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Message: [QUOTE="daveinPA, post: 1777212, member: 5842"] You're wrong if you think Rutgers didn't try to negotiate with Notre Dame. We had played them in the past, under former AD Bob Mulcahy, when we play a home and home. in the mid 90's. I know Tim Pernetti. He wasn't going to allow RU to be played this way. This time around, Notre Dame wanted a 4 game series, with two games in South Bend, one at Rutgers Stadium, and one at The Meadowlands, with ND given the lion's share of tickets and parking gate for that Giants Stadium game. It was basically going to be three home games for ND versus 1 for RU. A bullSh** deal, and they thought they could get their way. We told them this was B.S. and wanted more equal terms, and one of those terms would be splitting the gate at Giants Stadium instead of ND having the advantage. Instead of what they demanded, we asked for a (still ND favored) 2-1 home-away series... with a 4th being a neutral game with even gate exchange. Notre Dame wanted no part of that, and RU promptly cancelled the series. I'm glad we didn't bend over backwards to take it from the "Almighty Notre Dame". I'm so glad we told them SEE YA when they thought their greatness warranted their greed. On another note, you're also wrong if you think our increase in attendance is strictly because other schools are bringing their fans to fill our stadium. Rutgers had 50,855 for FREAKING Howard University on the very same day SU played Southern Cal at the Meadowlands in front of 39,505...so we don't need the Big Ten teams to fill our stadium. Against PSU and Michigan, we kept their fans out, as they had less than 8K fans compared to our 46K+ fans. Same for the games against Wisconsin, and Maryland. Ohio State and Nebraska were the only teams we've played where their fans had more than a quarter of the crowd, and they had about a third. Of course, we were already begging to have Flood fired by the time we played a Nebraska team which travels as well as any team in the country...so that is no surprise. [/QUOTE]

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