There is still time to save the season...

A whole host of disappointments of the 2016 Rutgers Football season will be forgiven and forgotten if the Scarlet Knights come out on top of The (top ten) Team From Pennsylvania visiting R House tomorrow night.

See you there.

Hoosier Daddy?

The Knights are a two touchdown underdog to the Big Ten team we have never lost to? I have a better feeling about today's game than I've had in a while, especially after the close game at Minnesota two weeks ago and the bye last week. This should be a totally different Rutgers team on the field at noon.

See you there.

Wolverines have never won in The Birthplace...

So keep calm on Saturday night...

I'll be there, wearing black, just like during Michigan's first visit to R House in 2014...

It's only Ohio State...

Game Day!

The 2016 B1G Opener Is Almost Here

Yesterday's First Home Game Was Fun

I won't be at R House be next week (my daughter-in-law will be in my seat for New Mexico, so everyone better be polite!), but my wardrobe is cleaned and ready for Iowa.

See you at R House!

13 Hours Until the First Home Game

Tomorrow morning will be the first morning of 2016 with football fans filling the parking areas around Rutgers Stadium for the first game of the year against Howard. Here's the poster:

The First BeatVisitor Poster of 2016

Now that the season is upon us tomorrow, it's time to keep an old BeatVisitor dot com tradition alive with this first Keep Calm and Chop poster for Rutgers' first meeting against the University of Washington in Seattle. Let's announce the start the Chris Ash era to the rest of the Big Ten with an unexpected win against a ranked (#14/#18) Pac-12 opponent.

Anyone have old "Huck the Fuskies" buttons or t-shirts left over from the UConn days?

2016 Began Today

I think I've written here before that I'm not a football fan. I'm only a Rutgers Football fan. So when a certain UPS package is waiting by the front door when I get home from work on a warm August evening, I know the season is also on the doorstep.

2016 began today.

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And a New Magnet for 2016.

President Obama at Rutgers Today

This historic moment at Rutgers Stadium is worth memorializing here.


The great address to Rutgers Class of 2016 was streaming online in a few places, but we can't expect to see any full speech on television this year unless it is being delivered by Donald Trump.

Looking Forward to 2016.

2015 ended inauspiciously yesterday when Rutgers tried to sit on an early first half 31-10 lead over Maryland rather than play until the end of the game, with the inevitable result.

2016 began today when President Barchi fired Athletic Director Julie Hermann and Head Coach Kyle Flood. I won't say anything bad about either of them here, but I will say whom I'd love to see on the sidelines when football season starts again, so here's a poster and video meant to be seen by our brand new Athletic Director Pat Hobbs:

Keep Calm For The Seniors On Their Day at R House.

Leonte Carroo announced that he's definitely playing during his last chance to take the field at Rutgers Stadium this Saturday, so let's send him off with a victory (even if that means that Kyle Flood might have to think about switching from Laviano to Rettig at QB at some point earlier than the waning minutes of the fourth quarter).

We'll see you there to see off Carroo and the rest of the Seniors. We don't Fear The Turtle!

I don't exactly "Fear The Turtle," but you have to admit the way they can hide their heads & legs in their shells is more than little scary.

— Kyle Bobbleflood (@KyleBobbleflood) November 23, 2015

Days I'll Be Busy Between Now And 2018

No one I'm related to is allowed to schedule a wedding or a funeral on any of the following dates:

The Dates On Which You'll Be Busy in 2016 and 2017

After years and years of certain schedule uncertainty in the Big East, it's hard to get used to the fact that the full Rutgers football schedule for 2014 is already set, let alone 2015, but now we also have the conference games for 2016 and 2017 scheduled:

2016 Rutgers Big Ten Games
October 1                    at Ohio State
October 8                    Michigan
October 15                  Illinois
October 22                  at Minnesota
October 29                  Iowa
November 5                Indiana
November 12              at Michigan State
November 19              Penn State
November 26              at Maryland

2017 Rutgers Big Ten Games
September 23             at Nebraska
September 30             Ohio State
October 7                    Idle
October 14                  at Illinois
October 21                  Purdue
October 28                  at Michigan
November 4                Maryland
November 11              at Penn State
November 18              at Indiana
November 25              Michigan State