Can people finally STFU about MSG now?

[bac2therac]

Looked great on TV. Seen by all nationwide. Worth it.

Now imagine it being seen at the RAC

 

[RUPete]

Looked great on TV. Seen by all nationwide. Worth it.

Announcers also had great things to say about the Rutgers crowd. I would rather see this for a good OOC game, but as Numbers said, if it evens out I can deal with it.

 

[RUisB1Gtime]

Attendance listed at 14,844..

 

[RUinPinehurst]

Sorry to me its still not worth it

This. Never ever forfeit a decided advantage. Never.

 

[FinalFourOrBust_rivals142702]

Yes please stop complaining about that being a home game. I was there and that was basically a home game as the crowd was at least 80% Rutgers fans and almost sold out. Will gladly do that again next year.

 

[Rutgers25]

Bigger RU crowd than what he had for Michigan 3 years ago, which still had a large RU crowd. I was really impressed. Usually in arenas that large our fans get lost in the vastness but not today. Huge turnout by Rutgers nation!

 

[AreYouNUTS]

I’m destroying the FoxSports pregame on Twitter right now. I think it was Donyell Marshall, who claimed, before the game that Michigan State fans were going to turn Madison Square Garden into a home venue. What a ******* idiot!

 

[Loyal_2RU]

Yes please stop complaining about that being a home game. I was there and that was basically a home game as the crowd was at least 80% Rutgers fans and almost sold out. Will gladly do that again next year.

It is a treat to go to the garden for games. Used to have 2-4 a year there and loved it

 

[bac2therac]

I’m destroying the FoxSports pregame on Twitter right now. I think it was Donyell Marshall, who claimed, before the game, that Michigan State fans were going to turn Madison Square Garden into a home venue. What a ****ing idiot!

Fox coverage blows

Its btn and cbs for me

 

[fluoxetine]

Great, gut-check win and we sounded really loud on TV. That was a home game - maybe not quite the RAC, but felt like home on TV at least. And by the way 22-16 on fouls in our favor (was 18-16 before they started fouling), so was a well-reffed game, too. Paul with the MVP of the game with 16 2nd half points. Huge!

No. Can you stop playing board police already? You don’t like it when people talk about refs. You don’t like it when people complain about MSG. Blah blah, who cares.

The actual body of your post I 100% support.

Regarding home game.. mostly. But they played MSU videos, had MSU people in the halftime contest, and enough fans for a couple of audible chants

 

[cm_13]

I’m destroying the FoxSports pregame on Twitter right now. I think it was Donyell Marshall, who claimed, before the game that Michigan State fans were going to turn Madison Square Garden into a home venue. What a ****ing idiot!

Where do people get this kinda **** from? Like obviously that wasn’t going to happen

 

[ancienthooper]

It’s the f^kin Garden. Stop the whining, grow up, grow a pair, and win the f^kin game. That’s what happened and Pikes and team are the f^kin bad boys of the B10.

 

[RU848789]

No. Can you stop playing board police already? You don’t like it when people talk about refs. You don’t like it when people complain about MSG. Blah blah, who cares.

The actual body of your post I 100% support.

Regarding home game.. mostly. But they played MSU videos, had MSU people in the halftime contest, and enough fans for a couple of audible chants

If it had been a few comments on MSG, I'd never start a thread like this, but you have to admit the drumbeat has been relentless on this, including during the game thread, and it's just annoying after awhile, so I'll call it out if I feel like it.

 

[-RUFAN4LIFE-]

All I could hear was the Michigan State band and when we tried an R-U chant MSG drowned it out with loud music. Fortunately, the team is just good so that’s why we win. But GREAT turnout by RU fans. Pleasantly surprised. If we had our game day Ops there it would’ve been crazy.

Might have been where you were sitting. On TV we could hear the R-U chant all game long.

