When Rutgers came into the Big Ten a few years ago, the landscape of the conference was much, much different than it is now. Michigan football had Brady Hoke as its head coach and was years away from being relevant.
And it was against the backdrop that the Michigan football team first went to Piscataway, New Jersey to take on the Scarlet Knights. In that first meeting, the Wolverines lost to the Scarlet Knights, in one of the games that will forever haunt Hoke. To me, that night was the beginning of the end of his head coaching career in Ann Arbor.