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Message: [QUOTE="Noexcuse, post: 59052, member: 18"] [I]Assemblyman John Burzichelli (D-Gloucester) is a member of the Assembly budget committee and an unabashed sports fan. He said [B]maintaining a competitive sports program at Rutgers[/B] is essential to the University’s bottom line and could have a wide-ranging effect on tuitions and future capital investments.[/I] [COLOR=#0000ff]Don't you have to establish a competitive program (all sports) before you can maintain it?[/COLOR] [I]Privately, Rutgers officials say they would like to follow the lead of the departing colleges instead of being part of a re-configured Big East conference. The Big 10 and the Atlantic Coast Conference remain the most viable options, [B]but Rutgers would likely jump at the first good offer from a major conference with automatic bowl championship eligibility[/B], Rutgers sources said.[/I] [COLOR=#0000ff]As soon as the SEC comes calling Rutgers is out of here.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]