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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 102421, member: 780"] No doubt he realized in the cold light of day that he is essentially a fraud and that he didn't have the knowledge or skills necessary to succeed at Michigan. Looks like he made a good decision as Rodriguez, who actually has some credentials, failed miserably in Ann Arbor. He also probably realized that there is no dumber fan base than there is in and around New Brunswick, NJ. Why give up a gold mine of people so desperate to believe and so new to mid-level college football? The guy goes 4-8 in his 10th year and people in the stands are grinning like jackasses eating sticker bushes. It's a con man's Nirvana there. Schiano's career is on a downward path as Rutgers slides inexorably into Conference USA #2. He may be on some early lists for jobs along with dozens of others, but his time disapppeared shortly after 2006. As a native NJ --- albeit from the Borough of Princeton - an oasis among strip malls and crumbling factories and chemical plants --- I was always amazed at how high the average sports fan puts the bar of success. To get any respect at all you have to be at the top of the best leagues. Rider or The College of NJ or whatever school could win 100 games straight in a sport and it'd barely make the paper. If Rutgers had become Miami in football while there was still a credible Big East Conference, it might have engendered some excitement. But they didn't and winning a Conference full of ECU's, and USF's and Cincy's isn't going to impress anyone in NJ. It isn't the "Big Time" that New Jerseyans have to have. I don't "hate" Rutgers. I just don't have any respect for the place or any of their sports teams. In my youth I used to see Rutgers try and have a "rivalry" with Princeton and came to town and painted a lot of stuff red. They always played the first game of the season. The Princeton people --- who really do have actual rivalries with Harvard and Yale and Penn -- didn't feel there was any rivalry at all with the State college in New Brunswick. No PU student ever went to New Brunswick and painted anything orange. [/QUOTE]

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