Rutgers is still going ahead with its plan to axe six Olympic sports from it program. Despite protest from students and alumni the administration won't waiver from their position. Rutgers will go from having the most sports in the big east to having one of the fewest. Against Rutgers finds itself at the back of the pack in the Big East.
RUTGERS IS A CRAP SCHOOL. NJ SUCKS.....
It is Jersey what the hell do you expect! Even West Virginia takes better care of their schools. Our governor has done shit since he got elected. He can't even wear a seat belt!
RUTGERS IS A PILE OF CRAP.
For some reason their all-American fencing team is now gone, but their pathetic xcross team stays.
RUTGERS IS A PILE OF CRAP
NJ has terrible options for a public college education. It's got to have the least amount of choices on the East Coast. When Rutgers is your flagship and your only somewhat legit public school, you're hurting.
Well, USATODAY voted Princeton the best university in the country.
NJ is strange in that it represents the best and worst of America. It is the wealthiest state in terms of income, but it has pits like Newark. Moorestown NJ was voted best town in the America by Money magazine, while places like Camden are on tops when it comes to murder and rape.
Still, it is a sad state of affairs that a few bean counters won't to take an above average athletic program and destroy it so the football coach can have a new mansion. What happens when the football team falls on hard times? Well, you have a poor sports program with no choices. At least when Rutgers was not so good at sports they at least had a large variety to choose from. Now they don't even have that.
For a state that is supposed to be sophisticated we have a lot of idiots running things. We have a former governor picking up young men at rest stops and a current governor who does not wear a seat belt while traveling at 91mph.
Wow, behind West Virginia!
Isn't that where deliverance was flimed.
"This fat boy looks like one of my prized hogs"
- redneck rapist (deliverance)
Mr Truth wrote:
Well, USATODAY voted Princeton the best university in the country.
One, I believe you mean US News and World Reports - unless USAToday all of a sudden started doing rankings. Two, I said public school. Princeton is obviously a fantastic school, but that doesn't help the residence of the state as it's private.
Here are some average SAT scores for those that are writing....but havent done their homework. I know this isn't everything--but it's something that can be measured.
Rutgers University - 612 591 =1203
West Virginia University 521 512 = 1033
Seton Hall University 533 532 = 1065
University of Connecticut 573 562 = 1135
University of Pittsburgh 587 582 =1169
Bottom line: Rutgers is an excellent academic school compared to its BIG EAST rivals. Like all of public education, it's struggling with funding. Please give it a break.
Rutgers is great at academics. They just stink at sports.
The Rednecks at West Virginia offer more athletic programs.
truth is, rutgers is an academically fine school.
truth is, rutgers is so desperate to be at the forefront of big time ncaa sports that it is willing to sell its soul.
back in the day (about 5 years ago) athletic director bob mulcahy declared "we are stanford" at a saac meeting. he supported this bold statement by saying that no other school in division 1 has as many sports teams as rutgers.
now they are cutting six of those sports, many of which have won big east titles or had all-americans in the last 2 years. also despite the state legislature allocating an emergency $1.2M to the athletic department to save these sports that collective cost the university $800k.
the situation is pathetic. bob mulcahy is destroying the "state of rutgers" by giving the world to greg schiano. in his mind, the only measure of an athletic department is the success of the football team, no matter the expense to the other programns that get squashed underfoot along the way.
face it, when a department of an institution of higher learning is run by a businessman instead of an educator, the wrong decisions are made. it sucks for the kids, who are bneing desereted by their own school. if i were a high school athlete i would steer very clear of rutgers - who knows what sport is next on the chopping block (maybe xc or track?). at least we know it's not football.
Speaking of Rutgers, remember those nappy headed ho's?!
It is funny this obsession with Football. The sport has absolutely no international standing and won't make America more competitive at the Olympic level. Many blame the decline of US tennis on stupid decisions like the one made by Rutgers.
