Rutgers/Boston College to renew series...

[tico brown]

My question is WHY???? BCS became irrelevant in NJ after they stopped playing Rutgers. Why give them any help reestablishing their NJ ties?

Rutgers, Boston College schedule 2026-27 football series (via http://ble.ac/teamstream-) http://teamstre.am/2fTJ1LW

 

[cicero grimes]

Agree with OP. Why give them any visibility here?

 

[NJBorn]

Already a thread.

 

[ColonelRutgers]

10 years from now? Who cares. Better than flying 3,000 miles to play Fresno State or something.

 

[Knight Shift]

Thanks, Julie!

 

[cubuffsdoug]

Agree with OP. Why give them any visibility here?

Because Ash isn't familiar with the history between the two. I don't think Ash want any more trips out west like Washington. He'll learn the hard way. Rutgers already gave the recruiting keys to Ohio State and Michigan and now Boston College. What's next Syracuse and West Virginia? Sounds like he's trying to put the band back together.:(
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaaccccckkkk!

 

[Blitz Pakage]

Well in 10 years we should have won the Rose Bowl at least twice, so who cares. In all seriousness there is no reason to play them again. I like the East Coast thing, but why let them back in when they bolted in the middle of the night. Let them fry in the ACC.

 

[Upstream]

My question is WHY???? BCS became irrelevant in NJ after they stopped playing Rutgers. Why give them any help reestablishing their NJ ties?

Rutgers, Boston College schedule 2026-27 football series (via http://ble.ac/teamstream-) http://teamstre.am/2fTJ1LW

I don't think 1 game in Piscataway 11 years from now is going to make a big difference in whether they're relevant in NJ or not.

 

[CornerTavern]

I don't think 1 game in Piscataway 11 years from now is going to make a big difference in whether they're relevant in NJ or not.

Exactly, and it gives us a relatively nearby road game.

 

[megadrone]

if we're losing recruits to the former Big East schools, then the problem is with us and not them, and scheduling a home and home is not going to move the needle one way or the other.

We have 3 games to schedule a year, 1 of which will be against an ACC or Big 12 school. Not a major concern.

 

[LevaosLectures]

This is a great news. people who think otherwise are delusional.

 

[FanuSanu52]

I don't think 1 game in Piscataway 11 years from now is going to make a big difference in whether they're relevant in NJ or not.

Yeah, how do grown men fly off the rails so easily? 10 years is a lot of time, who knows what happens by then. If Rutgers gets its $#@t together, maybe we can stop worrying about third-rate programs poaching recruits and focus on battling PSU, OSU, Michigan, etc.

And how does playing a single game in NJ open up a gushing pipeline, anyway?

 

[CNJKnight]

So a guaranteed win against a P5 team in back to back years with the ease of traveling to the game 2-4 hours away isn't a good idea? You do realize they still come in to NJ and recruit whether we play them or not, beat them or not.

This works. All day on this. Schedule UConn next.

 

[newell138]

Boston is a nice road trip, more realistic than Washington state for most of us.

 

[yesrutgers01]

BC will ALWAYS be the 1st or 2nd choice for a handfull of NJ players regardless if we play them or not.
This is also 10 years down the road where we will be 5 years deep into a full share.
Will be a great series to renew.

 

[dollarbill]

Hoping for a 3:30 p.m. start at home for a change. It will also be nice to have the driverless car take me on that awful ride to Boston. $$$$

 

[RUfinal4]

We should schedule at least 1 OOC team a year that is part of the Lambert Trophy competition. I think BC and Temple are both in it.

Maybe even try to get agreement among the Lambert teams for an OOC scheduling alliance with games at a neutral site (ie. Met Life, Lincoln Financial, M and T Bank stadium, Gillette field).

Imagine Sept double headers of the 17 ECAC teams plus 1 invited team to make it 18:
Gillette:
UMass vs Syracuse
BC vs Buffalo

Met Life:
Rutgers vs Temple
Army vs UConn

Lincoln Financial:
Pitt vs Marshall
Penn St vs West Virginia

M and T Bank:
Maryland vs Old Dominion
Navy vs Va Tech

Old Dominion vs non-ECAC invited team

http://www.easternfootballnetwork.com/EFN-16-FBS-Poll-3.html

 

[Upstream]

This is a great news. people who think otherwise are delusional.

Why is this great news? I don't think it is bad news, but I don't think it is great news either. It is just news. No different than if Rutgers scheduled NC State for 2026/27.

 

[AshCatchEm]

Agree with OP. Why give them any visibility here?

Defeatist attitude. We're gonna whoop their asses. BC is nearly dead in nj and can only capture the obsessed parochial school kids. They won't be stealing a recruit that matters from nj anytime soon

 

[Upstream]

We should schedule at least 1 OOC team a year that is part of the Lambert Trophy competition. I think BC and Temple are both in it.

