Football on Saturday vs Illinois and then Bball on Sunday against Kennesaw State. Being an RU fan just a painful existence at times. Athletic department should be sending us all Open Bar drink vouchers at this point!
Lost Weekend for RU Sports
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the bar they choose will go out of business before we can redeem the vouchers
Discussion with a fellow Rutgers alum. "Not only yesterday's debacle, but Rutgers basketball just lost to Kennesaw State." Reply: "Is Kennesaw State an actual college?"
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If this thread hadn’t popped up I wouldn’t have known this about MBB. But at least 1 loss in basketball isn’t as impactful as football, so it can be made up for over the season.
Also Kennesaw just jumped up to the FBS level iirc.
First win against a top 25 team in school history.
Rutgers football is 11 years into the B1G, and no top 25 wins. Will it take Rutgers another 14 years to beat a ranked opponent in football?
Rutgers was out-rebounded 46-27.
They did actually make a move at the end of the game and had a chance to tie it up with the ball in Ace's hands....but he threw it away. The first half btw was like root canal.
A lot of suffering this weekend for diehard Rutgers fans.
They did actually make a move at the end of the game and had a chance to tie it up with the ball in Ace's hands....but he threw it away. The first half btw was like root canal.
A lot of suffering this weekend for diehard Rutgers fans.
A win yesterday puts us in 7th place vs 13 where we sit now. That sucks
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Too perfect, "wow I haven't seen such a botched ending to a Rutgers sporting event since yesterday." We've certainly endured more than almost any other fan base in terms of repeated kicks to the balls. Even with this understanding, in 155-years have we ever experienced a more disappointing sports weekend? FYI, beyond football and men's hoops, RU WBB lost to Princeton (of all schools) 49-66. I fear that we've reached a new low.
Sad depressing awful weekend as a RU fan
Thankfully Thanksgiving is around the corner to not have to think about it all week.
We’re gonna see how much guts either program has with opportunities to bounce back this week
Thankfully Thanksgiving is around the corner to not have to think about it all week.
We’re gonna see how much guts either program has with opportunities to bounce back this week
Both outcomes sucked and I have serious concerns about the direction under Steve, but a new low? Are you new around here? Eddie Jordan lost f-ing 33 straight Big Ten games. Fred Hill was a joke. We won't even discuss Criag Littlepage since it was so long ago.
Nope, not new. RC '93. Joined what is now Knight Report in 2004, after a few years of lurking. Back to my question, didn't ask if there were greater disappointments with any single sport. Rather, can anyone recall a single weekend with greater multiple, across-the-board disappointment for our athletic program?
It goes without saying that things have been worse with each and every sport--with football, we've negated the transformative possibilities of so many victories with subsequent mind-numbing losses that I can't even count, a bizarre number of which have come at the hands of FCS schools or Cincinnati; in Men's Soccer, we suffered the overtime loss of Alexi Lalas and Co. to UCLA; even with Carli Lloyd, Women's soccer underachieved; Men's and Women's LAX have long specialized in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; with WBB, we were screwed by a delayed clock in the final half-second at Tennessee; and, of course, after an amazing undefeated regular season, MBB found a way to flame-out in the 1976 Final Four.
For Christ sake, after beating Princeton 6-4 in New Brunswick, "the Birthplace of College Football," on 11/6/1869, the following week, we lost to the Tigers at Princeton 0-8 and were subsequently beaten by Princeton in each and every match-up thereafter until 11/5/1938 at the "inaugural" game played at the current Rutgers Stadium--meaning after a 69-year drought, it's possible, even likely, that Rutgers didn't have a single alumnus enrolled at the time of the first victory who was still alive at the time of the second "win" against our supposed greatest "rival."
Again, even for Rutgers, a university known for athletic disappointment, can anyone recall a single weekend with more frustration on all fronts? How about you Source? Anyone else? With regret, I fear that we've managed to achieve yet another new low.
