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Rutgers University will win the 2009 Big East football championship, and represent the league in a BCS bowl. There, I said it.
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Rutgers will win that bowl game handily; it’s fourth in a row after going 0 for 137 years.
Alright, put the phone down. No need to send the men in white coats to come pick me up. I haven’t recently fallen down a flight of stairs headfirst, and I haven’t been refusing my meds. Rutgers will win the Big East this year, and for one reason….
It’s time.
The women’s basketball program at Rutgers has flirted with the National Championship from time to time, most recently losing in the 2007 final. They won the AIAW National Championship in 1982 by knocking off Texas, 83-77.
Even the men’s basketball team has provided some excitement on “The Banks,” although not much since that memorable undefeated ride to the Final Four in 1976.
The only National Championship on the men’s side of the ledger? The 1949 fencing team.
Oh, I’m sure that for the eight or nine fans in attendance, that day conjures up some mighty fine memories. But it’s not really the signature championship a University can hang its collective hats on.
No, that privilege, my good people, will fall into the hands of the Rutgers University football team. A team that struggled to find it’s identity for more than 100 years. A team that hosted the first college football game ever, and then took a 137 year nap.
Guess what? Rip Van Rutgers is awake, and he’s well rested.
O.K. So now you want more than hyperbole. More than just the ramblings of an over exuberant 1987 Rutgers grad who feels he deserves payback for being brought to the precipice of greatness with an opening day tie against No. 3 Florida in 1985, only to be brought back down to earth with a loss to Army the following week.
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