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I got to the Hale Center a little late but here is some impression's on Ash's speech:
- the guy is no nonsense. Very straightforward. Very confident. A no short cuts guy. Lots of substance. With Flood, you got the sense that he was "faking it until he could make it". Flood was figuring things out on the fly and we all kinda knew it. No so with Ash; the guy has spent a lot of time prepping for this very moment.

-he spoke about how important player development will be as they spend 4 yr at RU but he wants to start with recruiting good character and tough kids who are willing to work extremely hard. He mentioned good character kids a few times.

- he talked about the importance of NJ players because this is the state school and RU needs the NJ identity. That begin said, Ash will recruit for the BiG and he has to find his type of players nationally.

- he knows that he and his staff have no real NJ connections but feels that he can succeed short term/long term without those connections

-he wants to HS coaches to come and go as they please here at the Hale Center and he is willing to listen on how to build a winner in NJ. Much different than the Sciano Era.

-He, like Schiano, has a grand vision. People love the vision and the plan. If he starts executing Ash will win over everyone. After the speech the feeling in the room was that Ash impressed the group. He has a very ambitious plan and a very strong vision for RU. A few coaches said he has absolutely the right attitude.

A few more tidbits: outside of landing a guy like Mullen, this was the right hire. No baggage that Golden and Schiano would have brought with them. RU needed a clean re-boot. Ash does that.

Didn't see Barthels there. Hobbs was there. Shane Burnham is very personable. I think that I saw Campanile there too surprisingly.
 
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Cool - thanks.

I haven't seen an tweet from EJ since 1/1 (which is unusual for him)... ...... getting a bad feeling about that.
 
Lots of things going on Monday nights here in NJ I guess. Should have been broadcast on Rvision so all coaches could have access to view.
 
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Yes, thank you! Great to hear he made a great impression and even better to hear that as we have been hearing about him all along, he was prepared, has a plan, and got that plan across clearly. Hopefully we see the buy in that we have been missing in this program for the last 30 years.
 
MorrisAsh said:
Not as many as I thought there would be, maybe like 30-40 people total.
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That is a disappointing turnout. I would think that NJ coaches would show up in bunches to hear what Ash has to say even though this was not a RU event. The coaches knew he was going to talk, right?
 
MorrisAsh said:
I got to the Hale Center a little late but here is some impression's on Ash's speech:
- the guy is no nonsense. Very straightforward. Very confident. A no short cuts guy. Lots of substance. With Flood, you got the sense that he was "faking it until he could make it". Flood was figuring things out on the fly and we all kinda knew it. No so with Ash; the guy has spent a lot of time prepping for this very moment.

-he spoke about how important player development will be as they spend 4 yr at RU but he wants to start with recruiting good character and tough kids who are willing to work extremely hard. He mentioned good character kids a few times.

- he talked about the importance of NJ players because this is the state school and RU needs the NJ identity. That begin said, Ash will recruit for the BiG and he has to find his type of players nationally.

- he knows that he and his staff have no real NJ connections but feels that he can succeed short term/long term without those connections

-he wants to HS coaches to come and go as they please here at the Hale Center and he is willing to listen on how to build a winner in NJ. Much different than the Sciano Era.

-He, like Schiano, has a grand vision. People love the vision and the plan. If he starts executing Ash will win over everyone. After the speech the feeling in the room was that Ash impressed the group. He has a very ambitious plan and a very strong vision for RU. A few coaches said he has absolutely the right attitude.

A few more tidbits: outside of landing a guy like Mullen, this was the right hire. No baggage that Golden and Schiano would have brought with them. RU needed a clean re-boot. Ash does that.

Didn't see Barthels there. Hobbs was there. Shane Burnham is very personable. I think that I saw Campanile there too surprisingly.
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Thanks for the update. It's very appreciated from three thousand miles away.
 
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rurahrah000 said:
That is a disappointing turnout. I would think that NJ coaches would show up in bunches to hear what Ash has to say even though this was not a RU event. The coaches knew he was going to talk, right?
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in perspective - This is the first 'business' night of the new year - probably not a high turn-out night for this group under normal circumstances & by the time word was out that Ash would join the already scheduled meeting, many may have had other plans.
 
Definitely thanks for the insight!

Good to get a professional coach's impression.

Now I am really excited about the future because if HS coaches are excited and impressed so far, then either Ash is in line for the Oscar or he stands to help Rutgers make a B1G impact. I am going with the latter.

Funny how you can tell the very distinct difference between Flood and Ash. It's a wonder how he held on the job for so long when people can see through him like that
 
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Were the coaches of the "big 5" there?
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Only Nunzio Campanile from BC was there. The attendance sheet had over 100 coaches signed in, not the 40 reported above. Hobbs was not in attendance. Morris, the guy in the suit was a coach from south Jersey that came from work, not Hobbs.

EJ Barthal is still in charge of recruiting and Anthony Campanile is in a support role, not a recruiting role, although Coach Ash did say that there were some minor changes still to be made to the staff.
 
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mikemarc1 said:
This meeting had nothing to do with RU...it was there annual monthly meeting.
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It's a monthly meeting and its held at the Hale Center. It's for NJFCA members only. We knew there were a few non-members in attendance last night, due to Coach Ash being presence. Normal attendance ranges from 40-60, but last night was well over 100 as we announced it in our monthly e-mail that the entire new coaching staff would be in attendance.
 
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The meeting happens monthly. This was not an RU specific meeting it just happens at Rutgers. Ash came to meet with the coaches who meet there on a regular basis. This meeting would have happened if Ash was there or not.
 
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It's a monthly meeting and its held at the Hale Center. It's for NJFCA members only. We knew there were a few non-members in attendance last night, due to Coach Ash being presence. Normal attendance ranges from 40-60, but last night was well over 100 as we announced it in our monthly e-mail that the entire new coaching staff would be in attendance.
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This doesn't help the negative nancies. But thank you for some facts.
 
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Monthly meeting...held at RU.

The person speculating attendance was down because people don't respect RU couldn't be more wrong.

And I couldn't have been more wrong with my "annual monthly" line. Made no sense. Ha.
 
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VirtualKnight said:
It's a monthly meeting and its held at the Hale Center. It's for NJFCA members only. We knew there were a few non-members in attendance last night, due to Coach Ash being presence. Normal attendance ranges from 40-60, but last night was well over 100 as we announced it in our monthly e-mail that the entire new coaching staff would be in attendance.
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^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^
 
I like everything that I hear about Coach Ash.

I do have one question for the OP. What baggage does Schiano have?? There is no scandal in his past or present.
 
Whitebus, I took that to mean we needed a new coach and not a reboot. If Schiano came back I would have been fine with that. But it is probably much better for everyone that we started fresh and he moved on to OSU. I think that is win, win, win.
 
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