Sort of a distraction….

[DarkSide576]

Anyone catch The Athletic article by Mandel and Dochterman on the addition of Rutgers to the B1G? The article has elicited quite a bit of umbrage from the RU faithful. Many of the comments mention NU, unfavorably, due to Mandel’s connection as an alumnus.
I did my undergraduate work at NU, my medical school at RU, and my residency at NU. RU is something I could never figure out. There is so much potential there. However, people seem to have a had an enormous chip on their shoulder about the school, about NJ, about their place in the universe. Having lived through it, I found the comments to the article to live up to this chip on shoulder mentality.
I hope we can give RU a competitive game on September 3.
Go Cats!!!

 

[CappyNU]

The worst realignment move ever is worse than you thought

Rutgers’ time in the Big Ten, college football's most lucrative conference, has been a competitive and financial nightmare.

theathletic.com

 

[jne381]

Here is the optimal crazy scenario that came to my mind. Because joining the Big Ten has not been beneficial to Rutgers, Rutgers can offer to leave the Big Ten with Stanford paying off Rutgers' massive athletic debt, with the understanding that ND will join the Big Ten with Stanford and Cal.

At that point there would be a conference of 20 members. I would make the suggestion to have a plan to go poach Texas from the SEC, then the conference would be 21, and have three divisions of equal quality teams (based on historic popularity and football success).

Western Pacific Division 1:

USC - Team Rank A
Texas - Team Rank A
Oregon - Team Rank B
Washington - Team Rank B
Cal - Team Rank C
UCLA - Team Rank C
Stanford - Team Rank C


Great Lakes Division 2:

Michigan - Team Rank A
Notre Dame - Team Rank A
Wisconsin - Team Rank B
Michigan State - Team Rank B
Purdue - Team Rank C
Minnesota - Team Rank C
Northwestern - Team Rank C


Plains East Division 3:

Ohio State - Team Rank A
Penn State - Team Rank A
Iowa - Team Rank B
Nebraska - Team Rank B
Illinois - Team Rank C
Indiana - Team Rank C
Maryland - Team Rank C