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I don't get the lovefest with Hobbs.

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I'll wait to see who gets hired but as of now I'm skeptical. We know he made 2 bad hires for SHU basketball and I've posted the article about the process of how he got to Willard in a couple threads. Passed on good coaches like Cooley and McCaffery and 2nd choice after Willard was Donahue who failed at BC. Rice somehow was on the list too after Gonzo I don't get that. Some here said his issues were known even before us.

So when you see this record it's nothing to get optimistic about but I'll wait to see who gets hired.
 
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Only time will tell whether he's a good hire. Might as well be optimistic. New Jersey isn't a good place for outsiders to step into, just ask Julie Herman. He's connected, this might turn out great.
 
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Fundraising and political connections in NJ. Now he needs to hire Richt and things will look good.
 
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RU205 said:
Fundraising and political connections in NJ. Now he needs to hire Richt and things will look good.
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This! He's got the connections to get money to hire a big name like Richt thats why we brought him in. Im not saying we are def getting him but he has the connections to get the money together
 
I would have like the new AD to have more AD experience, but lets hope for the best.
I hope he hits a home run with the hire.

Its also refreshing that he seems confident in front of a press conference as opposed to his predeccesor.
 
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Fundraising in athletics I need to see to believe. No one has really given examples or shown what he did for the SHU AD, not the law school. SHU guys haven't said much on that front either. Right now we know we got some parking garage money on the table and possibly a large donation from Towers so build on that and the the facility done and then I'll believe it.
 
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Blitz8RUCrazy said:
Well if he hires Richt i'll be all in on him (I want richt over Schiano). But if he brings a guy like Christobal or Golden he'll be in my bad books.
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An AD is much more than just hiring coaches. He's smart, likable, had connections, and is a Jersey guy who knows the politics.
 
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Like I was saying yesterday if he makes strong AAD hires, and can handle the fundraising end as well as some expect based on his reputation, along with compliance, et al, I think this could turn out to be a very good hire. We'll see and, of course, the football hire is huge.
 
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You know the other thing that would make me come around is something I mentioned in another thread. It seems like a dream candidate for us would be 1/2 Hobbs 1/2 JH, they probably complement each other's weaknesses.

I mentioned that Fresno reassigned their AD to another part of the department and our top choice from last time before he withdrew his name, Thomas Boeh. Why? He was polarizing. Sound familiar? Obviously, we can't do that with JH now but instead go out and hire a good deputy AD who can bring in the qualities we lost with JH. Then we'll have the best of both worlds and Hobbs can teach that person how to navigate NJ media/politics and then maybe you start a virtuous cycle.
 
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mikemarc1 said:
An AD is much more than just hiring coaches. He's smart, likable, had connections, and is a Jersey guy who knows the politics.
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I'm sorry but that's a huge thing. You can't just brush off hiring coaches like it's some ancillary responsibility. Fundraising and hiring good coaches are the 2 main tasks of the AD everything else barring egregious issues is minutiae.
 
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rutgersguy1 said:
I'm sorry but that's a huge thing. You can't just brush off hiring coaches like it's some ancillary responsibility. Fundraising and hiring good coaches are the 2 main tasks of the AD everything else barring egregious issues is minutiae.
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It's a main thing, yes, but it's not hard. It doesn't take a special skill, everyone in America knows who the top coaches are.

I'm not worried one bit he's never hired a coach. I'm sure he's done as many important hires as a dean.
 
mikemarc1 said:
It's a main thing, yes, but it's not hard. It doesn't take a special skill, everyone in America knows who the top coaches are.

I'm not worried one bit he's never hired a coach. I'm sure he's done as many important hires as a dean.
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Well first of all he has hired a coach, 2 of them actually, and both were bad. Kevin Willard and Anne Donovan

If it's not hard how come he screwed up the 2 hires he made at SHU and his back up choice Steve Donahue was another failure. It most certainly isn't easy, that's for sure or every coach hired would be a winner. On top of which hiring people with a smaller budget is also tougher than hiring with a large one. Michigan and USCs of the world have big budgets and still schools like that foul up hires, if it was so easy how does that happen.
 
