I said on the day they announced their organization that I wasn't sure if I wish them well or if I hope it collapses immediately. I still don't know.
It upsets me because, as I explained earlier in the thread (at least I think it was this thread - there are several competing threads on the same topic), the end game of this framework is that there are going to be 25 to 40 schools (let's just say 50 to be generous) that will move forward intending to compete in Professional College Athletics (with no salary cap) and the remainder will eventually (20 years? 25?) bow out and refuse to try to compete. And because I've had a small involvement in Rutgers Athletics since before you were born, and was a fan long before that, I am well aware that our particular school traditionally makes no effort when it comes to being competitive in interscholastic athletics. In fact, the vast majority of those affiliated with the school (administrators, faculty, staff, students, local media) would prefer we lose repeatedly and stop trying to compete at all; they don't want the school to make an effort. Still, for the last 70 years or so, Rutgers has adopted a stance of pretending to care if we win, and pretending to make an effort, but not actually doing the things necessary to make it happen (spending $$$, and spending it on the correct priorities).
So when I see that the new landscape is that those schools that are willing to spend enough $$$ to be competitive will actually continue to have major college athletic programs and those that aren't willing to spend will not, I assume (based on history, track record and ease of path) that Rutgers University will quickly fall into the later category. And while I don't want Rutgers to fall out of major college athletics, I want even less for it to pretend it is trying to compete (while throwing a tiny portion of money at it as a wasteful show) because that will provide the school administrators and the state politicians the excuse to act like they thought they were being competitive and "Oh gee, who could have guessed we were only doing a 10th of what was necessary to compete with a Michigan State or an Iowa??? Oh well, here comes the Patriot League."
So returning to my first comment, why am I uncertain if I want to wish them well or want them to collapse immediately? Because this KTR organization, as currently planning to operate, is playing pretend. It's pretending that Rutgers is being set up to compete. Its major function is to serve as an excuse to everyone affiliated with the school to say, "Well, we thought it was going to work, but it didn't come close. How could we have known?" rather than have those same people (administrators, politicians, local media, larger donors) to say the truthful thing which is ... the school will not be competitive unless it comes up with a massive amount of money and goes and recruits players just like all of these other schools (that aren't pretending) intend to do. That isn't what KTR is intending; I'm sure this guy arguing with me and representing the organization is being sincere. But being sincere isn't enough. What this organization is set up to do isn't enough. Nothing short of paying to play and recruiting players is going to be enough.
So it upsets me because its play pretend, it won't work, and it is an excuse for others not to do anything.