Progress for Rutgers athletics can be measured in several ways, but on the field results is clearly the most important. To that point, the final Division I Learfield IMG Directors’ Cup standings were released last Friday, which ranks the on the field performance of every athletic department over the past school year. There was good news and bad news for Rutgers athletics. Let’s start with the bad news.
As has been the case since joining the Big Ten five years ago, Rutgers finished behind the other 13 conference members by a significant margin. The Scarlet Knights amassed 259 total points between the fall, winter, and spring seasons.