Rutgers Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:12:54 PDT

In a lot of ways, this was a spring to forget for the Rutgers football team.

No running back emerged to stake a claim to the vacancy left by departing starter Ray Rice. A home-and-home series with Notre Dame was canceled when the Scarlet Knights wouldn't agree to play its home games in the series at Giants Stadium. Private funds needed to complete the expansion of Rutgers Stadium have been slow to arrive.

That having been said, it's an interesting change from a year ago, when the Scarlet Knights were one of the hot teams in college football. Thought to be a contender in the Big East and a dark horse in the national championship race, the team proved to lack the consistency and physicality required to make that happen, and finished a relatively disappointing campaign in...