With today's putrid loss, I hope we're not back to the days of just hoping for great tailgate weather, but if we are, it's at least looking like we're going to have great tailgate weather again with very likely warm and dry conditions, with highs around 70F after a morning low in the mid-40s (normal for 10/19 is 65/43F)). We're a week out and it's just about a lock which is very unusual (like the forecast for today was basically a lock a week out), but the pattern with high pressure being in control is pretty locked in and there's not a drop of rain in any model within 48 hours of the game anywhere within 300-400 miles of P'way.

We can’t beat Nebraska or Wisconsin on their “down” years.

Our BEST is going to be a 7/8 win program.

Very depressing day.

Completely lost faith in him.
Year 5 and this is how the team is performing?
Second OC and the offense is still shit
The defense, which is supposed to be his bread and butter is not good this year

****ing embarrassing

Still.
Not many game plans both offensively or defensively will work when the 3rd stringers of the opposition are better than your starters at most positions.

Our DL look like skinny oversized linebackers.

Greg actually believed our best chance was to smash mouth a physically superior team in every way.
We had subs running on and off the field not knowing where to go and a punter who actually punted to the opposite side running in the same direction…. A first.
Two timeouts after change of possessions.

100 percent unprepared and out manned

**** I should have noted this earlier when I started the thread, but just remember, all of you: I am one of the biggest Schiano fans on these boards

If you think otherwise, you’re a complete fool. How many times are we gonna throw the ball down the left side line while there is one on one coverage wide-open to the right? Who the **** has a right footed Australian style punter roll out to the left? The playcalling is stunningly bad and if you think it’s all on Kirk, and has nothing to do with greg‘s game plan, you’re an absolute moron

I love Greg, for everything he has done for us in the past, but this is ****ing ridiculous.

Title says it all. Absolutely disappointing game today but an opportunity to get the wheels turning again next week with a game against UCLA.

CHOP

.Beginning to remind me of Gavin with all of his inaccurate throws.

The RPO seems like one of the few things that has worked over the course of the season. Not that AK bears much of the blame but having a designed QB run seems more effective than a lot of our other sets. If you trust Ajani to throw ( wasn't evident from his limited snaps) bring him in as a change up it's not like Washington sitting the best QB in the conference but gives us more options on a stagnant offense

Such little good today. Injuries did expose depth issues still in the program.

GOOD

1. Dremel--2 good catches today. Been calling since first game for a few targets each week to him. Doesn't mean Miller has to sit. Dremel knows how to get open and has good hands. Having him on ko returns is just a forefit though.
2. Jordan Walker- Last 2 weeks good pass rush and changed the rush dyanmic. Been better than the bigger names
3. Monangais running--yes he had a low stat game but he took advanatage of most openings, but he got very little. Felt very Pacheco esque today in runner vs entire other team.
4. Nothing else good realy comes to mind.

NOT SO GOOD:

1. Fletcher's blocking. Every week it's been an issue. He gets shedded reoutinely, and it's a big reason the run game has struggled. JUst watch him try tos eaql the end, usually that players gets KM from behind..or sooner. Minutes need to be limited on any run downs moving forward.
2. LB play. Powell being hurt was a big loss. I'm prety sure Walker has been on the field for every big play against RU, and has had a hand in the area being opened up. Shades of Beckford running TO A BLOCK and taking himself out of a play. All season a real clear liability. #44 is trying but just not a B10 level player. Number one area for the portal which has been known since game one.
3. 2 delay of game out of kickoffs? Would have said in the past that this would never happen under GS. This is on him. Game awareness needs to be addressed and cleaned up stat. Quick punted before ready etc
4. FG kicking. 2 RU fgs blocked this year and NO blocks on opposition. Bad snap, no hold correction....
5. Right side OL--Yep not much push---now with Felter out the left side faltering. Pierce still seems to be taking his man out though. The rest are struggling and today for the first time some toughness issues arose.
6. DLine---Ray is not Ishton or the prior one year player whos name I cant recall. Angoy has been not bad but outside of that and Walker, nothing positive.
7. Bailey's outfield rush lineup. Yes he's a force, but the staff is letting him line up WAY TOO WIDE on pass downs. He may like that--but timing wise he really can't get there before the pass is off no matter how much he beats his man. This to me is on the staff and gets to game/situational awareness. The wide rush opens up lanes too. Just a surprise it's allowed. Outside of the safety he just hasnt gotten home in time this year.
8. Drops. Long all year and Black too (but new). The others were just a rough day.

