Most "Rutgers" Rutgers Athletics Moment/Event/Person

[R1766U]

This will be fun, saw the idea on twitter.

What do you think is the most "Rutgers" Rutgers moment/event/person in the history of the Athletic Department.

Here are some ideas:
1995- UMASS (4) basketball game suspended due to "sit in". (Rutgers was leading at the half when the protest started and the game was suspended). Rutgers lost the made-up game.

2010- Fred Hill Jr. fired for heckling the Pittsburgh baseball team.

2012- Mike Rice Video

2013-2015- Julie Hermann (enough said)

2014- Ray Rice video emerges (I know he was not at Rutgers, but still impacted the athletic department and reputation).

2015- Kyle Flood secretly meets with a professor, trying to disguise his identity regarding grades.


What else can you nominate?

 

[RutgersROB]

Losing to Cincinnati in 06


and yes to Kyle Flood in disguise meeting with professor at Princeton

 

[ajwsc1987]

This is not the athletic department but athletics related I guess, but didn’t we invite Eric LeGrand to speak at graduation, then book someone else to speak instead after he had accepted?

That’s about as Rutgers as Rutgers can get...

 

[DJ Spanky]

December, 1995: Terry Shea gets hired as head football coach, then promptly goes on vacation.

Spring 2006: Forcing out a MBB coach (Gary Waters) with a winning record and 3 NIT appearances, when we haven't had a coach with an overall winning record since Tom Young left in 1985.

 

[RW90]

For me hands down its the 2011 St. John's game in the BET.

 

[rurichdog]

Phantom "illegal man downfield" penalty reverses momentum, allowing a one-armed-and-one-legged Teddy Bridgewater to throw all over our defense. No BCS Bowl for you!

 

[kcg88]

Losing to Cincinnati in 06

Done in one reply. I'll add "going 5-wide for the conversion against WVU in 3OT despite having Brian Leonard and Ray Rice."

 

[MadRU]

Giving Condi Rice a hard time, so much so she declines invite. Give Snooki 30k to speak.

 

[RutHut]

Fred Gruninger. Everything he did and said.

 

[MrsScrew]

This is not the athletic department but athletics related I guess, but didn’t we invite Eric LeGrand to speak at graduation, then book someone else to speak instead after he had accepted?

That’s about as Rutgers as Rutgers can get...

yep, Barchi's chief of staff offers Eric the gig on Saturday. Monday morning Julie calls and says they went in a different direction and they don't want/need him to speak. That direction was former governor Tom Kean. also invited by Barchi, who was put in after Condie Rice pulled out because of the student protests.

there's a lot of Rutgers right there.

 

[RUHotTrumpetMonkeyLove]

Spiking the ball on fourth down.

Men's lax being ranked #1 in the country and then failing to even make the NCAA tournament

 

[NickRU714]

December, 1995: Terry Shea gets hired as head football coach, then promptly goes on vacation.

Spring 2006: Forcing out a MBB coach (Gary Waters) with a winning record and 3 NIT appearances, when we haven't had a coach with an overall winning record since Tom Young left in 1985.

I second Gary Waters.
He basically got fired because he got stranded in a blizzard.

Side note - I was living on Livingston at the time and walked down for that game.
It really was great.

 

[RutgersMO]

This will be fun, saw the idea on twitter.

What do you think is the most "Rutgers" Rutgers moment/event/person in the history of the Athletic Department.

Here are some ideas:
1995- UMASS (4) basketball game suspended due to "sit in". (Rutgers was leading at the half when the protest started and the game was suspended). Rutgers lost the made-up game.

2010- Fred Hill Jr. fired for heckling the Pittsburgh baseball team.

2012- Mike Rice Video

2013-2015- Julie Hermann (enough said)

2014- Ray Rice video emerges (I know he was not at Rutgers, but still impacted the athletic department and reputation).

2015- Kyle Flood secretly meets with a professor, trying to disguise his identity regarding grades.


What else can you nominate?

The St John’s game where the refs refused to look , read or comprehend the time. The refs should have been summarily suspended and then fired and the game should have resumed even the next day to gain an honest result.

Great example of the RU screw.

Mo
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[RAA-1]

Rutgers spent over $100 million to expand the stadium by 10,000 seats while Central Florida U spent less on building an entirely new stadium with over 40,000 seats and had to do all of the site work.

And NO it is not due to the difference in costs of construction in NJ over Florida. Nor is it due to the extra footings to be able to put a second deck over the South End Zone.

 

[MrsScrew]

@RUScrewPod this might be the thread you are looking for.........

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Clearing out the snow at halftime against UWV.

4th quarter spike

Hiring Flood

 

[Tango Two]

Failing to join the BigEast (Twice), instead holding out for an all eastern conference with Penn State which never occurred.

Changed the course of athletics to this day, especially basketball.

 

[Plum Street]

The flood thing probably wins this because it was so absurd .
Also, how about barchi not watching the rice tapes because his DVD player didn’t work ?

 

[mikebal9]

My friend George would say that last night's basketball game is at Rutgers as it can get. He calls it out every time it happens, and it happens a lot. (I know because I get his text every time.) We're in a game late, maybe even leading. Then we fall behind by a point. Suddenly, everyone on the team loses their mind, heaves up bad 3s, turns the ball over, and basically looks lost for the final 3 minutes of play. He calls it the classic Rutgers gag job. It's been happening since the days of Douby, if not longer.

 

[Plum Street]

Or Bill Walsh calling rutgers Newark to reccomend Shea.
Bannon strip free throws .
This athletic department has had so many blunders , you can’t help but laugh. Good thread.

