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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1829181, member: 780"] First, I am referring to the impact on athletes of so many of their non-athletic classmates looking at Rutgers as an "It's all my family could afford" alternative. Scholarship athletes don't have to worry about costs, so why would they select the "budget" alternative? If someone offered to buy you dinner at the restaurant of your choice, would that choice be Denny's? Well, in my experience there are different groups at SU. It is, for some, a "safety" school. But there are tens of thousands of kids applying to Ivy schools with no real chance of getting in. So SU isn't a "safety school" in the sense that they had no realistic chance of getting into Cornell or Colgate or Williams. For another group, SU is the equivalent of the State University that New York hasn't had until recently. That is, if you really want to consider the SUNY schools as State universities like Iowa is a State university. I met lots of people at SU from little towns all across the State, just like you'd meet the same kind of people at PSU from all sorts of little towns in PA, who had family connections to the school. For this group, SU is the de-facto State University of New York. SU is, in my opinion, a good school with a high price tag. But when you consider the whole picture --- academics, social life, athletics, living conditions, etc --- its fairly priced. And as a private school, students are treated better by every office on campus I was in contact with. At Rutgers, its different. It's a creature of the State Government. They operate under both NJ State personnel rules and NJ State procurement rules. The people in Admissions or the Bursurs Office or the Registrars Office or whatever department are exactly like the drones at Motor Vehicles. They are managed the same way. They are paid the same way. And they are incented the same way. They buy low-bid everything and buy in bulk. The hand soap in the bathrooms is the same soap they have in the prisons. Rutgers has always been a suitcase college. Every Friday afternoon the lobbies of the dorms are filled with kids with suitcases getting rides home to Bound Brook or Parsippany or where ever to get off one of the worst social scenes on any campus anywhere. You can get a good education at Rutgers and its a bargain. But a scholarship athlete doesn't have to worry about that. [/QUOTE]

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