Open Practices
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Not true. Usually there is one Saturday morning where Practice is open to RU fans.
Frank Burns had ALL practices open. It didn't interfere with his compiling the great record that he did.Anderson closed them.We saw what that did for him and ALL of the coaches that followed him.I had to work a quid pro quo deal with the coach who recruited Essex county to get into practices.
Frank Burns ??? Please.
In his 1st season as Rutgers head coach these are the teams that he beat: Lehigh, Lafayette, Columbia, Connecticut, Boston University, Morgan State, and Colgate.
In his final year as head coach here these are the teams he beat: Connecticut, Colgate, and William & Mary.
I can remember at one of those games hearing a little kid in front of me ask his father: "Colgate ? Isn't that a TOOTHPASTE ?"
You can imagine how happy I was when RU dumped Burns and signed the aide to JoePa who wasn't a pedofile and could come here and keep New Jersey's top recruits home to play for a Scarlet Knights team that was finally gonna play with the big boys.
What about lettermen from past teams, serious donors, and NJ high school football head coaches? Or are visitors to practices "by invitation" only?
And when Burns first HC season 1973 how many scholarships did Frank have to hand out 0.0. I believe Nebraska was up to 125 . Great job with not Jock sorry Kbee deal with facts By the way Anderson had scholarships and he pooped all over himself. Great Hire NOT!
KBEE proves he knows exactly nothing about RU football or its history. Frank Burns was given an impossible schedule to compete in with absolutely NO HELP from the admin. NO, upgrading anything. NO academic assistance despite the fact that.the players did well without it. A training room that was big as a large closet. And yet, his overmanned squad did OK considering the monumental task they were asked to do. It was like sending a boy out armed with a pen knife to a gun fight. His last year, which was his worst, went down with their QB in the PSU game. I remember that one really well. RU DID spot PSU 2 quick TDs before they got it going. Their LBer went straight for his knee and took him out for the season. That pass resulted in a 80 yd TD with plenty of time left. The season went downhill with that QB out. He came back a year later and led the team t a 7-3 record on a hobbled leg. Too bad.
With social media, texting, phones with camera/video capabilities, etc., closed practices are necessary in these times. I'm sure coach Burns would have closed practices now.
Didn't GS have some open practices until someone from this board post every detail of the practice?
That's funny. "No academic assistance despite the fact that the players did well without it." Or "his overmanned squad did O.K."
Frank Burns was sent packing after three successive losing seasons. Rutgers then went 7-3 the next season with new coach Dick Anderson.
I was never a fan of "Lurch" Anderson, but he inherited a squad that was 3-8 the previous year and won seven games in his initial campaign. I guess they expanded the training room between 83 and 84.
