Can we just skip straight to twenty fourteen now?

The Big Ten schedules for 2014 have been announced and here is the Scarlet Knights':

2014 Rutgers Football Schedule
Saturday, August 30 TBA ***** Saturday, September 6 Howard ***** Saturday, September 13 Penn State ****** Saturday, September 20 at Navy ***** Saturday, September 27 Tulane ***** Saturday, October 4 Michigan ****** Saturday, October 11 Idle ***** Saturday, October 18 at Ohio State ****** Saturday, October 25 at Nebraska ****** Saturday, November 1 Wisconsin ****** Saturday, November 8 Idle ***** Saturday, November 15 Indiana ***** Saturday, November 22 at Michigan State ****** Saturday, November 29 at Maryland ******

NO THURSDAYS?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"There are hats involved."

A fictional high-school football player on Suburgatory considered Rutgers along with non-existent schools in Florida and Nevada on last night's episode.

The Right Decision

I'm glad to see that Rutgers made the decision it did this morning to end Mike Rice's role as the men's basketball coach, but we have to ask ourselves how much more quickly the University would have acted if you change the words "coach" and "player" to "professor" and "student".  There would have been no second chance after the first blow. Period.

No employee of our favorite school (or any school) should be able to grab, push, kick, verbally abuse, and throw basketballs at any student.  Just because we're joining the Big Ten, we don't have to tolerate that sort of BobbyKnightWoodyHayes bullying and thuggery.

Fire Mike Rice or Get Rid of Men's Basketball at Rutgers.

It's that simple.

I don't read sports pages when Rutgers isn't playing football and I'm not a big follower of the game of "basket-ball", but this tape on ESPN was brought to my attention today. The asshole shown in these videos reminds me of the kind of fascistic gym teachers who made me hate scholastic sports when I was in Junior High in Los Angeles. If I played for him, I'd lose on purpose.

Not only does he need to be fired immediately, but every player on the team needs a free shot to throw a basketball at his balls before he leaves. I wish one of them would have decked him when he laid hands on them during practice.

Any reader of BeatVisitor.com will know that I'm not a sports fan, I'm a Rutgers fan. But fuck Rutgers Men's Basketball until Mike Rice is gone.

Lots of unusual names on the 2013 Rutgers football schedule (luckily we won't have to remember them for long)

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One quote sums up Rutgers' loss in last night's Orlando Bowl

“Gary is our starting quarterback. He is the guy that has earned the job and earned the right to be in the game, and certainly nothing I saw from him made me feel like I should make any change.” -- Rutgers Coach Kyle Flood on Quarterback Gary Nova

Was Kyle Flood watching a different game? Gary Nova looked scared, was throwing off his back foot all night, and should have thrown six interceptions rather than one -- if the Virginia Tech defensive backs had any hands.

Wasn't Kyle Flood on the sideline during last year's Pinstripe Bowl during which Greg Schiano's switch to Chas Dodd helped lead to a victory over Iowa State? (I would have loved to have heard Greg Schiano's thoughts as he watched from his box in the Citrus Bowl last night.)

I feel very sorry for a defense full of seniors who played a brilliant game against Virginia Tech, scoring a touchdown, holding the Hokies scoreless for three quarters (until a Nova interception set up the first score in the fourth), and keeping them out of the endzone in OT when the Hokies had a first down at the three. Khaseem Greene and crew are a great defense who deserved just a little bit of support on the other side of the ball.

It's officially "The Orlando Bowl" in the BeatVisitor dot com style guide

I'm under no contractual obligation to mention the corporate sponsors of bowl games (or the people putting their corporate name on Rutgers Stadium), so in all future posts about Friday's game, I will use the words "Orlando Bowl" or "The Orlando Bowl", because to call this Friday's game against Virginia Tech the Blockbuster-CarQuest-MicronPC-VisitFlorida-Mazda-ChampsSports-RussellAthletic Bowl is simply too depressing.





Thank God we played in the St. Petersburg Bowl before Mr. Beef O'Brady got his hands on it.

Keep Calm and Chop Virginia Tech

Here it is, the last poster of the 2012 Rutgers football season in honor of the Scarlet Knights' bowl game in Orlando against the Virginia Tech Hokies on December 28th:

You can get an original image at
http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-calm-and-chop-vatech/

Rutgers to Join Committee on Institutional Cooperation

The non-athletic advantages of joining the Big Ten are already taking place:
Rutgers to Join Committee on Institutional Cooperation.

Keep Calm and Chop Louisville

It would have been great if Rutgers and Louisville had entered this Thursday's game both 11-0 and highly ranked. It still would have been wonderful if they both went into the game 10-1.  With both of them losing today, there may be a possibility that they will both drop out of their top 25 BCS rankings, but the stakes are exactly the same between these two 9-2 teams as they would have been if they had both been 11-0.
If Rutgers wins, we'll be the sole Big East Champions and going to a BCS game. If Louisville wins, there will be a 3- or 4-way tie of 2-loss teams, including Rutgers, sharing the title, but Louisville will almost certainly go to the BCS game.

Get you own original image or pdf at
http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-calm-and-chop-louisville-2/

Use the #ChopLouisville hashtag this week if you're on Twitter.

Time for Rutgers to go 1-0 again this week.

Quite the scary mascot.

The Rutgers-Pittsburgh game at Ketchup Stadium is starting on ESPN 2 right now, and I'm tweeting with @BeatVisitor over on Twitter.

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Halftime Update: Pittsburgh is looking like the team that was winning decisively against #1 Notre Dame a few weeks ago (before ultimately losing on a chip-shot field goal in overtime).  It's 21-0 Pitt at the half and Rutgers only has a handful of offensive yards on atrociously conservative play calling (PROVING ONCE AGAIN THAT CONSERVATISM IS ALWAYS WRONG AND EVIL!). This is a bigger hole than the one that the Scarlet Knights found themselves in after sleepwalking through the first half against Temple before exploding in the third quarter. I'm hoping that Dave Brock is getting fired at halftime and replaced at Offensive Coordinator with a kid who plays Madden aggressively.
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Final Score: Pittsburgh 27- Rutgers 6, and it wasn't that close.
It still all comes down to next Thursday against Louisville in Piscataway, just like we knew it always would.
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Further Update: UConn beat Louisville in triple overtime a minute ago, so Rutgers clinches at least a share of the Big East title.  If they lose to the Cards they could end in a four-way tie of two-loss teams (Louisville, Rutgers, Syracuse, and Cincinnati), but if they win on Thursday, they will own the title and a trip to the Orange Bowl outright. 

It's Official

 Rutgers will be joining the Big Ten as its 14th member, with a target date of 2014.  

Here's the picture that was tweeted by Athletic Director Tim Pernetti right before the official announcement at 2 this afternoon.

Here's the Official Announcement from Rutgers and the Big Ten.