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Message: [QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 1487145, member: 5058"] All of this may be true, but think about why we care (and some insist they don't and we shouldn't). I am sure there are other ADs and football programs with equivalent messes on their hands, but since we don't recruit against them, we don't care. If UCLA took all our recruits or was in Pennsylvania, we'd be pouncing on the Mora issues with guys leaving the team left and right. Closer to home, if BC started spouting about their 2004 BE title and it affected our recruiting, we'd be screaming about how they shared the title with us and Diamond Ferri. Rutgers, starting with Schiano, always knew they'd be much better if they just kept talent home. They were willing to do anything with smoke and mirrors to change the perception they were fighting (a perception we no doubt perpetuated on the recruiting trail). They started bad mouthing us in the NJ papers and to the NJ high school coaches. They started scheduling easier to show more wins and an upward trend (something many of us have suggested doing since GRob left). They may be all false pretenses, but it has helped them cast doubt on their ineptitude with recruits and they have been better in recent years recruiting. We can't deny they have not pulled in legitimate talent from their own state, and we have lamented our lack of a foothold in the same time frame. We care at all, and as such we try so hard to expose them for the charlatans they are, so that we have that much stronger a position to recruit in NJ. Weren't we all praising the Acosta hire? Weren't we all suggesting the Moore wasn't doing a good job? Aren't we happy to have Strickland, Ellison, Pickard, and others? We are hot on some WR and QB prospects in NJ. We have every right to trash Rutgers, but don't be naive about why. At it's core, it helps with recruiting one of the closest talent rich states we have in our footprint. [/QUOTE]

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