The upcoming 2017 season for Rutgers football is all about one thing.......progress. After the past two seasons have resulted in a 50% decline in wins from each of the campaigns before it, the hope is this year will mark the beginning of the climb back up to respectability. The program won 79 games in a 10 year period, with the last season of that decade long span being an 8-5 debut campaign in the Big Ten in 2014.
I don’t need to drudge up the missteps and many issues that brought the program to it’s knees in recent years, but to say that year two of the Chris Ash era is crucial is an understatement.