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Rutgers throws party to mark entry into Big Ten

Shortly after midnight Tuesday, a Big Ten flag was raised high atop the football stadium, and that's when a moment 588 days in the making finally arrived.
"I am delighted and privileged to say: RUTGERS IS B1G," Scarlet Knights athletics director Julie Hermann wrote in an open letter to the fan base, shortly after Big Ten membership became official.

Calling July 1, 2014 "an incredibly historic day in Rutgers history," Hermann addressed more than 3,000 fans in attendance for a celebration that included fireworks, five children's bounce houses, a stage featuring live music, performances by the school's cheer squad and marching band and speeches by top officials, including Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and university president Robert Barchi.

"We're all really pumped about this," Barchi told Asbury Park Press on Tuesday evening. "It's the culmination of a lot of hard work over a number of years by a number of people within the organization to get to this point. I look at getting into the Big Ten as being one of the pivotal points that we'll look back on in Rutgers history — whether it was the act that made Rutgers a land-grant instition or the act where we became the state university, or the date that we integrated the residual elements of UMDNJ. Each one of them signifies a pivotal point and when you plot that final trajectory you're going to find out that this day was one of them. We think it's a really big deal.
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As Rutgers officially joins Big Ten, AD Julie Hermann ripped (and Tim Pernetti praised) in full-page ad
On a historic day that was supposed to be filled with balloons, back slaps and confetti as Rutgers officially joined the Big Ten, someone tossed a stink bomb into the Scarlet Knights' cocktail party (which, by the way, is at High Point Solutions Stadium tonight).

In a full-page ad in the July 1 editions of Home News Tribune, an anonymous Rutgers booster (and critic) thanked former athletic director Tim Pernetti, who was fired last year in the wake of the Mike Rice bullying scandal, and ripped his replacement, Julie Hermann -- pointing out Hermann's missteps in her short tenure.

The tagline of the ad reads, "Paid for with money that should have gone to Rutgers athletics by donors and alumni who regret the decisions of President Barchi as well as the words and actions of Hermann that have caused extreme embarrassment to our great university."
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Rutgers alum who took out full-page ad blasting Julie Hermann comes forward
Rutgers' first day in the Big Ten wasn't without some controversy: A full-page ad in the Home News Tribune that, while praising former athletic director Tim Pernetti, lashed out at current AD Julie Hermann.

A tagline on the ad only reads this: "Paid for with money that should have gone to Rutgers athletics by donors and alumni who regret the decisions of President Barchi as well as the words and actions of Hermann that have caused extreme embarrassment to our great university."

But the man who paid for the ad is not backing down from his charges: Jim Sulliman, a Rutgers alum and executive director at the Pastoral Care Counseling Center in Abilene, Texas, said in an email that he wanted to "partially document some of the things that have brought enormous discredit to Rutgers that the change in ADs has caused."

"We all make mistakes and we should forgive but that is not the issue," Sulliman wrote. "There has been a consistent PATTERN of Ms. Hermann's statements that have brought great embarrassment to Rutgers that must stop. The Big Ten is the beginning of a new chapter and if we extrapolate her first year into the future there is cause for concern."
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You'd be amazed how many Rutgers fans are coming to the game.. including my daughter and a slew of her friends as well
ZERO expectation of winning... all hope just to be respectable... they're just very excited to be part of the B1G
and to experience the Shoe...

There's folks flying in from everywhere.. all the NY airports, Lehigh, Phila, DC, private & chartered jets galore
I haven't seen this much excitement including their last few bowl games...

As I've posted before... tOSU is their second favorite team... OSU gear is everywhere on campus.. OSU game scores are posted real-time on their scoreboard during EVERY home game

You're going to see dramatically undersized kids that are all heart.. you'll see excellent speed... you'll see a swarming D... you'll see an offense that will be going fine at times but inevitably will shoot themselves in the foot... you'll see Rutgers fans cringe every time their field goal kicker comes in.. including XPs (they'd prefer to just always go for two rather than deal with the heartache)... these are good folks... treat them well
 
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I'm talking Rutgers and Rutgers alums per se

Perceptions of Jersey Shore types... perceptions of East Coasters... not the focus
Loud.. dunno if I concur; obnoxious.. kinda; rude.. absolutely (but I think Clevelanders are rude)
I spent the vast majority of my life in NE Ohio... with OSU grads all thru the fam tree.. midwestern to the core
so I'd say I'm as close to an expert on my post as you're gonna get

The many many folks I know first hand that are coming... will represent well... a number of OSU grads out here coming back for the game as well...
PS My three kids... OSU grad (3 degrees), Rutgers grad, Rutgers med student

Flights have gone up $100 in the last week... all the flights are getting full
 
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NJ-Buckeye said:
You'd be amazed how many Rutgers fans are coming to the game.. including my daughter and a slew of her friends as well
ZERO expectation of winning... all hope just to be respectable... they're just very excited to be part of the B1G
and to experience the Shoe...
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I'm not surprised excitement is high right now with the first year in a new conference and a slate of games against some of the premiere names in college football. The real test will be whether excitement is still high 3 or 4 years from now if Rutgers doesn't fare well their first few years in the conference.

I lived in Morristown in 2006, the best season of Rutgers football in a very long time, and pretty much without exception all the RU grads I knew were completely oblivious to it. I hope the current uptick in excitement around Rutgers football is a permanent change, but have my doubts.
 
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zincfinger said:
I'm not surprised excitement is high right now with the first year in a new conference and a slate of games against some of the premiere names in college football. The real test will be whether excitement is still high 3 or 4 years from now if Rutgers doesn't fare well their first few years in the conference.

I lived in Morristown in 2006, the best season of Rutgers football in a very long time, and pretty much without exception all the RU grads I knew were completely oblivious to it. I hope the current uptick in excitement around Rutgers football is a permanent change, but have my doubts.
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I think they have a good chance to finish in the 4 position in the east fairly regularly.
 
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