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newell138

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Pretty lame the last few months. I’m guessing it’s largely due to RU athletics being just all around bad in most sports, local pro teams sucking for the most part and NIL killing interest in following athletes since most are 1 and done. Board merger also didn’t help
 

T2Kplus20

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Pretty lame the last few months. I’m guessing it’s largely due to RU athletics being just all around bad in most sports, local pro teams sucking for the most part and NIL killing interest in following athletes since most are 1 and done. Board merger also didn’t help
Definitely down over the past 3-4 months. Perhaps the double dose of RU awfulness last fall and winter pushed away some of the casual posters? The merger hurt the free board community, but traffic seemed to be pretty stable until the recent decline.
 

Simce91

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Seriously I think you're spot on. I might add the cone of silence Football imposes on reporters.

Totally agree on this, and although this may upset many Schianoites, what a putzy move by Greg.

The media that is currently covering RU football are mostly visited by only the true/diehard fan, how about giving them something to "munch" on in the off season.

He could easily give some morsels for the fans to chew on without jeopardizing anything. Hell, for that matter he could give contradictory info every press conference. But it would be something to create conversation, speculation and enthusiasm
 

Kbe4

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I can't believe how few posts there are daily on this board. A lot of quality posters aren't here anymore.
Hopefully, some will return as we get to August.
 
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Bored traffic (I see what I did there): R teams haven't been good and the silliness of following recruiting in today's anything goes NIL college world. It's not worth the time to get into a new commit or some intense recruiting battle when the next day--maybe same day--another school swoops in and the kid decommits. Maybe things will pick-up when FB season starts.
 

Kbe4

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Thank you, Karnack.
But I don't believe in objectivity.
And I sure as hell don't come here for it.
edit: this post meant for 95.
 

bac2therac

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Its a combo of several things

General slow decline of message boards over a decade now declining more rapidly since other forms of social media have

NIL has turned many off

Athletes now paid and are students in name only

Utter futility in Rutgers sports across the board

Following recruiting has become worthless

Hope and Joy are waning

An aging Rutgers die hard fan population

Pay board becoming more popular for discussions

ON3 taking over and many lost through the cracks
 

Caliknight

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Schiano does everything to not allow his program to be accessible. It’s the least sexy, boring program you can run. Combine that with how people consume news and socials who break stories as fast or faster and these formats will die out at some point.
 

MADHAT1

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I can't believe how few posts there are daily on this board. A lot of quality posters aren't here anymore.
Hopefully, some will return as we get to August.
trouble transferring over probably disgusted some and they gave up trying.
Also the fools that turn everything into a politicize argument probably drove some away, though that BS was part of the old board as well ( so might not be accurate to say the foolishness slowed traffic)
Might be some are tired of all 3 programs not meeting expectations and a reason some posters aren't posting or posting a lot less..
 
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JL23

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Its a combo of several things

General slow decline of message boards over a decade now declining more rapidly since other forms of social media have

NIL has turned many off

Athletes now paid and are students in name only

Utter futility in Rutgers sports across the board

Following recruiting has become worthless

Hope and Joy are waning

An aging Rutgers die hard fan population

Pay board becoming more popular for discussions

ON3 taking over and many lost through the cracks
Teams largely suck and merger of Rivals to On3 was a disaster
Rest of the points have validity but those are the 2 main ones

NIL is an excuse
If football / bball became elite b/c of it (Indiana style), nobody would care it was largely due to that
Board traffic would be up and we'd be singing the praises of the new system
 
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fsng

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Still think it's a combination of people who didn't make switch to new site and others who have left 'cause of bad teams, NIL, general disinterest.

This time of year used to stay pretty busy with OT threads in spite lack of FB to talk about. Not much of that anymore.

As for RU FB ...2006 was 20 frigging years ago. Can hardly believe that but gotta have some kind of newer success to energize fanbase again.
 
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fsng

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Teams largely suck and merger of Rivals to On3 was a disaster
Rest of the points have validity but those are the 2 main ones

NIL is an excuse
If football / bball became elite b/c of it (Indiana style), nobody would care it was largely due to that
Board traffic would be up and we'd be singing the praises of the new system

Agree with your NIL point but also see the point others make that couple it with unrestricted portal and it hurts when we suck. Watching a team of different guys lose every season is even less intriguing when you can't follow guys developing from season to season (e.g. we're gonna be great next year.)

Yeah, if you're bringing in the best portal guys for a playoff run every season, NIL is great. For us, not so much.

I'm at the point where if TV streamers were to eliminate cancel anytime, I'm gonna stop watching RU all together. Would come back if they start winning but not pissing away thousands to watch them lose. That would have been unthinkable a few years back.
 

