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Message: [QUOTE="Jerseynole8, post: 1831452, member: 5898"] I agree about the red tape at RU having gone there for undergrad. And it may have been a suitcase school 20+ years ago but I'm not so sure it is as much as it used to be. The party/social scene is MUCH different now even more than when I was in school in the late 90's. Different type of kid (social media, etc.). Still, you are looking at the RU college experience through the eyes of a NJ resident who lives close by (I'm assuming you are from the Princeton area?) and wanted to get away for school. For students/athletes who go to RU from PA, MD, FL, etc., it's every bit the "college experience" a NJ student who wants to get out of state experiences at an SU or Maryland. Rutgers is centrally located within a tiny state relatively speaking so it's not isolated as much as Syracuse or Penn State. And candidly speaking New Brunswick isn't the college city that Boston (BU, BC, Northeastern) or Philadelphia (Villanova, Temple) is, i get that, but it's not like you're going to Camden or Newark/Irvington or Paterson. I respect the NJ high school student looking to get out of state. I got accepted to Northeastern, Penn State and Maryland. Northeastern wasn't in the best part of the city and I wasn't digging the whole New England scene. PSU and Maryland are great campuses but sports aside, you can get the same education at Rutgers. Having visited grandparents who lived about an hour and a half directly south of State College as a kid I thought central PA was tremendously boring and Maryland didn't have that "southern school" feel of say a Florida State or Clemson. I get it that you guys don't respect RU but calling it the "13th grade" or comparing it to Montclair State and Rowan is a bit of a reach. I visited the Monmouth campus and had friends who went there and THAT felt more like the 13th grade than anything I experienced at Rutgers or even when I took post-bachelors certificate classes at Montclair. Having lived in the mid-west (Chicago) and the south (FL) if I COULD do it differently for undergrad the only place I'd look is a true southern school/Texas. Beautiful campuses and a total different vibe than the northeast. Even being from the area, I happen to think the NJ high school football talent thing is slightly overrated and agree RU will never compete with NJ talent only. Just as Dino is casting a wider net, so must Ash at RU. But I see what he's doing this year in trying to create a home base and work outward, not the other way around. Will Rutgers get everyone from in state? No, no school gets EVERY good in-state prospect. Will a few top players still leave? Absolutely. But thus far Ash seems to be dialed in and getting these kids to seriously consider RU, something Flood (LOL!) couldn't do even with the backdrop of the Big Ten. Not sure about Ash yet but everything has been positive thus far and the most important thing to me, even though he's a "defensive coach" is that he's getting away from the pro-style offense in favor of a power spread which is much easier to run and recruit to. Only a handful of college teams can run the pro-set effectively at the highest level of competition and Rutgers will never be one of them so when he immediately made that switch I was encouraged. I wish you guys luck and a good season and look forward to seeing Dino's offense when the Seminoles come to The Dome in November. [/QUOTE]

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