Any truth to administration trust issues with Julie?

[bac2therac]

You have got to be kidding me! It's part of the essential job functions of an AD to be the face and voice of the University's Athletic Department. A skillful AD will utilize press conferences to put the Athletic Department in the best light possible. Press conferences afford an AD the opportunity to put favorable spins when things go wrong. They are also useful for great PR when things go right.

I only see ADs when there is a scandal or coaching change..the work is done behind the scenes

 

[RU848789]

Well, in all candor there seems to be at least one fact supporting the Administration's lack of trust in JH. The Administration no longer allows her to speak at press conferences, which is a rarity for an A.D.employed by a school in a power 5 conference. It is therefore not that unreasonable for sports writer to extend the Admin's distrust to the hiring process as well.

Do you seriously believe any of what you just wrote?

 

[batts]

Bac, thank you for a well reasoned and intelligent response.

 

[NotInRHouse]

I think the national press is just with their NJ buds that hate JH.

JH was all ready to fire Flood in 2013...what has she done since then to lose that trust?

I do think there is jousting between Towers and the 5% and the rest of the AD and donor base in terms of whether Flood is going to stay.

 

[RUaMoose]

Not trying to stir something up but the original writer was probably just sexist. And assumes women shouldn't be trusted with football.

Oh yeah that's what this is all about. He was likely a homophobe as well

 

[PaKnight]

Nick Saban. ;)

I think there's plenty of us who can name the current AD, who he replaced, and when. I think that's pretty basic knowledge for those who follow college football nationally. We're talking about Alabama, not Utah State.

Here's a real basic one.... Who's the AD at Arkansas? If you don't know that, you're probably not as much of a college football fan as you think you are.

Bill Battle is the Alabama AD.

 

[yesrutgers01]

Bac, thank you for a well reasoned and intelligent response.

BAC intelligently said you have no clue what you are talking about. Too damn funny

 

[derleider]

I have seen this now in multiple articles on head coach changes...


Source

Is this a real thing or just some copy and paste from a questionable write up?

Heres a hint. When you read the national press about Rutgers, assume one of two things - they are just guessing based on preexisting prejudices about Rutgers, or they are recycling stuff the locals have written. Pat Forde and Pete Thamel and writers like them arent making contacts with people in Rutgers to do new investigative research - they are just throwing out things that they have heard or read or just BSing entirely.

Im guessing the reason Flood hasnt been fired is because his worst season was a 6-7 season in year 2. Nothing more. Nothing less. Coaches just dont get fired with his record, even at great schools.

Go 4-8 this year and he doesnt get fired, and you can start to question some things.

 

[bac2therac]

I would say this is true. The national writers do not have a pipeline of information to RU. Any news they get is from the NJ hacks or its from the hatred of Rutgers getting into the Big 10 and their hatred of Julie because of star ledger die comments.

They are biased against RU because they never wanted or believed RU should be in the Big 10 at the expense of darlings UConn or Syracuse. Then add on all the other stuff and you can see why they are dismissive about Rutgers as a whole.

 

[rutgersguy1]

Heres a hint. When you read the national press about Rutgers, assume one of two things - they are just guessing based on preexisting prejudices about Rutgers, or they are recycling stuff the locals have written. Pat Forde and Pete Thamel and writers like them arent making contacts with people in Rutgers to do new investigative research - they are just throwing out things that they have heard or read or just BSing entirely.

Im guessing the reason Flood hasnt been fired is because his worst season was a 6-7 season in year 2. Nothing more. Nothing less. Coaches just dont get fired with his record, even at great schools.

Go 4-8 this year and he doesnt get fired, and you can start to question some things.

I can definitely see a case to keep him if he finishes around .500 but I could just as easily make a case to let him go too if he doesn't make .500.

Assuming he doesn't get to .500, that would be 2 out of 4 years of a below .500 records and 3 out of 4 years of a below .500 conference record which to me is a big deal because you can't run away from your conference mates. They are the majority of your schedule and you have to play them every year. If you can't make some headway there it's hard to move up in the landscape.