big-ten-expansion Stories - On the Banks
College athletics expansion involves many factors
Steve Politi thinks the Rutgers football program deserves some of the blame for the athletic department still seeming to be stuck in limbo (unless the Big XII comes calling) in conference reshuffling. It's correct that if Rutgers hadn't underachieved the past few years, they would be in a much...
The Big East meeting of the damned
Big East commissioner John Marinatto is claiming that everything is hunky dory in Big East land, even though that is clearly a lie, with UConn still hellbent on bolting the conference. Rutgers and West Virginia are not saying anything publicly, but they can't exactly be happy after spending months...
Standing athwart history, yelling stuff
You'd be hard-pressed to find a Rutgers fan that did not think Mike Tranghese's interview on WFAN today with Mike Francesa was anything other than the conflation of two of the most bloviated, self-important figures in all of sports; mind-melding in a perfect symmetry of factual errors,...
A mixed effort from Nate Silver
FiveThirtyEight statistical guru Nate Silver, formerly of Baseball Prospectus, makes the case for the New York Times today that Rutgers is the most popular college football program in New York City. Hey, that sounds familiar - this blog as already cited Google Insights for Search (twice, actually)...
Should Rutgers join the Big Ten or the ACC?
There shouldn't have been any doubt in the minds of Rutgers fans that athletic director Tim Pernetti would rise to the occasion, and that's exactly what he did at a 5 pm press conference earlier. Probably the critical quote there concerns how Pernetti and Rutgers were not blindsided at all by what...
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