There's more but this game was tough due to injuries, but next man up wasn't capable and the toughness wasnt there...at home. Just a disappointing day.

Thursday, Oct. 10

7:30 p.m. | Costal Carolina at James Madison | ESPN2
8 p.m. | Middle Tennessee at Louisiana Tech | CBSSN
8 p.m. | UTEP at Western Kentucky | ESPNU

Friday, Oct. 11

6 p.m. | Harvard at Cornell | ESPN2
8 p.m. | UNLV at Utah State | CBSSN
8 p.m. | Northwestern at Maryland | FOX
9:15 p.m. | Prairie View A&M at Arkansas-Pine Bluff | ESPN2
10:30 p.m. | No. 16 Utah at Arizona State | ESPN

Saturday, Oct. 12

12 p.m. | South Carolina at No. 7 Alabama | ABC/ESPN+
12 p.m. | No. 21 Missouri at UMass | ESPN2
12 p.m. | No. 10 Clemson at Wake Forest | ESPN
12 p.m. | Washington at Iowa | FOX
12 p.m. | Wisconsin at Rutgers | Big Ten Network
12 p.m. | Georgia Tech at North Carolina | CW Network
12 p.m. | Toledo at Buffalo | ESPNU
12 p.m. | UAB at Army | CBSSN
3:30 p.m. | No. 1 Texas vs. No. 18 Oklahoma (in Dallas, Texas) | ABC/ESPN+
3:30 p.m. | No. 4 Penn State at USC | CBS
3:30 p.m. | Stanford at No. 11 Notre Dame | NBC
3:30 p.m. | Memphis at South Florida
3:30 p.m. | Louisville at Virginia | ESPN or ACCN
3:30 p.m. | Purdue at No. 23 Illinois | FS1
3:30 p.m. | Cal at No. 22 Pitt | ESPN
3:30 p.m. | Cincinnati at UCF | ESPN2
3:30 p.m. | San Diego State at Wyoming | CBSSN
4 p.m. | Arizona at No. 14 BYU | FOX
4 p.m. | Ohio at Central Michigan | ESPNU
4:15 p.m. | Mississippi State at No. 5 Georgia | SEC Network
4:30 p.m. | San Jose State at Colorado State | truTV/Max
7 p.m. | Florida at No. 8 Tennessee | ESPN
7 p.m. | Washington State at Fresno State | FS1
7 p.m. | North Texas at Florida Atlantic | ESPN2
7:30 p.m. | No. 2 Ohio State at No. 3 Oregon | NBC
7:30 p.m. | No. 9 Ole Miss at No. 13 LSU | ABC/ESPN+
7:30 p.m. | Oregon State at Nevada | CBSSN
7:45 p.m. | Vanderbilt at Kentucky | SEC Network
8 p.m. | No. 11 Iowa State at West Virginia | FOX
8 p.m. | Syracuse at NC State | ACC Network
8 p.m. | Air Force at New Mexico | truTV/Max
8 p.m. | Marshall at Georgia Southern | ESPNU
9 p.m. | Minnesota at UCLA | Big Ten Network
10:15 p.m. | No. 18 Kansas State at Colorado | ESPN
10:15 p.m. | Idaho at Montana State | ESPN2
11 p.m. | No. 17 Boise State at Hawai'i | CBSSN

How about that!

