Hey, it's totally subjective but here are my reasons:
1. I love the AD. Hobbs is a pro. His hiring wasn't to promote cronyism or some desire to appear diverse or any other faulty reason. He was selected because it appears that he his an awesome executive. Having some past personal experience dealing with the man, I was both shocked and thrilled when I learned he would be taking ove. His performance thus far validates this.
2. The coaching staff feels right. All of them perfect hires all the way around. Kenny Parker! Mehrenger. Mantz. Henry. Kuhr. Blaze. They all bring something awesome to the table. Ash has a very specific plan and he's good at communicating it. He's a detail freak, which I view as a necessity to achieve greatness. You get the feeling that anything short of a college football takeover will be viewed with disappointment by this group. And I believe them.
3. I'm not alone. HS coaches, newspaper columnists, current players, current recruits...all have taken notice of the positive changes. Some of this I've gotten from reading articles and twitter, other sentiments have been expressed to me directly. The narrative could have easily been "too young, too green, not enough nj" and in the face of these reasonable "cons" the phrase I most often see attributed to the current situation at Rutgers is "home run." Pardon my giddiness, but "home run" is not a phrase I often hear in the same sentence as RU unless the topic is Todd Frazier.
4. There is this growing sense that the era of Rutgers as a whipping boy for the whole country is over. Everything I'm reading is positive about RU. Complimentary. Respectful. Lemming gave us a better recruiting class rating than anyone? This same guy who was perceived as one who would downgrade prospects after committing to RU is the one giving our class the most positive treatment.
The winds are at our backs right now for the first time that I can remember. Even when Schiano was doing good things here, there was always this air of negativity and adversity hanging over our heads. I can't sense that at all right now. I know this is a highly subjective opinion and there is very little concrete evidence to convince any naysayers but I'm curious - does anyone else feels it too?
1. I love the AD. Hobbs is a pro. His hiring wasn't to promote cronyism or some desire to appear diverse or any other faulty reason. He was selected because it appears that he his an awesome executive. Having some past personal experience dealing with the man, I was both shocked and thrilled when I learned he would be taking ove. His performance thus far validates this.
2. The coaching staff feels right. All of them perfect hires all the way around. Kenny Parker! Mehrenger. Mantz. Henry. Kuhr. Blaze. They all bring something awesome to the table. Ash has a very specific plan and he's good at communicating it. He's a detail freak, which I view as a necessity to achieve greatness. You get the feeling that anything short of a college football takeover will be viewed with disappointment by this group. And I believe them.
3. I'm not alone. HS coaches, newspaper columnists, current players, current recruits...all have taken notice of the positive changes. Some of this I've gotten from reading articles and twitter, other sentiments have been expressed to me directly. The narrative could have easily been "too young, too green, not enough nj" and in the face of these reasonable "cons" the phrase I most often see attributed to the current situation at Rutgers is "home run." Pardon my giddiness, but "home run" is not a phrase I often hear in the same sentence as RU unless the topic is Todd Frazier.
4. There is this growing sense that the era of Rutgers as a whipping boy for the whole country is over. Everything I'm reading is positive about RU. Complimentary. Respectful. Lemming gave us a better recruiting class rating than anyone? This same guy who was perceived as one who would downgrade prospects after committing to RU is the one giving our class the most positive treatment.
The winds are at our backs right now for the first time that I can remember. Even when Schiano was doing good things here, there was always this air of negativity and adversity hanging over our heads. I can't sense that at all right now. I know this is a highly subjective opinion and there is very little concrete evidence to convince any naysayers but I'm curious - does anyone else feels it too?
