Season ticket holder since 1983, except for three and a half years I lived down South and the final year of the Craig Littlepage disaster. My Dad started taking me to games in 1976. Can’t believe I am one day before the cutoff date and still can’t make up my mind. It isn’t just about this past season. It is ticket prices, not being able to make weeknight games due to work, being sick of November and December games against Maine Tech, Bates, Drexel, Southern Indiana, etc. It is about recruiting, both high school and transfers, that has fallen off a cliff. It is about knowing there are schools like BYU , Duke, UNC, etc. that can probably pay one player more than we can raise for a whole team. It is about whatever may have happened with Hobbs and the gymnastics coach. And being in month nine without a permanent AD. Not to mention, who knows how much the new President of Rutgers will back our sports. Eddie Jordan was a joke as a coach and Coach Pike has certainly elevated the program, but after a decade, we should be higher in the Big Ten than we are . I am afraid we are regressing, not just in win totals, but as a program. Rutgers has called me, sent a letter, and emailed me five or six times about my delay in renewing. Through all the horrible decades, through all the terrible coaches like Littlepage, Hill, Jordan, etc., the last time I spent this much time thinking it over was Littlepage’s last year. Over a decade into Big Ten membership, I still don’t think the university fully grasps what it takes to compete, and not just participate, in big time sports.