Maybe even try to get agreement among the Lambert teams for an OOC scheduling alliance with games at a neutral site (ie. Met Life, Lincoln Financial, M and T Bank stadium, Gillette field).

Imagine Sept double headers of the 17 ECAC teams plus 1 invited team to make it 18:
Gillette:
UMass vs Syracuse
BC vs Buffalo

Met Life:
Rutgers vs Temple
Army vs UConn

Lincoln Financial:
Pitt vs Marshall
Penn St vs West Virginia

M and T Bank:
Maryland vs Old Dominion
Navy vs Va Tech

Old Dominion vs non-ECAC invited team

http://www.easternfootballnetwork.com/EFN-16-FBS-Poll-3.html

Lot of empty stadiums there. And why would any school sign up for this? You have 4 schools selling tickets for a double header, so each school only gets 25% of the gate receipts. So using the Rutgers game you propose at MetLife Stadium, we get to sell about 20,000 tickets to this double-header, and we get to tell half our season ticket-holders and students to take a hike, or we can have the game in Piscataway, and sell 50,000 tickets (including students).

 

[cicero grimes]

Defeatist attitude. We're gonna whoop their asses. BC is nearly dead in nj and can only capture the obsessed parochial school kids. They won't be stealing a recruit that matters from nj anytime soon

Defeatist attitude? I thought one of Ash's goals was to "fence the garden". If so why give teams that recruit against you any visibility here. I have been a fan for 36 years and have seen enough RU football to make me a realist about this program. Your unbridled optimism has no basis in fact unless you consider 2-10 and numerous shutouts as a successful season. Whether we like it or not we have a hard time keeping Jersey kids home. Whether it is now or in the future, why make it easier for non B1G teams who recruit Jersey to gain more visibility in this state.

 

[CornerTavern]

If we're afraid to play a weak p5 team that's a natural regional rival in a home&home then let's pack it in please.

 

[AshCatchEm]

Defeatist attitude? I thought one of Ash's goals was to "fence the garden". If so why give teams that recruit against you any visibility here. I have been a fan for 36 years and have seen enough RU football to make me a realist about this program. Your unbridled optimism has no basis in fact unless you consider 2-10 and numerous shutouts as a successful season. Whether we like it or not we have a hard time keeping Jersey kids home. Whether it is now or in the future, why make it easier for non B1G teams who recruit Jersey to gain more visibility in this state.

defeatist attitude= being scared of playing a local team like cuse, pitt, bc, uconn, etc. not one of those teams scares me as a recruiting threat. does every one of our bcs opponents have to be from the west coast or from the south for our fans to feel safe? we're a big ten team.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Guys it's TWO GAMES a DECADE from now. Relax!

 

[cicero grimes]

defeatist attitude= being scared of playing a local team like cuse, pitt, bc, uconn, etc. not one of those teams scares me as a recruiting threat. does every one of our bcs opponents have to be from the west coast or from the south for our fans to feel safe? we're a big ten team.

Once again you miss the point. It has nothing to do with being scared of playing those teams but recruiting against them. Why make it easier for them. We have enough comp from PSU, OSU, UM and MSU. Please remind me of all the Big East Championships we have celebrated, all the BCS games we attended, all the times we routed the Miami's of the world by 50 points. We have too many delusional fans like you who seem to think that being in the B1G automatically puts on on the same level as OSU. We are not and have not ever been at that level and until we get there why make it easier for any school we compete for recruits against to get visibility in NJ. Your unbridled optimism has no basis in fact when our history says otherwise. And before you start telling me how great we will be in ten years I remember hearing those sorts of things during the Anderson, Graber and Shea eras. It took Schiano 5 years to make us decent and even he could not deliver a conf championship. Come back to reality.

 

[AshSaturday]

Why is this great news? I don't think it is bad news, but I don't think it is great news either. It is just news. No different than if Rutgers scheduled NC State for 2026/27.

NC State doesn't take top recruits (oft top linemen)-and students-out of NJ. No reason to assist BC.

 

[FanuSanu52]

We should schedule at least 1 OOC team a year that is part of the Lambert Trophy competition. I think BC and Temple are both in it.

Maybe even try to get agreement among the Lambert teams for an OOC scheduling alliance with games at a neutral site (ie. Met Life, Lincoln Financial, M and T Bank stadium, Gillette field).

