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Can Rutgers beat Ohio State football? A 2 percent chance the Buckeyes could lose
Can Rutgers beat Ohio State football? A 2 percent chance the Buckeyes could lose
Ohio paper looks at Oct 1
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We are not in their league yet but the gap is closing. Couple of years we will be their rival. I wonder how close avfriend Ash will be when he beats tOSU at home in two years.
Not too much to disagree with, but his smugness is a bit much, especially coming from someone based in CLEVELAND, where there remains "no there, there."
He concludes, "A win in Columbus isn't in the cards, but Rutgers could be looking at a bowl return this year and an outside shot at a winning record. In the future? The chances could get higher than two percent."
RU's chances of beating OSU will "get higher" than two percent, at some point, in the not too distant future.
He concludes, "A win in Columbus isn't in the cards, but Rutgers could be looking at a bowl return this year and an outside shot at a winning record. In the future? The chances could get higher than two percent."
RU's chances of beating OSU will "get higher" than two percent, at some point, in the not too distant future.
The truth is if you consider the last 4 years the gap has been widening not closing.
As of December 7, 2015, that gap started closing. So his statement is correct that the gap "is" closing. Although, that may depend on what the meaning of "is" is. ;)
As much as I don't want to admit it, the gap is huge, and 2 years is very optimistic.
I'd say give it about three to five years and Ash could have our chances to win at twenty something percent. Before you say that's too low, keep in mind that Ohio State has only lost four games in four years under Urban Meyer. Even at twenty percent, we'd be on track to beat them twice in ten years, making us a top twenty-five caliber team. Once we get to that point, it'll be interesting to see if the program can kick it up another notch and really give the top programs a run for their money.
You guys realize that this recruiting class, which is very solid by RU standards, would be crap by top ten standards right? I don't care if Pope Urban has a Nat'l Champ ring in Columbus, his head would be on a spike if he brought in Rutgers' recruiting class of 2017 as his own. It's going to be a long, long time before RU is in the same competitive league as OSU.
A couple of years? C'mon now. Maybe we could win a game against then within a couple years. But "be their rival"?
That seems a bit optimistic to me. But whatever; I hope you're right. :)
Michigan St. is 2-2 against Ohio State with Urban Meyer as their head coach. Here's the recruiting rank of Michigan State's players that played in those games:
2008 47
2009 17
2010 31
2011 32
2012 42
2013 47
2014 22
2015 22
Avg. 32.5
As you can see, they never had a top ten class and only cracked the top twenty once. Ash should be able to recruit at least that well and I suspect he may do better. If everything comes together in a perfect storm kind of way, we could be competitive with the likes of Ohio State sooner than you might think.
Two years as in the fall of 2018? Ash's first recruiting class will Sophomores or red-shirt Freshman at that time. Let's hope we can be respectable for the next 2 or 3 seasons until we start to see the full effect of improved talent on and off the field. It's a long slow process.
For me the fun in college football is winning. I used to be very happy with 8 win seasons and a crappy bowl. The B1G will bring us a lot of money by it will be a long time before we' re a player in the East. Still, I'll follow but with less enthusiasum
Teams like Ohio State and Alabama might be at the level where they are getting diminishing returns on their efforts to improve because they are so good already. Meaning that it could possibly take more effort for them to get a bit better than it would take for us to catch up a stride with them.
If I were an editor, this article would not even be printed. We are light years behind OSU right now. Why would anyone expect us to somehow significantly narrow what has to be the equivalent of the Grand Canyon with them? I am much more optimistic about us becoming a solid player in the league in the next four to five years with the rest of the teams not located in Ohio and Michigan.
We gave Schiano 11 years. Let's calm down and let this guy do his thing.A watch and wait attitude for me is enough.
