Miscellany - ESPN co-founder/first CEO (Rutgers MBA)

[Mr_Twister]

Stumbled upon this Wikipedia entry of Bill Rasmussen, MBA from Rutgers University.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Rasmussen

Co-founder and first CEO of ESPN. Post-ESPN consultant to Big Ten Conference, and individual conference members on television matters.

A friendly connection to Yogi Berra as well, though I do not recall Yogi's sons playing football at Rutgers, as stated in this article.

http://wfla.com/2015/09/23/espn-co-founder-berras-death-is-amazing-loss/

 

[PiscatawayMike]

A friendly connection to Yogi Berra as well, though I do not recall Yogi's sons playing football at Rutgers

One of them does play on the Rutgers message boards, though.

:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

 

[AshSaturday]

Kind of ironic (am I right?) that the plummet in Rutgers sports (remember Rutgers football was ranked in top 20 in 1976, beat Tennessee in 1979 and outplayed Alabama in 1980-though we weren't " big time") in the 1980's was brought on by the work of a Rutgers MBA.

As an MBA grad it seems like everyone except the school/athletic administration itself takes it's graduates serious. Anyone remember a Rutgers MBA on the athletic admin staff?

 

[Mr_Twister]

Not sure I understand your comments. Are we supposed to know the name(s) of people you are referring to?

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Large Companies based in New Jersey (might not be accurate, top of my head).. I know some of these support Rutgers but one might think the stadium naming rights should have been a bigger deal withone of these stepping up.

Prudential
J&J
Merck
Honeywell
Chubb
ToysRUs
Campbell Soups
M&M Mars
Verizon
Vonage

So, yeah.. Rutgers.. or New Jersey as a whole.. is doing something wrong where there just isn't enough state pride out there to drive such entities to support the state u in major ways.

 

[Scarlet Pride]

Large Companies based in New Jersey (might not be accurate, top of my head).. I know some of these support Rutgers but one might think the stadium naming rights should have been a bigger deal withone of these stepping up.

Prudential
J&J
Merck
Honeywell
Chubb
ToysRUs
Campbell Soups
M&M Mars
Verizon
Vonage

So, yeah.. Rutgers.. or New Jersey as a whole.. is doing something wrong where there just isn't enough state pride out there to drive such entities to support the state u in major ways.

This assumes that stadium naming rights are the only or leading indicator of strong support for Rutgers.