Rutgers QB

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Dismissed from team. Facing assault charges for kicking a small college LB into critical condition. He transferred from Minny.

m.nydailynews.com/sports/football/rutgers-qb-nelson-allegedly-beats-man-critical-condition-article-1.1788331

[WANG]

Wow, that is awful. He should be going to prison.

Rutgers just keeps uping the bar of awful, really making it look like a bad invite to the conference.

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That is despicable. I hate scumbags who kick people once they are already knocked out and on the ground. A kick carries a lot of force and can freaking kill someone... unreal.

Agree with Wang, this was a terrible invite to the conference. They bring nothing of value and won't even bring in the east coast market they claim will happen. Someone made a good point, that in a few years TV will be all alacarte where you can choose whatever you want, and the east coast markets won't even matter. I can't believe we have to play these bums every year now instead of a big ten rival we have a lot more history with.

Ironically I am going to the Rutgers game this year, my dad is getting tickets. I saw it was just announced as a 3:30 kick off which will be good.

[angrybaldman]

Agreed we should have never taken Rutgers. Missouri would have been a much better conference add.

[mikeytbuckeyes]

I didn't like the addition of Rutgers from the word go. Does their geographical location really provide such an added benefit that it offsets the overwhelming negative they bring in virtually every other area? They've been drowning in controversy after controversy within their athletic department.
I understand why we didn't take Mizzou. They didn't meet the academic standards the Big Ten was looking for. However, Rutgers? Really? That's the best we could come up with?

[Deleted]

With the way things are trending, and the play off system, we straight up should not add a school unless we feel they are capable of winning a national championship. I agree Mizzou would have been great.

[Deleted]

Does anyone know if it would be legal or possible to rescind the invitation to Rutgers? Hindsight needs to come into play here and they should seriously reevaluate the situation.

[mauricxe]

Rutgers brings in the largest share of the New York CFB market. they are a decent add w.r.t. gaining a foothold in new york.

check out some of the numbers here:
thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1

[angrybaldman]

May 13, 2014 12:42:08 GMT -5 @teddy said:

Does anyone know if it would be legal or possible to rescind the invitation to Rutgers? Hindsight needs to come into play here and they should seriously reevaluate the situation.

They chancellors/presidents voted to allow them to come in, I think they could vote them out as well. I imagine a huge check would also have to be cut.

[ohstatefan]

Does it seem like we keep hearing a big increase in negative news stories about Rutgers since they agreed to join the Big Ten? Or maybe I've just paid more attention since then.

[WANG]

May 13, 2014 12:33:04 GMT -5 mikeytbuckeyes said:

I didn't like the addition of Rutgers from the word go. Does their geographical location really provide such an added benefit that it offsets the overwhelming negative they bring in virtually every other area? They've been drowning in controversy after controversy within their athletic department.
I understand why we didn't take Mizzou. They didn't meet the academic standards the Big Ten was looking for. However, Rutgers? Really? That's the best we could come up with?

If it were purely from an athletic standpoint, the B1G would NEVER have taken Maryland or Rutgers.

Unfortunately, it's a money grab. I know that Rutgers and Maryland don't have huge fanbases, but it is about the "geographic footprint" and cable subscriptions.

I forget the exact math, but the amount of money the B1G gets for cable subscriptions WITHIN their footprint as opposed to subscriptions OUTSIDE their footprint is ridiculous, something like $.10 a sub outside and $.80 a sub inside.

Adding Rutgers and Maryland puts a LOT of the Eastern seaboard, all of which previously was outside of the footprint, inside the footprint, and thus increased the revenue by, basically, the population of the east coast cable subscribers by $.80 per month...it's an absurd amount of money.

Adding schools like Mizzou and ND or UC, or a plethora of other universities would have made more sense geographically and athletically, but it is all about the almighty dollar, good or bad.

[WANG]

May 13, 2014 14:10:28 GMT -5 ohstatefan said:

Does it seem like we keep hearing a big increase in negative news stories about Rutgers since they agreed to join the Big Ten? Or maybe I've just paid more attention since then.

It definitely seems like they keep getting involved in nonsense, don't know if it's because they are under more of a microscope or if they are just going through an odd time, but it is definitely not what I want to see from a program about to join the B1G.

I think that any team to join the B1G should have what amounts to a "pledge" period, and if they screw up during that time, the B1G can rescend the invite. With all the garbage that Rutgers has done over the past 2 years, I think it would be enough to trigger that rescend.