Chris Ash lost his cool.
Did he win the fan base?
That's probably a stretch. The 15,000 or so Rutgers fans who came to HighPoint.com Stadium for Homecoming were treated to the team's best effort of the season by a wiiiiiide margin in this 18-15 loss to Northwestern, a program that had won 10 of 11 Big Ten games coming into this one.
Still: We're done giving out effort trophies for this program in Ash's third season. An L is an L, and Rutgers is likely headed to 11 of them in 2018 with Wisconsin, Michigan, Penn State and Michigan State left on the schedule.