Again, that was a hallmark of Barchi, the RU administration and Julie: they had no clue about how to get out ahead of a story, so what the local media reported became the narrative that the public comes to accept as the truth. I share your frustration - I had the same issues late last fall with members of my tailgate crew: they knew only what had been reported on the front page at the time of the incidents; the later, more truthful reports were buried on the backpage.Thank you DJ for posting this. I had an argument at the beach today with a women I didn't know, about RU football. she saw my hat asked me if any football players were beating up their girlfriends and dragging them around by the hair. I asked her if she knew what really happened with the whole Leonte "fight". She then went into the "riot" and I had to explain to her that only two players got charged a misdemeanor the other ones were not charged. I tried saying how disappointed I was but the school leaders cleaned house because that is not what Rutgers is about , even if most of the charges were dropped.
Of course she then went into the football program is bankrupting the school, I just walked away. Problem is some of our own fans do not know what really happened.
And the football program bankrupting the school - it is so damn hard to break through that idiocy with people.