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Well first of all he has hired a coach, 2 of them actually, and both were bad. Kevin Willard and Anne Donovan

If it's not hard how come he screwed up the 2 hires he made at SHU and his back up choice Steve Donahue was another failure. It most certainly isn't easy, that's for sure or every coach hired would be a winner. On top of which hiring people with a smaller budget is also tougher than hiring with a large one. Michigan and USCs of the world have big budgets and still schools like that foul up hires, if it was so easy how does that happen.
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Bad hires happen in every industry..not just sports. We hired the guy to run our sports program. He shouldn't be judged solely by his hires..like any CEO. He brings a lot more to the table that people think is great for the departmen at a time it needs it.
 
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Bad hires happen in every industry..not just sports. We hired the guy to run our sports program. He shouldn't be judged solely by his hires..like any CEO. He brings a lot more to the table that people think is great for the departmen at a time it needs it.
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Yes bad hires happen and the main reason athletic directors get fired is because they make bad hires because it is a top responsibility of their jobs.

So I don't brush it off like "ahh it's no big deal." It's a very big deal and his record in that area isn't a good one. It doesn't mean his next hire can't be good but all you can do is judge the track record to this point. I remain skeptical but I'll wait to see who gets hired.
 
rutgersguy1 said:
Well first of all he has hired a coach, 2 of them actually, and both were bad. Kevin Willard and Anne Donovan

If it's not hard how come he screwed up the 2 hires he made at SHU and his back up choice Steve Donahue was another failure. It most certainly isn't easy, that's for sure or every coach hired would be a winner. On top of which hiring people with a smaller budget is also tougher than hiring with a large one. Michigan and USCs of the world have big budgets and still schools like that foul up hires, if it was so easy how does that happen.
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Are you going to mention the hires in every single post? I think you've said the same thing about 50 times so far.
 
1. He can handle the media
2. He is able to raise funds
3. He is very smart
4. He has demonstrated executive experience

When was the last time we had an AD who matched these abilities?
 
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Are you going to mention the hires in every single post? I think you've said the same thing about 50 times so far.
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Yes and it's no picnic for me to bother but you know how many times things get repeated and still it doesn't flow into the board's consciousness and people still get the info wrong or don't know. In this thread itself you had a poster mention that Hobbs never had hired a coach before and this is after I already mentioned it above in the same thread. I have no desire to repeat things over and over but if people make comments without knowledge or being informed it serves no purpose.
 
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mikemarc1 said:
An AD is much more than just hiring coaches. He's smart, likable, had connections, and is a Jersey guy who knows the politics.
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Great, so we'll have a nice guy who's well connected, with teams that can't get to .500. And when B1G money comes in, we'll say look at what he's done and anoint him the next savior.
 
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He isn't going to be the one with the final say with the FB Coaching hire - Greg Brown & Barchi will be the ones who make the call. His primary job is to cleanup the mess left by Flood, put controls in place and fundraise. Is it that difficult to comprehend?
 
ArminRU said:
He's got Christie in his back pocket and you can't understand why people like this hire?
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But Christie is going to be gone and never heard from again in slightly more than 2 years...very likely replaced by a Democrat. Hopefully the guy has more than this going for him....
 
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But Christie is going to be gone and never heard from again in slightly more than 2 years...very likely replaced by a Democrat. Hopefully the guy has more than this going for him....
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c'mon, his relationships in Trenton are far more broad than just Christie.
 
Hobbs has strong connections to powerful people in the State.
I'm sure that will help Rutgers in a few ways.

He helped negotiate to get the beautiful Prudential Center done.

But, I am very skeptical of him on how he can perform as an athletic director.
 
I am willing to give this hire a fair shake, unlike how Pernettitards did with Julie. Still its no slam dunk because the knock on Julie was that she didn't oversee football but neither did Hobbs and that school didn't have football at all and is very rinky dink compared to a Louisvillle. So if you analyze fairly you have to judge him with the same lens you judged Julie. The advantage over Julie is the political thing and that's huge and that's what has to pay off and hopefuly Hobbs has his associates like Sarah and others pick up the slack with the day to day stuff

his hires are shaky...Willard has been there 6 years with nothing to show for and he may or may not hooked them for that longer contract

And while he speaks good, all the ADs hires speak good at first and everyone is rah rah and then when the nitty gritty comes you hear less bravado certainly true of our last 2 ADs
 
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