I believe that those threads still exist, but they weren't converted to the format currently able to be searched.
OT: 30 years and 30,000+ posts. Question for the board on OUR history here.
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I believe that those threads still exist, but they weren't converted to the format currently able to be searched.
So, what are you waiting for? Get to work on this conversion, stat! I'm sure there are a dozen or more people who would be interested, lol.
Yep colossal mistake and comical website graphics that were an immediate turnoff
Yep actually went to one of those rutgersfan tailgates and met Rutgersal
Wasn't there another players brother who threatened to beat someone up from the biard. I can't recall his name
Was fun meeting actual RU fans, since there weren't that many of us, lol. No idea on your question though. @LeapinLou might be the person most likely to recall that, as my recollection is he was at most/all of the Rutgersfan.com tailgates (I only went occasionally).
If you post stupid crap in a public forum, there are consequences and you need to own it sometimes. Can’t always play the media victim card. People lost their sh$t here at the time. But enough with that - don’t want to derail this thread even though you went there again.
Believe me, if I could get my hands on that I'd do it in a heartbeat. That's something I am really good at, have a ton of experience transforming production data without screwing anything else up.
I remember Mike from West Orange. He used to call WRSU after each football game. Since this was Shea days the game was almost always a loss. Mike would call in disgruntled and say something like, ”look at our players, none of them would get playing time at [insert opponent who just beat Rutgers.]”
He said this after almost every game.
Not true - I’ve been with this from the beginning. I remember when John ran it and I transitioned to this site from 109. There was a split faction where folks had to choose. Done did both for a while but I wanted to focus on one site. I choose well. I was with John from the beginning. Definitely in the late 90’s.
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EXACTLY THIS. I was on the interstate too when it changed states and the mile markers reset. Why some show June and rest Aug ..no clue.
and Ken from Wycoff.....smh. Never went to one of those tailgates. Would be a cool thing to do on an anniversary season for this new/current site...25 years? 2026?
Does anyone remember when 2 posters were really going to meet and fight? Now that's a passionate message board. Are they still here?
LOL'ing at meeting to fight. When John still had this board, I remember giving Aurelio a ride down to the North Carolina game in 2006; he was writing for the site. I guess I did my part back in the day.
@RU848789 my memory is failing me on this. I don't remember that.
Those were great tailgates. Lots of memories.
Keith and I still tailgate together in the yellow lot.Here is your history lesson from Keith
I also stumbled upon the Exit 109 site on my Web TV in 97 after seeing some use net groups a day then of course rutgersfan.com and hundreds of thousands of post later...
The History of Rutgersfan.com
People have often asked me to recount the history of Rutgersfan.com and the history of Rutgers on the web in general. I have often told parts of therutgers.rivals.com
I was not a fan of Mike from West Orange. In 1999 when we had a massive upset over Syracuse at Rutgers Stadium, on the car ride home I was listening to WRSU and he was still bitching and moaning about how we stink. Even on our best day, he was miserable. Actually felt sorry for him. Imagine being so joyless?
Funny the things you remember.
Don't know what you are saying is not true
I, and many others go back to 109 and before
I am talking about before 109 and before John
Details are fuzzy, bit there was an all encompassing board that had SHU fans along with RU
Minor point, but while it may look like you are the longest tenured person on this site, that's merely an artifact of some glitches Keith and John had with porting the site back to Rivals for a 2nd time. Most of us re-registered for the "new" site in the beginning of June 2001, without missing a post, but our "start dates" weren't all synced properly.
It was a brother of player...might have been end of Shea era start of Greg era not sure. The brother posted on the board at times
Take a look at the first few posts in this thread, which contain links to the history of this site. Mike Fasano ran Exit 109 (with BigDog as a major contributor), which eventually merged with Keith Burkert's Rutgersfan.com in 1998 (he's the guy that wrote the history) and they eventually found a home with Rivals (twice, lol) and are still with Rivals today, obviously. Some more info on other boards, below, mostly from memory, so it might not be 100% accurate.
A few years after Rutgersfan.com hooked up with Rivals in 1998, Mike and BigDog started the Scout board in mid-2001, as far as I can tell, as that's the oldest post on the 247 site I could find; Scout eventually became 247 Sports, probably around 2010, when 247 became a big player in the field. I posted sparingly on Scout back in the day.
And then in April 2018, John O and most of the staff from this site left Rivals for 247 (rebranded ScarletNation), taking over for Sam Hellman who had taken over from BigDog years earlier, but then left 247 in 2018. When that happened, Richie became site publisher for this site. Some Rivals/Rutgersfan posters moved over to 247, some became posters on both and quite a few went over, saw the crappy board technology, and came back here. I post on both boards, but more here, although the board technology over there is far better than it was in 2018.
Also, around the same time as Scout was formed (2001-2002, if I recall correctly), some posters from Rutgersfan broke away and formed the Grease Truck forum, which is a small, but slightly twisted RU sports community, lol - I posted there for several years, but haven't posted there in many years now.
I believe you started posting here to upgrade from troll: Junior Level to TROLL: MASTER CLASS
I do remember being a dick to BK on the b-ball board. He banned me a few times. :)
MikefromWO was very knowledgeable, but he was just a miserable dude and not particularly nice to other posters. I used to call in to WRSU regularly in the 80s and 90s, before the internet and these boards.
Say hi to Keith for me - would be cool to stop by next season and say hello to y'all...
Let’s talk legendary threads
I remember two guys on the board were going to fight in Elizabeth
A poster linked a dating profile of a football reporter (not a good moment )
An informed poster telling the board the carroo arrest was bogus
Subway
Weather threads - they just always deliver . Still do
Chris Carlin coming on here to lecture in 2015 and getting absolutely steamrolled
Flood better than Franklin
Jason Adjepong night . He was a big time recruit from catereret in the early days of Schiano . He used to come on this board during the recruiting process . These were the days when you could see what posters were logged in . Then he committed to Va tech and this place railed him , while he was on the board. It was a meltdown for the ages
Selection Sunday thread in 2023. With bac leading the way , this thread was a slow motion car accident as the non selection played out
There are many more
I remember two guys on the board were going to fight in Elizabeth
A poster linked a dating profile of a football reporter (not a good moment )
An informed poster telling the board the carroo arrest was bogus
Subway
Weather threads - they just always deliver . Still do
Chris Carlin coming on here to lecture in 2015 and getting absolutely steamrolled
Flood better than Franklin
Jason Adjepong night . He was a big time recruit from catereret in the early days of Schiano . He used to come on this board during the recruiting process . These were the days when you could see what posters were logged in . Then he committed to Va tech and this place railed him , while he was on the board. It was a meltdown for the ages
Selection Sunday thread in 2023. With bac leading the way , this thread was a slow motion car accident as the non selection played out
There are many more
On the original board I was called RUFan but I couldn't use that nickname when the board was revamped. Then I was thinking I add some things to posts, points of interest and figured Extra Point would be a good nickname. Plus my two cents worth as my picture that I added later. One thing for sure, we all started here as vibrant young men and now we are tired old men lol.
If we are talking all time post I nominate @willisneverrana43 for the “wrong” thread after the Connecticut game comeback. Epic.
Maybe we are saying the same thing. I too was on Exit 109. There are a bunch of folks. That’s my point - maybe it’s yours as well.
I was one who went with him for a bit and actually tried to help MOD over there. Stayed on both sites. I gave him/it my best effort/loyalty as a long time member and having met him several times (great guy). But in the end I found this is the place to be.
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