TOTS if you’re in Blacksburg
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Sorry nuts...chilling in Floyd watching Neb/ill...cu tom at game
Just met a VT girl from manasquan…
“I HATE Rutgers!”
Why?
“I just do and always have. No reason.”
“I HATE Rutgers!”
Why?
“I just do and always have. No reason.”
Hmmm most likely dumped by her dream guy who happened to be a Loyal Son? 🤔
No… young girl who’s friend is a former RU gymnast. She cannot come up for the life of her, explain why she hated RU.
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A lot of kids who go to school out of state have a disdain for Rutgers
Which will make it even sweeter for us and worse for them when we beat the breaks off them today
FWIW, buddy of mine fell down the entire stairs at TOTS about 25 years ago
Amazed he didn't go to hospital - kid got right back up like nothing happened
Which will make it even sweeter for us and worse for them when we beat the breaks off them today
FWIW, buddy of mine fell down the entire stairs at TOTS about 25 years ago
Amazed he didn't go to hospital - kid got right back up like nothing happened
These kids usually just have parents that are that way.
I think there are many different reasons.. Let us more properly call them rationalizations. But the phenomenon is real. We have seen it quite often. I am surprised a shore girl felt that way.. maybe she was new to Manasquan and the shore? It's been my experience that people down the shore love NJ and by extension, Rutgers, unless there is another issue in play.
I humbly offer one such explanation.. they wanted to get away from home and if they ever were thought to "like" Rutgers they'd have a hard time explaining to the 'rents why they wanted them to pony-up more $$$ to go out of state to an inferior or similar school. VTech is not inferior. Can you imagine this girl having that "go out-of-state" bias and being schedule by parents to tour Rutgers thinking she might be "forced" to state in-state if she was seen as liking the school and campus?
Come to think of it.. here's my top 3 rationalizations in no particular order:
- Family has ties to other institutions for generations
- Family resents their tax dollars supporting Rutgers, affected by the regular media attacks which are designed to wrest total control of Rutgers from its trustees to political control
- Going "out-of-state" is important to them personally or because of peer pressure, this trend is possibly caused by Rutgers large, but limited ability to take in only a small portion of the total number of NJ HS grads attending college
I understand all of that, but the general distain and snubbing your nose at Rutgers, when you grew up in New Jersey and Rutgers is a very highly respected national university that also happens to be our state flagship, is what I don’t understand
Born and raised on ‘Squan. Hated RU her entire life. No joke.
Possibly.. but I think the overriding issue that supports many other reasons is the number of students NJ generates and how Rutgers could never support more than a small number. Affluence can be an issue as well. The affluent support brands that support their status and that reflects what those who aspire to be seen as affluent choose to value. Any Rutgers student or alum is smart enough to understand this without further explanation... unlike many of those afflicted with this issue.
For those people I will offer this example. In the film "Risky Business", the character Joel, living in an affluent Wisconsin suburb of Chicago seeks to go to Princeton as all his peers seem to seek Ivy League school acceptance. He thinks he messed up the interview when he sees the Princeton rep at his house party / whore festival and he declares "Hello Wisconsin!" his fall-back school.. a State University.
Of course, Wisconsin is a little more than half the population of New Jersey and they have a completely different history. They became a state in 1838 and only 10 years later they created the state university. Rutgers was still a small private DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH college back then and would remain a relatively small private college for the next 100 years while Wisconsin was serving their state's residents' needs for higher education at a time when travel out of state was much more difficult.
Rutgers and New Jersey have a very unique history and that is part of the problem with current state residents "hating" Rutgers.
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She was most like born when our team was good but by the time she even got a chance to even understand football- Ash was hating on NJ. And that is just football.
Local kids and their distain for the school - all the reasons are explained well by others. But there is also something said about NY/NJ people in general. You never find people that have never left their town, much less the state. We all get out to the world and that extends to going to college.
