#77 R.P.I. Virginia Tech vs. #4o R.P.I. Rutgers:

Today’s word of the day is… Rutgers.

RÚt•gerš.
noun.

Rutgers was chartered in 1766 as Queen’s College, a private institution affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. Queen’s College was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 after philanthropist Colonel Henry Rutgers, a Revolutionary War hero and son of colonists from the Netherlands.

(some say: ostensibly: ‘a baby Ivy school)

1. An American surname.
2. Dutch patronymic surname from the given name Rutger, the same as Roger and Rodgarus.
3. The winner of this gridiron Big East now gone A.c.c. vs. Big-X Challange come Saturday nite @7?

Rutgers Head Coach: Gregory Edward Schiano: age=57, (2 stints @Rutgers: 89–95 (college),
11–21 (N.F.L.); tho’… (Big Ten): 14–22; has a rep’ for: motivating; D-overall and Secondary play in particular. As a recruiter and as an innovator in a macro sense.
$6,250,000.oo.

Prepster Schiano was born and grew up in Wyckoff, New Jersey, and attended Ramapo High School. He then attended Bucknell University, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and graduated in 1988 with a B.S. in business administration. Despite being a 19o-pound Lb1 in high school, Bucknell assistant Joe Susan felt he was a perfect fit for his defense. Susan would later join Schiano at Rutgers.

Baller Schiano was a three-year letterman at Bucknell. In his junior year, he led the team with 114 tackles and was named to the All-Conference team. In his senior year, he was named team Captain and was named to the Sporting News Pre-season All-America Team.

After that Greg got around a bit… N.J. H.S. coach to start, then numerous stints @Rutgers (3, actually), for Da U (2), for ‘da Bears’ (2), for Penn.State (2), and for da Bucs (1) then for “the” Oh.State.

However, it was way back in ‘o6 when G.Schiano really hit the… spot.
What with the following massive 2oo6 awarding haul…

…Awards: Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (2oo6), George Munger Award (2oo6), Home Depot Coach of the Year (2oo6), Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year (2oo6), Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2oo6) and the Big East Coach of the Year (2oo6) to ‘o6 boot.

11-2 and a bowl win over big, bad Texas that kickstarted a whopping 6-game post-season win-streak. Clearly, this is not a guy you wanna showdown vs. off an OPEN or BYE week or on multi-week Bowling prep’.

Did Eye mention the Ace recruiting, yet? (Or, maybe the: 247Sports Recruiter of the Year Award)? As this guy could work at your local Home & Garden department as this guy can flat out ‘rake’ as Talent goes itself. Though he may still be earning dividends off of his epic 2oo6 to 2oo9 apex whereby he tallied 36 wins and 4 bowl victories including the Knight’s very 1st Bowl win ever. That does not suck.

Big Whistle as the head football coach at Rutgers University, a position he held from 2oo1 to 2o11 and resumed before the 2o2o season. Schiano served as the head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League from 2o12 to 2o13.

Coach Schiano was exactly and entirely +1, that’s (plus-one) game north of .5oo during his first Rutgers tenure. During his second Rutgers tenure and he is trending 8 games underwater. (14-22)!

This was a pretty good coach— however, it remains to be seen if he still is a pretty good coach or not.

The Schiano Proposal:
In 2o11, after Eric LeGrand was paralyzed during a kickoff, Schiano came up with an idea for eliminating kickoffs from football, replacing them with a punt, which is less likely to cause serious injury to the players. Under his proposal, the team would start from their own 3o (or 35) yard line and have the choice of either punting the ball or, in lieu of an onside kick, face the equivalent of a 4th down and 15. As of 2o2o, neither the NFL nor NCAA has seriously considered this proposal. Sportswriter Jon Bois has been an advocate for the proposal, saying “it’s simple, obvious, less dangerous, and more fun”.

Schiano is married and has four children. Schiano’s wife is named: Christy. Schiano’s father-in-law was a former Colts Te1 who had played his college football at Bucknell.
Son Joe Schiano is a defensive lineman at Bucknell.

St.Nektarios bless!

