Rotate SU, UConn, WV, Pitt, BC, Temple for Annual Rivalry Game

[RUsince52]

Just seems that a rivalry is so much different nowadays. Granted, it has to start somewhere, but it has to be against someone who is relatively equal to you. What's the point of winning or losing by 40 every year unless you have been playing forever. (Lehigh-Lafayette 151 times, Syracuse-Colgate 65 times and now renewing again, Actually Colgate leads the series because of the old days)
We played Princeton for a long time and they beat us pretty good until our talent level became a huge advantage. Games were no longer competitive for them.
Would be hard to find someone in the B1G to fit except Maryland. Whoever, it has to be mutual and a new long rivalry might not be in the cards because of the every changing landscape of college football.
We might not find that team.

 

[RUTGERZ_R00LZ]

I vote for a Big ten schedule plus army and navy, every year.

Army and Navy? As a football fan, I loved playing the service academies. Now I've had enough. They play their own way of football and that doesn't help us prepare for anyone else; also results in too many knee injuries. They're knee hunters. Chris Ash doesn't like the idea either.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

I would be fine with a home and home with any school in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic, maybe home only for the smaller schools.

We should also play more SEC and ACC schools, since they are in the same time zone.

But, within reason, the Big Ten schedule is already hard enough.

 

[Doctor Worm]

We play Temple from 2020 to 2023. Extend the series indefinitely. Problem solved.

 

[rutgersal]

Just seems that a rivalry is so much different nowadays. Granted, it has to start somewhere, but it has to be against someone who is relatively equal to you. What's the point of winning or losing by 40 every year unless you have been playing forever. (Lehigh-Lafayette 151 times, Syracuse-Colgate 65 times and now renewing again, Actually Colgate leads the series because of the old days)
We played Princeton for a long time and they beat us pretty good until our talent level became a huge advantage. Games were no longer competitive for them.
Would be hard to find someone in the B1G to fit except Maryland. Whoever, it has to be mutual and a new long rivalry might not be in the cards because of the every changing landscape of college football.
We might not find that team.

We don't have to find A team, when we can play multiple teams.

These programs are roughly our equivalent, with the exception of WV, who has consistently beaten our brains in, so I want revenge over them. These games are an easy road-trip for our fanbase to make.

 

[RUsince52]

We don't have to find A team, when we can play multiple teams.

These programs are roughly our equivalent, with the exception of WV, who has consistently beaten our brains in, so I want revenge over them. These games are an easy road-trip for our fanbase to make.

At this point, who in the B1G considers us their rival game ? The same for other Eastern schools.outside the conference. Might be wishful thinking, now.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

At this point, who in the B1G considers us their rival game ? The same for other Eastern schools.outside the conference. Might be wishful thinking, now.

Within the Big Ten? No one yet, but things are brewing with the Penn State and Michigan and maybe Maryland.

Outside of the Big Ten... basically anyone who can't stop posting smack about us.

 

[RUsince52]

Within the Big Ten? No one yet, but things are brewing with the Penn State and Michigan and maybe Maryland.

Outside of the Big Ten... basically anyone who can't stop posting smack about us.

I can't really see PSU or Mich considering us as a rival when they don't seem to respect us. Maryland seems like a more logical choice although we have to get better in BB too.
Except for WVA, everyone seems to hate all the others and not so sure that qualifies as the major reason to be a rival. Maybe we should back burner the rival thing until we see our progress. Not sure we're at WVA level yet.

 

[HailHailToMichigan]

I can't really see PSU or Mich considering us as a rival when they don't seem to respect us. Maryland seems like a more logical choice although we have to get better in BB too.
Except for WVA, everyone seems to hate all the others and not so sure that qualifies as the major reason to be a rival. Maybe we should back burner the rival thing until we see our progress. Not sure we're at WVA level yet.

I'd say Maryland as well. The average Michigan fan that doesn't browse message boards (which is the vast vast majority) doesn't really care about Rutgers to be honest. I want to beat you guys the most behind OSU, MSU, Iowa and Penn State though this year if that makes you feel any better.

 

[RUforlife]

It would be great if one of our OOC games each year were against an old Eastern Rival. Love Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse, Primanti's in Pittsburgh, Chicken Bones in WV, Pat's in Philly (Temple), visiting colonial sites in Boston, and stopping by fine restaurants in Stamford, CT. Great places to visit.

Better idea, let's bring back the Middle Three Conference and play annually for the Little Brass Cannon.

 

[RUsince52]

Better idea, let's bring back the Middle Three Conference and play annually for the Little Brass Cannon.

Yes, but who really knows where it resides. I'm thinking it should be on campus somewhere, maybe.

