Though the Scarlet Knights have only a 15-14 mark this season, Bannon, who is 42, has a 48-42 mark since taking over at Rutgers in 1997.
Though the Scarlet Knights (9-2, 5-1) clinched a share of their first Big East title because of Louisville's loss, they need a win over the Cardinals on Thursday to go to a B.C.S. bowl.
Neither show looked promising for New York: "Lohengrin" because it was too arcane, "Ariadne" for lack of eye candy (though the scarlet five-inch stilettos of Diana Damrau's firecracker Zerbinetta added value in that regard).
A footpath leads down from the site through scarlet foxgloves and rampant purple buddleias to gorgeous rocky inlets which are deserted even though it is a bank holiday.
On this showing, though, the Scarlets tight head would have made all the difference: a Samson in a front row of Delilahs.
Some vestiges of symbolism surely do cling to scarlet, though.
Along with his Royal Air Force "wings" and golden jubilee medal, William's blue sash was a nice jolt across the jacket's scarlet front, though if anything it was upstaged by brother Harry's gold braiding pile-up.
A veteran New York analyst told me recently that Rosen became a symbol of the perils of getting involved with a patient: "People would say, 'Remember Victor Rosen.' " Other psychoanalysts responded, Snyder said, "as though I were the scarlet woman who had seduced their beloved Victor".
And, after some of the harshest rebukes in all of scripture (Isaiah 1 1-15 1 1-15prophetheelays this divine invitation: "Come, and let us have it out, says the Eternal One - though your sins be as scarlet, they shall become as white as snow, though they be red as dye, they shall be as wool" (Isaiah 1:18).
Though they lost, 97-75, the Scarlet Knights played the Tar Heels a lot closer than most teams have this season.
