Papajohns.com Bowl Thoughts
The Papajohns .com bowl was the culmination of what turned out to be a feel-good story for Rutgers football. Ending the season with a quality win against a quality opponent from another big conference, was to me, a much greater victory than last year’s blowout of Ball State in the International Bowl. NC State quarterback Russell Wilson is a phenomenal talent, and I’ ve agreed with the nay- sayers who’ ve said that had Wilson been able to play the second half, Rutgers may not have one. However, the reality is that he got knocked out of the game after taking a few clean hits in succession. Also, Rutgers seemed to gain confidence on both sides of the ball as the game wore on, and there’s no saying that even with Wilson in the game, that Rutgers wouldn ’t still have made the adjustments to outscore the Wolfpack in the second half. Mike Teel played a spectacular game in his last college experience. I was among the fans who questioned the decision to continue to start him at the beginni...