Rutgers needs a Rutgers Man as President.
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I agree with scarlet Engineer. Barchi may not be a President that puts sports first but the guy is a world class president, especially when it comes to developing medical schools. I always wondered why a major research university like Rutgers did not have their own medical school. Well now they do but it is going to take Barchi's skills to build the Rutgers brand. What he did at Thomas Jefferson University was incredible. He is the right guy at the right time.
Rutgers is a part time , good paying job for Robert Barchi:
"Barchi, just seven months into his presidency, realized immediately he had screwed up. "
"“I consider resigning every single day when I wake up,” Barchi said Friday, facing the news media in the largest news conference in Rutgers history.“I consider resigning every single day when I wake up,” Barchi said Friday, facing the news media in the largest news conference in Rutgers history."
"Barchi not only failed to watch the DVD of Rice’s antics when it first surfaced in November, he made the final decision to suspend and not fire the coach without ever meeting with the independent investigator from the law firm".
PS- We are now seeing Deja F'n Vu all over again. Barchi is too busy, to help Kyle Flood and the team.
He's a part time hack President, overseeing Christie's wish's to see RU inherit a humongous amount of debt to get back a Medical School without making the State's books look worse then they already were.
"Barchi, just seven months into his presidency, realized immediately he had screwed up. "
"“I consider resigning every single day when I wake up,” Barchi said Friday, facing the news media in the largest news conference in Rutgers history.“I consider resigning every single day when I wake up,” Barchi said Friday, facing the news media in the largest news conference in Rutgers history."
"Barchi not only failed to watch the DVD of Rice’s antics when it first surfaced in November, he made the final decision to suspend and not fire the coach without ever meeting with the independent investigator from the law firm".
PS- We are now seeing Deja F'n Vu all over again. Barchi is too busy, to help Kyle Flood and the team.
He's a part time hack President, overseeing Christie's wish's to see RU inherit a humongous amount of debt to get back a Medical School without making the State's books look worse then they already were.
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"Barchi, 65, arrived at Rutgers in September with no experience running a university with an NCAA Division 1 sports program. The neuroscientist was hired primarily to help Rutgers oversee its massive merger with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey."
To quote Scarlet Engineer, "I couldn't disagree more."
Enlighten me to what he did at Thomas Jefferson that was incredible. Sure he increased donations but I would not call anything he did there incredible. He performed the task at hand. Thomas Jefferson is still the third choice medical school in Philadelphia.
Yeah, because we see "Rutgers Men" putting the university first all the time. It's not the sheepskin on the wall, it's the dedication and spine to stand up and be counted.
You guys don't like him because he is hands off with athletics. I think that's the way a president should be. That's why there is an athletic director. His strengths are building academics and medicine and that's why he's at Rutgers. I love Rutgers athletics, but I'm also an alumni 2x and academics comes first.
Barchi is doing a great job turning Rutgers into the academic institution it should have already been.
Barchi is doing a great job turning Rutgers into the academic institution it should have already been.
Careful of your bias and allegiance, Abro, lest you be accused by nonalumn fans/posters on ScarletNation of being a scarlet-blazer-wearing Rutgers "snob."
That is a joke.... But couldn't help myself from kicking that hornets nest, again.
That is a joke.... But couldn't help myself from kicking that hornets nest, again.
great. and glad to see it. But we're in the BIG TEN which highly values athletics as well. As use them very effectively to enhance the brand and image of the school. Barchi can focus on Academics..that's fine. Then just stay the hell out of the sports program and don't get in the way. Give them the support they need and empower the leadership to build that as well.
Barchi is here for one specific reason and when it's over he will step down. RU's next President should come from a school that has proven to value both academics and sports. I doubt we outbid someone who is at an existing P5 so they should go after someone at a place like UMASS or UCONN
Yes - RU athletics has suffered greatly under his tenure. It was just awesome when we had a Rutgers man with P5 experience at the helm.
Oh wait - athletics is more or less where it has been since the 1990s - good to great womens basketball, decent but not great play from one of the two major sports, mostly crap after that with one or two exceptions.
As sports fans you all think that athletics just has this HUGE impact on the school - but it has basically the impact you would expect from something that is a few percent of the budget. Namely, a very minor one.
Ideally we would get someone with experience at another huge research school because we are a huge research school. That will likely mean that person has experience in athletics because most huge research schools have major athletics programs.
Certainly if you said - we coculd have the President of an athletic nobody like Cal, or the president of an athletic powerhouse like Alabama, I would take the president of Cal ten times out of ten. Hell, I would take the president of UCSD over the president of Alabama. Because making us a research and academic powerhouse is much more beneficial towards the university's ultimate goal of being a research and academic powerhouse, then being an athletics powerhouse is.
I truly hope it is fans more than alums who have an issue with Barchi. The Medical school acquisition is the largest academic merger in the history of higher education. His campus visioning master plan is more ambitious, thorough and thoughtful than anything that has been contemplated at Rutgers in decades. Post medical school merger Rutgers becomes a $3B entity. Barchi is well regarded in both Trenton and the business community, specifically within big pharma/biotech.
He is deftly handling his job and Rutgers mission in the face of a political machine that would like nothing better than to strip naked, chew up, and spit out Rutgers.
