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Rutgers Football: Five Reasons for Optimism and Pessimism for the Future of Chris Ash’s Scarlet Knights

Five Reasons for Pessimism

  1. Yes, Rutgers won three conference games, but guess which program won three conference match-ups in 2016? Yes, Maryland. In 2017, the Terrapins may have been the worst team in the East, so it’s no guarantee that forward progress will happen next season.
  2. The quarterback position. But wait, didn’t Johnathan Lewis show flashes of talent and didn’t the Scarlet Knights land the best recruit of the Ash era in Artur Sitkowski? Both of those are true. However, when your best hope is a frosh and sophomore for a football season, there will be major growing pains.