2023 record:  7 up 8 down and 5th (East) place at 3-6 in the BIG 1o

Foe’rensics:

Rutgers Defense: (starters back=1o’ish, (one ’22 recovery)

• 5’er in 1o in dLine Havoc.
• four’ish of Ten Linebacking Havoc. (would be prolly 8’ish at full-medicine, they illin’ here). That, and the enemy of the: Experience and Learning curves alike. Nubile. Uncut.
• III from X in Secondary Havoc. (Plays man, not the ‘ball all the way, keep everything in front…) 3 near all-league Talents lurk here… (both Cb1’s and 1 S).
• D overall: Schiano D’s will hit, they will punch you in the mouf. He does carry a well-merited ‘physical’ style of play rep’. (Bud) Granted.
  Film-study: D has all kinda looks in all kinda layers. Multi-multiple if you will. Dline fronts with all kinda Ernie Stautner, Steel Curtain angles and pinches and aligns, and flexes and splitting (⇐ or ⇒) and so forth and so on and on and on. Very creative D in Euclidean terms. They will deal ‘bakers and they are not ‘fraid to take pressy/jammy-risks on edge. This tells me they must trust their speeds/athletics to cover/recover speed when you do break contain itself. Then, Eye saw ’em back off into medium man looks; on edge, though the same intensity of Fs/Ss play; literally. As they have an even Safety look in a version of Cover-2 too. Did see a little Cover-1. Lb’ers move around a bit, both N-S and E-W. Very situational (down-distance) savvy D. And they mix-n-match a lot. Very bait-n-switch, disguise/roll things off the LOS (line-of-scrimmage). In particular from that medium-man into a zone. They at least try to tackle hard; and they will rip/strip when they can. They do try to make you throw wide/elongated sideline throws by defending inside out. Sideline=12th-man for them here when this works right.

• In ‘24... they… are mo’ forward facing this year… crowing the L.O.S. ((line-of-scrummage) at times with 1 high Fs1 in Cover1 as a Centerfielder behind that.  Mo’ Jam looks on edge. Will drop outta this in a flexy zoning looking. Tackling was okay though not perfect. And Eye kinda thought Howard raced them to the edge well enuff at D-1aa times. RU advances the ‘ball well on Turnovers. They blocked and stole the S outta both teams once the ’24 ‘ball changed hands. Keep your head on a swivel here.
  This is a very strenuously coached D; they are not asexual. You will have to go’on and beat them as they do not beat… themselves. Finally, they do have a softer/shell look on long down-n-distace passing lines… with Lb’ers and hind-4/5 backed up; albeit with a similar L.O.S. crowing at times. Clearly, they want to keep you on long/slow field and dare you to convert several time(s). Finally, the dLine is a bit lead-footed; plodding… Cobra-Ky’ and any safety value release could profit very well here.
• ∑ (summary): returning D production=79% (6th most)!
• De’s plural are your conflict defender(s) here. About that (below) stat highlighting when the offense only scored more than 21 points three times —they STILL won all three games. As Rutgers was 4-2 when scoring more than 16 on O. Which means the D was knightly-knight indeed. Perhaps in spades this campaign.
• p.s. a roll-out/sprint-out look would get you to the edge here… like something Dooley… and maybe Drones might just like that???
• p.s.s. this D ain’t; skardy-cat, see? They coming fo’ yah.
  All your base belong to… them. As this is a HIGHLY synergistic D. Lotta B— guys working hard, working smart, and sneaking into the very bottom of the: A— (group) level.
• Mo’ read-n-react… mo’ playing the Man not the ‘ball this year. This is either lesser/softer or NOT showing anything vs. a couple of slaps. Time=tell…
• Less Fs1 (a rook’) this is nearly an all Senior-year (true or r-) D. And it is all upperclassmen after the nugget kid-o. Movey front-7, and BIG on the back-end. A very intriguing set to match-up against… Ty.Bow’ and Co. have their O&M X’s and O’s… (cut out…) As Coordinator Joe Harasymiak’s unit, which ranked in the top 50 nationally in total (16th), scoring (32nd), rushing (41st) and passing (10th) defense, helped lead Rutgers to its most successful season in a decade. With six senior starters and multiple key contributors returning, the unit has a chance to become one of the best defenses in the Big Ten. They not south of good… only Q&A is… are they south of, great?
• One of the few question marks comes at cornerback, where standout Max Melton heads to the NFL. Veteran Robert Longerbeam will step up to the top spot at the position, while Eric Rogers and Bo Mascoe will fight for the second starting spot.At defensive tackle, a position that lost Mayan Ahanotu to graduation, Rutgers hopes Florida State product Malcolm Ray could be the latest in a line of transfers who have thrived at the position.
• Ends (and even the Ng/Dt hybrid middles) are concentric on stopping the run. They good at it and that lets them do mo’ exotics when their odd (think Steel Curtain 4o with j.Green on the pinch) handles business by its ownself in the dirt. Then, you can do many mo’ combinations and rolls and disguises on the back end when you need not commit +1 up to +3 to help stuff the ground-gainers. At least that is the theory…
• Cb1, Robert Longerbeam is a broken-up pass machine— he came up with ten last year. Safeties Shaquan Loyal, Flip Dixon, and Desmond Igbinosun are back after combing for 2o5 stops. Leading tackler Deion Jennings is gone from the linebacking corps, but Mohamed Toure (OUT: A.c.l., St.Nikon help) was back after finishing second with 93 stops. Tyreem Powell (QUESTIONABLE: Achilles, St.Achilles help) returns after hitting just about everything before missing the back half of the season hurt. Tho’ as you’ve read erstwhile… the 2nd layer is denty. (That, and the other guy has an undisclosed thingy (off-field)). wowow, that’s nearly their Top-3 in the 2nd layer.

