The Knights Watchman

Rutgers’ 49-16 dismantling of USF today was a resounding statement from a team that is clearly out to prove to itself that it is as good as advertised when the season began. Most preseason predictions had Rutgers at the tail end of the Top 25. Premature? Of course they were. The Scarlet Knights only needed to replace the best running back in school history and a handful of quality starters from both sides of the ball. At the same time, the University of South Florida Bulls were picked even higher than Rutgers in most of the preseason polls. The team’s seasons have become mirror opposites. While RU started 1-5, the Bulls rolled to a 5-0 record becoming for a short time the toast of the state of Florida. Since then, the Bulls have gone 1-4. Now they sit at a fairly respectable 6-4 but really not in a position to do much damage as far as qualifying for a major bowl. The Bulls are 1-4 in the Big East, so even finishing with 8 or 9 wins is unlikely to get them the type of bid that would ha...

I haven't commented on the Rutgers/SNY deal, but from where I sit I can't see anything but positives coming from that. I don't know about you, but before the past two seasons it was difficult to catch an RU game on television. That always drove me nuts because I felt that even if the team wasn't good, as the State University they should have had at least some sort of regional exposure from all of the cable companies operating in the state. The SNY deal is huge because win or lose kids from all over the area will grow up watching Rutgers football. Gone are the days of having to watch the game 4 hours after it was played or straining to view it on the Internet. It seems one of Rutgers 2009 recruits, Mark Brazinski, has de-committed. I was sorry to see that, but almost immediately Rutgers added two more offensive line recruits. I'm going to comment less on the recruiting efforts from now on. It just seems to me that recruits give their verbals too early in the year to ...