Home dogs against a 2-9 team

[NickyNewark51]

Even if we were favored by a few points that would say volumes given that Maryland fired their coach earlier this year because they're so bad. If we're on the roughly the same level as they are why haven't we done the same? Oh right, we're rutgers. We think athletics don't matter even as we lament the low rate of donations to the university...

Because those kids are playing for ML to keep the job....kids actually like him and came there for him not RE....he was their KF before ML came to his rescue or Edsall would've been long gone.

 

[rurichdog]

We (Maryland) are basically screwed at QB. Perry Hills got hurt two weeks ago and Caleb Rowe, his backup, got hurt this week. The next guy on the depth chart is Shane Cockerille, who started the season as a FB (seriously). Cockerille was somehow named a former Elite 11 QB, but he can't throw the ball to save his life. Go figure. I think Rutgers rolls – our secondary is really bad and Carroo is going to eat us alive.

I expect to see him have a career day against our secondary.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Hillis is "hurt"? I thought he had Mono?

 

[coldsprings]

The consensus bettor is putting their money on Maryland to win this game. Betting flows will move this line as they balance things out, but the experts set the line initially where they believe the betting public will split their wagers. Those guys are extremely good at doing this. Are you saying betting lines are not the market consensus on how a game will turn out and should be ignored? If so, you are sadly mistaken. If you think for some odd reason that RU should be favored and the consensus is wrong, you should be betting a large amount on this game. And you very well may win that bet (I hope you do) but that doesn't disprove that the "market" believes (and is betting real money) on Maryland in Saturday's game.

The betting markets are very efficient. Consider this, there was an academic paper that demonstrated that the best forecast of Florida long-term weather came from watching orange juice futures in the commodity markets.

Hard to be the favorite against any "real" team when your coach is incapable of making real-time adjustments and the team offense is designed to run at a plodding pace.