Rutgers could have prioritized him in the transfer portal but instead decided to go with the mediocre option and KC’s buddy in Athan Kaliakmanis.

Meanwhile, McCord has been putting up good numbers at Syracuse.

Around midway through the 3rd quarter my mind shifted away from the sunshine and game on the field, to watching and wondering if RU is actually capable of beating UCLA. My initial thoughts at the beginning of the season was, if there is a game on the schedule, RU should win in the B1G, it would be UCLA and then Minnesota.

After looking at what UCLA actually does well and what RU doesn't do well, this game is up for grabs for 3 reasons.

UCLA gives up a lot of yards passing, BUT RU is a poor passing team with no imagination on offense.

UCLA has (on paper) a very good run defense, which is what RU wants to do.

UCLA doesn't have a very explosive running game BUT, RUs run defense is now more than a concern, it is a flat out weakness against anyone with a pulse at Running back.

UCLA ran 26 for 93 at Penn State last week, losing 27-11. UCLA gave up 237 passing.....more concerning is PSU ran 30 times for only 85 yards, which is under 3 per carry.

UCLA gave up 153 vs Oregon (36 carries), 103 vs LSU (28 carries), 123 vs Indiana (29 carries).

UCLA on offense only ran for 47 yards vs Oregon (24 carries) and only 14 yards vs LSU, but threw for almost 300 on LSU in a 34-17 loss.

Does that mean we won't have success with Kyle Monangai vs UCLA?? I am not betting against Kyle, but any realistic Defensive Coordinator, is going to stack the box and make Athan pass and complete passes downfield.

Minnesota is at UCLA tonight at 9PM on BTN and with much better games on tonight (Ohio State at Oregon etc), it may be worth an occasional peek ahead. I have legitimate concerns that UCLA is up for grabs, if we can't bulldoze them and with Sam Brown clearly injured and likely finished for this season, it is now a Kyle dependent rushing attack.

I'm seeing people posting that next week is a game to "get right", or an assumed win.....if UCLA does a good job against Minnesotas run game, Schiano and Ciarrocca, AK better have something else in mind, in terms of offense....asking a beaten up run defense to shut down UCLA, doesn't seem realistic right now.

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are still not Big 10 caliber at thus point and there is no excuse for it.

Sanu watches today as the WR room has more drops today than Mo had in his entire career here.

Total buzz kill. No Metallica. Game day flow sucks.

15 days after one of my most optimistic and positive posts on the board, it pains me to have to say yet again we might be SAME OLE RUTGERS afterall. The futility against schools named Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Iowa and Wisconsin continues.The latter two are always considered the schools within reach for Rutgers to beat and yet the more things stay appear to change, the more they stay the same. Rutgers is now 0-6 vs Wisconsin....the 3 worst losses are all at home, 37-0, 52-3, 48-10, 31-17, a relatively close 24-13 last year and now the 42-7 beat down today. Amd today was not close folks. Rutgers was housed. Wisconsin dominated right from the get go. Rutgers was never in the game. So disheartening to once again see Rutgers come out with zero urgency or purpose on offense in their first few drives, content to run plays and punt and then watch Wisconsin carve up the RU defense. It easily could have been 28-0 at half but the D came up with a couple stops and turnovers to give the offense a shot. Alas the offense continue its dreadful ineffective plays. Stop on 4th and 1 and then an easy blocked punt on a kick that I was not too confident Patel would make anyhow.

But the worse was yet to come. The bottom dropped out in the 2nd half. The defense was finished and the Rutgers offensive reverted back to the Shea era. A harsh reality check for the fanbase. We are always get ahead of ourselves when we see steps forward like the Washington win. The Nebraska loss wasnt terrible on its own but the way it was lost scoring just 1 of 9 times within the Nebraska. There were disturbing moments against Akron and Howard where the offense struggled to find its footing or where the line play was dreadful in short yardage, Those kind of things cropped up today making believe that maybe those kind of things are a deeper issue. The play calling and mentality is absurd. GS still wants to win 8-7. I have never seen a program with an aversion to have a gameplan to score a touchdown every single time they have the ball. I get it. Sometimes it works...ala Va Tech albeit with a sloppy finish. More often than not, it just leaves you scratching your head.

