For those of you in Northern NJ, I found Taylor Ham in a grocery store!

For those of you in middle/ Southern NJ, I found Pork Roll in a grocery store!

For all of you, I bought it!

I will enjoy my breakfast tomorrow for sure! Love y’all!

My Hogs are 5-5 and look like hell. But the game Saturday night versus Ole Miss is under the lights and under 32 degrees!

future opponent loses to Wagner in OT

Here's our rankings for week 2!

Wrestler Rankings | https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/starters
Dual Rankings | https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/dual
Tournament Rankings | https://www.wrestlestat.com/rankings/tournament

At the top of the list is Jimbo Fisher. Crazy numbers best recruiting class ever. Guess the move to the SEC was a mistake

- Team went with a different OL look with Zilinskas at Center, Direnzo at LT, and Asamoah at Left Guard. The changes inspired the best rushing output of the season. Asamoah really looked good for his first start. OL produced huge holes for the backs to run through.

- QB and receivers are showing better chemistry, which resulted in >200 yards passing. Get at least 2 impact WRs, 1 impact OG, and 1 impact TE from the portal, and this offense will be ready to flourish

- If the offense can show a pulse against Penn State and Maryland, give Nunzio the job. I’m satisfied that we’re getting better. Need more talent. Add the right receivers and tight ends, and this offense can average 200 passing yards and 200 rushing yards next year, against most teams. Offensively, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

- Shameen Jones had a clutch TD on 4th and 28, beating double coverage. Maybe the best WR play of the year.

- Ryan was double covered most of the game, so this gave an opportunity to Aaron Cruickshank , who responded with 6 catches for 45 yards

- Aaron Young had a nice TD grab out of the backfield. This is what we’ve been missing most of the year

- Team rushed 44 times for 265 yards overall. Monangai rushed 24 times for 165 yards. Young rushed 5 times for 30 yards.

- Team let up 3 sacks while getting none

- Penalties were a killer, especially when you’re in a close game. 14 penalties for 108 yards vs MSUs 6 penalties for 50 yards. Defensively, we got caught with too many men on the field too many times.

- Avery Young and Tyreem Powell had their best games of the year, and ended up with 9 tackles

- Igbinosun also had his best game of the year, and ended up with 3 tackles and 1 TFL

- Wimsatt completed 20 of 34 passes for 236 yards and 2 TDS and most importantly 0 ints. If he can perform similarly well against Penn State and Maryland, we’ll be in great shape for next year.

- the end of first half playcalls was informed by experience. Schiano didn’t want a repeat of Louisville ‘05 where Mike Teel threw a pick 6, just before halftime. Don’t have a problem with this, especially because we were getting the ball to start the 2nd half

- Mike Higgins looked good out there in his first real action

- Jonny led all receivers with 73 receiving yards

- Jennings tried to go, but I guess he wasn’t effective, so he was replaced with JWC, who ended up with 8 tackles. JWC still learning the position, so defense loses a lot when Jennings isn’t in there

- We may not win again, but we have a chance to play exciting football these last two games

Posted about Wazzu was making a late push about a half hour ago and unfortunately it was a big push as they have landed Rueben Chinyelu.

This might also explain the late push by Rutgers for Dembele.

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Glad to see he's still playing.

About halfway down:

XFL draft 2023: A.J. McCarron, Ben DiNucci headline 15 QBs taken as league prepares for relaunch

Politi makes some of the same criticisms that posters here have made. He notes that Wimsatt is not running the ball, either because his ankle is still bothering him or because he's not seeing the field as he should be. (My guess is that it's the first.) https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/...to-michigan-state-politis-5-observations.html

Been talking about this in the RU-PSU gameday weather thread, but many seem to like separate threads for this type of thing, so here we go, since the forecast has gotten a tad colder/snowier/icier for NWNJ and NEPA and parts of the Hudson Valley, as winter weather advisories are up for Sussex/Warren in NJ and Carbon/Monroe in PA (Poconos) and Orange in NY (and N/W of those counties). The advisory in Warren mentions a potential light glaze of ice, but the advisory in the Poconos and Sussex mentions up to 0.2" of ice accretion, which would be a sheet of ice in many locations if it verifies (these counties mention up to 2" of snow also, although the forecast discussion says this is only really for the northern half of Warren). Outside of these areas under the advisories, i.e., the Lehigh Valley, NW Morris, NW Passaic, northern Hunterdon and the Hudson Valley, we may see 1/2-1" of snow on colder surfaces before a changeover to rain. Unlikely to see any flakes down to the 95 corridor or the coast, where 1/2-1" of rain will likely fall (and areas NW of 95, outside of the advisory areas will see mostly rain).

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=PHI&wwa=winter weather advisory

The NJ HS Football Finals will be at Rutgers on the December 2 Weekend. Will there be shuttle bus service from the train station to SHI for the 5 games? If not, is there any regular public transportation nearby that can be used?

He's not there yet but Wimsatt is encouraging. Gavin improved yesterday. Sure Michigan State isn't a great defense but it's still a P5 team. For the season Gavin has 4 touchdowns and 6 interceptions. Simon has the same but with way less upside. Gio Resigno threw for over 200 yards twice and started like 15 games or something like that. Vedral started an entire season and threw 7 touchdowns. Art threw 4 touchdowns and 18 interceptions. The issue with Art was at the end of the season he was still throwing the same picks he threw week one. I'm not crowning Wimsatt and he still has a long way to go. However, its' the first time in a long time that I can say that a kid may be able to even be an average QB. When I saw Art and Lewis and Odin play, there was no hope that they would ever be good. At the end of the game, Gavin scored on Michigan State twice. One got called back and then he did it again. That's no small task. And while the Michigan game was terrible, I don't think we should write off that he competed with the Michigan D for a half. All the musical chairs, portal QB stuff can go away and we can actually have a QB1 going into next season for the first time in forever.

Hearing that Rutgers will return to Nike beginning in the 2024. Source has said that they’ll let Adidas counter but preference from RU is for Nike and if/when the move is made we’ll be at a higher tier than we were last go around.

Has a real coach who isn’t fleecing his university and fooling his fan base.

Yet come Monday we will be back to thumbing our noses at that program. And I can’t wait to hear the rebuild excuses here during their bowl game.

Any info on that?

The pretzel had me thinking that I should sample some of the food being offered. So last night I started with Popcorn for the People - Cookies and cream version. Screw the pretzel , this was like edible crack. Fan-freakin'-tastic. Go get some and it helps out a good cause.

https://www.popcornforthepeople.com/

On Saturday, I'll venture into pretzel land.

I’d like to see DR getting double the minutes he currently is. Anyone else?

I couldn't find anything other than Flo will give results of the Tournament.

Does RU make a serious run at him? Would they even consider?