Sunday, November 19, 2006

A big time defeat

You can do "big time" football at a jock school with intense traditional rivalries that happen year after year. But at a lot of those schools, like Oklahoma, Nebraska, LSU, Alabama, Tennesee, a two loss season is unacceptable in any year. At USC, Florida, Texas, Notre Dame, one loss is a killer where they expect to play for a national title every year. You think they gonna concede their high school prospects to Dear Old Rutgers now? Fugetaboutit. That's what big time football is on big time campuses. What happened to the Syracuse & Pitt programs? Are West Virginia & Louisville flukes? Hey, where's Penn State? 8-4 & in the middle of the Big Eleven Ten, they'll be in a Corporate Bowl Game somewhere. Think it's fun beating a Michigan St? Ever hear of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University? It's in Blacksburg & plays in the ACC. They're pretty good, again. They beat Cincinnati this year. Yesterday they walked over Wake Forest. Wanna watch an Ohio State-Michigan rematch in Arizona? Scarlet Knights fans, are you prepared to accept that most seasons will more resemble last year than this year? Is it OK that you rarely get a second chance & never a third? Is it fair that you lose once to an unranked opponent & you're out? Glad that Greg Schiano is the highest paid public employee in Jersey? Is he working the day after Thanksgiving?

Comments:
Rutgers will never keep pace with collegiate superpowers. We are spending millions to develop a second tier program that in best years to come will go 9-3 regular season & never seriously contend for a national championship. Respect? Sure, that's why I mentioned Virginia Tech, which has respect. So does Purdue, & even Navy. & let's welcome Hawaii to the Top 25.
 
What year did VT win it? Maybe someday smart kids will rather go to Rutgers.
 
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