Talk:Rutgers Scarlet Knights

Football head coaches
Need dates for the football head coaches unstruck below. Reynolds • H. W. Ambruster • Pendleton • Van Dyck Jr. • Daly • Robinson • Van Hovenberg • Mann • A.E. Hitchner • F. H. Gorton • Smith • Pritchard • Gargan • Sanford • Wallace • Rockafeller • Tasker • Harman • Steigman • Bateman • Burns • Anderson • Graber • Shea • Schiano

I removed the Head Coaches section from the main article because the table was too big and unwieldy...too much blank white space. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 05:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Head Coaches
Twenty-five men have served as head coach of the Rutgers football team since 1891, when the first coach was hired. From 1869 to 1890, and 1892 to 1894, there was no coach.

&mdash;ExplorerCDT 05:48, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

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no move. ExplorerCDT makes a very good point; he is the main contributor to the article, so his opinion gets greater weight as well. If he plans on expanding this page to non-varsity sports and there are some teams with other names at the school, Athletics at Rutgers University should be where the page should be. — Mets501 (talk) 15:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Page move to Rutgers Scarlet Knights
IMHO, this article should be moved to Rutgers Scarlet Knights (currently, "Rutgers Scarlet Knights" redirects to the main university article). My reasoning:
 * From WP:NAME:
 * Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature.
 * While there has been no formally established standard for naming of college athletic program articles, a de facto standard for such articles has developed as "(Short school name) (Nickname)". The main exception I can see would be if a school has separate nicknames for men's and women's teams, but that's not necessarily consistent:
 * Oklahoma State (Cowboys and Cowgirls) is at Oklahoma State Cowboys.
 * Penn State (Nittany Lions and Lady Lions) is at Pennsylvania State University Athletics.
 * Southern California (Trojans and Women of Troy) is at USC Trojans.
 * A small number of schools have separate men's and women's articles. For examples, see Arkansas Razorbacks and Arkansas Ladybacks, or Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine.
 * If Rutgers ever did use separate men's and women's nicknames, they don't any longer. I looked through the official Rutgers athletics site and noticed that "Scarlet Knights" was consistently used for women's sports. (later added by original poster)

What does everyone else have to say? I was about to make the move (I'm an admin), but I realized it would be much better to get feedback before any move.—Dale Arnett 09:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I disagree with the proposed move. Mostly for consistency, and because I don't think it necessary (Athletics at Rutgers University is not ambiguous, it's recognizable, and it's within the guidelines of WP:NAME), and until there is a de jure standard, I think it's best left to the decision of the contributors as long as the contributor's decision isn't a departure from the guidelines WP:NAME (which this isn't). Right now, I'm the majority contributor (98% or so of content). Also, considering that I am intending (eventually) of adding a section about recreational or "club" sports (which some of our varsity teams are being reduced to), I'd prefer to keep it at "Athletics at Rutgers University" rather than moving it Rutgers Scarlet Knights because club sports don't fall under the "Scarlet Knights" rubric. Lastly, for consistency, the articles affiliated with Rutgers are all set up as X at Rutgers or X of Rutgers. History of Rutgers University won't be renamed Rutgers University history because most affiliated history articles are entitled History of X. To have one article be renamed as such (or even as Rutgers University athletics) and others X of Rutgers, etc. would be deal an aesthetic deficiency to any enumeration of Rutgers-related articles. Lastly, this article's title is consistent with an incalculable number of articles like Transportation in Azerbaijan, Politics of New Jersey, etc. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 09:45, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support for reasons of consistency. The nom makes an excellent point in referencing how similar college atheletics articles are titled. Now if Rutgers had other college teams in addition to the Scarlet Knights then you might have a valid reason to keep the article with its current name. 205.157.110.11 14:53, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * There is no "one standard" in order to be consistent. And you forget Newark is the Scarlet Raiders, and Camden the Scarlet Raptors...which while not mentioned at length in the article right now, will be mentioned. You might have noticed that if you actually read the article. Also, consider: Pennsylvania State University Athletics. This article just puts the "athletics" first. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 16:29, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - honestly, because WP:ILIKEIT. It's not like there's any policy that supports it either way, but it just sounds better, IMHO. Neutral (just barely leaning to support), per below. Patstuarttalk 03:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * And RSK fails to acknowledge that there are two other team names used at Rutgers, namely Scarlet Raptors and Scarlet Raiders. To accomodate and be comprehensive, it's best kept at AoRU. &mdash;ExplorerCDT 08:23, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hmm, good point, changed to neutral. Mostly because I know Penn State is the Nittany Lions, but I also know that neither the Penn State Icers (hockey team) nor the Penn State Lady Lions (women's teams), wouldn't mind too much. Patstuarttalk 08:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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Requested move

