It was late on the night of November 9th, 2006, 3 days before I was born and almost 17 years ago now, when Jeremy Ito lined up for a 33-yard field goal. With the weight of Rutgers and all of New Jersey on his shoulders, The Judge delivered his verdict. The kick was perfect, lifting the Scarlet Knights to an 18-15 victory over Louisville, and all this time later, Rutgers is still vying to return to the heights that those mid-2000s took them to.
However, despite the wins and success of those years, it wasn’t even a decade later that Rutgers returned to the irrelevancy and incompetence that engulfed it before Schiano.