It would be fun now to watch the football team flop. That would be funny!
The US likes sports that the rest of the world doesn't play like football, baseball, basketball (whoops!, they discovered it, and now beat us.) That way they can claim to be World Champions.
Deliverance was filmed in Georgia.
NJ illness despair crap wrote:
Rutgers is great at academics. They just stink at sports.
The Rednecks at West Virginia offer more athletic programs.
Football team finishes top 15, Women's B-ball makes Championship game and baseball team was ranked in the top 25.
Not that bad of a year. Greg Schiano is single-handily bringing the University to the mainstream.
As a student, I can't tell you how much of the student body is after the necks of the administration. Corzine, President McCormick and more are screwing kids from Jersey. It is impossible to live in Jersey and have student loans. Too expensive. They raise tuition and then send paid guest speakers into classes telling students why they need to stay and work in Jersey. What a joke.
I had a friend on the Tennis team. Felt horrible for him. He was ranked top 10 in the country, offered a legit scholarship and was told by the administration to get out. They even cut their season short. They played less than half a season. The cut sports had a fund raiser and made more than 2 million dollars. School still got rid of them.
Every student will agree with me... Screw McCormick. RU screw.
Would someone mind listing the sports Rutgers is cutting.
Men's heavyweight and lightweight crew, men's swimming, men's tennis, and men's and women's fencing. When the news was first revealed to the public it was learned that wrestling was nearly cut from the program and that the AD, Bob Mulcahy was considering cutting out another 2 or 3 sports. With the reported funds being added to the Rutgers budget by the state this year, I don't know if there will be continued support (or lack of) for his department policies.
It is all related to the tax problem in NJ. The state is simply in debt. The States property taxes are through the roof and there is a mass exodus to Pennsylvania. Corruption at Trenton has affected the entire state from the business climate to this thread about Rutgers.
BTW, the Rutgers football team had an easy schedule. Come on they are scheduled to play Buffalo for the next few years.
When it comes to the number of sports offered Rutgers is now just another average NCAA school. If they start to flop in football, baseball, soccer, and women’s basketball they will be a big east joke again, but this time they will be a big east joke with a smaller sports program.
Now we know why NJ best high school athletes leave the state.
Enjoy the short term success of Rutgers athletics, because someday thing could get real bad after this bad decision to cut sports.
The short term thinkers will get you every time.
Look, I know most of you mean well, but it seems like you have no idea of the kind of budgetary balancing act that it takes to run a state university. The budget cuts that RU took from the state were enormous last year. As it was, they had comparatively little impact on academic affairs, which is the right approach in my book.
As a strategy, the course taken has merit. It is a belt tightening move and is unpopular in many quarters, but its not as though the AD and pres just got out a dart board and decided "let's cut mens crew!"
For better or worse, Rutgers has decided to promote football and b'ball at the expense of other sports. The president/board feels as though these sports have the best chance of keeping RU in the national spotlight and that is the most effective way to build donor support and improve the reputation of the university. (which is far undervauled).
Look, let's face it, if these nonrevenue sports had a strong donor base and could form a vocal constituency in the alumni then this move would be impossible. At a recent university senate meeting there was sympathy but little support for a group of parents and athletes who were trying to get a resolution passed to condemn the cuts. I'm sure they felt that it was apathy that led to a lack of support, but I think most people realized that we can't be everything to everybody - especially until the state legislature starts funding us in a fair way.
So for those of you out there who are looking at your schools and wondering if track and XC are next, they probably are. You would do well to organize whatever alumni you have, raise funds, and get active.
Finally, for the people spewingabout corruption at RU
- Recent audits of the books turned up very little in the way of wasteful spending/corruption. UMDNJ is a cesspool and most of that can be tied to political patronage in the Jim "I am a gay american" McGreevy's admin. I would put RU's books up against any major state shool and I'd be confident that they are cleaner than most.
Damn nappy headed ho's.