I was just watching a Yankees game and saw the left field sign on the mezzanine deck face referring to Syracuse as New York's college team! I think the implication is NYC versus NY state - and I think it's wrong! Rutgers has out-drawn SU football for TV ratings in games head to head on different ESPN networks. Now SU has a "Syracuse Day" at a Yankees game in June??? Why doesn't Rutgers do that? Or maybe they are planning to? We need to make a statement about the NY metro area preferred college football team!

Hey Scarlet Knights,

I used to keep up a NC State Basketball Recruiting Chart over at PackPride (the NC State Scout boards) which combined all the links and ratings from Scout, ESPN, and Rivals. It got difficult to maintain by hand, so I automated the process, and threw a basic UI together and put it up on the web. I did the same for all the other schools while I was automating it. I threw in YouTube highlights and Twitter feeds for every ranked recruit that I could find, and added the depth chart at the recruits position for each of their offers.

I started cleaning up the rosters on the ACC teams first, and then moved on to the rest of the BCS conferences.

BTW, I haven't gotten to validating the active rosters for schools outside the BCS conferences yet, so that data will be inaccurate due to red-shirts, prep schools, junior colleges and transfers.

Obviously this info does not contain any of the great inside info that you get here at On the Banks, as they'll have all the latest and greatest on Rutgers Hoops, but it might make a nice compliment to the info you're getting here. It's more of a 10,000 foot view if that makes sense.

Anyway, here is the Rutgers page and a couple of your recruits' profile pages, (you can navigate to other schools at the top, its a bit wonky, but it should work if you select the team then hit the "Go!" button).

Let me know if you see any corrections, or have any questions. Hope you enjoy!

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Since you guys know more about Sanu then the average scout, having seen him play every game for 3 seasons, how would you guys evaluate his deep speed. Do you think he could stretch the field against NFL corners? The knock on him is that he can't separate and gets lazy when running the deeper routes; is that fair to say? How about is route running in general? How well does he run the shorts routes. How smart of a player is he. Was his QB holding him back? How were defenses playing him Give me the 411 on Sanu like only Rutgers fans who have watched his entire career could.

As it seems imminent that Temple will be joining the Big East in 2012 I wanted to make a quick point. It is assumed that Temple will just "slide in" to West Virginia's slot in the Big East's 2012 schedule. I want to make it clear that if Rutgers does not get an extra home game out of this it is absolutely unacceptable. And here is why....

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Halftime of Rutgers-Notre Dame a few weeks ago, Speaking with a few Rutgers cheerleaders about their white uniforms (which was mentioned in On the Banks). Official Ed Corbett is heading out to the floor. Corbett sees me talking with the two young ladies, gives a thumbs up and wink. “You know him,” one of the cheerleaders asked. Yes, I replied, explaining my officiating background and the fact Corbett has been an instructor of mine at a few officiating camps.

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Schiano/Rutgers makes The Onion Sports.

"New Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano explained to reporters Friday his decision to leave Rutgers, saying the mid-Florida football team offered his family the privacy and anonymity he missed during his years in the Rutgers spotlight. "I realize many people can't understand why I would leave that big-time media market to come down here, but I want to step back and live a normal life again," said Schiano, under whose leadership Rutgers went 28-48 in the Big East"

What went wrong? Rutgers traveled to Providence fully aware they would get a battle, Ed Cooley’s teams play hard, but hopeful of exiting the ‘Dunk’ with a win. It all came unraveled as Providence built a 14 point halftime lead en route to a 78-67 victory.

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I got fired up this morning reading this story about Yuri Wright's Tweets. It has nothing to do with his tweets. The tweets are immature however I trust the coaching staff to make the right call on Yuri Wright. They know him better than anyone could from twitter and if Schiano says he is a Rutgers kid then he is. His twitter is basically what goes on in my head everyday, the internet isn't meant to be politically correct or censored, it's real life. That being said, he needs to realize his twitter feed will be more scrutinized in the media than mine will ever be and this should be a learning experience. What got me fired up is what was said at the bottom of the page "stay classy jersey".

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In SB Nation's NCAA Bracket projections, posted this morning, Rutgers doesn't make the field yet, but is at least on the bubble, listed under "Next Four Out". On Blogging The Bracket's S-Curve, RU is listed at #74, the highest Big East team that isn't actually in the field.

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Piscataway, NJ- Using a strong defensive effort, Rutgers defeated Notre Dame 65-58 at the RAC on Monday. The possession and efficiency numbers:

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