Athletic Performance Center

[RUJMM78]

Unfortunately our fans have never learned how to be fans. I remember the day that our dance team won nationals! Let's face it, our school has rarely put a product out that really warrants our fandom. And yet we continue to come and watch year after year.

Who else listened to RSU to hear us lose to Santa Clara in soccer? I wanted so bad to have a major national championship.

It's not easy to go to work and have to lay 30 points (in football and basketball) just to win a lunch against a coworker. And when they pay out because we covered, it's almost insulting. For years I would only bet straight up, then I realized that those saying my father would tell me growing up were true....money doesn't grow on trees, and I guess a sucker is born every minute.

That all being said, I find myself excited once again by the product we are putting out there now. There have been marked improvements by the university, and that hopefully should sustain the momentum that feels to be growing.

Go RU....make us proud.....please!

Patience truly is a virtue at Rutgers which is the reason why fans question when facilities will be built.The sleeping giant mantra needs to come out of hibernation .Attendance for football and mens basketball clearly is at a crossroads .Winning against quality opponents is the only way to rebuild the fan bases.

 

[Virginiarufan]

Agree with eja92. Once the bids is accepted it may take a month or two to turn what the architects envisioned into drawings the field superintendents use. At the same time equipment and staff start to mobilize. From there the only thing that slows a project is weather and even that can be overcome most of the time. They should be clearing the site within a month or two of accepting the bid and they should be coming out of the ground before winter.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Hawk....my post was about Pikiell and not recruits. Just like you and I, Pikiell chooses where he wants to work. It can't feel good to be an obvious 2nd fiddle.

 

[KevH]

That's absurd. But if you'd like to look at the negative - go ahead! Like Hawk said, under Hobbs and his terrific team, RU athletics is getting an A+ For what they are doing facilities-wise at this point. Getting that practice facility done in the time they did at RU was nothing short of a miracle.

Wasn't it reported that weather delayed sod installation at the practice facility?

 

[RU-Choppin-Ohio]

Ok putting down sod 3 weeks before closing a house is on time. Putting sod down 3 weeks before a football team is going to practice on it is behind schedule. Great they had the opening ceremony on time but we can't practice on it every day for a reason. That reason, sod takes 6 weeks to grow roots and take hold.

That's like opening the Barnabas Center(good name choice I'll use that from now on) holding the ceremony but there's no hoops/backboards, wrestling mats or gymnastic apparatus in the building. But really my original point is mute, until we find out who the contractor is. I thought that was already established. Apparently not.

P.S. to the war and peace novelist, yes I follow recruiting and know we are doing quite well. However a tangible structure to show recruits is better than blueprints on a drawing board and will help tremendously.

@koleszar I am not sure if you got your facts wrong or you are just making up stuff to support whatever you are trying to prove.

The Sod went down on June 20th and took a few days to complete. That's just about 6 weeks before the Grand Opening on August 6th. No where near the 3 weeks you claim.

 

[BoroKnight]

Lets face it...in many ways, our fans suck

I know that ruffles feathers but its just true

Frustrating as hell....

If our fans suck, it is because of decades of everything from utter incompetence to gross malfeasance. Sure, we can see -- especially with Hobbs, but also Pikiell -- that things feel different, but until we see W's in the standings and buildings ready to go some folks will be pessimistic. It's built-in. Give them time.

But if Pikiell can recruit like this with nothing but promises of facilities and promises of competitiveness, you have to be excited what he will be able to do with actual, tangible things to show people and, dare to dream, actual winning records.

So while I understand why people are irritated by the negativity and skepticism, it's really, really hard to believe things are different. After all, we've been told that before.