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PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 23:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC) Athletics at Rutgers University → Rutgers Scarlet Knights—All but 4 of ~100 pages at Category:College athletic programs are of the form: (short college name) (nickname) (for example: Louisville Cardinals or Washington Huskies). The remaining 4 should be moved. Even though this was proposed a few months ago but all the remaining schools not following the de facto standard have proposed moves and this article should too Oren0 17:36, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

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Survey - in support of the move

 * 1) Support per current naming convention.  *Mishatx* -  In \ Out   17:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support--Nitsansh 01:48, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

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LOL
Why does "nappy headed hos" redirect here?--Mphifer254 19:30, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

new user template
I just made this, feel free to put it on your user pages. -PopePeterII

Attendance help
Any Rutgers stats guys here have access to the attendance records of Rutgers 1989 Emerald Isle Classic game. Also, any help as to explaining why in the world Rutgers/Pitt went to Ireland would be very helpful (payouts, Big East deals, etc.).--Excaliburhorn 07:50, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Rutgers APR 3rd in DI-A Irrelevant/Misleading
I read the following in this article:

Critics claim that the focus on Division I-A athletics lowers admissions and academic standards. However, at 980, Rutgers team had the third-highest Academic Performance Rate (APR) score of any Division I-A football team in 2005

Consider this: The "critics" are those who would want Rutgers to play football at a Division I-AA level. Rutgers having the 3rd highest APR among I-A schools is nearly irrelevant - all division I-A schools could have poor APR's. Rutgers' APR should be compared also to division I-AA schools, which would either give evidence in support or against the critics' hypothesis of lowering admissions/academic standards. Unfortunately, cbs sports, which gave a list of all I-A schools' marks in order, did not rank I-AA schools, so I went to the NCAA website and looked up eight (the ivy league). The paragraph now looks like this:

Critics claim that the focus on Division I-A athletics lowers admissions and academic standards. At 980, Rutgers team had the third-highest Academic Performance Rate (APR) score of any Division I-A football team in 2005.[46] However, when compared with Division I-AA schools Rutgers' marks are not as excellent. Rutgers would have the second lowest marks of a football team in the ivy league (including rivals Columbia and Princeton)

Now, I KNOW that the ivy league is not an accurate representation of all of Division I-AA. However, I don't have the time to painstakingly look up each I-AA school manually and find how Rutgers' APR ranks. I chose the Ivy League because it contains two of Rutgers' all-time rivals. If someone would like to amend, improve, or finish what I did, please do. Please don't delete it though, hopefully I have justified myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virsingh (talk • contribs) 10:58, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

