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On sides kick-fair catch

Apologize if already addressed

The spirit of the fair catch is to protect the receiver of the ball from injury

It would seem wrong to allow it on an insides kick, particularly if the attempted kickoff was a squib along the ground, never really getting into the air much

If the existing rule allows a fair catch on any kick, imo it should be changed

As a side note
I always thought that the on sides kick was an exciting play
and I hate to see it taken away when all receiving teams just signal fair catch

Church of Chop Friday Sermon - RU v USC 10.25.24

Let us all pray as we prepare for the Church of Chop as our Lord and Savior Greg Schiano and his Knights take on the Trojans of USC. Our Knights travel west for our first ever friday night fight against a newcomer to the B1G. We continue our quest for a bowl and Crusade for Glory… and we shall have no fear.

Let Monangai the Mighty penetrate their wicked walls. Let Strong the Summoner and Dynamite Dymere Miller duck and dive through their defensive shields. Let Hamilton the Hammer and Abram “The Wrecking Ball” Wright whack and wallop their wooden horse. And let the Loaded Leg of Pistol Patel fire the pigskin through the Holy Uprights.

And let us not forget the one and only commandment… “THOU. SHALT. CHOP!”
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Church of Chop Friday Sermon - RU v USC 10.25.24

Let us all pray as we prepare for the Church of Chop as our Lord and Savior Greg Schiano and his Knights take on the Trojans of USC. Our Knights travel west for our first ever friday night fight against a newcomer to the B1G. We continue our quest for a bowl and Crusade for Glory… and we shall have no fear.

Let Monangai the Mighty penetrate their wicked walls. Let Strong the Summoner and Dynamite Dymere Miller duck and dive through their defensive shields. Let Hamilton the Hammer and Abram “The Wrecking Ball” Wright whack and wallop their wooden horse. And let the Loaded Leg of Pistol Patel fire the pigskin through the Holy Uprights.

And let us not forget the one and only commandment… “THOU. SHALT. CHOP!”

***Ask The Experts — Wednesday Edition***

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The Voice of the Dodgers and Rutgers Football

Following the Princeton game, Rutgers hosted Fordham on October 18, 1947 and won 36-6. In the student newspaper, the Fordham Ram, was an October 3rd announcement that the new radio station WFUV-FM, “…will broadcast the home and away Ram football games this fall… The coveted sports announcing spots have been assigned to Joseph Sansone, Vincent Scully, ’49 and Raymond Rahan, ’49. The home games will be aired directly from the Polo Grounds and when the squad is on the road, Western Union will send in a play by play report, which will be relayed over the air by the campus announcer.” Starting in 1950, Scully began a Hall of Fame broadcasting career being the voice of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers for the next 67 years. Between 1975 and 1989, he worked at CBS, and then, NBC Sports broadcasting NFL games and PGA matches. The recipent of many awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was born on November 29, 1927 and died on August 2, 2022.

A dozen days before the Rutgers-Fordham game, the Yankees defeated the Dodgers in seven games. Mel Allen and Red Barber broadcast the World Series on Mutual Radio.

The Good...and not so Good (and a Question) UCLA

Good:
  1. Monangai. As good as Pacheco was with a bad OL, Monagai has been better. His second half performance was gritty and successful. When we got down 5 and it was rolling (until that rb screen), it looked like one could point to KM's second half as turning around the season. He is special and while we will likely have some good backs, it will likely be some years before we see one like KM and we should appreciate it down the stretch this year.
  2. TE blocking. This is something I've been repetitive on. Fletcher's pass catching was a nice surprise, but his blocking blew up so many plays it was my take his snaps needed to go down before injury. The TE blocking was very good Saturday.
  3. QB play. Some nice passes and gave the team a chance to win. Would be nice to see some of the rb throws and TE wide open looks Bienemy created rather than the LONG OUTS we see so often.
  4. Patel--While not booming deserves judos for making the fg including one long one.
  5. Strong, Dremel and Duff-Nice catches and all weapons in their own regard.
NOT SO GOOD
  1. LB play--there have been many threads already. Huge portal need.
  2. DL--Lot of young guys and some did some nice things like Walker and Hamilton, but really not sufficient to win.
  3. Tackling--WTF had happened this year. Routine plays turn into Chris Ash era big gains out of nowhere. The qb run was a thing we would never seen under GS. While I think he is still the guy for this job, self examination is always helpful for a program. Tackle better and give the ball to KM. Perhaps it can be that simple.
  4. Anyone else think the "call your shot" was almost the same as the 2004 post WVU game presser where he said some people coming to this building don't want this program to succeed but we will be just fine or something like it rant?
  5. Football IQ--Tackling angles---zone defense concepts etc. This years edition so far just doesnt seem to have a high fball IQ and whether coaching or players, it has made small gains and issues into larger ones.
  6. Repetitive offensive play calling----Have harped on this all year--So much even casual fans can see coming. KC just does the thing that worked once again and again and loses deception. ON the interception even the announcers said that RU ran the same play 4 or 5 times before and the dback so it coming and jumped the route. Need to get more motion and deception to address talent level issues.
QUESTION:
Does anyone who watched the game believe that RU had more talent on that field than UCLA did?

There has been so much hand wringing about losing to UCLA, but I for one saw few RU players who would start on that UCLA team. Yes KM Strong Powell Pierce and perhaps Dixon would (and maybe I'm missing someone) but the UCLA 2 deep appeared to be a talent upgrade from RU so it's a little ridiculous to have such a reaction. Especially where Bienemy put on a master class of how to exploit poor lb play. The result is in some ways predictable and not surprising in retrospect.

Now I see in some media that RU will be disappointed in not getting a win at USC. Think RU's talent level (now post injury) is the same as USC? Sure tackling and a healthy KM (hopefully) gives us a shot, but the goal posts seemed to have been moved not internally but externally about talent and expected results. Deception, good fundamentals and a running attack give it a shot but lets keep the eyes open as to talent differential--and especially the type of game plan needed to address that differential.
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