That's No Moon

That's not why they lost the game, but ok

They didn't address any of their areas of weakness from last year and people are surprised that the line still can't block, CB2 still can't cover, and the D line can't get to the quarterback.

It's an extension of last year.

Anybody still want to argue with me about the punts coming out slow?

The interior offensive line is getting exposed. Again. Or is it still?

Yes. The line has been hot garbage all around though.

He hurt his shoulder in the preseason and when he signaled fair catch it probably popped out and went back in. Took him to the room to put a harness on it

Let's understand something. If Josh got out of the car people would carry him to the stadium like the Ark of the Covenant.

Dunno what he's asking for. Also have to remember that as a vested veteran his whole salary is guaranteed if he's on the roster week 1. That's a turnoff for lots of teams. Waiting a week gives them a lot more flexibility.

I think most people's angst is built around administration's apparent commitment to the player via his salary and their inability or refusal to acquire a sufficient replacement or backup given his apparent importance with respect to his lengthy period of absence and current unavailabilty. In short, he makes a crap ton of money, there is a large difference in perceived value between the club and the fanbase, he has been unavailable for more than a year, and they haven't chosen to fill the hole that he creates either through his absence, his lack of ability, or both.

Not disagreeing. Would you say that excessive empathy is a problem our world currently has? I would not.

Unfortunately the myriad of people who don't actually have that have ruined people's empathy for those that do.

What, he didn't eat enough of them?

"I prefer more meat in my buns"

Basketball yeah they could be but football pays all the bills and that's what will drive that train. If they dropped football they could go to a bigger basketball conference right now.

That's not how that works and you know that. It's about getting the game televised in that market. The Big 10 couldn't care less if anyone in NYC actually cares about Rutgers. It is a vehicle for their other schools to show recruits that they will be on TV in their home area. It's also a way to pump up the TV contract knowing that the largest market in the country is within the broadcast area. It's why they will never kick Northwestern out even though Northwestern isn't like any of the other Big10 schools. It's the Chicago market.

Rutgers in the Big10 has been an absolute disaster for Rutgers in terms of being competitive. The Big10 wants them in because it gives them the NYC media market and, frankly, that's the only reason they are there. Rutgers has been a doormat the vast majority of their time in the conference because they haven't been able to compete at that level. They haven't been able to consistently recruit for squat and NJ gets raided for talent all the time. One other thing we haven't spoken about a lot is what conferences are looking for when adding schools. It's not always about the school or quality of competition they would bring, it's very often about what TV and media markets do those teams bring because that it what drives the big money for the conferences. I'm going to leave the Big 10 alone because it's not worth discussing any time soon. Let's stick with the AAC. They will lose Houston, Orlando, and Cincinnati. That's, in order, the #8, #17, and #36 media markets in the US. Buffalo is #53. That's a major downgrade when teams like UNC Charlotte (#22), UNLV (#40), Florida Atlantic (#18 and #39), Rice (#8), UT San Antonio (#31), San Diego St (#27), Air Force (#16 and #82 + a nationwide following to add to Navy), Army (#1 + a nationwide following to add to Navy) are all out there to be recruited. If you want to talk about an upcoming program who would be looking to move up who has made a MASSIVE commitment to athletics across the board recently it would be Liberty. Their market size is smaller at #71 so, again, they wouldn't be top choice, but if they could snag UNC Charlotte to go along with them and add to East Carolina it would make a lot of sense.

If that's where the administration wants to go then they better be rounding up their donors and expanding their booster base to pay for the upgrades they will need to compete. Football is both a blessing and a curse. In basketball they could probably move to the A-10 without much difficulty but that's not a football conference. Finding a home that is beneficial for both programs is not easy and the reality is that, even at the biggest schools, athletics as a whole lose money. For example, at Penn State, football and men's basketball make money, men's hockey breaks even. Everything else loses money. In some cases a lot, largely because of the required air travel and lack of tv money. Football needs a plane to get to Tampa to play South Florida, SMU etc, so do all the other sports. It racks up fast.

If they want to be big the investment in facilities goes up a lot. Like exponentially. Penn State has an 80 million dollar hockey arena, a 100,000 seat football stadium, a really nice new lacrosse field, and the Bryce Jordan center and nice facilities for all of the other sports as well. On top of that the training facilities are top notch. That is the Big 10 level. They aren't close. They are doing well with respect to their current conference because compared to Akron or Bowling Green, Amherst can be pretty appealing. The school is good and the facilities stack up well against those people. To recruit against the current AAC means recruiting against Tampa, Memphis, Dallas, Philadelphia, New Orleans, etc. What's going to be your sell to the athlete as a growing program? You can't sell tradition, you can't sell facilities unless they build a ton of them, you really can't sell the weather compared to some of your competition, you can't sell market exposure. There isn't really a community of alumns who are willing to pony up big NIL money to buy recruits.

I dont agree with that either. They'd be recruiting against Cincinnati, South Florida, Temple, Tulane, East Carolina, SMU. The travel is terrible and they'd still get wrecked. They are in the correct conference for them and their level of commitment to athletics.

Middle of the human centipede.

Conferences shop for schools that give them a recruiting footprint and/or TV market access. UB isn't one of those schools so it's not going to be on anyone's short list to add. They will be one of the schools that are leftover and fill up conferences like the MAC. They are competitive in the MAC, they can be competitive in that conference in the short and long term. The Big 12? UB is going up against Texas and Baylor and Oklahoma St and West Virginia in football but also basketball? They'd be roadkill. The Big 10 would be worse. It's a good school but it doesn't have anywhere near the athletic facilities to recruit against even someone like Rutgers let alone Penn State or Michigan or Ohio State. FWIW, I have to think West Virginia would like to get into the ACC to realign with Pitt and VA Tech, etc. Big 12 and WVA never made sense.

And the net result will be the same.

It's been swell. Bye.

And many of those got tax subsidies which just another way of giving public money to a project so those aren't even fully privately funded.