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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1831500, member: 780"]
I'll stick by my story. Rutgers for decades and decades has been the no-frills place to go to get a reasonably good education for a bargain price for New Jerseyans. Athletes, who don't pay, have no reason to select the bargain alternative. They can go to the real Nordstroms not Nordstroms Rack because someone else is paying.

Those NJ residents who can afford to go somewhere else, frequently do.

I'm a fourth generation Princeton Borough townie and we never went to New Brunswick or Trenton either. Both are dumps. And please, spare us the "It's not as bad as it used to be".

We have heard all this before.

Can RU football get better? Or basketball? I really don't understand why even being average has been such a struggle. It must be something in RU's DNA.

But as an ex-New Jerseyan let me assure you of one thing. The State will only support big winners. They'll be curious if RU starts to improve. But that curiosity will die quickly once the novelty wears off. RU as an average B1G team won't draw flies.

In my opinion, it's located in a terrible place, New Brunswick. For a college student it's light years from NYC where you can't afford to go anyway.

And RU as a B1G school is a complete pipe dream. It'll never be even a Michigan State.  You can put a BMW emblem on a Taurus and call it a BMW and even sell it in a BMW dealership, But its still a Taurus.
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