Politi Nails It - RU Kills Big-Time Football Dream with Greg Schiano Fiasco
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this feels oddly and very sadly appropriate...after so many years of following RU football (and I am by NO means the fan many in here are)...what’s the point...?
where’s that vodka I had put away for the, (I had hoped) celebration?
...hello RU darkness, my old friend...:cry:
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Hobbs must go! He had a chance to rectify the disaster that was Chris Ash and he blew it. Adios compadre.
Very lame. Hobbs was expected to be aware of Greg’s facilities demands before meeting with him with Greg Brown in early November?
Your man love for Greg is impressive.
The article has good info in it, assuming it's accurate. He didn't turn it down over the salary, he turned it down due to the lack of commitment from the school to upgrade to still-below-average facilities. He wanted to make us reasonably competitive, not pad his salary. Imagine wanting a practice facility that doesn't have to be deflated (and therefore unusable) when we get a few inches of snow.
No idea whose agenda to believe but that was a bit of a surprising revelation if true, and blows away the "does he have the same fire he did before?" that's been floating around. I wasn't ever really concerned about his energy level because he has an intensity level that few do.
That said both camps are likely trying to spin this against the other. To that end, I wouldn't put it past Politi to be petty and want to burn Hobbs for comments at his SL colleague over the softball program issue.
Holy ****. If true Greg was ready to take the job, overhaul the program, and win. What a joke Rutgers is.
this is true as well as targets for staff and program for jucos
rest is nonsense by his agent or one particular bog member, or both, who was behind the hire at all costs. terrible article but the face saving 'it's in the bank' crowd need to latch on to something
I was told 2 weeks ago that Greg was already working the portal and recruits. Politi is spot on.
He was interim athletic director at seton hall, not interim law school dean.
You realize that’s still one of the 3 Lowest salaries in all of the Big 10.
Ha! Was thinking the same thing. He would have put this out a week after GS was hired. Can't believe anyone listens to this clown.
Please tell me hobbs was at least smart enough to get that list from Greg lol.
It's called due diligence, dickhead. I've been part of major negotiations in real life and you simply don't go into the formal negotiations without knowing 90% of what the other side wants before going that far. If you don't think they knew Greg would want new facilities, you're clueless. And I'm sure we're looking at 2nd tier folks now, because any of the top tier folks would've also wanted what Greg wanted, and the 2nd tier guys will be happy with $2MM/year and a shot at being a P5 head coach. Like Ash or Flood.
You still haven’t helped me find a new cone for my gramaphone!!! Just got the new Enrique Caruso album and I can’t wait to listen.
Got 2 places. The Thomas Edison Museum in West Orange.
And the Museum of Communications at Camp Evans in Wall.
Fire Hobbs and Barchi they both should go down in flames Rutgers lives up to its name the Rutgers Screw The Bog wins i'm done
Sounds like the kind of thing someone who's "all in" would do. Hobbs is an insecure, petulant clown who needs to go. As AD you do what's best for the school, not your own ego.
Ok, that's upsetting. He obviously was all in, and had a plan. Surprised that interview didn't blow people away then.
When I first heard the news I didn't blame RU, but now I'm not so sure.
Why do people always take the bait with Politi? The SL would have done a hit piece involving money no matter what happened.
Facilities should not have been driven by a personal hire. That’s Hobbs job. It will happen when it makes sense.
that would have been a reasonable Politi article but he is slamming RU for not spending money it still doesn’t have on facilities with no rational process.
Facilities should not have been driven by a personal hire. That’s Hobbs job. It will happen when it makes sense.
Funny how any other time this board thinks Politi is an asshat. But now that it is convenient and he echos the sentiments of those blind followers he is an investigative genius
No sir, only 2 Big Ten coaches guaranteed over 32 million.
Too see so much high school level drama from so many on this board is laughable. If you actually read through the opinion aspects of the article you may finally see that SCHIANO may actually not have been as all in as needed given reasonable bounds on his demands. Anyhow, continue with your own narratives.
no Greg is at fault here. He became fixated on timing of facilities as they related to other commitments. He was never considered bright but it's on full display here as he literally couldn't see the trees in the forest. Also, his ask really was too much and didn't sit well with some on the BOG so the more the demands, the less his was heard so to speak. Not everyone wants to spend guaranteeing the guy the 3rd most guaranteed money in the b10 for an avg coach.
there is also the fact that he clearly hasn't changed his micromanaging and bully ways.
How can any Rutgers football fan read that article and not be completely furious? The guy had a plan to fix this mess and Hobbs blew it. You think Butch showed up to his meeting with a scouting report of our roster and 100 names to target through the portal? Hell no. It would take a small miracle to make this program relevant again and some morons on this board want to bash Schiano for asking for "too much". Well congrats you guys got what you asked for. Good luck walking around Shi Stadium with your heads down while Penn St, Michigan, etc. fans walk by you laughing their asses off and looking down at you.
Today, the “leaders” of Rutgers have told Rutgers fans and donors to drop dead. They have told the whole world they don’t care at all about being in the Big Ten. They don’t care about the current and future Rutgers student athletes.
I don't know you so no offense, but the irony in this sentence made me smirk. You are mentioning a man's intelligence and then go on to misuse the "forest FOR the trees" expression in the same sentence!
How many times are you going to repeat the lie? I already corrected you that 25mill was guaranteed and you made a dumb remark. An hour later you are back repeating the same lie even after you learned that 25 mill was guaranteed. What does that say about you?