Imagine Sept double headers of the 17 ECAC teams plus 1 invited team to make it 18:
Gillette:
UMass vs Syracuse
BC vs Buffalo

Met Life:
Rutgers vs Temple
Army vs UConn

Lincoln Financial:
Pitt vs Marshall
Penn St vs West Virginia

M and T Bank:
Maryland vs Old Dominion
Navy vs Va Tech

Old Dominion vs non-ECAC invited team

http://www.easternfootballnetwork.com/EFN-16-FBS-Poll-3.html

I kinda like the idea about scheduling eastern teams every year (independently) and maybe growing regional rivalries amongst Lambert trophy teams.

Forget the rest, though - sounds like you want CFB to become CBB. In fact, don't you have a post about a 32-team playoff? CFB is not, nor should it become, CBB.

 

[bingethinker]

Lot of empty stadiums there. And why would any school sign up for this? You have 4 schools selling tickets for a double header, so each school only gets 25% of the gate receipts. So using the Rutgers game you propose at MetLife Stadium, we get to sell about 20,000 tickets to this double-header, and we get to tell half our season ticket-holders and students to take a hike, or we can have the game in Piscataway, and sell 50,000 tickets (including students).

I kinda like the idea of making the Lambert Trophy more of a thing. Besides, East Coast football could use a shot in the arm from a national advertising standpoint.

Neutral site games could absolutely work and draw interest. Call it the Lambert Trophy Eastern College Football Series presented by AT&T or whatever. These can't be doubleheaders. From a tv perspective, ESPN should be able to get (and brand) these games, except WVU home games and Army-Navy, of course.

For this to work, you can really only rotate between the P5 Lambert programs: Boston College, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. The Army-Navy should be a "protected" Lambert game. Clearly, the Lambert brand would take a backseat to the Army-Navy brand, but Lambert should be part of it.

Year 1 could look like what's below. You'd have to get the ACC, Big Ten, WVU, and Army/Navy to agree, create a rotating schedule, and secure contracts with the stadiums. Not easy, but not impossible.

Metlife Stadium
BC vs. Rutgers

Lincoln Financial Field
Pittsburgh vs. Penn State

M&T Bank Stadium
West Virginia vs. Maryland

FedEx Field
Virginia vs. Virginia Tech

Rotation of MetLife/M&T/Lincoln Financial
Army vs. Navy

The Big Ten wants to get away from off-campus anyone, so I think that makes it a moot point.

I think it'd be fun even if the games are played on campus.

 

[KnightsofChrome]

To answer the OP's question; because we can't beat Penn State, or Maryland.

 

[AshCatchEm]

Once again you miss the point. It has nothing to do with being scared of playing those teams but recruiting against them. Why make it easier for them. We have enough comp from PSU, OSU, UM and MSU. Please remind me of all the Big East Championships we have celebrated, all the BCS games we attended, all the times we routed the Miami's of the world by 50 points. We have too many delusional fans like you who seem to think that being in the B1G automatically puts on on the same level as OSU. We are not and have not ever been at that level and until we get there why make it easier for any school we compete for recruits against to get visibility in NJ. Your unbridled optimism has no basis in fact when our history says otherwise. And before you start telling me how great we will be in ten years I remember hearing those sorts of things during the Anderson, Graber and Shea eras. It took Schiano 5 years to make us decent and even he could not deliver a conf championship. Come back to reality.

It's not like these teams are magically invisible if we don't play them..they're local. They send their coaches all over new Jersey. So let's just stomp them out in front of the recruits.

 

[bac2therac]

no problem with this, its so far out into the future anyhow, Id rather schedule them the schedule elite schools across the country, our conference schedule is tough enough, we need to schedule down at this point

 

[ScarletDave]

To me this is like playing Kansas. Get a team that you know will still be terrible in 10 years, not like Washington who of course becomes a playoff team the year we play them

 

[NorthNJRUFan]

We should schedule at least 1 OOC team a year that is part of the Lambert Trophy competition. I think BC and Temple are both in it.

Maybe even try to get agreement among the Lambert teams for an OOC scheduling alliance with games at a neutral site (ie. Met Life, Lincoln Financial, M and T Bank stadium, Gillette field).

Imagine Sept double headers of the 17 ECAC teams plus 1 invited team to make it 18:
Gillette:
UMass vs Syracuse
BC vs Buffalo

Met Life:
Rutgers vs Temple
Army vs UConn

Lincoln Financial:
Pitt vs Marshall
Penn St vs West Virginia

M and T Bank:
Maryland vs Old Dominion
Navy vs Va Tech

Old Dominion vs non-ECAC invited team

http://www.easternfootballnetwork.com/EFN-16-FBS-Poll-3.html

This is quite simply the worst idea in the history of college sports scheduling.

 

[BigEastPhil]

I hate BC for what they did back in the day......never wanted to play them again....but we all soften our stances as time evolves......like the idea now....driveable trip.....can spend the weekend in Boston and maybe catch a Red Sox game if lucky......