Defensive letter-grade:

Rutgers Offense: (returning starters=8)

• Downright SOLID in Total O. (w/ near EPIC in run-O).

• ∑ (summary): returning O production=69% (42nd most).
• 66% run:pass 34% mix.Kenny Fletcher, Te1, is your secret sauce offender here. Has a real zone nose for the ‘ball.
• Very upperclassman overall possession unit and very Seniorized upfront. Again… work is cut out for… (Odd-Ot1 (left) is a damn monsta!).
• 2o24 film–study:
  RU does a lotta load or motion side work(s). It is nearly a DIVE-bar set. Lotta old-school O.G. straight ahead works; gotta win dat helmet-on-helmet crime here. Rb1 (Monangai) reads all of this very very well. James Joyce Ulysses in his sleep. Very nice court-vision Rb1. Everyone pitches in on the ground game too. Their H-back/Te guy is a blocking weapon. His 1st step is so quick it looks like a false start. He coming/gunning for yah too. Qb1 (Greek1) Athan Kaliakmanis is from a well-known Olympic wrasslin’ family. Prolly gets leverage well enuff… not a Penthouse Qb1 tho’. Does not enjoy: ‘full-frontal’ pressure. Will make misses under duress downfield on throw-ups for it to boot. RU will counter off the backside of the H-back’s pulls/kick-outs at times. They turn-n-shield block very well upfront. Really strong guys upstairs for it too. Rb1 does NOT, however, change hands well… very queer… unless he has a right-side injury on gripping the ‘ball? Lotta lefty or Koufax carries no matter nuttin’. Very determined runner… footwork, forward-lean, epic core/hips strength on film. Kinda like a nutty and hard-headed d.Wilson of VeeTee fame. RU run-shapes will also fold downhill or short-side you at times. Eye am very very impressed here. They good and maybe even greater coached than that? Passing is okay. And that is the ceiling thus far. Lotta short to intermediary thingys… angular, with at least 1 vert’/sideline element for a partial stretch. Qb1 is 8% improved this year. Wild how much a Rb1/Oline1 helps, huh? 6:1 ratio is a great problem to have. His RTG (easier) and QBR (stricter) ratings both checked out (surprisingly) well-enuff. Did see that Athan is ≈–1o% out on the Road for his career; that could help here. Wr1 and Wr2 are the moufy part. They ‘woof ‘ and take their n.III.l. looks very seriously on & off-field. Tho’, they were better on-field than Eye expected. Dy.Miller may or may not know how to swim… tho’ he and the narcist never met a drowning pool they did not reflect upon. Lotta ‘tude to cop here; tho’ solid tradecraft lurks as well. Dy’ is well cast. The Flanker1 in my (sneaky) likes him jus’ a pinch. +1 fo’ being a: ひ-dawgg, too.
  And o-line-yes… their front wall? RIGHT-tailed with over 6.4k career snaps in Experience Curve terms. wowowow. Odd/left side is *the* money side here. All 3 (left-Ot1, left-G1, C1) are all-star candidates of some ilk.
• Rutgers went run-heavy in Kirk Ciarrocca’s first year back as offensive coordinator, carrying the ball on 61.9 percent of its offensive plays (eighth nationally). It is mo’ of the same this year to boot. The Scarlet Knights didn’t hit half of their passes last season and only hit 2,000 yards through the air once in the last eight years. The offensive front was the best in the Big Ten in the fewest sacks allowed and gave up just over four tackles for loss per game. Four starters return -in some configuration- around Hollin Pierce at left tackle and center Gus Zelinskas., Monangai is back and expected to carry the load once again, but an upgraded wide receiving corps — which returns starter Christian Dremel and adds FCS transfers Dymere Miller (Monmouth) and Naseim Brantley (Western Illinois) plus a handful of second-year players with breakout potential — should help.