 

[FinalFourOrBust_rivals142702]

If it had been a few comments on MSG, I'd never start a thread like this, but you have to admit the drumbeat has been relentless on this, including during the game thread, and it's just annoying after awhile, so I'll call it out if I feel like it.

Ignore those guys, you’re 100% right. All of the anti msg crowd look very foolish today so they’re lashing out.

 

[FRA10Thunderbolt]

Great, gut-check win and we sounded really loud on TV. That was a home game - maybe not quite the RAC, but felt like home on TV at least. And by the way 22-16 on fouls in our favor (was 18-16 before they started fouling), so was a well-reffed game, too. Paul with the MVP of the game with 16 2nd half points. Huge!

I watched it on TV and I could clearly hear 70% of the RU chants. It was a beautiful thing to see Izzo’s sourpus face on tv. Great win Scarlet Knights!

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Where do people get this kinda **** from? Like obviously that wasn’t going to happen

He was adamant about it!!

 

[DJ Spanky]

I’m destroying the FoxSports pregame on Twitter right now. I think it was Donyell Marshall, who claimed, before the game that Michigan State fans were going to turn Madison Square Garden into a home venue. What a ****ing idiot!

Was that the guy who is supposedly a Yukon fan/grad?

 

[fluoxetine]

If it had been a few comments on MSG, I'd never start a thread like this, but you have to admit the drumbeat has been relentless on this, including during the game thread, and it's just annoying after awhile, so I'll call it out if I feel like it.

Ignore those guys, you’re 100% right. All of the anti msg crowd look very foolish today so they’re lashing out.

There was very little anti-MSG sentiment when we thought it was a neutral game except for a couple people who were extremely vocal and roundly mocked.

There are, rightly, a lot of people against playing there if it counts as a home game, especially if there are going to be videos, cheerleaders, etc from the “away” team. That is ********.

No one looks more or less foolish because we won, that’s just an extremely stupid thing to say @FinalFourOrBust

 

[seels2662]

Its great now but there will be a time when Rutgers fans are shut out of attending the MSG game because 8000 of the opposing fans show up. Especially when we start to get good good.

How many of you would have shown up if the league would have forced Purdue to play us at Gainbridge Fieldhouse?

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Was that the guy who is supposedly a Yukon fan/grad?

Correct

 

[FinalFourOrBust_rivals142702]

There was very little anti-MSG sentiment when we thought it was a neutral game except for a couple people who were extremely vocal and roundly mocked.

There are, rightly, a lot of people against playing there if it counts as a home game, especially if there are going to be videos, cheerleaders, etc from the “away” team. That is ********.

No one looks more or less foolish because we won, that’s just an extremely stupid thing to say @FinalFourOrBust

That first part isn’t and we both know it. People have have complaining about this game since the season started. Next year we’ll get a game at msg that will be considered neutral even though we’ll have 80% of the crowd so it all evens out. Please stop crying.

 

[Luvscarletknights]

A win is always great. But the fact that we lost on a quad 1 win is ********

Just keep winning.. F... Izzo

 

[Loyal_2RU]

Now imagine it being seen at the RAC

Sorry bac, this was so much fun to go to.

 

[carmenst]

If the attendance was ~14,800 , I would guess it was 12,000 Rutgers fans . Because tickets are so hard to come by for games at Jersey Mike’s , this game maybe the only one hundreds of our fans can make it to this year.

 

[RU-ROCS]

Tell that to the 11000 there

official attendance was 14,800. That is an impressive RU turnout, especially considering the RAC only fits 8K.

 

[Nycrusupporter]

I wouldn’t mind playing at MSG if we could EVER shoot more than 35% from the field.

Someone behind me said that bot teams started the game with MSG jitters. I think he was right.

 

[Nycrusupporter]

This. Never ever forfeit a decided advantage. Never.

We had a huge advantage today

 

[fluoxetine]

That first part isn’t and we both know it. People have have complaining about this game since the season started. Next year we’ll get a game at msg that will be considered neutral even though we’ll have 80% of the crowd so it all evens out. Please stop crying.

