While Rutgers is the birthplace of college football, the Scarlet Knights have had a bumpy ride into bigtime football going from the Big East to the AAC and finally to the Big Ten. The Big Ten was always the goal for Rutgers, not just for what it could do for the Rutgers brand, but also for the revenue and prestige that it would and has brought to our university.
But for us alumni who still can remember Rutgers having the reputation as a quasi-Ivy league school, retaining its reputation as a first-rate academic institution and football program that does things the “right way” still means a great deal.