Offensive letter-grade:

Scarlet Knights Special Teams: (1 returns)

A centrist 6oth best in Net Punting.

That attempt at satire aside… Sophomore punter Flynn Appleby kicked rocks and left RU in something of a leg-game bind.

Cue: nugget or rookie-year: Jakob Anderson. (Who looks like he will get carded well into his 4o’s, which is a great, thang).

2024 (Freshman): Netted 40.5 yards on two attempts against Akron (9/7) … forced fair catches at the 15 and 10 in collegiate debut versus Howard (8/29).

Prior to Rutgers: A product of Pro Kick Australia, which produced former Rutgers specialists Flynn Appleby, Adam Korsak and Jude McAtamney … played Australian rules football with the Vic Metro at the AFL U18 Championships, as well as with the Sandringham Dragons of Coates Talent League Boys. Melb, Aus 🇦🇺. Ht./Wt.:
6-2 / 191, He/We… whatever that ’24 means?

Not real sure here… very early-on left-tailed Experience and Learning Curve P1 alike. Did dig the greaser (Outside) look though. +1  jus’ for rollin’ throwback dat.

• A nifty 17th best in Punt Returns | a modest 7oth in KO returns.
• A salty 12th best in punt coverage | and an available 92nd in suicide-squad.
• RU has blocked o kicks and allowed o kicks to be blocked.
• RU has blocked o punts and allowed o punts to be blocked.
• Starting Field Position:
  Virginia Tech Offense: (No. 26 in D-1)
  Rutgers Defense: (No. 5 in D-1)
  Rutgers Offense: (No. 48 in D-1)
  Virginia Tech Defense: (No. 36 in D-1)

Jai ‘alai’ Patel, on the other foot, did not play as a freshman in ’22; although he had a highly decorated high school career, earning USA Today All-New Jersey honors and being rated as a **** or four-star kicker by: Kohl’s Kicking. He’s prolly the alpha foot down the road.

Thus career far…Starting kicker Jai Patel, who is coming off the most accurate field-goal kicking season in program history (15-for-18), returns. He has only missed 1 P.A.T. in his life; (at any level). He was 83.33% in ’23 up on the Jersey Shore.

Same as P1 above… seems an alluring K1 prospect; though Eye’d like mo’ data points on this true-Jr.. in his 2nd season as K1 to be sure. As Patel is pastel this year at a Dutchy-looking 13 of 13 on ’24. (Although, only one is a FG-make (36-yards)). Although^2, he is said to have a Smokey or double-nickles or speed-limit (55) black-TA, T-top range. (With no word yet from “beau” the bloodhound…). Though this is a well-coiffed, globetrotting kid… and: 2o23 Academic All-Big Ten… kan’t hate on dat… not 1ι (one-iota).

My best take is that this K1 is a Keeper1. He is NOT south of good… not at all.

Special Teams letter grade:
Would be flirting with A’ish if only for some KO foibles… that may or may not last the duration anywho. B+++, might have a little headroom on top of that too.

FREE!!!

Unit Rankings:

1. RU O.
2. RU D.
3. …gap…
4. VT D.
5. VT O.

X-factor(s):

• motive: Well, the hope around the O&M campfire is that VeeTee has jus’ been waiting on this one here. And there is no less to play for after what embarrassingly happened in the 1-hole upfront. EDGE=us.
• weather:
• health/off-field: RU needed their OPEN week; this early Eye mean. As they musta had one punch August Training Camp to be this dingy/denty. Lb, Rb, and Db among ’em. VT is a bit O&M black-n-blue with five, that’s (5) starters hurt or put outta the @O.d.u. contest. EDGE=push; (tho’ maybe the BYE week team if forced to call the ball).
• penalties: VeeTee is actually a bit better here this year than last… RU is still nicely better in their own right thus far this season. EDGE=them.
• intangibles: TOP and all-important Turnover Margin both… split the vote here. RU is a pinch better at Time of Possession and VeeTee canceled that right out via being a pinch better at Turnover Margin. (Both are well above average in both cat’s F.Y.I.). EDGE=push.
• fatigue: RU is +1-week on R&R here. IF, this devolves into a pier-6 brawl or phonebooth fight? Watch how that tastes in the 8th and 9th innings. EDGE=them. (by no small measure, either).