2008- 09 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Basketball
Rutgers Scarlet Knights 2008 - 09 Mens Basketball Roster 1 CHANDLER, COREY G So. 6-2 190 East Side HS/Newark, N.J. 31 COBURN, MIKE G So. 6-0 195 Mt. Vernon HS/Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 00 ECHENIQUE, GREGORY F Fr. 6-9 260 St. Benedict’s Prep (N.J.) /Guatire, Venezuela 2 FARMER, ANTHONY G Sr. 6-1 190 St. Augustine's Prep/Millville, NJ 32 GRIFFIN, JARON G/F Sr. 6-7 210 Manchester Township/Manchester, N.J. 15 INMAN, JR F Sr. 6-9 230 St. Joseph’s Regional HS (N.J.) /Pomona, N.Y. 23 JACKSON, PATRICK F Fr. 6-6 195 Boys & Girls HS /Brooklyn, N.Y 40 KOKOSINSKI, TOMASZ F Fr. 6-7 230 Bergen County Technical HS/Bergenfield, N.J 22 KUHN, MIKE G Fr. 6-1 180 Christian Brothers Academy/Oceanport, N.J. 24 MITCHELL, JONATHAN F Jr. 6-7 225 Mt. Vernon HS/Florida/Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 5 NDIAYE, HAMADY C Jr. 6-11 235 Stoneridge Prep (CA)/Dakar, Senegal 11 PETTIS, EARL G So. 6-5 225 Patterson School (N.C.)/Philadelphia, Pa. 3 ROSARIO, MIKE G Fr. 6-3 180 Saint Anthony HS /Jersey City, N.J.

Rutgers Mens Basketball 2008 - 09 Schedule November 14 Marist W 63-61 1-0 November 16 at Delaware W 85-77 2-0 November 21 Robert Morris W 69-55 3-0 November 23 St. Bonaventure L 64-63 3-1 November 26 Lehigh L 76-71 3-2 November 30 St. Peter's W 68-47 4-2 December 3 at Rider W 66-62 5-2 December 6 Binghamton L 66-56 5-3 December 10 at Princeton W 49-44 6-3 December 14 Delaware State W 60-55 7-3 December 20 Bryant University W 67-37 8-3 December 23 N.J.I.T. W 78-52 9-3 December 28 at No. 1 North Carolina L 97-75 9-4 December 31 No. 3 Pittsburgh L 78-72 9-5 (0-1) January 3 at No. 2 Connecticut L 80-49 9-6 (0-2) January 7 No. 15 Marquette L 81-76 9-7 (0-3) January 10 No. 9 Syracuse L 82-66 9-8 (0-4) January 14 at Cincinnati L 71-59 9-9 (0-5) January 21 No. 12 Louisville L 78-59 9-10 (0-6) January 24 at St. John's L 70-59 9-11 (0-7) January 29 at Seton Hall L 70-67 9-12 (0-8) January 31 DePaul W 75-56 10-12 (1-8) February 3 at Georgetown L 57-47 10-13 (1-9) February 8 Seton Hall L 65-60 10-14 (1-10) February 14 at Providence 7:00 PM ET February 19 at No. 13 Villanova 9:00 PM ET February 22 West Virginia 3:00 PM ET February 25 at Notre Dame 7:00 PM ET March 1 Providence 2:00 PM ET March 3 at No. 22 Syracuse 9:00 PM ET March 7 South Florida 2:00 PM ET —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.19.23.10 (talk) 00:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Championships and Bowl Victories
Rutgers was listed as the 2012 Big East Football champion, which is not correct. The official big east standings list them 3rd, as proven here: http://espn.go.com/college-football/conferences/standings/_/id/10/big-east-conference At the very least, it can be said they were part of a 4 way tie for first, which was later broken by BCS rankings, which again, places them 3rd. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.200.5.41 (talk) 15:59, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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Regarding the neutrality of 12.1 "Regarding "bigger time" athletics"
The first two paragraphs seem to maintain some sense of neutrality, but the third paragraph begins to follow a concern -> rebuttal pattern. Additionally, such statements as "An increase in enrollment applications of 12% upon joining the Big 10 Conference, and applicants who score 20 points higher on the SAT would tend to bear that out" with no source cited and no evidence supporting the idea that joining the Big 10 conference caused this increase (I'm not saying this isn't the case, just that there is no evidence of this cited) lead me to question the neutrality of this section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.38.114.88 (talk) 10:31, 5 July 2016 (UTC)