Ru-baby

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Schiano does everything to not allow his program to be accessible. It’s the least sexy, boring program you can run. Combine that with how people consume news and socials who break stories as fast or faster and these formats will die out at some point.
That was Flood.

Never saw anyone tamp down enthusiasm (especially when entering B10) than he did. Silly shenanigans on top only diminished further.

Yes GS should do more but it appears with new dc and coaches they are all dialed in trying for that one signature win to get rid of that storyline. Doing that will bring enthusiasm more than behind the scnes look at formations.
 
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scarletrat99

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Let's face it, even this past season was bad, even by RU standards. In past, at least 1 sport, maybe 2, did well. We used to be known for womens hoops, mens soccer, then womens soccer, with some surprises here and there. This year, did anyone make a NCAA postseason other than wrestling?

And this spring moratorium by Greg is a joke quite honestly. He does it for years, and yet, does it really matter when we are winning only 4, 5 games a season, and he screws the pooch in at least 1 game/season, or with the D has played the last 2 seasons?

It's pretty clear Greg's ceiling was 7 or 8 wins in a watered down Big East, and 4-5 in Big 10.
 

Knight Shift

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That was Flood.

Never saw anyone tamp down enthusiasm (especially when entering B10) than he did. Silly shenanigans on top only diminished further.

Yes GS should do more but it appears with new dc and coaches they are all dialed in trying for that one signature win to get rid of that storyline. Doing that will bring enthusiasm more than behind the scnes look at formations.
Flood had the best B1G season in the 11 or 12 years in the league. Blaming him for anything now is off base.
 
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Ru-baby

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Flood lucked in to a senor laden and well oiled D that nearly ran itself and an experienced qb from GS era. The 6 pick, the vt bowl game-we can go on with his coaching foibles but those are just exemplars.

Crediting him for results is more than misleading. He was way over his head the entire time. Any former GS assistant who stepped in would have had similar or better results. My point was different from his lack of hc competence-it was how he tamped down enthusiam while RU made it sbiggest league entrance ever. Blaming him for how we got to Ash--who else would be prime for that blame--even if you include others, Flood cannot be excluded. Really dont get the Flood apologist posts for his tenure--it was a gradual descent from what was left and the best ever class that came in. Why would anyone want that to have continued one more season is beyond me absent personal relations or personal access.
 

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Just looking at RU football specifically, I recently saw a couple of decent seasons with winning and some obvious player development. Then last year was a return to losing pumpkin football (which surprised nobody). That was bad enough, but at the same time two teams that RU beat a few seasons ago played for the national title - with the winning team a traditional flunky that just sailed over RU in a couple of years. That was a real psychic enema. Suddenly it was like a fav celeb you thought of as hot was in a pic with no make-up and the fantasy bubble popped



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On3 website has been up overall https://analytics.explodingtopics.com/website/on3.com
 

Knight Shift

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Flood lucked in to a senor laden and well oiled D that nearly ran itself and an experienced qb from GS era. The 6 pick, the vt bowl game-we can go on with his coaching foibles but those are just exemplars.

Crediting him for results is more than misleading. He was way over his head the entire time. Any former GS assistant who stepped in would have had similar or better results. My point was different from his lack of hc competence-it was how he tamped down enthusiam while RU made it sbiggest league entrance ever. Blaming him for how we got to Ash--who else would be prime for that blame--even if you include others, Flood cannot be excluded. Really dont get the Flood apologist posts for his tenure--it was a gradual descent from what was left and the best ever class that came in. Why would anyone want that to have continued one more season is beyond me absent personal relations or personal access.
So sick of the Greg's players narrative.
Greg has made many more boneheaded mistakes.
Six years in and a losing record and not one ranked win. Talk about apologists!!!
#Coaching Matters
 

RUTGERS95

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Flood lucked in to a senor laden and well oiled D that nearly ran itself and an experienced qb from GS era. The 6 pick, the vt bowl game-we can go on with his coaching foibles but those are just exemplars.

