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Rutgers WR Britt to pass up senior season for NFL
Rutgers wide receiver Kenny Britt is taking his considerable talents to the NFL. The junior announced his intentions Saturday to forgo his senior season and declare himself eligible for the draft. The 20-year-old Britt had 87 receptions for 1,371 yards and seven touchdowns in 2008, including what proved to be the game-winner for the Scarlet Knights in a 29-23 victory over North Carolina State in...

Rutgers Team Report
It"s amazing how much of a difference two months can make in a football season. In mid-October 2007, the Rutgers season was a disaster. The Scarlet Knights were 1-5 after an Oct. 11 loss to Cincinnati. Everyone wanted senior quarterback Mike Teel benched, and a lot of people were wondering how good a coach Greg Schiano really was. The planned stadium expansion was in big trouble, and it was as low as the program had been over the past few seasons. Through that point, the offense had scored more than 20 points just once against a Division I team, in the 23-21 loss at Navy. The only turnovers the team had forced came against Morgan State. Nothing was clicking, and being in position to make a bowl game seemed like the faintest of hopes. But the Scarlet Knights...

Rutgers 29, N.C. State 23
Fitting that Rutgers would end the 2008 season with a come-from-behind win. After winning only one of their first six games, Mike Teel and the Scarlet Knights erased an 11-point second half deficit to defeat North Carolina State 29-23 in the Papajohns.com Bowl on Monday. "As the whole year went, we were able to fight through adversity and stick to it, stick to the plan," coach Greg Schiano said.

Rutgers makes professor interim AD
Rutgers University has picked a longtime faculty member who is dean of Rutgers College to be interim athletic director Monday while the state university searches for a permanent replacement for the ousted Robert Mulcahy. Carl Kirschner, a professor at Rutgers since 1976 and member of the department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been the chairman for more than a decade of a committee that reviews...

N.C. State-Rutgers Preview
Rutgers and North Carolina State looked nothing like teams bound for bowls halfway through the 2008 season. The Scarlet Knights of the Big East and the Wolfpack of the Atlantic Coast Conference survived terrible starts, then rode the their rejuvenated quarterbacks to late-season rallies and berths in the Papajohns.com Bowl.