Princeton-Rutgers Football 2019

[Son of Eli]

If you would like to see Princeton play Rutgers in 2019 to mark the 150th anniversary of college football please sign this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/rutgers-uni...edium=copylink

Here is some background on the issues surrounding this proposed game:

http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/in...ibility_o.html

[RootinFerDukes]

We need a petition to get this game on the schedule?! Seriously?! ESPN should be jumping at the chance to air this on 11/6/19 on a Wednesday night on their flagship channel.

The game was even played at Rutgers, so the Big 10 team doesn't have to eat its pride and "play at an FCS school".

[DFW HOYA]

This would require Princeton to play two weeks early, of course.

This will take more than a petition, of course. It will take a network to tell the Big 10 what to do.

It certainly works for the ACC, which has been following ESPN's direction for years:

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...1#.V6i4TfkrLIU

[Son of Eli]

We need a petition to get this game on the schedule?! Seriously?! ESPN should be jumping at the chance to air this on 11/6/19 on a Wednesday night on their flagship channel.

The game was even played at Rutgers, so the Big 10 team doesn't have to eat its pride and "play at an FCS

school".

Princeton needs to be convinced to play it. Bob Surace, the Princeton coach, is ambivalent towards the game. Here's his quote on the matter from the previously posted article:


"Our previous AD, Gary Walters, talked about it back in January but it didn't really go anywhere,'' Surace said. "When our new AD, Mollie Marcoux, got the job, I guess she spoke with (Rutgers AD) Julie (Hermann) about it. (Marcoux) actually sat down with me about it, and I shared my concern that it doesn't make a lot of sense to play a team that has several more games under their belt than we have. It's a Big Ten team. There's nothing to gain for us from a football perspective. As good as they are, that would put us in a difficult position. It sounded like it kind of ended then.
"But you never know. It's five years away. To me, that's an eternity.''

[RootinFerDukes]

omg if ivy league schools are this indifferent about athletics, why even sponsor them to begin with? why not just drop all programs and then you'll really look solely focused on academics.

[Son of Eli]

omg if ivy league schools are this indifferent about athletics, why even sponsor them to begin with? why not just drop all programs and then you'll really look solely focused on academics.

You have no idea how frustrating it is to be to an Ivy League football fan sometimes. That's why I'm asking for the support of the AGS community on this petition.

Hopefully if this game gets played there will be a paradigm shift amongst the Ivy League Presidents resulting in FCS playoff participation.

[dgtw]

Whoever wrote this article makes Rutgers sound like a major power. I think they'd win, but it's not like Princeton would be playing Ohio State.


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[JSUSoutherner]

Whoever wrote this article makes Rutgers sound like a major power. I think they'd win, but it's not like Princeton would be playing Ohio State.


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But... But.... B1G! Power conference! They have to be good.

[UNIFanSince1983]

Hey I mean Rutgers did win 4 games last year. Granted only 1 was over any team that was in a bowl, and the other two FBS teams they beat had 2 wins combined. But they did get 4 wins last year. Sounds like a powerhouse to me.

[RootinFerDukes]

Could this be a matter of pride for Princeton? You have two of the "first" college football programs. One not only won that first game but is now in a Power Five conference (Big 10) at the pinnacle of modern day college football, albeit not particularly competitive in that conference or nationally. Meanwhile, you have Princeton, that along with their Ivy League brethren were once considered some of the top tier of college football before they chose to de-emphasize big time college sports and go I-AA in 1978. They may not want the stark national reminder of just how distant Ivy programs are from their "glory days".

It may be better to just not compete and hope no one notices.