I just want a team we can be proud of

[Plum Street]

We need a team that we as fans can be proud of . I am willing to look past all of these minor off the field incidents and just root for the team to win . Academics and laws don't mean much when you're talking about big time college football . Let's beat penn state on the field Saturday night and every true Rutgers fan will wake up proud Sunday morning . Just Win baby . Winning isn't everything in college football , it's the only thing !

 

[BUDMAN4RU]

I am proud of the program that has been built starting with Schiano and continued by Flood. The rag magazine journalism in this state operates challenge free. Only the top level Rutgers Admin (Barchi/Herrman), power broker alums, or even state politicians can slow them down. But someone needs to put a crimp in their free reign to say whatever the hell they want.

 

[RCTrooper]

We need a team that we as fans can be proud of . I am willing to look past all of these minor off the field incidents and just root for the team to win . Academics and laws don't mean much when you're talking about big time college football . Let's beat penn state on the field Saturday night and every true Rutgers fan will wake up proud Sunday morning . Just Win baby . Winning isn't everything in college football , it's the only thing !

Ummm, fvck that. I want to root for a team where academics matter and where there isn't more than one arrest a year. Winning and acceptable student behavior aren't mutually exclusive. Schiano pulled it off. If Flood can't, then it destroys the RU brand that took 12 years to build.

You'd be proud of this current year if we beat PSU to go 5-7 or 6-6 against the backdrop of the multiple arrests and dismissals? I won't.

Flood sh!t the bed that Schiano made for him. He couldn't recruit top 4 * kids so he cut corners and took some questionable academic kids (Gopre, Barnwell, Ports) or questionable character kids (Peele & Boggs are rumored to be gang bangers). Then he could not manage these kids to step up a student-athletes-citizens. As a result, the RU Football Brand (top APR, NFL ready players, solid citizens if not solid football players) is being destroyed.
I'm not going to be proud of that, even if Flood manages to beat a team that lost to Temple two weeks ago.

 

[Ole Cabbagehead]

The object of college football is to win games. I don't want a team full of criminals that embarasses the school, but I really don't care too much about having the best APR or the lowest number of player arrests. I know that's not a popular view point around here, but its the truth. Low APR and low arrests are nice talking points, but are really only things to help in recruiting and make the fans feel good. And even at that the top recruits and their families/handlers don't care anyway.

Its hard enough as it is. Hard enough to become competitive in a major conference without and history or tradition, with poor to very poor donor support, poor to very poor state and school support, and without any built in competitive advantages. Hard enough to simply do it straight up without cheating. If we are going to add layers of difficulty on top, like that we must become successful, but we must do it with only high character recruits, without any academic risks, and without any kids from questionable backgrounds, you may as well give up on ever winning anything of any significance, because it is highly unlikely to happen.

 

[Section118]

Another thread troll? Really.

 

[Toddwills00]

Then go root for Army or Navy. They will always make you proud.

 

[RCTrooper]

Then go root for Army or Navy. They will always make you proud.

If I went to West Point or Annapolis, I definitely would root for them and I do whenever we don't play them.

 

[mikefla]

I am still proud of Rutgers football. We have had problems and we have attended to them IMMEDIATELY. Many of the top teams have ongoing problems theyve covered up for years(FSU comes to mind)

My bottom line is OUR probs are nowhere NEAR as bad as PSUs and they got through it.