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QB Hayden Rettig will always be a big 'what if?' for Rutgers fans | Politi Bits

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This conversation took place on a flight back from East Lansing, Mich., but it could have happened outside the stadium before a home game, or in the many, many frustrated emails or tweets over the past two seasons.

Rutgers has just failed to score a single point in a blowout loss to Michigan State, and a longtime fan was looking for a solution. I could have finished his sentence before he started.

"Why don't they just give Hayden Rettig a shot and see what happens?" he asked, and I could have put on a crystal blue dress and sang my response over the airplane's P.