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Football GAMEDAY THREAD: Rutgers vs. Indiana

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RutgersSam

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Barnaby&Neill said:
Not from NJ, don’t live there now, didn’t grow up a Rutgers fan, so not sure I suffer from your proposed NJ syndrome, but I do see a guy who got us to the top 25 in multiple seasons, had us in bowl games nearly every year, built some pride in this program, and actually started pulling some big local talent is on the sideline now.

Not saying it’s going to happen again, but he deserves more than three years to work at it.
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Multiple top 25 seasons? That would be 1 season, out of 11, which was 16 years ago. Outside of that he had 2 other successful season in a very weak conference against one of the worst schedules in the country. He went 5-2 in conference those years but of course never won the conference. Pretty much anyone above .500 makes a bowl game, and in a weak conference against a horrible schedule, if you didn't actually finish above .500, you'd be considered ridiculously bad. So yes, Schiano isn't ridiculously bad. But that is a long way from saying he isn't over his head in the B1G. Judging by his resume after he left Rutgers, nothing indicates he has the wherewithal to be successful at anything other than a substandard conference like the Big East back in the early 2000s.

Add to that the slate of failures when he actually started to build some moderate momentum... New Hampshire, Louisville, West Virginia, Cincy, etc, etc. Many more deflating losses than major victories with Schiano's 1.0. Can't let nostalgia obscure the facts.
 
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WasatRutgers

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RutgersSam said:
Multiple top 25 seasons? That would be 1 season, out of 11, which was 16 years ago. Outside of that he had 2 other successful season in a very weak conference against one of the worst schedules in the country. He went 5-2 in conference those years but of course never won the conference. Pretty much anyone above .500 makes a bowl game, and in a weak conference against a horrible schedule, if you didn't actually finish above .500, you'd be considered ridiculously bad. So yes, Schiano isn't ridiculously bad. But that is a long way from saying he isn't over his head in the B1G. Judging by his resume after he left Rutgers, nothing indicates he has the wherewithal to be successful at anything other than a substandard conference like the Big East back in the early 2000s.

Add to that the slate of failure when he actually started to build some moderate momentum... New Hampshire, Louisville, West Virginia, Cincy, etc, etc. Many more deflating losses than major victories with Schiano's 1.0. Can't let nostalgia obscure the facts.
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Also, never beat Rich Rod and Kelly
 
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Scarlet_Monster

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Indiana on offense makes the field look like it's a mile wide...when were on offense it shrinks down to a sandbox.
 
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NickRU714

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Can we stop with the "illegal formation" or ineligible downfield if covered on the line of dumb ****?

Make the rules simple already.
 
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