Well…what is likely to happen if football is eliminated is …NOTHING. Rutgers will not magically elevate its academic status. One the contrary, it will remain underfunded and undervalued by Trenton and continue on its path toward supreme mediocrity.

Rutgers will become a mediocre school with no football versus a mediocre school with football. Rutgers will become the new University of Massachusetts.

Great work, guys.

No matter how good Academic Progress Rates are, we don’t care. Academic Progress Rates measure to what degree approximately 100 ’students’ are actually doing their job as students. Throw Academic Progress Rates down the drain! Their very existence indicates the fact the football players lack legitimacy. Actual students, some of whom happen to participate in sports, require no such metric to prove their place in the university. One can account for Messrs. Mulcahy and Schiano’s mere interest in Academic Progress Rates on Rutgers being the only university with a major opposition group fighting the debasement of campus culture through modern day gladiatorial contests. Do you honestly think whether or not Patrick Kivlehan can now succinctly express his ideas on paper because an inspiring expos teacher taught him how to enjoy writing matters to the AD or coach?

If football spurs such phenomenal alumni giving, why is the expansion about to be put on hold for lack of funds? Not only does nationwide empirical evidence debunk this hypothesis (see Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports by Andrew Zimbalist), but Rutgers still has no money. Show me the money!

BM and Schiano have brought more pride, national attention, donations and alum involvement to Rutgers than you clowns could ever dream up. You are a bunch of bitter jackasses that don’t realize we live in a world where sports serves a bigger purpose and that unites all kinds of people. In the case of Rutgers football, it has brought me closer to the school, served as a way to introduce my 2 young children to Rutgers, and had me making donations to the school for the first time after graduation. On a much bigger scale, the football program has brought great pride to the state of New Jersey. I am not alone and would bet that their are 100x more people like me than you fools that live in a cave. And let me take a wild guess, you guys probably hate Bruce Springsteen because of his affiliation and identification with New Jersey. You should all be ashamed for taking pleasure in the firing of a man that has given much to Rutgers and New Jersey. I would ask you to move out of state but understand many of you rats live in Pennsylvania.

McLovin:
Your menacing and threatening comments do more to forward RU1000 than a semester of Bill Dowling’s classes. You are too contemptible to warrant any further mention. Your family must be so proud to have raised such a boorish slob.

Congratulations! You have just gotten rid of one of the best individuals at Rutger University. And what you don’t seem to realize is that he will be replaced with someone who has an even BIGGER vision for Rutgers Athletics. You lose again!

For all the good things Bob has done, he is 72 years old and probably wouldn’t have been able to get anything else done. Although he was absolved of all wrongdoing, too many miscreants misconstruing the truth forced his premature exit.

In the end, the stadium expansion will be finished, albeit not as extensive. However, 56,000 fans will be screaming from their seats coming opening day 09. When the new AD starts construction to complete upper deck, the true fans of Rutgers will have the last laugh!!

If I thought for one minute that Rutgers would be transformed into Walden Pond the moment you kicked the football team off campus, I’d hold the door open while you tossed them out, but Rutgers is the State University of New Jersey – not Princeton. Rutgers is endowed only slightly better than a community college, and football is – not surprisingly – the single biggest catalyst of alumni engagement with the university. This can only mean more doom for Rutgers alumni giving.