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Message: [QUOTE="Jerseynole8, post: 1922697, member: 5898"] Nah, only idiots are "scared". It's year 1 of a total rebuild and the morons in the Rutgers fan base (and there are way too many) don't understand this. Flood sunk the program back to 2002-2004 level bad, not quite Terry Shea bad, but it's bad. Ash may not be the long term solution, but he's an upgrade over Flood and over the next 3 years or so he will rebuild the program for the B1G, particularly on the defensive side of the ball which from 2013-2015 was historically the worst it's been over a 3-year period...even worse than the Shea years if that's possible. There's no disputing that this defense is built for the AAC from a size and (lack of) athleticism standpoint. Despite having zero depth, starting 3 new linebackers and being on the field all the time, you can see signs that this D is fairly well coached for the pile of s#it he has to work with. Still, Ash is not a magician. He can't take a roster of (bad)AAC players and compete vs. this schedule. While there are some encouraging signs of life on D, the offense is a different story entirely. There are no QB's who can play yet. Oden the true frosh is still too raw. If Dungey is on this roster this year RU is 3-4, possibly 4-3, even though the three beat downs still would have happened. Lewis from SPP will be here next year but will likely RS. The offense is going to suck next year too. Not as bad is this year as there will be WR's who can actually get separation and the OL will get better via addition by subtraction (two heavily overrated 4=star OL who were better for the pro set will be moving on) but it likely won't be until 2018 until there's any real improvement on O. And this correlates with Schiano's rebuild as the offense was putrid the first two years. And for the record, I am not one of Schiano's biggest fans. Agree that he peaked in 2006 and overstayed his welcome but one thing he did do was build the program from the dregs of an FCS level to a competitive mid-major type program (which the Big East was after UM and VT split). Now Ash has to get the program from a bad AAC team to a competitive (6-6) B1G team. Still, I'm a realist and accept that RU will never be anything more than Minnesota-level although I think they can be that more consistently than not once the program gets rebuilt. Going to take 3-4 years to do that though. Congrats on the win vs. VT and good luck vs. BC this week. [/QUOTE]

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