The most striking takeaway from today was the knowledge gained that, with a heisman candidate caliber running back and a seasoned team on a sun soaked pristine day in October we couldn’t gain 1 yard on Wisconsin.

And not only could we not gain one yard, our coaching staff KNEW we couldn’t gain the one yard. We had two fourth and inches early in the first quarter and we punted both. No interest in going for it.

Then, in the 2nd quarter, deep in opponent territory, we finally work up the nerve. We go big formation, give it to our rb, who got maybe 2 feet? Completely stuffed and it was obvious the moment the play happened.

It’s year 5 and it’s Groundhog Day, again. We still can’t get a yard against Wisconsin bc their guys eat glass and just come into our Place and do whatever the hell they want. Over. And over. And over again.

The final insult — when Wisconsin needed a yard they had no issue getting it

Not that it really matters (no one knows anything given all the portal turnover that will be the future), but Lunardi of ESPN has his pre-season hoops bracketology out: https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/s...logy-2025-march-madness-men-field-predictions

Some takeaways, but without judgment or comment:

1) 9 Big Ten teams ... 10 SEC teams ... 9 Big 12 ... 7 ACC ... 5 Big East

2) RU is an 11 sed, one of the "Last 4 In" (along with Louisville, Dayton and Pitt)

3) For what it is worth (completely meaningless), Lunardi has the winner of the 11 seeds RU-UL to play a 6 seed St. Johns ... the takeaway is not the match up, but that ST. Johns is a 6 seed while RU is an 11 seed ... we might know more this week - though it is just an exhibition game, and early in RU's practice - RU's defense will likely be much better in January/Feb than in October.

4) Big Ten teams: Top Big Ten Seed: Purdue at a #4 seed ... Indiana is a 5 seed ... UCLA a 6 seed ... Illinois and Mich. St are 7 seeds ... Michigan is an 8 seed ... Oregon and Ohio St are 10 seeds ... Maryland, Nebraska, Wisconsin and USC are all in the "Last 4 Out." ... by implication, he seeds the Big Ten as 1. Purdue, 2. Indiana, 3. UCLA, 4T. Illinois and MSU, 6. Michigan, 7T. Oregon and Ohio St., 9. RU, and 10-13: Maryland, Nebraska, Wisconsin and USC.

5) #1 seeds are Kansas, Duke ... and Alabama and Houston (if RU could somehow steal a win over one of those 2, great wins).

6) Notre Dame, Seton Hall and Princeton are not picked to make the NCAA - but in the even more irrelevant prediction, Wagner is predicted to win their league and be in the play-in game.

Basketball season starts in less than a month!

In today's Chicago Marathon,Kenya's Ruth Chepngetich became the Roger Bannister of the 21st Century as she broke the 2 hours and 10 minutes barrier,covering the distance in 2:09:56.
The second place woman finished a full 7 minutes and 36 seconds to the rear,possibly making this performance the most dominating ever in high level competition.
Last year's Men's winner,the late Kelvin Kiptum,also of Kenya,set the Men's record of 2:00:35 in that race.He died in a car accident earlier this year.
Either runners go faster on Central Time or the IAAF should consider requiring East African runners to carry weights to bring about equity in distance running.

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

Sticking with the new format with the grades / snap counts this week, as it makes things a lot easier and personally I feel like it's cleaner looking as well.

With that being said, here are the snap counts and PFF Grades for Rutgers Football's loss versus Wisconsin.

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It’s clear to me that the O line needs shaking up this week. Yes felter is out but we can and should be better.

Any way we can get him back, at least he could run the ball.

Who is it? Are we handing the reigns to Surace? Going to the portal again for a rental?! Curious what the expectations are.

DL talent is poor or DL coaching is terrible
#2 is not a B1G level linebacker
OL has regressed a lot
Fair catching every punt/kick return was dumb
Dremel should be playing more

Pretty gruesome

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I’d like to see us go more hurry up. I think it will help keep the D off balance which will smoke and mirrors improve 1) push from our OL, 2) the deception of the read and either RB handoff or QB keeper as well as playaction, 3) allow for quick outs, quick slants, and different screens and dump offs that pick up a quick 3+ yards on any given play.

I think when we huddle up and line up, the D can key on our basic O, struggling OL, average WRs, and average QB. Not that the hurry up cures all, but it would help mask some of the negatives and create some positives without doing much different (which I have little to no faith our offensive coaching is capable of).

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2023-24 roster has 30. Moore and Butler seem to be the only ones we know of that are done, which gets us to 28. With 10+ incoming recruits (I know of at least 1 or 2 walk-ons not listed on the roster spreadsheet pinned above), I'm guessing we'll see a lot of attrition, as it's unlikely we'll carry 40 or anywhere near that come Nov. Who else is leaving? Initial 2024-25 roster will probably be out soon over the next few days or weeks (last year I think it was 6/15), so we'll get some ideas then. Anyone know when it'll be up? There's already a drop down menu for it on sk.com but no updates.

Or you can't. $1 mil for a quarterback which we will never do. Our qb will always be a scrub. How much is a wide receiver who can catch a pass? $500k? $2 million for a run stopper? Reality and a sad one.

Need someone who can actually complete a catch. Absolutely amazing the lack of adjustment by Schiano / Ciarocca

Could tell that he was still hung over from the Nebraska loss. He looked it, sounded it, and denied it.

But the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The team was ill prepared and not ready for battle.

This was a Nebraska hangover.

Have some vitamin B, oil of primrose, or videotape of us beating some ACC butt.

Whatever the hangover cure is, get over it now and let's get back some winning mojo and some winning.

Let's not turn a bad week into bad players or bad coaches. It was a bad week of coaching.

Now fix it.
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The old saying “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result” couldn’t be more true when applying it to our 4th down offense. They continue to just try and run it up the middle and it fails time and time again. The box gets stuffed and we just keep trying even though we don’t have the line to create enough push. Can’t we at least try to mix it up. I mean the first play of the game with the fake pitch would be a perfect 4th down play.

Once the new building in downtown New Brunswick is open, what will the current Med School Tower in Piscataway next to the golf course be used for? Any announcements yet?

Possibilities—

Dorm
Move the Dental School from Newark
Open another branch of the Dental School
Law School
More space for Engineering
Mixture of Sciences/Health Schools