Rutgers will play Michigan State at MSG.
Super Saturday
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Exactly. IMOP, not good news if this costs us a conference home game.
The best we can hope for is giving up a home game every other trip to MSG. This is in line with that ("home" against Wisconsin, "at" Michigan)
Out of conference P5 games at MSG please. Do not steal conference home games from us. The RAC is too awesome
You can't complain about RU not scheduling quality road games or not playing in a neutral site game or playing in one of the 8000 Thanksgiving holiday season games that no one can find on TV...
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Playing a neutral site game less than a hour from campus where RU should have more fans....
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RU is not where we stood 3 years ago with no NCAA bids and no winning seasons. We don't need to prove how tough RU is at the RAC....we have already taken apart Sparty 2 years in a row at the RAC.
RU gets a neutral site game, at a great venue (MSG) on a Saturday afternoon and a likely quality or ranked opponent. And it counts as a neutral game on the schedule, which we can certainly use.
I don't see the downside to this whatsoever.
OR
Playing a neutral site game less than a hour from campus where RU should have more fans....
AND
RU is not where we stood 3 years ago with no NCAA bids and no winning seasons. We don't need to prove how tough RU is at the RAC....we have already taken apart Sparty 2 years in a row at the RAC.
RU gets a neutral site game, at a great venue (MSG) on a Saturday afternoon and a likely quality or ranked opponent. And it counts as a neutral game on the schedule, which we can certainly use.
I don't see the downside to this whatsoever.
Just play an OOC big name team there instead. Same concept but we don't lose a home conference game. It will also help our OOC SOS
This would count as “neutral site” for Net purposes, right?
I’m guessing that most (but not all) those complaining about this game have NOT been to an RU game in a mostly packed garden. It’s a great experience!
Play there every year with it being a home game every other year? Sounds phenomenal!
I was at the msg Michigan game and aside from losing it was a spectacular environment. I was looking forward to playing msu there the following year but was Covid canceled.
Play there every year with it being a home game every other year? Sounds phenomenal!
I was at the msg Michigan game and aside from losing it was a spectacular environment. I was looking forward to playing msu there the following year but was Covid canceled.
Not crazy about giving up a home game, but I understand why it is done.
The price of being a member of the B1G. I'll deal with it.
The price of being a member of the B1G. I'll deal with it.
The players get to play at The Mecca! The wrestling team loves the exposure and opportunity to win in a great environment as well. Win-win all around!
(Ah yes except for some fans. But it’s okay, really, some fans can’t or won’t make it while other fans will be able to make this whereas they couldn’t make it if game was at the RAC. Allll goood!)
What other BigTen teams give up a home conference game to play on a neutral court?
One of the schools in each of the previous five match-ups...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B1G_Super_Saturday
I don't see the giving up a home game when it could be a neutral site and still get a home court edge with the fans....you can easily get 10K RU fans on a Saturday to MSG, tighten up the resume for NCAAs and get out of the routine once conference play starts.
Maybe it is the Mecca to you and me......is it the Mecca to a 18-22 year old?
They don't know Walter Berry or Pearl Washington or Patrick Ewing or Mark Jackson or John Starks. They definitely don't know Bernard Kindg or Clyde Frazier or Willis Reed. I am guessing they also don't know Pat Cummings or Kenny Walker or Ken Bannister.
Now you went too far. Everyone knows Ken "The Animal" Bannister. And Eddie Lee Wilkins too.
forgot about him, but not Gerald Wilkins or Trent Tucker or Rory Sparrow and of course michael Ray Richardson and Ernie Grunfeld..........and Jim Carvelis and John Condon.
I remember Jim Karvellas more from Cosmos games. John Condon is up there with Bob Shepherd for me (many will kill me for that statement).
He only got that 50 because the great Granville Waiters deferred to him all game long. He was unselfish like that.
We just had a new employee start about 2 weeks ago. During my orientation with her we got to talking about sports. She commented her dad used to play in the NBA. She was floored when I said her dad must be Ken Bannister who played for the Knicks.
These kids definitely know it’s an NBA arena in the “greatest city in the world”. I strongly believe these young man are ecstatic to play a game at the garden.
They only get 40 home games in the B1G. Playing at the RAC is a big deal. I'd be very curious what someone like Geo Baker thinks about the topic.
I’d bet big he’d be all about playing 38 home games at the RAC + moving 2 home games to MSG + moving 2 away games to MSG vs 40 home games at the RAC.
When the players are given this option I’m thinking about 90%+ choose option A.
So every other year we alternate between losing a home game (even though msg will be a quasi home game) and playing a “road” game at msg. That’s more than fair. I don’t understand the complaining if these details are correct.
is that is what is happening? To my knowledge we have yet to play a road game at MSG.
Incorrect. Michigan in 2020 was a road game.
Nowww we’re talking something interesting Fig!