 

[e5fdny]

People really thinking we were going to have Bill Nye “The Science Guy” for the 250th Commencement Speaker.

 

[Salvi's Headband]

This will be fun, saw the idea on twitter.

What do you think is the most "Rutgers" Rutgers moment/event/person in the history of the Athletic Department.

Here are some ideas:
1995- UMASS (4) basketball game suspended due to "sit in". (Rutgers was leading at the half when the protest started and the game was suspended). Rutgers lost the made-up game.

2010- Fred Hill Jr. fired for heckling the Pittsburgh baseball team.

2012- Mike Rice Video

2013-2015- Julie Hermann (enough said)

2014- Ray Rice video emerges (I know he was not at Rutgers, but still impacted the athletic department and reputation).

2015- Kyle Flood secretly meets with a professor, trying to disguise his identity regarding grades.


What else can you nominate?

Gotta love the botched Philly Special from last year.

 

[Plum Street]

Tim Pernetti: His hires were Mike Rice and Kyle flood. He also wanted to keep Fred hill (the basketball coach) before the Pitt baseball incident

 

[Plum Street]

Pat Hobbs interviewing the best job candidate ever for any job : Chris Ash!

 

[DJ Spanky]

Rutgers spent over $100 million to expand the stadium by 10,000 seats while Central Florida U spent less on building an entirely new stadium with over 40,000 seats and had to do all of the site work.

And NO it is not due to the difference in costs of construction in NJ over Florida. Nor is it due to the extra footings to be able to put a second deck over the South End Zone.

You do realize that the $100 million covered far more than just the stadium expansion, don't you?

 

[RAA-1]

I know exactly what it covered. I also know that it eventually allowed us to be considered for the B1G, but it could have been done at much lower cost.

 

[redking]

How many times is Barchi or someone connected to Barchi going to come up in this thread?

Fire Barchi.

 

[RUPete]

The flood thing probably wins this because it was so absurd .
Also, how about barchi not watching the rice tapes because his DVD player didn’t work ?

He figured he could You Tube them later after the story broke. No big deal.

 

[Abro1975]

Self Loathing fans, at it again.

 

[DJ Spanky]

I know exactly what it covered. I also know that it eventually allowed us to be considered for the B1G, but it could have been done at much lower cost.

Obviously you don't.

 

[DJ Spanky]

How many times is Barchi or someone connected to Barchi going to come up in this thread?

Fire Barchi.

Careful........there could be a bus with your name on it in the future!

 

[RUPete]

When I first read this, I thought it was going to be about good moments, since it's not, I will add the Slaton non-fumble.

 

[rurichdog]

How about Rutgers-Maryland 2017...Maryland TE jumps early, RU gets flagged for going offsides

 

[rutger80]

I'll throw in: in addition to Cincinnati in 06: New Hampshire in 04, Villanova in 79.....and a couple hoops losses that were also painful: UMass in the first round of the first Eastern 8 tourney in 77 and WVU in 78, both as #1 seeds vs #8 seeds. Ugh.

 

[Plum Street]

This thread works best if you just limit it to off the field/court.
If we get into the actual games, that list of ineptness is very, very , very long .

 

[rc64]

All too vivid memory:

1958. RU hosting the Quantico Marines. Nine-game season. RU 7-0 at the time. Losing 13-12 with about a minute remaining.

RU has the ball, driving toward the scoreboard with first down or so at about the Quantico 11. Tailback running off tackle holding the ball with his left hand, arm stretched out to his left. Defender strongly yanks the other arm. Runner hits the ground. Fumble. Game essentially over and we lose 13-12.

The RUMOR back then was that RU played Quantico to replace a previously scheduled away game that week at a southern school but RU was denied hotel accommodations there for ALL of our players. DISGUSTING if true.

Cannot blame RU in the slightest for any of this. Rutgers did the correct thing by refusing to play on the road without all of the players being housed together.

PS. Billy Austin, our first string (All American) tailback had hurt himself against Lafayette the week before Quantico and, thus, did not play against Quantico. The next week, at home against Columbia, he did not play in the first quarter. The score at the end of Q1 was 0-0. He came in at the beginning of Q2 and, on his first play, ran for a 50 or so yard TD. Final score: RU 61 Columbia 0. 8-1 season.

 

[R1766U]

The alley

 

[Knightmoves]

December, 1995: Terry Shea gets hired as head football coach, then promptly goes on vacation.

Spring 2006: Forcing out a MBB coach (Gary Waters) with a winning record and 3 NIT appearances, when we haven't had a coach with an overall winning record since Tom Young left in 1985.

Agree, but a different take on Gary Waters. I loved the guy as a HC and role model for the team. But a few items stand out for me that are Rutgers like.

1- Told us that his first RU recruit, a SG from MD, was a very good student. Unfortunately the kid didn’t qualify academically and never suited up for RU MBB.

2- Bannons players were still starters 2-3 seasons after Waters was hired. Recruiting problem maybe?

3- Waters told RU fans that his teams would press 94-40 each game. 94 feet of pressure for 40 minutes. We never saw that except when other BE teams did it to us.

 

[RUChoppin]

Tennessee women's basketball getting a phantom 2 extra seconds at home to win the game.

Ash coaching through an OSU bowl game after being hired as Rutgers' head coach.

Not scheduling a game for the 150th anniversary.

Requiring season ticket holders to pay extra for a "home" game at Yankee Stadium.

 

[RUHills]

Last second shot from the corner, off the backboard to beat RU, by Iowa.