Ummmmmmm, who's fault is it that (in your words):
Vegas doesn’t indicate a good anything. They set the initial line to get 2 sided action. The fact that they had to set the o/u at 4.5 tells you all you need to know where they “think” this season is headed.
8 better be the expectation
#2 is a published fact. Overcoming #1 will need schematic improvements and better execution on Defense. It doesn’t help with a HC taking 3 months (again) to find a Defensive Coordinator. The Schedule has given Schiano a major break this season despite his own undoings. 6 wins should be considered the benchmark in year 6 of a B1G HC.Ummmmmmm, who's fault is it that (in your words):
1. The defense will be worse than last year
2. We lost more than we added
You sound like a negatoid. In case you don't know the answer, it's this guy's fault for 1 and 2, and he owns it.
Also- beating the crappiest ACC team in BC along with UMass and Howard is 3 guaranteed wins.
Not being able muster up 4 wins against the bottom half of the Big Ten in Year 7 is not great sign of success.
Newsflash- Rutgers does not play Ohio State this year.
And long time fans who are in and/or approaching their twilight years who want to see Rutgers win like they did in 2006 (that's 20 years ago!) are not negatoids. To the contrary, they want more positive outcomes for the team they have long supported.
Enjoy the season.
I am hopeful (with nothing but hope to support this) that the defense will improve over last year. The competition is likely weaker, and the coaching cannot be worse on defense than it was last year.
Them setting 4.5 wins as the over/under absolutely provides a massive indication of what their "market" expects so that the action is split. Winning 6 when the market expects between 4 and 5 clearly indicates the team overachieved. Constantly hear people saying that Vegas favoring a team to win by 10 is not an "indication" of who they think will win. Just splitting the action, right? Check the winning percentage of teams favored by 10.
Again Vegas didn’t indicate a good anything. They don’t care who wins. They want the vig. Also them setting a 4.5 o/u is not something I would take as an indication of a successful program. Also winning 6 games is not what would be considered overachieving in anything.
A technical fact. But a long time Rutgers fan expectation issue and crutch. Yeah , we were 500 again! "Whoppdie damn doo" . It's time to win a few games were were not favored to and beat some some teams ranked within our neighborhood regardless of anything else. Coaching matters
In 2024, neither Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, nor Oregon was on the schedule and RU still lost 5 conference games; 2 of the losses were to UCLA (one of the worst teams in the conference) and Illinois (the reason for which has been repeated ad nauseum) Last season turned on 4 games: Illinois, Iowa, Washington, and Minnesota. RU beat Washington and Minnesota the previous season. The loss to Illinois needs no further explanation. RU took the collar in all 4 games; collapsed in the second half in 2 of them, and utterly shat the bed in the other 2.
And we would be remiss in not pointing out that it took a late turnover by Purdue an a field goal as time expired for Rutgers to beat a downtrodden Purdue under a first year head coach by a score 27-24.
Does not appear to be a big loss. From his Bio on the Team roster, appeared mostly on kickoffs:
6 wins gets him another year. No one expects us to beat Ohio St. We also don't expect to have the head honcho call a timeout when the kicker needs to kick a 58 yarder into a gale force wind to ice him.
Are you brain impaired? No where did I say 4.5 is a successful program. 4.5 for Ohio State is failure. Winning 6 when the market says 4.5 is overachieving. Plain and simple. Rutgers is set at 4.5. That is the market that gets equal money on both sides. Clear indication of what is expected. I certainly hope you are not involved in any financial sector business. You'll end up broke.
You are special person aren’t you. You said “6 wins is a good season”. Your words.
You set markets. Please tell me where and when as you clearly have no understanding on how things work. Step back and hit the bar. You posted that Vegas setting 4.5 is not an indication. That shows market ignorance. Plain and simple.
So a market at 4.5 wins is an indication of good? Pal sit this one out.
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