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POLL: You have to give to give $1M to RU NIL or to GS buyout

See initial post for the premise

  • -Donate $1M to a RU NIL collective for RU Football

    Votes: 93 76.2%
  • -Donate $1M to GS's contract buyout

    Votes: 29 23.8%

For the purposes of this poll, you have to decide on a hypothetical.:

You are the executor of a will of a lifelong RU donor. He has given you the choice to allocate $1 Million of his/her estate to one of two places:

-A RU NIL collective for RU football
-Towards the buyout of Greg Schiano's contract so that RU can terminate him. This $1M will ensure that the remaining buyout amount is fullfilled. Without it, he will not be terminated in 2024, 2025 or 2026.

You must donate the entire amount to one of the causes.

What is your choice?

OT: Womens soccer

I don't even watch soccer since it seems so boring. But, last night I found the women playing the #1 seed in the league tournament and found it tremendous. RU women lost a player to a red card early on and still were able to tie the game short handed. Then, they played tremendous defense and our goalie was playing out of her mind to stop them in regulation and 2 overtimes! Then, she blocked all 3 attempts with penalty kicks while our girls made all 3. On to the championship game!!! Nice to see one of our teams with D!
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OT: WNBA on track to lose $40 million

Probably not a good idea to go on strike if your employer is hemorrhaging cash like that



OT: 2024 Atlantic Tropical Forecasts: CSU/NHC Say Very Active Season; Rafael to Weaken to a TS before coming close to the Northern GOM

The forecasts from both Colorado State University (CSU, where Dr. Gray pioneered seasonal predictions, which are much more accurate than random guessing) and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) have been for a very busy season since early spring and now that the tropical season has officially started, the latest updates (6/5 from NHC and 6/11 from CSU) from the two major sources continue to predict an extremely active tropical season for the Atlantic Basin. Also, note that the 3rd link, below, has a summary of predictions from about 20 different sources, with all of them predicting a busy season.

CSU's prediction is for 23 named storms (vs. the 30-year average of 14.4), 11 hurricanes (7.2 avg) and 5 major hurricanes (3.2 avg), while NOAA's forecast is very similar to CSU's, with predictions of 17-25 (mean of 21) named storms, of which 8-13 (mean of 10.5) are expected to become hurricanes, including 4-7 (mean of 5.5) major hurricanes; see the graphics and links below. In comparison, last year we had a fairly active tropical season with regard to named storms with 20 named storms (vs. the 1981-2020 long-term average of 14.4), but the season was right on average for hurricanes, with 7 hurricanes (vs. an avg of 7) and 3 major hurricanes (vs. an avg of 3), compared to preseason forecasts for average activity,

However, note that even in a very busy year, what's most important, usually, is landfalling hurricanes, especially major ones (or ones with extraordinary rainfall), which is why last year's very active season wasn't particularly impactful, as only Idalia made US landfall as a major hurricane (and fortunately in the sparsely populated Big Bend area of Florida); similarly, in a below normal or normal year, all it takes is one monster, catastrophic landfalling storm, like Ian a couple of years ago, to make a season impactful.

https://tropical.colostate.edu/Forecast/2024-06.pdf

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal-2024-atlantic-hurricane-season

https://seasonalhurricanepredictions.org/forecast/seasonal-predictions

https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/t...mal-atlantic-basin-heating-up-8-21-23.261686/

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Both CSU and NHC use much of the same combination of analog-based forecasts (looking back at key tropical indicators, like El Nino and tropical Atlantic sea surface temps (SSTs) for past seasons with similar indicators) and forward-looking dynamical/statistical global weather models and both cite the ENSO (El Nino/Southern Oscillation indicator) state with its developing La Nina conditions (which usually means more tropical activity, due to lowered wind shear over the Atlantic Basin) and the current warmer-than-normal subtropical Atlantic SSTs (which also usually means more tropical activity and the potential for more powerful storms, as hurricanes use warmer waters as "fuel" for intensification) as keys to their forecasts.

We'll see soon, but keep in mind that the CSU group, in particular, has been far more accurate (near 70%) with their above normal, normal, below normal predictions than simple climatological guessing would be (1 in 3, on average, if guessing). Unfortunately, without @RU4Real, I'm guessing we won't have a prediction contest. Let's see how it all goes, but the predictions are a bit disconcerting, especially for coastal communities in the Gulf of Mexico, the US (and Canada) East Coast, and the Caribbean.

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Forget about being a developmental program. We should be a TRANSFER program

Let's start here. Rutgers only brought in 7 transfers this past offseason.

Big Ten programs that we consider to be our peers, or on the same level as us:

Indiana (7-0) -- 30+ transfers
Michigan State (4-3) -- 24 transfers
Illinois (6-1)-- 15 transfers


Former Big East/American programs that we consider to be our peers, or on the same level as us:

Syracuse (5-1)--17 transfers
Cincinnati (5-2)-- 26 transfers
Pitt (6-0)--13 transfers
Boston College (4-3) -- 15 transfers
Louisville (4-3)-- 24 transfers
Syracuse (6-1)--17 transfers

Greg and this program are not adjusting with the times in this new age of college football.

We have an AMAZING opportunity being the only P5 program in NJ/NYC/PHILLY area. Do you know how many FBS players are probably looking at an opportunity to come back home and play? Or how many kids that are standouts at a G5 school and would jump at the chance to play in the Big Ten? Adding only seven transfers in this age of college football is unacceptable. The developmental program approach is not working.

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Greg Schiano: Rutgers football is closing in on a time when fans can ‘plan their holiday trips around our bowls’

Greg Schiano believes that Rutgers football is closer to being a bowl team than not. The Rutgers head coach said this ahead of his team’s crucial fourth season of its rebuilding effort.

It took five seasons for Rutgers to make a bowl game in Schiano’s first tenure at Rutgers. Now as the Scarlet Knights are set to enter their fourth season under Schiano 2.0, the program is clearly in a better place than it was four years ago.
In a recent interview with NBC sports reporter Kathyrn Tappen, Schiano was asked what Rutgers football fans should be excited about heading into this season.

“We play in the best league and college football and we’re getting better and we’re just going to keep getting better and those wins will start to come,” Schiano told NBC Sports in the interview with Tappen. “And we’ll get back to the days when our fans could plan their holiday trips around our bowls. That’s where we need to get back to.”

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OT: New Music (Released January 2020 or Later)

Any good new songs or albums released this year?

Biggest surprise and solid release on June 23, 2020 by the band Hum (famous for the 1995 song Stars), which had not released an album since 1998.

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Car Seat Headrest has also released a new album, which is not as strong as the last album:

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Badly Drawn Boy- Banana Skin Shoes
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Elvis Costello- No Flag - very solid song

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BPMD- American Made

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