Rutgers football is so bad the Big Ten should kick them out
Rutgers football is one of the worst Power 5 programs in the nation and doesn’t deserve to be in the distinguished Big Ten conference.
Promotion and relegation is a big part of Premier League soccer. I’m not the biggest soccer expert but I have to say I admire and respect that aspect of their great league. It’s something I wish college football could adopt. If there was relegation in college football, the first move would be to kick out Rutgers from the Big Ten.
The Scarlet Knights never felt like a Big Ten program when conference realignment and expansion saw them join in 2014 along with Maryland. The move was made to attract the east coast viewers and money from the media markets to make the conference have a wider reach.
It was all about the money, which is what college football is all about. It wasn’t about competitive balance or anything like that. If it was, they wouldn’t have added one of the worst Power 5 programs to join a league that is the second-best in the nation behind the SEC.
Rutgers is an embarrassment to college football and a black eye for the Big Ten. Every Saturday is another opportunity for Rutgers to lower the bar when it comes to major college football. And every Saturday, the Scarlet Knights remind college football fans around the country they are atrocious.
The team can’t win. The program can’t attract attractive coaching candidates so they have to hire guys like Chris Ash only to inevitably fire them a couple of years later. It’s an endless cycle of despair and doom.
When Indiana football is housing you, your program has serious issues that can’t be fixed quickly.
There is no silver lining for Rutgers. There is no happy ending. They should be kicked out of the Big Ten and relegated to Conference USA or the American Athletic Conference until they prove they can score 10 points per game and not allow 50.
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