well that is not who GS hired. It was Pernetti and a guy that the Mets ended up hiring away.. forget his name (some Mc-name iirc) or what he is doing now but it was a solid radio team.
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c'mon... drityru, source and zappaa make that list. increase the size of of the tip of your tongue.
funds priority should go to football because football drives the bus, and has the highest return potential. Every other sport is a loss leader. The other sports got the APC on Livingston which cost $100M and the Rodkin Center which cost $65M. Now football needs a field house to keep pace with our peers.
Saw him, Santana and an at the time unknown Keb'Mo the day the news broke Jerry Garcia died.
Thanks!
I appreciate the no nonsense update.
Unlike some posing as “insiders” around here who love the spotlight and cannot resist making themselves part of the story.
His post, while perfectly fine, is no more substantial than any of the others in this thread. You just decided that it was completely accurate because it soothes your ruffled soul, logic be damned.
Whatever gets you through the night shift, slick.
So it's now past COB Friday.
Are we confirmed for GS Monday?
A lot of posters are going to instantly gain or lose major credibility by then lol
Are we confirmed for GS Monday?
A lot of posters are going to instantly gain or lose major credibility by then lol
Whoa!
Didn’t mean to ruffle your feathers, ace.
So defensive — took you a matter of seconds to respond to my post. You must really be monitoring this one closely, almost as though you ARE the story now.
Priceless.
LOL.
Actually just sat down.
Soon I'll be getting up again, to have dinner.
I may take the dog out, in the meantime.
I mean, since you seem to be so preoccupied with my schedule, and all.
I find it odd that - again, confronted with a narrative with which don't agree - you stake the position that anyone who starts a thread is "making themselves the story".
It's not logical. What is logical is that your efforts to derail the thread amount to YOU making yourself the story.
It was Tom McCarthy. And it was very solid. He’s with the Phillies I think now?
Give me Tom McCarthy along with a Ray Lucas and Eric LeGrande and that’s not too shabby either.
Haha I kept wanting to say "Tim McCarver" but knew that wasn't right. Brain work not.
Saw Jeff Beck in Oct 1980 at Capitol Theatre and his final song was....Going Down
According to some “know it all” folks on this forum it was suppose to be this week. What happen??????
It was by a poster and I mentioned that but now that poster says Monday so we’ll see if that holds or moves further back.
I’m a nobody but I’ve always thought the first week after the season myself be it Schiano or anyone else.
Haven’t met them so can’t really say. I won’t argue baseball with Zap though but we are both old school there...
There was nothing wrong with Pernetti. Pernetti got fired because Barchi was lazy and needed a scapegoat; no other reason.
Pernetti was our worst AD by far, hired Rice and f'd the handling of video and firing and set bad things in motion when RU was set to enter the Big 10. Also hired Flood
had to be the worst fundraiser in the history of college sports
Multiple NJ politicians now calling for Hobbs to resign due to his response to Reporter.
Barchi can add the softball lawsuit to the liability list of keeping Hobbs. Then make a vague reference about Hobbs ability to lead at RU in the future and he can be out the door at any time.
Hobbs can be the 4th consecutive RU AD to bite the dust if/when this happens.
The guy on the street may get the impression that RU is a difficult place to work.
Barchi can add the softball lawsuit to the liability list of keeping Hobbs. Then make a vague reference about Hobbs ability to lead at RU in the future and he can be out the door at any time.
Hobbs can be the 4th consecutive RU AD to bite the dust if/when this happens.
The guy on the street may get the impression that RU is a difficult place to work.
I know I heard it from someone else first so you get that credit...actually- RaRa gets the credit. Maybe one of the best people I have ever met.
I bet I may be one of the few people to ever see him mad enough to get fists up ready to tear someone up...lol
I can't speak to his actual coaching abilities ... but there was nothing wrong with Rice's demeanor either; certainly nothing fireable. Barchi doesn't care about athletics at all, so any time something in the Athletics Department causes him even a tiny bit of annoyance, he's gonna want to just get rid of the person and move on. The media (local and now national) knows this, so they will push grief at every opportunity just to **** with him some more and see how far they can bully him. For them, it's entertaining.
Rice and Pernetti were fired because of nonsense. Then he hired Hermann solely to get the feminist and LGBTQ lobbies to leave him alone (after Rice called a player a "******"). Luckily Hermann was such a big disaster that they buried themselves back underground. Of course anyone paying even a modicum of attention knew that would only embolden the media ... which is why you have Hobbs being fired because a softball coach made players run wind sprints. It would be comical if Barchi weren't actually, you know, running the university and making constantly bad decisions regarding the Athletics Department.
I liked Mike Rice but its clear that when the tapes would come out...and everyone knew they would, Pernetti was a tool, he hadnt prepared for it and he hadnt got out ahead of the story...he was a disaster in handling that....not to mention he hired Flood to save a recruiting class.
I blame the Flood disaster on Hermann more than Pernetti. The reason? Pernetti's hiring of Flood wasn't the worst stopgap in the world. His contract was worth nothing. His first year he made something like $700k. At the time, we were mired in the AAC as the B1G had taken Nebraska alone, despite the rumors. If there was a chance we were going to spend the rest of eternity in the AAC, there was no reason to spend big on a HC. Add to that the fact that Cristobol couldn't be lured here because his wife frowned on relocating to Jersey. When the news finally came out that we had the B1G invite and things were clearly in decline, it's was Julie's failure to round up the funds to terminate him.
This board was 100% in favor of saving the recruiting class when Pernetti got directly involved with keeping the recruiting class. Pernetti was considered a savior of RU FB at the time.
And then came the Flood.
Bingo. If Flood were utilized as the stop gap he so obviously should have been and was supposed to be, we'd all be calling it a smart short-term transitional move.
COMPETENT AD: "Hey boss, we just got admitted into the Big 10 and now we're guaranteed a big pile of money coming in every year ... so I'd like to hire a real head coach instead of the stopgap I settled on last offseason when we thought we'd never have any money."
INCOMPETENT SCHOOL PRESIDENT: "No, you have to wait nine years until you're getting a full Big 10 portion. That stopgap jackass you hired will be fine for the foreseeable future. Althletics cost too much."
He's not wrong. This board was entirely on-board with the Flood hiring as a stopgap at the time (as well as the other stuff, like Pernetti making himself a coach so he could call recruits).
she did round up the funds...on one condition, donors said that it had to be an experienced head coach...yes they truly were clueless on what the going rate was, they didnt want assistants...Julie was high on Tom Hermmann and Narduzzi who were assistants and would have come
you are wrong, i wasnt on board and there was definitely a sizable group who didnt want him as coach and then they were immediately shouted down...Flood should have fired as an assistant
There was a not a sizable group. It's one of the few things in the last decade that the entire board found agreement about - especially after it was known that Cristobal said no.
"It was so late. Where eles were the recruits going to go?"
Yeah, nobody would have taken in the six 4 and 5 star recruits in that class.
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