 

Illation, conclusion(s) and OPT digits:

Number of  s.Knights who could joust @Tech=13 (12 now)

the takeaway:

…the takeaway here is to NOT be toooooooooo taken with the opening 2 up against 1 down, O&M… three.

 

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As Rutgers brings back a majority of the key players from its breakout season last fall, has replaced the few that have departed and projects to upgrade at its weakest position (quarterback). The Scarlet Knights seem set to have another big year and take another step forward as head coach Greg Schiano’s second stint rolls on.

permutations:

1. Δ1=54% Rutgers would be the sensible -if not easy- pick up in New Brunswick. On the road however and that titlts much closer to an EVEN contest.
2. Δ2=41%, maybe Tech did sandbag this one over at the Blacksburg, C.C.? Maybe they are laying in wait? Maybe this was an opening ’24 measured approach? That’s the party line… anywho…
3. Δ3=5% …this is one that there is at least a smidgeon of a legitimate shot at extra innings.

#ChallangeA.c.c.epted… there are 1,440 minutes in a day and we gotta go Ric Flair here and be a: “6o-minute-man”.

the optics…

Although not a passing fancy team per se… RU is chucking like a big-dog well enuff to all 3-(opposing)-layers. Nice blend of depth of patterning and patterning(s) itself here on tape. Surprising, even…

Bonus: Rutgers is 11-6 coming off a bye week under head coach Greg Schiano.

Double Bonus: (from: vtlee): RU=97 football staffers! VeeTee=55.
(You do the maths…)

the skinny…

The Jenny Craig here is that RU really only deploys one good-sized mail carrier. (Sammy “slammy” Brown V). The rest are not anything north of middleocore sized or south of that. That, and they only have one, that’s only (1) tote ≥2o yards, and only two, that’s only (2) luggings ≥16-yards! Meaning… this team is NOT game-breaking much or munch of anything vs. two little guys (Howard then Akron). This is not a zippy game-breaking chunking ground-gaining attack thus far. This is, however, a very forward-leaning forward falling ground-n-pound attack. They nearly always: rumblin’, bumblin’, stumblin’ and NOT ever butt-fumbling! (9o totes and they have not laid one single solitary (butterfingers) egg!) wowow.

WWI: “The Great War”…

Trench Warfare favors…

Lo.FM (Long-field Management©)

• The Rutgers O is a dullard 82nd-best in 1st-down O inflicted | whilst the VeeTee D is a nearly salty 32nd-best in 1st-down D allowed.
• The VeeTee O is a kinda decent 51st-best in 1st-down O inflicted | whilst the Rutgers D is a bloody sanguine 6th-best in 1st-down D allowed!
• The Rutgers O is a v-e-r-y gamey 6th best in 3rd-down O inflicted | whilst the VeeTee D is a downright solid 27th best in 3rd-down conversions allowed.
• The VeeTee O is a centrist 61st-best in 3rd-down O inflicted | whilst the Rutgers D is a user-friendly 1o8th (shocking) best in 3rd-down conversions allowed.

Lo.FM Analysis:
Sooooooooo, here we see a very mixy bag of tricks 4o-days out from Oct.31st itself. As you can clearly delinate the raw voltage or intensity of an all-in Rutgers early-down efforting/leveraging. This speaks to upfront things. Every bit as much as it speaks to a lack of backend things to boot. On the other side, we see that script basically flips. As Rutgers rides clutch in possession of the ball on latent down(s)— although, this one is met strength-on-strength, bone-on-bone O&M well enuff. Accordingly, this one is all about the Hokie O; that MUST remain on script in its pursuit of the chain gang itself. EDGE=push. (Or, maybe the D’s if you just had to say…)

TTT (Time To Throw©)

• The Gobbler O is a sievey 123rd-best in Tackles for a Loss allowed O | whereas the s.Knight D is a lightweight 84th-best in T.F.L. inflicted D.
• The s.Knight O is a stonewall 3rd best in T.F.L. allowed O | whereas the Gobbler D is a middleocore 57th-best in T.F.L. inflicted D.
• The Gobbler O is a brutal 113th-best in Qb-sacks allowed O | whereas the s.Knight D is a nearly gentle 93rd best in Qb-sacks inflicted D.
• The s.Knight O is not less than 1st-best in Qb-sacks allowed O | whereas the Gobbler D is a spraky 18t best in Qb-sacks inflicted D.

