Rutgers has a pretty good wrestling program. Its rowing program is nationally ranked, and has been for several years. There are other sports “on the banks” that have also been reasonably successful in recent years: men’s golf, field hockey, women’s lacrosse, women’s soccer, gymnastics.
And they’ve done well, despite the fact that they haven’t necessarily gotten the support – financially or otherwise – that they need. But Keli Zinn has made it clear that those poor support days are over.
“Our absence in that ****** e [NIL]. Over the past three or four years, I do believe it has had a direct impact on where you see some of our Olympic sports performing right now. We needed to fix that, and our Olympic coaches heard back in the fall, me tell them, hey, this isn’t just about football and basketball, it’s going to be about you too.”
In honor of this year’s World Cup games, Andrew posted a piece on Rutgers Soccer – men and women – showing a proud and highly successful history. The operative word being history, as in not recently.
And, as often happens, reality can smack you up side the head: that would be the Directors’ Cup standings for 2025-26. And it showed that of late, Rutgers just hasn’t quite cut it in too many areas.