Politi takes more jabs at Rutgers in his column, mocking Rutgers for its glacial speed in evolving on sports. The laughable thing is, he is directly contradicting what he wrote about Mulcahy as he left in 2008. He accurately predicts the future- that future Rutgers admin will have an impossible time improving facilities as BM once did- and yet he acts astonished. Here's an excerpt.
2015
This is always how it has to happen at Rutgers, a place where progress comes only with somebody dragging it, kicking and screaming, across the finish line.
That was what Greg Schiano had to do to get High Point Solutions Stadium expanded, using the leverage of a job offer from Michigan to make that happen. There are a hundreds of reasons why it's hard to get things done in Piscataway, and longtime Rutgers supporters have heard them all.
Politi, one of those hundred reasons is because you are the one kicking, dragging and screaming across the finish line. Considering the financial situation of the state today, it is no wonder Rutgers admins are terrified. In 2008 he said:
2008
Mulcahy is guilty of arrogance and deceit. He pushed a grand vision for the athletic department before it was ready to take many of those big steps, and he did it the wrong way, outside the full view of the taxpayers who were largely financing his program.
The next athletic director will never have the broad control without oversight that Mulcahy was given, nor should he or she. University president Richard McCormick will keep his job into the new year, but he is as much to blame for what happened inside the athletic department as Mulcahy.
This post was edited on 2/25 5:27 PM by bigbirdRU
2015
This is always how it has to happen at Rutgers, a place where progress comes only with somebody dragging it, kicking and screaming, across the finish line.
That was what Greg Schiano had to do to get High Point Solutions Stadium expanded, using the leverage of a job offer from Michigan to make that happen. There are a hundreds of reasons why it's hard to get things done in Piscataway, and longtime Rutgers supporters have heard them all.
Politi, one of those hundred reasons is because you are the one kicking, dragging and screaming across the finish line. Considering the financial situation of the state today, it is no wonder Rutgers admins are terrified. In 2008 he said:
2008
Mulcahy is guilty of arrogance and deceit. He pushed a grand vision for the athletic department before it was ready to take many of those big steps, and he did it the wrong way, outside the full view of the taxpayers who were largely financing his program.
The next athletic director will never have the broad control without oversight that Mulcahy was given, nor should he or she. University president Richard McCormick will keep his job into the new year, but he is as much to blame for what happened inside the athletic department as Mulcahy.
This post was edited on 2/25 5:27 PM by bigbirdRU
