing at home by 19. Crazy. My daughter just went back for her last semester at UMD. I really hope they make the tournament. Last night gave them a massive boost, regardless of how the NET reacted.

Click to expand...

Source said:

I was there too. I waved to you but you didn't wave back.

Click to expand...

RUChoppin said:

I think what had had a large negative impact on the Missouri Valley Conference's at-large chances came from the departures of Creighton (2013) and Wichita St (2017), which coincided with the switch to the NET system in 2018.

Over the 20 years up to Wichita St's departure, the MVC had 37 bids.... but 16 of them were from Creighton or Wichita St (10 auto-bids, 6 at-large). From 2014-2017 after Creighton left, the conference had 6 bids in 4 tournaments... and 4 were from Wichita St (2 auto, 2 at-large).

In 2018, the MVC moved forward without two of their best programs of the prior 20 years, and NET was introduced to assist with tournament selection. Sort of a perfect storm of the MVC conference SOS dropping at the same time that NET quadrants were introduced.

Since then, the MVC has had just 7 bids across 6 tournaments (1 at-large in 2021)... 3 from Drake, 3 from Loyola-Chicago, and 1 from Bradley. Those three schools had appeared in the NCAA tournament just twice in the prior 20 years (1 from Drake, 1 from Bradley).

Conference consolidation has been gradually plucking the better mid-major teams into stronger conferences, leaving behind an increase in weaker conferences in its wake.

Looking at the top 5 conferences (SEC, B1G, B12, ACC, BE), you see a lot of schools that came from mid-majors over the past 25 years: Butler, BYU, Cincinnati, Creighton, DePaul, Houston, Louisville, Marquette, SMU, TCU, UCF, Utah, Xavier. And the mid-majors that lost those schools pulled the better schools up from the next tier down (for example, C-USA was founded in 1995... not a single member from 2004 is left; the MWC grew out of the WAC in 1999, and will be unrecognizable in 2026)

Click to expand...

DHajekRC84 said:

Don't mind the extra security at all but just to be clear as crossing guards they suck . Ask anyone trying to get in or out of the blue lot.

Extra security makes total sense at the entrance to or within the stadium (vs. the jr,. kids on the RU police force managing inflow). THAT'S where the potential issue is. *Stopping something from happening vs. being there To react is a terrible plan.

Click to expand...

goru7 said:

See this is the problem , Illinois loses 3 of 4 and is still 9 in the NET . You say no one cares Harper was hurt but look what happens when Illinois missed their top guard for 2-3 games and now their center for 1. They got their guard back but were waxed by Maryland at home. Never in the game and never made a run. But they are not penalized by that loss nor the prior ones. Rutgers missing Dylan was huge regardless of you ignoring it or saying no one cares because wins at Indiana and Wisconsin with a healthy Dylan changes the NET by 15-20 spots. Plus it changes the 10-9 to 12-7. Huge difference.

Click to expand...