Of course it can. We choose not to make the hole deeper ... and we do so to the long-term detriment of the school and its finances.
There's no way to demonstrably prove that assertion.
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Of course it can. We choose not to make the hole deeper ... and we do so to the long-term detriment of the school and its finances.
that is a weird stat....could be scalpers, could be opposing team fans, what else would account for thisIt's also worth pointing out that while the number of season ticket seats is down, the number of individual season ticket accounts is up slightly.
that is a weird stat....could be scalpers, could be opposing team fans, what else would account for this
That's why ticket revenue is a more telling stat. Presumably the Athletic Department knows what portions of revenue changes are due to price, volume, and mix.There's one other very important point that needs to be recalled, re: attendance. During the Schiano years when we were putting up spectacular attendance numbers, a lot of those tickets were giveaways.
When did Barchi tell Pernetti that he had to keep Flood?Barchi told Pernetti he has to keep Flood?
Am I conflating Pernetti being told he could not fire Rice with him failing to hire Cristobal (due to budget or whatever) and that's how I got to Barchi saying no to a new football coach?When did Barchi tell Pernetti that he had to keep Flood?
Am I conflating Pernetti being told he could not fire Rice with him failing to hire Cristobal (due to budget or whatever) and that's how I got to Barchi saying no to a new football coach?
Now that I think about it more.. is it all on Rutgers legal counsel?
They signed off on Ash's contract. They told Barchi that there wasn't enough to fire Rice for cause.
Legal counsel also must have signed off on the Ash contract and not protected Rutgers interests.
There's a good reason why this happened ... because there wasn't actually enough to fire Rice for cause. Not even close.
Legal counsel writes up the contract that the AD negotiates. As a lawyer, you can author the most air-tight contract ever written, but if the client (your boss) overrides you, or tells you to remove portions, or to change specific language, it doesn't matter.
But Rice did not get his full buyout when he was fired. We did it because of the video getting so much attention.. but if legal counsel would have suggested we can get away with paying him less than half his buyout, maybe Pernetti gets given the okay to fire Rice and we avoid the bulk of that bad PR. Instead of Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice did this.. it would have been "Rutgers fired head coach Mike Rice.. here's why".
See, this is where I find this board frustrating. There are too many people who have invented facts to fit the narrative they want to present, rather that develop narrative that are consistent with the facts. I'm not talking about people having honest differences of opinion in interpretation of data (such as 4Real coming to a different conclusion than me on the effect of budget constraints on Hobbs decision to retain Ash). I'm talking about people just making stuff up, sometimes without even realizing they're doing it, just because it fits their narrative.Am I conflating Pernetti being told he could not fire Rice with him failing to hire Cristobal (due to budget or whatever) and that's how I got to Barchi saying no to a new football coach?
It is pretty easy to show that Barchi did not give Pernetti any direction regarding hiring of Cristobal or Flood.
It was something like $450K of $1.1M.. I don't think "total value" comes into this.I imagine that Rice took a negotiated lump sum when he left. With all of it upfront the total value was probably discounted. Typical practice.
Sure, the facts were wrong..but
Yeah. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. [eyeroll]
Am I conflating Pernetti being told he could not fire Rice with him failing to hire Cristobal (due to budget or whatever) and that's how I got to Barchi saying no to a new football coach?
Re-thinking it.. with winning a share of the conference title, maybe Pernetti had his hands tied with moving on Flood.. and he got forced out over the Rice thing.. a sacrificial.. er.. underling.
But I think Hobbs not being able to fire Ash (which is on both Hobbs and Barchi).. I think that means that Pernetti would not have been able to fire Flood. Hermann did not get to fire Flood. I think that comes from Barchi regarding budget dollars.
Now that I think about it more.. is it all on Rutgers legal counsel?
They signed off on Ash's contract. They told Barchi that there wasn't enough to fire Rice for cause. Legal counsel also must have signed off on the Ash contract and not protected Rutgers interests.
ahh.. I am getting old. I knew there was some story about not being able to fire someone.. but that pre-dated Barchi coming here.Pernetti wasnt allowed to fire Fred Hill jr....that created this whole mess
Keep Pernetti? The guy that hired Rice after people told him Rice was a lunatic. No thanks!!ahh.. I am getting old. I knew there was some story about not being able to fire someone.. but that pre-dated Barchi coming here.
In any case, that wrong "fact" I brought up was just to show how budget constraints have resulted in pinching pennies to lose dollars and what I have seen from Barchi confirms that. I screwed up supporting facts... but I was not trying to paint a picture that was misleading.
And while we are on Pernetti.. I think he had some value in the Big Ten invite.. sure, without what Mulcahy and Schiano it does not happen.. but Pernetti surely had dealing with the evaluation team from the Big Ten and as a guy with experience at ABC Sports, VP at College Sports Network and then getting picked up by CBS Sports Network when they bought CSTV... he clearly could sell and had a lot of knowledge about markets useful to the Big Ten and BTN.
He would have had tremendous value to a Rutgers in the Big Ten. He was not perfect.. but we should have fought to keep him.
End of day Hobbs is now tied to the hip with Ash. If we are miserable again next year, I for one will want Hobbs gone before Ash so a competent AD hires the next coach.When Ash came in the door and started recruiting, we'd been to a bowl game in 9 of the prior 11 seasons. The juniors and seniors he was recruiting weren't even in 1st grade when Rutgers was last a college football doormat, and we had compiled a 83-56 record from the time they entered Kindergarten to the time Ash and staff were sitting down in their kitchens to sell them on committing (2005-2015 seasons).
Rutgers had been a solid program for essentially their entire lives prior to Ash's arrival and was coming off a down year that was impacted by several player arrests.
Now? That's all been wiped away. Four straight losing seasons... we've gone 11-37 since the current HS recruits entered 8th grade, and there's no expectation that we'll suddenly have a winning record next year.
Keep Pernetti? The guy that hired Rice after people told him Rice was a lunatic. No thanks!!