TTT Analysis:
Kinda marching to the same drum as above here… though the Rutgers offensive-line is vastly mo’ dominate than the VeeTee oLine is. Although some of this is indeed negated via the hard-charging Price is Right crew. This one -same as above- is mixy as well… though it is either a draw or a modest RU checkmark. EDGE=them.

3-game splits, H/A splits all say to wait just one mo’ Saturday— or until next Friday, take thy pick…

Our handy dandy friend, the so-called: Forum Guide of Graham Houston fame is merely calling for waiting ’round for A.c.c. play.

Triangle Theory says that… this one will be decided by one. As in one yard or 3′!

Never seen that one before… as that encodes for 1/1oth of a point or basically extra-innings here we come. (With VeeTee ≅5o-yards better threw the airwaves and yet Rutgers canceling that right out via being ≅5o-yards better behind their root-hogs down in the dirt).

the call…

…the βeta here is calling for a…

• RU is mo’ βeta favored on O (3o-places) than on D (13-places); though favored in both/each.
• RU βeta runs like a mother… and this just in… rain is rumored to be wet. Tho’ their 23rd overall O-Efficency says no wasted-plays work here. They won’t be giving… you need to go’on and take.
• The O&M βeta O runs well-enuff; tho’ really wastes plays or is the enemy of efficaciousness itself.
• The RU βeta D scores well everywhere less run D; which could be inviting a scosche. Nevertheless, same as the RU O, it tallies very well on efficiency. IF, you want RU’s lunch money you gotta reach for it. Acta non-verba.
• The O&M βeta D also lacks efficaciousness; with its run-fits misfits (1o4th) all around.

the sportlight…

Rb(1’s): The RU running back rotation should be good enough to produce behind a veteran line. And although there may not be a d.Wilson/r.Williams here, there are several mini-mes to legit Eddie Hunter/’rice Williams caliber guys and that should be fresh-legs Billy Hite-type rotation enough.

Rb Coach Wimsatt should have a key weapon in the backfield in running back Samuel Brown V, who was emerging as a star before a season-ending foot injury, (St.Sebastian help); as this kid is an intriguing one. The Rb room is on the way up, with true-Soph., Samuel Brown (6′1″/222 lbs.) leading the ’22 backfield committee with an exceptional 83.1 PFF run grade. So, he is the Rb1a to watch here. He is prolly good itself, and may trend on ‘great’ before ’25 is all said n’ done. Though Brown cannot do a lot aerially for you. (He and Ro.Duran… ‘hands of stone’).

The RU Rb-room is crowded, deep; experienced, and at least above average. Maybe more? 3-deep, maybe closer to 3.5 to 4?

That all to finally say… Kyle Monangai looks to have locked up on Rb1. That’s Daddy Kyle; already. He of the big ole melon (head) and just enuff swivel beneath of all of that. That’s 5′9″, 2o9 lbs. of true-Jr. Kyle Monangai spank you very much. That and Kyle’s game log showcases an Rb1 who runs Byron Scott hawt-n’-cold. Hit or miss.

Kyle Monangai— THE best blitz picker-upper Eye have seen on tape this decade, at least. Like decleating peeps, best. Truly. This is a rough kid; legit. 5×5.

Greek1/Qb1: Athan Kaliakmanis: is an interesting one… from a major Olympic sport (wrassin’) family.

• 40 Yard Dash: 4.61,
• Shuttle: 4.2o,
• Vertical: 36″,
• Dead: 555 lbs.!

Decent ATH… tho’ a pocket Qb1 via trade/definition. One that can wiggle or move a mite; though NOT a pure dual-threat or multi-Qb1. #1 or #2 Illinois H.S. recruit. So, there is some measure of Talent downloaded here. Though he only suffers two, that’s (2) career totes ≥16-yards and they both only went for 22. So, this is not a 6’er or a houser or a game-breaker on the Keeper; at least not career to date.

Rutgers Projected S&P+: 41st.
Rutgers Projected S&P wins: 8.1 W’s.