Crediting him for results is more than misleading. He was way over his head the entire time. Any former GS assistant who stepped in would have had similar or better results. My point was different from his lack of hc competence-it was how he tamped down enthusiam while RU made it sbiggest league entrance ever. Blaming him for how we got to Ash--who else would be prime for that blame--even if you include others, Flood cannot be excluded. Really dont get the Flood apologist posts for his tenure--it was a gradual descent from what was left and the best ever class that came in. Why would anyone want that to have continued one more season is beyond me absent personal relations or personal access.
you can't be serious? he did a very good job on gameday and did something Greg never did. Only a fool would preach what you're trying to preach

there are many things wrong with the Flood era starting at the top but to discredit the job he did on the field is absolutely shortsighted
 

MADHAT1

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So sick of the Greg's players narrative.
Greg has made many more boneheaded mistakes.
Six years in and a losing record and not one ranked win. Talk about apologists!!!
#Coaching Matters
Greg is a flawed HC, but he also made RU FB into a fairly good program ( twice) after taking over a downtrodden program that was considered a loser.
Flood inherited a good program and his 9-4 first season gave hope, but he wasn't ip to the job enough to have constant winning seasons and left because he embarrassed the program more then his 3-6 record when he got the boot.
As for Schiano, (2) another poster said he is only good enough for 7 or 8 win seasons and I agree with that.
Greg 1 I feel could bring in between 7-9 seasons onb a constant bases.
Kyle was a yo-yo , win one year lose the next .
I feel that Flood could win with the right assistants controlling the game.
Schiano wins less than he should because he makes the decisions on the game-day strategy .

Both Greg and Kyle are not the best of the best, but for RU they are the ones that RU fans defend or condemm,
because since Bateman & Burns Rutgers hasn;t pulled in a HC that can solidify the fanbase by meeting the expectations RU fans felt the program should reach 20 years ago..
Greg gave the RU Fanbase a program they could be proud of, but he never proved he was able to make Rutgers into the type of program RU fans could brag about after the 2006 season.
So I'll say: Schiano was the one that gave Rutgers fans the idea the program would be great, but he never produced
that type of program after 2006 and in reality I'd say he proved he couldn't make RU great before the 2006 season ended.

Flood was a hire many didn't want and by the time he left he proved them right in objecting to his hire.
Greg 2 also had detractors and though he made RU far better than when he took over, he hasn't done enough to stay ,and like Flood, Schiano doesn't deserve the support he's receiving from some because he has had enought time to build a good program and failed to do so.
We can find excuse after excuse, but the bottom line is W-L and G2 has not proved he can win enough games to have Rutgers considered a good program or good enough ttp play in major bowls , and a far cry from being considered even close to a playoff contender .

Why the fusing and fighting over Greg, he is the best of a bad bunch of hires after the D-1AA Batman and Burns teams and they never were considered top programs even in D-1AA except for a couple of years Dr John and then Burnsie ran the program before RU went D-1A

This board has had more things to complain about than brag over and that type of interaction tends to keep traffic going at a slow pace.
People just get tired of responding to complaints , along with reading more bad news than happy thoughts
 
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Greg is a flawed HC, but he also made RU FB into a fairly good program ( twice) after taking over a downtrodden program that was considered a loser.
Flood inherited a good program and his 9-4 first season gave hope, but he wasn't ip to the job enough to have constant winning seasons and left because he embarrassed the program

Flood was a good coach but he REALLY wanted players to like him. He was too much of a happy puppy wagging his tale and playing with the kids. Football teams are big like a company in the military, and some marginal players with an edge start to sense weakness and step over lines. It would be hard to imagine Schiano with a secondary full of arrested players and home invasions in the papers. Something really went off the tracks there and I trace it to spoiling. Position coaches can be the nice guy but a HC has to have command presence. Schiano had that and Flood didn't - the players knew it.
 
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satnom

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Not having a spring game to watch and critique going into Memorial Day Weekend really kills the chatter about RU football for a couple months.

If RU wins 8+ games, genius but if RU pulls a turd 5- win season lets stop with the cloak and dagger operation.

GO RU
 

Knight Shift

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you can't be serious? he did a very good job on gameday and did something Greg never did. Only a fool would preach what you're trying to preach

there are many things wrong with the Flood era starting at the top but to discredit the job he did on the field is absolutely shortsighted
Yeah, to be clear, I was not propping up Flood over Greg. Flood was lax on rules and discipline, which led to his downfall. If Fridge had stayed on as I, and he had an AD who was not a loser and did not have her finger on the Flood Killswitch, maybe things would have been different. Greg has always been given everything he has asked for and more, and 2.0 has been underwhelming. So tired of the excuses for lack of ranked wins or even getting to a 8 wins in a single season.
 

Knight Shift

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You’re a metal head - what do you know about music? 😎
Au contraire, mon frere! I listen to a lot of pop, zydeco, blues, and rock in addition to metal. Big fan of Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston, Howlin Wolf, Buddy Guy, etc. But I won't be counting any crows!
 
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Au contraire, mon frere! I listen to a lot of pop, zydeco, blues, and rock in addition to metal. Big fan of Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston, Howlin Wolf, Buddy Guy, etc. But I won't be counting any crows!
Anyone who claims to be a big fan of Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond has no credibility as far as what good music is.