RU ranked #5!
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Maryland just played:
L vs michigan 28 to 0
L vs ohio state 49 to 28
L vs penn state 31 to 30
That looks a lot better than our complete blowouts.
yeah, exactly why Gary wasn't the best either but now he looks like a god again compared to Barney Fife.
Maybe we should call him Andy instead of Gary, because there were a few years when he was HC, RU FB fans felt like they were in Mayberry
Maryland's better than Nebraska now that Locksley is finally playing to their offensive strengths. Hills is a tough SOB to bring down in the running game. They have put a ton of rushing yards on OSU, TTFP, and Iowa in consecutive games, and those rushing Ds aren't chopped liver.
If they could ever learn to stop turning the ball over, they would be downright mediocre.
Just as long as your are ready to pony up and bail out the next Steve Kragthorpe after three years if it comes to that.
Its not a riskless proposition. It might be obvious at the end of this season - but if we go 6-6 (3-5) in a rebuilding season in the Big Ten, thats hardly a bad season. Now if we go 3-9 (1-7), thats a different story. 5-7 (2-6) is probably bad enough to fire the guy if you are confident that you can get a real upgrade and not just a MAC/AAC flavor of the month.
I doubt anybody across the whole country other than RU fans thinks or cares about RU football very much one way or another. And I have yet to see anybody on this board claim that Flood is the long term answer to RU football becoming a respected Big Ten team.
But other than that, I totally agree w/your post. :)
It's really a shame that our AD's name rarely comes up these days in discussing Flood's future. She has been neutered of all authority in the most important decision an AD has to make. If it is truly up to Barchi and the BOG to determine the fate of the head football coach, I wonder why she would continue to work under such limiting circumstances and not move on out of self-respect and pride.
She has the authority and can do it, but neutered by the finances she receives to pay for change.
The pride part is doing thew best you can with what tools you have to work with, she's not doing bad using what she has to work with.
Tim Pernetti had the same type of financial limitations Hermann is working under, do you think he should have resigned ( before Rice fiasco) because Barchi / BOG wasn't giving him the financial tools to help him make RU FB, MBB and other sports programs the financial support to make them the best they could be?
Do you think Flood was Tim's first choice and Mario C was the best he thought was out there ?
Or was it that the Athletic budget couldn't afford to bring in better choices that might be available if the price was right.
Half teens, half twenties. But then again you knew that. And then again, high school football has its appeal, but after attending the Rutgers women's soccer game against Minny yesterday I'll be checking out more soccer, both men's and women's. I'll also go to my first wrestling match this season.
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I understand the economics. Continuing with Flood on the hopes of the dubious possibility of a 6-6 season delays the inevitable. If what you're saying is that RU would only replace Flood with a reach/value candidate willing to come on board for less than $2 Mill per season and not go for a Fleck, Ruhle, Robb Smith, or even Greg then why the heck is RU even in the BIG conference playing big time football I ask? Compete means on and off the field. Flood has plateaud.
GO RU
This is basically what I've been trying to say for a few weeks now. Our current admin does not collectively strike me as the gambling type. And just about any new hire we make is an expensive gamble w/low odds of seeing success (success being defined as regularly beating the elite teams in the Big Ten). I also don't see them wanting to spend millions just to see us losing those games by fewer points.
I can't imagine that Julie doesn't want to hire a better coaching staff. What AD wouldn't want to hire the best coaches money can buy? I just think that the timing and funding are against her and so she's forced to be patient.
I actually think Flood is coming back next year, regardless of wins/losses, unless some off-field issue along the lines of the improper contact issue comes up again. Actually, I suppose that a mass exodus of commits might trigger a change too.
Doesn't hurt to have the B1G front you 50 mil. to pay for your exit from your old conference and then some pocket change. Also doesn't hurt when UA then adds another 155 mil. on top of it. But RU's overture's to Delany for an advance have fallen on deaf ears, while we're still paying to get out of the AAC. We've been left to fend for ourselves for now, while Maryland for some reason was treated like the goose that lays the golden egg.
I wouldn't say a combined 108-58 is A LOT better than 108-34.
Julie is a "lifer" in college athletics administration. Pernetti was not. Julie's career will be defined by what she can accomplish at Rutgers. Other than his passion for Rutgers as a former player and grad, Pernetti's future was not going to be defined by his success or failure as an AD.
Because MD realistically could have stayed in the ACC, while RU could not have stayed in the AAC.
We havent played Michigan yet. On the other hand, MD hasnt played MSU either. MDs defense seems to be about as bad as ours, but their offense is better.
seems like many of you get such JOY out of bashing the team
NONE of us get a say in who gets fired or hired
I would love Lou Saban to come to the Banks
wont happen.....we have never EVER had a national caliber coach show interest
Sure...Flood isnt a great coach
But he is our coach and he isnt going anywhere
I prefer to support the team
not bash it
NONE of us get a say in who gets fired or hired
I would love Lou Saban to come to the Banks
wont happen.....we have never EVER had a national caliber coach show interest
Sure...Flood isnt a great coach
But he is our coach and he isnt going anywhere
I prefer to support the team
not bash it
But Tim's time as RU's AD might be deemed a failure because of the MBB and FB HCs he hired, ,because his budget wouldn't allow better choices.
What makes you think Pernetti wouldn't have been a lifer , if Barchi didn't throw him under the bus .
Lou would have been a good choice, but many would have knocked his hire because of his 0-8 record at Northwestern and losing records at UCF, Miami, Maryland and Army
just busting chops ( think you meant another Saban) [laughing]
I totally get that Maryland had all the bargaining power when they were in the ACC and we had no choice and were saved from certain death. But Julie has made overtures to him about receiving an advance and it has been denied. Then for him to sit through a rain delay during an indoor volleyball match had to open his eyes on how broke we are and are in need of cash now not in June 2021. By then it will probably be to late as the hole to climb out of will be too vast. We were brought in for a purpose TV sets and it has been shown we delivered on that already. Why not show a little love back. I know I'm just grasping at straws here as really it's our own administration fault for not borrowing against future earning at the lowest rates seen in the last few decades. But they really can't be trusted to do anything right and I've barked up that tree before. As I'm still amazed this strategy hasn't already been employed prior to our entrance into the B1G. New facilities and a new found culture of winning would have paid for these loans by themselves.
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no actually I didn't. I wasn't sure which you meant. I could argue the point of just watching HS football vs. Rutgers..certainly A LOT less frustrating.
What does Flood coach for you to make that comment?I wasn't the biggest GS fan but he had some decent defense and developed plenty of low ranked secondary recruits into nfl players but i can't believe you posted this.......how the hell has recruiting been since he's been here? You sir are BUGGIN
You're kidding right? You can't be serious with this statement. Please don't tell me you really think Flood is as good as Schiano. I understand that Schiano wasn't great, but our team looks lost in at least half the games we play. Our two best wins are comeback victories verse Indiana and Maryland. The fact that we had to comeback as much as we did verse those teams is embarrassing. We are unprepared for every game, regardless of who it is.
"can"? Sure, but IMHO we won't. The Huskers are going to take a ton of frustrations from this season, out on us, you can almost count on it. 4 games lost on the final drive, 2 on Hail Mary's, 5 TO's in loss to Purdue on a rainy day, almost beat Wiscy...this all leads up to 1 things in the "world of Rutgers Football as we know it...."....not a good afternoon for the home team.
They might be just as bad as RU and after their next loss be ready to lose to Rutgers.
after MSU spanks them in Lincoln.
The main worry should be: can Flood take advantage of a team on a downward spiral or will he coach bad enough to lose to a team that just can't get over the hump.