–oOo–

So, this one seems a competitive one ¦ if not a tight one to us…

…this means you had better not turn the ball over; you had better mind the field-position store and you had better hit for majors (not 3’s) when in tight {sic: zone).

As Points could very well be at a premium on Saturday as we are entirely and fully expecting an Alpah or premium load the damn mule Hokiebird effort come the 21st!

The caveat is… RU is really strictified inside the ≤2o-yardline on both O & D.
Whereas VeeTee seems a might: ‘ajar’ if not downright “available” to we.

Check it…

• VeeTee’s zone O is 1o6th best | when the RU zone D is top-1o best!
• VeeTee’s zone D is 93rd best | when the RU zone O is also Top-9 best!

…you do the maths…

Game Ball or mag·num o·pus:

IF, you did not see it… RU coach Greg.S. is drowning VeeTee in syrup Lou Holtz style… going so far as to say the Techmen are 8-10 deep in NFL’ers and another 7 Free-Agents. Then he put the O&M cheery on top via saying he was traveling to face: “…a pro’ team.”

LOL…

Nonetheless, it is most Applied Psych curious to us that he went that (overboard) far… a clinical either/or…

• Either, he was trying to raise his team up. Get mo’ outta them via basically coercive or textbook so-called: “Threat Power”. (The lowest of the V basses of Power; mind yah).
• Or, instead of trying to get into his very own teams head… he was trying to get into our head(s). Talk/type us way way way (impossibly) up. (Maybe he gated in some kinda @Vandy, cue(s))?

Nonetheless and either way… something is UP here… for him to deliberately and nearly fabricatively go that far. And no matter the motive behind this ruse in the truest sense… he must really want his team way way up to take on Tech.

“The game’s afoot.”

—Coach Sherlock Holmes

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 This one will be a slow-play… jus’ like that chilly first few date(s) girl who takes a bit to warm to your advances. Rutgers, they will lay back and force the Virginia Tech offense to grind its way down the field without giving up big plays. Patience could be virtuous here indeed.

1,179.6 miles So.-by-So.-West later and we are officially paging… “…all hands on deck” of the U.s.s. Duck Pond for this one here.

This one -and the next one mind you- will be maximum efforts.
O&M ‘red-letter-day(s)’ as mum used to put it.

There is NO need to hold back or keep things in the back of the playbook.
This is the bigtime folks… exit light ¦ try starting off, right…
Enter nite ¦ don’t come out circled date too, tight…
☮️ut Exist Ramps!!! Dis is a collision, sport.

It -at least to me- is a race to 3o… with an outside looksee at being a race to 4o. (First team there… wins…).

As Rutgers plays BIG X black-n-blue ruckus football… can we O&M ante-up and kick in?

“Show me…” —Coach H.S. Truman

Fish or get off the metallic, pot…

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Virginia Tech=23, Rutgers=3o

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Few things Eye’ma seeing/getting or catching up to…

1. There are a few stray reports in the U.K. media that DDD iced Joshua spark-out during sparing. (Which jus’ this week A.Jay finally got ’round to denying).

2. if ‘one’ were true… this ‘splains why DDD seems pretty dang hot for this a.Jay work.
(i.e., I’ve done him out already — sooooooo, I’ll jus’ do him out, again).

Nonetheless…

I foresee two kinda (potential) either/or fights developing…

Either, DDD gets to A.Jay early and just boilermaker overwhelms him; forces a.Jay to feeeeel uncomfortable and bashingly/clubingly drowns him out in bombs.
Unrefined. Forceful. Bombastic. Tho’ a crude way to a win
vs. a possibly still lilting Joshua is a WIN. Prolly his
singular track to victory.

Or, Joshua weathers some measure of an opening salvo storm…
A.Jay surely has mo’ tools in his 3/4’ers spacing tool-belt. He has mo’ experience; in particular on the largest stages’, he can counter kinda decently enuff, actually. And prolly has the better corner backing/scheming X’s and O’s heading him.

Tho’ he must survive the initial not-yet-tamed/discouraged Dynomite and defuse Dianiel– as he nearly club-fighter goes unsophisticated clubbing along…
a.Jay looks leaner this week than I had thought. That speaks to a going deeper/further game plan.

DDD looks like someone carved a divot in his rhomboid (back) muscles. That speaks to a going shorter/harder game plan.

…either way… someone is going nite-nite and Kansas is going bye-bye, here.

 

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