Rutgers pulled a no show today. Pretty solid but not great crowd never was able to get into the game. Thats what happens when you do not try to score and your offense consists of throwing 3 yard passes or throwing balls short of first down marker time after time or dropping easy catches or when you get called for a couple penalties on the first play after a kickoff. Yes a bunch of injuries but no one is going to give you breaks. Thats not an excuse why you cannot finish off drives. Its not an excuse why the lack of aggressiveness by the OC just kills drives. its not an excuse why the defense gets beat time and time again.

Just abysmal abysmal abysmal. Yet RU is right where I thought they would be 4-2. Splitting some games against similar competition and losing to Wisconsin. The knock on Rutgers is the same. Their inability to ever knock off a tradtional Big 10 program worth its salt, So yeah its fair to say same ole Rutgers. Sorry Washington is a middling school this year.....it might be more of a Michigan 2014 win in retrospect. To take a next level step you have to knock off top 25 type teams and Wisconsin is one of those...a very good team but should they be a 42-7 better than Rutgers. I say no. Have to strive for better. This smelled exactly like the Flood no show 37-0 back in 2014. Get a decent win and then fall back. The bad news is the level of play is concerning the last 10 quarters with just 3 tds scored. Will not win any games doing that. UCLA blows and cannot score a lick but I expect a dogfight next week and its an absolute must win to position RU for a bowl better than awful Detroit. The schedule after that is not murders row... a likely loss at USC but then 4 tossup games against very beatables. 7-5 has to happen here but will it. I fear RU is going backwards rather than forward and that has been a trend under GS. Its time for him to step it up because you saw the fans bail quickly today at 28-0 and they will bail for games vs Ill/Minny if they do not think the brand of football is worth it

I didn't see that coming. Wow

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Our kids are really rounding into form. Pulisic, McKennie, Reyna, Dest are all world class right now and they are so young. Adams is right there too. Then you have Musah who has come out of nowhere to look great. I think Richards will make the jump and pair up with Brooks. We are a great full back and striker away from having true studs at every position and we have depth. The striker part has me a little worried. Hoping Weah or Sargent can make the leap. Julian Green is also making noise and starting to fulfill the promise. He should get another look.

After that 4 win start, it is hard to look ahead and really feel confident about getting 2 more wins.
We really have no significant offense other that KM, and teams are doing a great job of taking that away. Our passing game looks like last season.
Now, with the loss of so many players, we are seeing just how thin our talent is.
So much for the early enthusiasm.

I'm not a teacher, but I know many of them. Are there any here?

It seems that so many are leaving the profession. From what I know (anecdotally), it's hard to blame them. It's becoming an undoable job. Administrators are forced to weigh them down with non-teaching, time-wasting activities according to the latest trends, state regulations, and whatever the current buzz words are. In many cases, actual teaching time is being slashed via trendy scheduling models, constant drills and assemblies and so much other stuff. More and more students do nothing in class except raise their hands to be excused to fill their water bottles and go to the bathroom. Many can't be bothered to do anything except stare at their phones during class time, and when phones are taken away, they go berserk (as do many parents). There have been some impressive methods for cheating devised, using the latest technology. For a teacher who is truly interested in educating kids, I can see how frustrating that would be.

There are plenty of excellent schools, sensible administrators, solid teachers, and kids who are there with the intention of learning. But it seems like it's getting less so.

Hopefully, if this post isn't deleted, it won't be barraged by "Teachers are commie libs!" or "kids today suck!" responses, which can be tiresome. Just wonder if there are any frustrated teachers here, and if anybody agrees with me about some of the ways we may have made a wrong turn in education.

FYI, I am a nerdy computer programmer, although it may sound like I'm a teacher based on this...