You’re a clown and you have no idea what you’re talking about.

 

[e5fdny]

I would just prefer the B1G schedules an OOC game here for us.

There’s no reason for us to play a B1G game away from the RAC.

^^^This^^^ It’s always been this.

If we hadn't had about 10 threads and hundreds of posts whining about it, it might be immature. After having to suffer through all that whining, it was appropriate, IMO.

Ignore those guys, you’re 100% right. All of the anti msg crowd look very foolish today so they’re lashing out.

There was very little anti-MSG sentiment when we thought it was a neutral game except for a couple people who were extremely vocal and roundly mocked.

There are, rightly, a lot of people against playing there if it counts as a home game, especially if there are going to be videos, cheerleaders, etc from the “away” team. That is ********.

No one looks more or less foolish because we won, that’s just an extremely stupid thing to say @FinalFourOrBust

And ^^^THIS^^^ too.

- Great win
- should play there every year: OOC? Holiday tourney? Local NYC team (SJU, Fordham, Manhattan, Iona)?
- not a fan of this type of arrangement, would prefer we are the ONLY B1G presence there.

 

[FinalFourOrBust_rivals142702]

You’re a clown and you have no idea what you’re talking about.

At least you’re not crying about fouls this time

 

[ColonelRutgers]

I was there it was loud, all RU. Interesting take re broadcast because much different in person. It was mostly red pike 80/20 RU

I was there too and near the MSU band. Couldn’t hear our band at all and the couple of attempts of an R-U chant went nowhere that I could tell because they were drowned out by MSG game day operations.

 

[wheezer]

I tend to agree with the sentiment here, but the lecture thread title is immature.

Respectfully disagee

Way way too much complaining before

It turned out to be a great day on the big stage where so many more people notice

 

[Nycrusupporter]

There was very little anti-MSG sentiment when we thought it was a neutral game except for a couple people who were extremely vocal and roundly mocked.

There are, rightly, a lot of people against playing there if it counts as a home game, especially if there are going to be videos, cheerleaders, etc from the “away” team. That is ********.

No one looks more or less foolish because we won, that’s just an extremely stupid thing to say @FinalFourOrBust

You want to know why all those things were included in today’s game? Because this was a big time frigging game at the famous basketball venue on national tv.

 

[wheezer]

I would just prefer the B1G schedules an OOC game here for us.

There’s no reason for us to play a B1G game away from the RAC.

The reason was It was great

 

[bac2therac]

Sorry bac, this was so much fun to go to.

Meh i have more fun at RAC

 

[wheezer]

Wow, caps, you must also be a mod, lol. It's only unfair if we don't get the games evened out, as it's now 2-1 against us. If it's an even split, it's an advantage to us in the long run as "away" games at MSG will be mostly like home games and "home" games at MSG will be almost as good as the RAC.

That is how I see it also

 

[wheezer]

Yes it’s GREAT we won, but it’s doesn’t change the fact it SHOULD have been played at the RAC.

It’s not fair that every team doesn’t have to play a conference game away from home court.

This turned better than being at the RAC
We beat them in a big arena with thousands of their fans there also

It was a big time atmosphere’, bigger than at the RAC

 

[S_Janowski]

Great, gut-check win and we sounded really loud on TV. That was a home game - maybe not quite the RAC, but felt like home on TV at least. And by the way 22-16 on fouls in our favor (was 18-16 before they started fouling), so was a well-reffed game, too. Paul with the MVP of the game with 16 2nd half points. Huge!

Agree with everything except the refs. They stunk.

 

[wheezer]

Yes please stop complaining about that being a home game. I was there and that was basically a home game as the crowd was at least 80% Rutgers fans and almost sold out. Will gladly do that again next year.

Wondering how many still complaining were there or did they watch on tv