NJ.com Article Today: "5 Reasons Rutgers Might Not Fire Kyle Flood At Season's End"

[Caliknight]

Barchi's reasons for being @ Rutgers:

1) To handle the merger
2) See number 1

Everything else is an unnecessary evil that he has to deal with. Budge neutrality by simply waiting for the B1G subsidy is lazy. But that is the strategy people take when they don't care about something.

If people want Rutgers to hire big coaches and have nicer facilities across the sports spectrum, it will have to come from outside of the university.

It is why Kyle Flood isn't realllly the problem. He is just the focus on game day because he isn't a great head football coach. But he wasn't hired to be. He was hired because he doesn't cost much. The people who are in charge are more to blame for where Rutgers stands currently.

Real leadership would figure out a way to bridge the gap between now and 2021. But we don't have real leadership @ RU, at least not as it relates to the athletic department. There are 100 goals listed before winning.

 

[Upstream]

Don't have the links handy, but when Barchi was hired, he specifically said he was only here for five years before retirement. His goals were getting a master plan done and implementation of that plan started, and the med school merger and implementation. Look for interviews with Barchi in the first few months after his hiring date.

My sense has always been that the BOG hired Barchi to break some eggs and force some unpopular decisions that have been languishing for decades, and then hire someone with Big public university experience for the long-term.

That is certainly the case. Barchi was brought in to make necessary, but potentially unpopular decisions. But the Board is extremely happy with Barchi, and from what I have heard I expect that the timeline for his being here has been extended. I'd be surprised if Barchi were not at Rutgers in 2020.

 

[RU4Real]

That is certainly the case. Barchi was brought in to make necessary, but potentially unpopular decisions. But the Board is extremely happy with Barchi, and from what I have heard I expect that the timeline for his being here has been extended. I'd be surprised if Barchi were not at Rutgers in 2020.

And such is the differentiator.

Consider the fact that the Penn State faithful, in the midst of the Sandusky fallout, put a crazed JoeBot from BWI on their board of trustees.

THAT is commitment to the cause. RU's version of commitment to the cause was, for several years, to have a Penn State alum and rabid JoeBot on our Board of Governors to lead the charge for firing our AD.

 

[Upstream]

And such is the differentiator.

Consider the fact that the Penn State faithful, in the midst of the Sandusky fallout, put a crazed JoeBot from BWI on their board of trustees.

THAT is commitment to the cause. RU's version of commitment to the cause was, for several years, to have a Penn State alum and rabid JoeBot on our Board of Governors to lead the charge for firing our AD.

That Penn St alum was a political appointment that Rutgers didn't have a say in.

BTW, the same guy is now chair of the Board of Directors for Devco (the organization that built the Honors college, the Lot 8 building, and a slew of other buildings in NB).

 

[czxqa]

That is certainly the case. Barchi was brought in to make necessary, but potentially unpopular decisions. But the Board is extremely happy with Barchi, and from what I have heard I expect that the timeline for his being here has been extended. I'd be surprised if Barchi were not at Rutgers in 2020.

Unfortunately, from an academic standpoint, that's quite reasonable. The merger process went far more smoothly than anyone dared hope at the time, and right or wrong, Barchi is going to get a lot of the credit for that. Let's be honest, from any standpoint but athletics, he's actually doing a very good job.

 

[RU4Real]

That Penn St alum was a political appointment that Rutgers didn't have a say in.

BTW, the same guy is now chair of the Board of Directors for Devco (the organization that built the Honors college, the Lot 8 building, and a slew of other buildings in NB).

Be that as it may - it still doesn't dull the highlight.

 

[retired711]

Don't have the links handy, but when Barchi was hired, he specifically said he was only here for five years before retirement. His goals were getting a master plan done and implementation of that plan started, and the med school merger and implementation. Look for interviews with Barchi in the first few months after his hiring date.

My sense has always been that the BOG hired Barchi to break some eggs and force some unpopular decisions that have been languishing for decades, and then hire someone with Big public university experience for the long-term.

I think this is true in describing what Barchi was hired to do, and how long he will stay. Although I agree that the BOG is happy with Barchi, I can't see him staying here for a long period. He is going to want to leave while he's ahead.

 

[slyker]

This.

Colleges football programs are always losing their best players to graduation. To think it should take several YEARS to have a decent QB is rather ridiculous. We face teams every season with brand new QBs.

I remember when it was a year or two into Flood's time as head coach. The Schiano haters thought Flood was "doing it the right way" with recruiting across the board as opposed to the way Schiano did it. Years later, those recruiting years don't look so good. Plus, most (if not nearly all) of the gamebreaker type players were brought in by Schiano.

Yet keep giving him a pass. I'm sure we can sit through 3 years of Laviano learning on the job so he will have a successful senior season.

" Colleges football programs are always losing their best players to graduation. To think it should take several YEARS to have a decent QB is rather ridiculous. We face teams every season with brand new QBs."


And how is that working out for Oregon This year?

 

[KevH]

This is it exactly. How many times do folks have to read about the "revenue neutral in six years" plans before it sinks in? Barchi talks about it constantly, TP talked about it, it's one of the administration's main talking points about the athletic budget.

The sad thing is only a very small handful of athletic departments in the country are not subsidized, and the last time I checked a year or two ago, none of them had a football team that was getting regularly blown out in conference games or a basketball program that has been rebuilding for over 20 years.

The more I watch this fiasco unfold, the more I fear we are watching Gruninger 2.0, "Big time on the cheap"

A cold chill just ran down my spine.

 

[lighty]

Slyker,
Did you really just compare replacing Nova with replacing a Heisman QB?

Seriously?

 

[slyker]

Slyker,
Did you really just compare replacing Nova with replacing a Heisman QB?

Seriously?

Yeah Oregon is the perfect example of replacing a multi year starting QB with someone new

Oregon goes from being in the national title game last year, with immense talent everywhere on their roster, and fantastic recruiting classes , (#17 last year) and as I have been told, a team should easily be able to groom a young QB to not miss a beat and allow a team to improve... but certainly not regress.

And look what happens.... .NOVA leaves RU and Mr Heisman leaves Oregon.

Oregon is 4 -3

With a 3 pt loss to Michigan St
And a 7 pt loss to Washington State.


WHAT?? YOU MEAN THAT INCREDIBLE TEAM LOST THEIR QB and THEY COULD NOT FIND A REPLACEMENT TO GET THAT TEAM TO PLAY BETTER THAN RUTGERS FARED AGAINST THOSE TEAMS THIS YEAR??

You think it takes a little time to groom a new QB ??