News and links roundup for 9/27

by On the Banks on Sep 27, 2011 7:00 AM EDT in Rutgers football

Joe Paterno is still bitter over getting rejected from the Big East decades ago, but that won't stop him from once again stumping for Rutgers as an Eastern travel partner. Bonus weird story: what if the Big East and C-USA teamed up in 1990?
Seth Davis had an excellent rebuttal of Taylor Branch's article in The Atlantic on college sports. As I've argued in the past, athletic departments lose money. Branch's piece had excellent research, but his central thesis was awful. The only problem with Davis's article is that he is incorrect in stating that most football programs lose money. Davis gets so much right in that piece, and yet somehow conflates football programs with entire athletic departments, even with a mountain of NCAA research to the contrary.
Hoops Weiss makes a good case for adding Temple to the Big East. If the league has any chance of surviving, it has to split immediately. Temple, UCF, and Houston would then make good additions for a ten team all-sports conference.
Wait, Al Golden gave his practice schedule to Rutgers?
As of last week, Big East football was looking good by popular statistical metrics. This one should be updated in a few days. Sagarin loved Ohio, so Saturday's win got RU into the top 50 there.
Tim Brown is back with Winnipeg of the CFL. That's good to see after his injury scares in the spring.

NFL updates from the past month: the Dolphins signed Nate Jones. The Broncos cut Brandon Bing. The Jaguars cut Tiquan Underwood. The Patriots cut Alex Silvestro. The Vikings cut Ryan D'Imperio and the Bucs cut George Johnson, but re-signed both to their practice squads.

Ryan Hart lost his suit against EA Sports for using his likeness in a video game without permission.

After leaving Rutgers for Georgia Tech, Morgan Carter interned with the Supreme Court.

Jordan Hill had an odd exchange with Greg Schiano upon decommitting several years back.

It's hard to feel sorry for Mike Adams not getting a scholarship from Rutgers when he joined the Eagles' bandwagon in college. Can't do that when you're from Paterson, it's just wrong. It's kinda weird to think that RU passed on two Paterson players in the NFL now in Adams and Victor Cruz.

The new Livingston Dining Hall is garnering rave reviews. That's mind-blowing for alumni who remember intentionally avoiding the Livingston campus as much as possible.

Rutgers wants people to know about its outreach efforts with New Jersey businesses. That might raise a few eyebrows, but likely will have strong support as well.

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Kind of like the exchange between Coach Schiano and Jordan Hill. It is a bit colorful, but there is nothing unkind or inappropriate about it. The odd thing to me is that more recruits do not make that call themselves; that sort of surprised me.

by RUFlushingFan on Sep 27, 2011 10:40 AM EDT reply actions

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