Let's hope these people pick the right person
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That would be all kinds of awful.
sorry , but those deciding may not seem to be the type that puts any particular emphasis on sports
It was a joke.
But Hobbs was an academic for quite a while before he turned to sports. . . .and that would satisfy the crowd that dos not like him as AD. But not a realistic choice. Foresee the committee finding a candidate with strong medical or science background.
I hope they find someone from a fellow B1G member who understands how to balance academics with athletics. We could use some B1G culture here.
Maybe we should refer to them as Amy Towers and her husband.
I would assume that a strong medical or science background would be preferred. Someone with an academic and research background (even if research in a non-STEM field) would be a minimum. While a law dean may be a long-shot, it would at least be a law dean from a research university. I don't see any way that Hobbs, who was a law dean at Seton Hall, gets any serious consideration.
Let’s hope the committee to find a successor to President Barchi includes ex-Rutgers Chris Hill, whose background and connections could point us to someone with the right balance of scholarship, administration, and winning in big-time athletics.
https://education.utah.edu/alumni/profiles/chris-hill.php
https://education.utah.edu/alumni/profiles/chris-hill.php
The most important thing is that they must hate sports and football most of all.
Literally how could any one be worse from a sports perspective?
-Day one, was to limit and reduce spending on athletics. Only stated goal he had for athletics.
-Couldn't even be bothered to look at a tape a couple years later. Causing the biggest athletic scandal in recent Rutgers athletic history. Proceeds to throw everyone under bus so he can stay out of the gun fire
-Entry into B1G accelerate Elimination of Direct Institutional Support to 2021 date. Even though irrational, tell athletics you have to find the money somewhere in order to meet each end of year fiscal reduction goal. Thus athletics has to mortgage it's future payouts just to pay our coaches the least in the B1G. Also had to take out a loan from the University at 5.65% to meet these goals.
So I ask exactly what has he done in all his time here for athletics except treat it like a foreign entity? To do worse the next President would have to start cutting sports and turning athletic facilities into dorms.
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Think the key for many reasons is Robert Johnson - who disguised as a professor of medicine / connected to Johnson / Johnson is actually the author of many Blues Standards, most notably Crossroads!
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Well, DUH! That's a prerequisite to even be considered by the committee.
Look, I don't care if the new president knows anything about sports if he empowers his athletic director to do what he thinks needs to be done and supports him rather than undercuts him. You don't have to be a sports guy, but you can't try to minimize/sabotage sports as you go about your business.
Now, I know some of you don't like Hobbs much, but I'm talking about the position, not the person in it. Although I'm mostly OK with Hobbs.
Mostly.
Now, I know some of you don't like Hobbs much, but I'm talking about the position, not the person in it. Although I'm mostly OK with Hobbs.
Mostly.
Unfortunately I think they will recommend some liberal " woke" person who will hate sports and continue to push the elite, ultra leftist agenda prevalent in most campuses today. After all, Rutgers is the State University of New Jersey.
Please elaborate from your vast inexperience O wise one. Do tell me exactly what Barchi in his time here has done which benefited athletics? You say, got us into the B1G, I'm going to laugh my ass off. A monkey trained to pick up a phone could have accomplished that. And from the deal we got it doesn't look like a negotiation took place, more of a take it or leave it.
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But academia is a haven for free thought, openness and tolerance of the left and right in America today...right?
But doesn't that pretty much describe Barchi's attitude toward athletics. He basically gave his athletic directors free rein to run the athletic department, only stepping in when there were significant problems. Most posters here seem to want a president who is actively involved in athletic decisions, rather than someone who delegates that authority to the athletic director.
k- don't let your "hate" for Barchi hide realities--I guess you really thought Julie was better than Pernetti--and by the way Pernetti was instrumental in the BIG--there are a lot worst than Barchi as for sports--they, by the way could be proactively anti sports--which some of the haters fail to understand--Barchi was not proactively / intentionally hurting sports
