Like I’ve been saying all along a bunch of girls who just couldn’t cut it under a coach who actually knew what she was doing and was trying to build a championship program.
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Like I’ve been saying all along a bunch of girls who just couldn’t cut it under a coach who actually knew what she was doing and was trying to build a championship program.
Wait for Saturday to pass to see if it's DOA. E$PN is right behind SL for pi$$ing on RU.
Except that the outside report comes back months from now, long after this coaching search is already over. Barchi's statement also does not indicate in any way that the school was not already on top of these allegations or that Hobbs has done anything worthy of termination. The media response can now be put to bed as far as further disciplinary action.
I sincerely hope that hypothesis is false, as Hobbs is the best AD we’ve had. Shortsighted and foolish to try and push him out,
This doesn't sound like when Pernetti was thrown under the bus by Barchi in an effort to end the attacks cause by Rice's action and alleged lack of punishment.
Now it looks like the Bus Driver got out of his seat on the sideline and instead of acting like he didn't know a thing, is standing behind his AD saying Hobbs is taking the necessary action .
I have a feeling that some here are hoping Hobbs gets the shaft because of a unproven rumor about his not wanting Schiano back.
I think Hobbs set himself up to be fired so he doesn’t have to hire GS. He also wants a big exit package so he tipped off the SL on the softball story. When he is fired w/o cause he’ll take RU to the cleaners. Good chance Hobbs is an alien.
Unless the wind sprints were Bannonesque, what's the scandal? I'm no fan of Hobbs, but this is a tempest in a teapot.
Eh. Certain people are gonna try to tie this thing around Hobb's neck. That much is obvious. Whether it will be successful is another story. I can't see national media running with this one.... no video, no sex, nothing to make it interesting at all. I know we are a favorite topic of theirs, but this story is just so typical and boring. They made a bunch of overweight athletes run. Boo hoo. The job involves running.
Barchi's support probably helps Hobbs, even if Barchi is on his way out. The outside firm will take awhile, and the result of that will be preordained, anyway. If I am betting at this point I am thinking they manage to keep it under control. Of course, I am assuming that Barchi is actually backing Hobbs, and that Barchi is giving the outside investigators their marching orders. If I am wrong, and the outside investigators are told to bury him, then he is dead in the water.
Really, I assume this all comes down to the truth between Schiano and Hobbs. If Schiano is really a done deal, then the don't really need to get rid of Hobbs, unless the two truly cannot work together. Or Unless Schiano went behind Hobbs' back and told them he will come, but they need to make Hobbs disappear.
Marco Battaglia as AD is mildly terrifying to me. That is a big step backwards. A step forwards would be firing Hobbs and getting a career athletics administrator with an understanding of Jersey. Jersey is so unique, I tend to think we need a political type though.
Barchi's support probably helps Hobbs, even if Barchi is on his way out. The outside firm will take awhile, and the result of that will be preordained, anyway. If I am betting at this point I am thinking they manage to keep it under control. Of course, I am assuming that Barchi is actually backing Hobbs, and that Barchi is giving the outside investigators their marching orders. If I am wrong, and the outside investigators are told to bury him, then he is dead in the water.
Really, I assume this all comes down to the truth between Schiano and Hobbs. If Schiano is really a done deal, then the don't really need to get rid of Hobbs, unless the two truly cannot work together. Or Unless Schiano went behind Hobbs' back and told them he will come, but they need to make Hobbs disappear.
Marco Battaglia as AD is mildly terrifying to me. That is a big step backwards. A step forwards would be firing Hobbs and getting a career athletics administrator with an understanding of Jersey. Jersey is so unique, I tend to think we need a political type though.
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And we did it with Rice and we saw how that turned out - unfortunately, our history of being a badly run athletic department doesn't get us the credibility to do our own investigations and maybe it shouldn't...
Frankly, I don't know why we do any investigations at all. If I'm the AD at Rutgers and a student athlete comes in to me and reports a crime, I call the police and let them investigate. If it's not a crime there has to be some department at Rutgers that investigates ethics type violations, no? What makes an AD qualified to do investigations? If this needs to be outsourced... fine... find a group of independent investigators and have them provide a report. This sort of approach would cost far less than what we're doing now and move accountability outside the athletics department.
Maybe the Yankees could try this with Stanton!
C'mon give it a rest with all this crap. No one on here knows shit. And if by the slimmest of chances they did they aren't going to tell you. Look at the amount of posts by the supposed insiders that should tell you something. Hint: "Look at Me"
You are as clueless as they come.
Yes, tell all the men's and women's basketball players, the gymnastics team and wrestling team, the baseball and softball team, both men's and women's soccer teams, and men's lacrosse team how much "damage" Pat Hobbs has done to them. All of them have either moved into brand new facilities, or can see the steel going up on their brand new facilities. Sounds like real damage to me.
You should be embarrassed by how stupid your posts are.
A crime would go to the police. This was not a crime. Did you read the accusations?
To me this is more comparable to an HR complaint filed against a superior and the subsequent internal investigation, although to be clear there is a distinct difference in the relationship between a student on an athletic scholarship and their coaches vs. an employee in a corporate job and their supervisor/manager.
What seems to be lost is that the husband volunteer coach was removed from the program over the summer when this came to light. So apparently something was done and it all seemed to have been handled appropriately. So the fact that it comes up now I’m another SL hit piece is fishy.
College "athletes" who still think they're playing little league where everybody plays and wins.
Facilities, facilities, facilities...$$$$$.....Hobbs loves the facilities contracts. Hobbs never saw a new bathroom contract that he didn’t like. Hobbs would love a big new contract to build huge new facilities for the cricket team or the mugrat.
Anything for the boys back at the clubhouse!
It kind of makes me wonder why we didnt hear about it this summer. Like why not control the narrative, and toot your own horn. "We were approached by some players about an incident. We investigated, and made the decision to terminate the offending assistant coach due to a violation of school rules." I mean, its going to come out eventually....in this day and age a lawsuit is always filed.
I guess they must have a reason (?) but I don't know what it would be.
There are always going to be factions working at cross-purposes to the rest of the athletic department - and it's usually parents who think their kids deserve to be scholarship Big Ten student-athletes, even when their kids' teams are winless in the conference. On the other hand, you've got the folks at NJAM writing snarky commentary about Rutgers ineptitude on the field or court, who are then more than happy to write hit pieces about the athletic department when they're fed stories by those same, angry parents, whose little angels are seemingly unfit for Big Ten competition.
The guys at NJAM are always harping on the notion that "nothing was being done about this," when really it's just lazy, biased reporting that assumes if the department isn't doing exactly what they or the parents want, then nothing is being done.
It's unbelievable to me that Politi would cite the Mike Rice situation in an inventory of institutional failures to rein in coaching abuse; he seems to forget that episode begins with Eric Murdock's attempt to extort nearly a million dollars from a state institution.
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They never, EVER, get out in front of a potential PR issue.
Let’s see if RU learned anything from the way they $h-t the bed during the Pernetti witch hunt. PR management 101 teaches you to not be reactive (and so does common sense). Don’t react immediately, chill, then come out in few days with a public reprimand (following a “thorough investigation”). Let the papers bitch and moan a few days or weeks afterwards until the next bs headline takes the attention away and move on. Ain’t that hard.
I didn't and won't go read their article, but did the SL point out that the husband-volunteer-assistant had already been disciplined (i.e. terminated) in their article?