 

[MADHAT1]

Penn St doesn't want to admit to wanting a rivalry with Rutgers.
Rutgers doesn't want to look like it wants a rivalry with PSU.
Maryland is brought up as a possible rival, but in both PSU & RU' heart
they would like to see a rivalry develop between the schools.
But no matter how much that is hoped, the play on the field between the schools will be what makes a rivalry develop.
Nit fans don’t care very much for RU fans and RU fans dislike the Happy Valley people.
That is an indication that if a rivalry develops it will be a good one

A Maryland- Rutgers rivalry might develop more slowly because the fan-bases of both schools don’t seem to dislike each other as much
and I think PSU and Rutgers fans wanting some kind of rivalry game might look at the Turtles as a secondary option.
But that just my guess and Maryland fans might want Penn St as their rival over having Rutgers be the one .
Anyway you look at it the rivalry everyone hopes for will start of the field by the way the schools compete against each other
and more than likely it will take years to become one .

 

[Shimmy24]

Penn St doesn't want to admit to wanting a rivalry with Rutgers.
Rutgers doesn't want to look like it wants a rivalry with PSU.
Maryland is brought up as a possible rival, but in both PSU & RU' heart
they would like to see a rivalry develop between the schools.
But no matter how much that is hoped, the play on the field between the schools will be what makes a rivalry develop.
Nit fans don’t care very much for RU fans and RU fans dislike the Happy Valley people.
That is an indication that if a rivalry develops it will be a good one

A Maryland- Rutgers rivalry might develop more slowly because the fan-bases of both schools don’t seem to dislike each other as much
and I think PSU and Rutgers fans wanting some kind of rivalry game might look at the Turtles as a secondary option.
But that just my guess and Maryland fans might want Penn St as their rival over having Rutgers be the one .
Anyway you look at it the rivalry everyone hopes for will start of the field by the way the schools compete against each other
and more than likely it will take years to become one .

This is accurate. Maryland fans hate Penn State just as much as y'all and would love a legit rivalry there, so that's already a similarity between MD and RU. Plus, if we continue to play tight games on the football field, things are only going to get more competitive. I think there are lots of similarities between both programs right now (like a lot), and there may only be room for one of us to truly grow into a potential contender in the division, so I'd expect something to naturally brew.

But for real, **** Penn State.

 

[Steve91562]

Hell No!! Let those schools rot. Nothing against WVU, but why open recruiting to them.

 

[50 yd line RR]

It would be great if one of our OOC games each year were against an old Eastern Rival. Love Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse, Primanti's in Pittsburgh, Chicken Bones in WV, Pat's in Philly (Temple), visiting colonial sites in Boston, and stopping by fine restaurants in Stamford, CT. Great places to visit.

I like the idea of playing Northeast competition. In college sports in particular football, no other region in the country has been splintered
like the Northeast. Why not use that to our advantage and schedule
quality opponents who are a relatively short distance away. One of the reasons I enjoyed playing those teams was easy travel,and in the old Big East you could go to the majority of away games with a 4-5 hour drive.

 

[BoroKnight]

The problem in this scenario is the same problem that always plagued us -- we had no rivals once we outgrew Princeton, Lafayette and Lehigh, so pretending we had them as rivals now is kind of silly. We were behind most of those programs while we played them and are not so much better than any of them that we can look down upon them now. The idea that they are "in the past" is kind of silly -- that's what makes a rival, after all, is a "past" -- but the idea that we were great rivals in the past is equally silly.

You play them if it makes sense, either to fill your building or some other logical reason. Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Connecticut don't do too much for us. West Virginia was with us all through the A-10 years and we always had a cordial relationship with them -- but the more salient fact is they travel well. WVU always got NJ kids as regular students -- three from my high school went there -- so I don't think they are going to suddenly get a stunning recruiting edge by playing us. Hopefully before too long we'll be selling out routinely and won't need a draw. But I'd love to beat them at least once, and I had a great time in Morgantown back in the day.

Temple to me is a no-brainer. No matter how good the Owls get, they will not consistently out-recruit us in South Jersey (or probably even Pennsylvania), so I don't worry about that. It's a game we should win but not a total cupcake, so it won't be dismissed as meaningless if we did win, say seven out of eight. And by far the most important thing is that the road games in the series are a short trip to a very nice stadium, giving our fans a chance to take over someone else's building with minimal effort and giving the team a true road game without huge expense. And although I love playing the service academies, playing Temple is a lot less tricky.

So count me in on Temple regularly, West Virginia as the kind of team we would schedule in the same manner we did with UCLA and Miami (a home-and-home would suffice) and NO F-ING WAY on Syracuse, Boston College and Connecticut. (Kind of ambivalent on PIttsburgh.)

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

Playing NE competition: one sure fire way not to be nationally interesting! RU needs to head to the Deep South and far west more often! We've done the far west well recently...now head south and into Texas...get RU exposure there...storrs, Boston and Syracuse do nothing for us...besides easy travel