Article: Job is not done yet
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I thought PSU doesn’t care about Rutgers and we’re not a rival ??? So why would their beat writer cover us when we don’t play them for another few weeks ??
No - he wasn’t saying why we “shouldn’t” get in. He was saying why we are currently not yet in, and that we have a little work to do. Big difference.
People are way too sensitive around here. That was about as positive an article that you’re ever going to get from a non-RU writer, let alone a Penn State writer.
The only teams out of the nine you list that are locks are Purdue, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Ohio State. MSU is close to a lock, but they’ve looked bad recently, and if they continue to falter, they could play their way out.
Iowa is now close to a lock after beating Ohio State soundly on the road. They have the metrics, and now they finally have a Quad 1 win, on the road no less. So, if you include MSU, that’s PROBABLY six teams in.
That leaves Rutgers, Michigan, and Indiana. Right now, all three are on the cusp, but Indiana has lost 4 in a row, so they’re trending down. Rutgers and Michigan are trending up but still have work to do. I could see none of the three make it, all of the three, or one or two. It all depends on how they all close out the season and the Big Ten tournament.
It wasnt positive and our fanbase does not need an article from a Penn State beat reporter mansplaining how the ncaa tournament works
Waahhhh.
This is the same type of over sensitivity people have toward Politi. The guy is a columnist who has to have an “angle.” Aside from the “Rutgers fans are a bit naive in matters of the Bubble” angle, the column was positive and realistic. Frankly no more realistic than you are in your bacatology analysis about Rutgers’ chances.
My last word on the subject, though. Today is not about us bickering over a Penn State writer. It is about all of Scarlet Nation coming together in unison to root on our Scarlet Knights. LFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay but in this case - the point your trying to make doesn’t seem applicable. 11 of Nebraska’s 13 wins that year were not against Michigan or Penn State or the 3 better teams in the conference. It wasn’t a situation where the conference had teams that struggled OOC like RU and then collected good wins in conference. The rest of the teams were consistently bad the whole season - and those were the wins on Nebraska’s resume .
For perspective, after PSU, the only other team with a 500 conference record was Indiana. They were 9-9, and lost to Indiana State and Fort Wayne OOC.