He has SIGNIICANTLY more important tasks at hand than to jump every time the ledger wants a reaction.
He is deftly handling his job and Rutgers mission in the face of a political machine that would like nothing better than to strip naked, chew up, and spit out Rutgers.
He has SIGNIICANTLY more important tasks at hand than to jump every time the ledger wants a reaction.
Maybe you should hire a porter to help you with your baggage?
So you know that the investigation has been completed for a while and we are just waiting for him to return?
RU may have gotten stuck with the debt for political reasons, but adding the medical school is probably more important than joining the B1G. RU is an academic institution before it is a sport franchise.
As a fan, I would like to see the next president be more involved with supporting athletics, but it still should only be a very small part of his or her job,
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I am an alumnus of Rutgers, and I have a real problem with a man who will not confront problems but just sacrifice people to make problems go away.
First off, there are hardly any Rutgers degrees floating around with the experience of running a university. Assuming you are looking for the CEO model, it is not always a recipe for success, as CEO-types struggle with dealing with faculty and run for the hills once they realize they can't force them to do much of anything.
Second, McCormick was no great shakes. Do you recall his run-in's with scandal? He arrived embroiled in a scandal (cheating on his wife with a subordinate), had run-ins with the law, was unable to accomplish his signature moment of greening college ave, and had the inability to hire any of his first choices for senior management positions (to name a few). In comparison, Barchi's been a breeze as it relates to scandal.
Third, Barchi's president of Rutgers, not of athletics.
I am a diehard RU football fan. Some of you forget the core mission of the university is EDUCATION, sports is a secondary or tertiary mission.
While it is great RU is finally in a conference where we belong, the core mission of the university is still Education. Barchi should not be getting involved in athletics that is why we have an AD. In very limited circumstances should Barchi be getting involved in the athletic department. As far as merging UMDNJ into Rutgers and building that brand Barchi is the right guy IMO. If the BOT is not satisfied with his performance in running the university he will be fired!
While it is great RU is finally in a conference where we belong, the core mission of the university is still Education. Barchi should not be getting involved in athletics that is why we have an AD. In very limited circumstances should Barchi be getting involved in the athletic department. As far as merging UMDNJ into Rutgers and building that brand Barchi is the right guy IMO. If the BOT is not satisfied with his performance in running the university he will be fired!
More likely the other way. Non-alumni who went to top research universities know what excellence looks like. We recognize that Barchi has a vision to make Rutgers great.The real barriers to accomplishing that vision are the politicians, alumni, and Rutgers employees who have parochial views of the university or look at mediocrity and think it is excellence. Without knowing what greatness is, these parochial interests don't recognize what Rutgers can be.
The OP seemed to imply that President Bloustein was "a Rutgers Man." I don't know what that means, but Bloustein was not an alum, and he came to Rutgers with zero experience in athletics -- he came here from Bennington College, then an all-women school of about 400 students. His presidency wasn't as wonderful as people here seem to think.
As for Barchi, he recognizes the importance of our being in the B1G, and of being competitive in that conference. He's already said he's not going to try to outspend Ohio State or Michigan, so if that's what you want, he's not your man.
As for Barchi, he recognizes the importance of our being in the B1G, and of being competitive in that conference. He's already said he's not going to try to outspend Ohio State or Michigan, so if that's what you want, he's not your man.
Shaun O'HaraVerified account@ShaunOHara60Since his spineless President & his silent AD wont, I would like to publicly state my support for @KyleFloodRU & his INTEGRITY @RUAthletics
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@ShaunOHara60 @KyleFloodRU @RUAthletics Barchi has sunk more good men than a German U-Boat
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@ShaunOHara60 @KyleFloodRU @RUAthletics Barchi has sunk more good men than a German U-Boat
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I will say this about the medical school. Please wait until Chris Christie is out of office before grading Barchi on the merger. Since the merger went into effect in 2013 Trenton has provided some cover (protection) for Barchi on multiple levels. The moment Christie leaves office a more sobering and realistic report card will be made available for NJ residents.
Probably? LOL. Its not probably. It is unquestionably more important that we got a med school fully formed than what athletic conference we play in. Its not even close.
I did not want to get in a debate, so I added probably.
The funny thing is that people are asking for a Rutgers man, but really want an Alabama man.
Ed Bloustein did an awesome job at what he WANTED to do an awesome job at. It was Bloustein that got rid of the undergraduate colleges with the faculty reorganization. (Sorry kids, but what Douglass, Rutgers and Livingston were from 1981 to 2006 or whatever were NOT colleges; they had no faculties. They were merely residential units that added unneeded bureaucracy to the university because the political will to go all the way didn't exist back then.) It was Bloustein that got Rutgers into the AAU, but he needed what at the time seemed like massive tuition hikes (10%, 15%, 10%, or the other way around, I forget, in consecutive years; of course, in real dollars they weren't that high because tuition was much, much lower back then). And it was Bloustein who, when the NCAA decided to split Division I, to lead Rutgers to play with the big boys. Of course, I don't think we had an adequate plan or adequate money to do that right -- how long did we have a small-time stadium to go with our big-time plans? -- but he's the one that made sure we went "bigger time." So while Ed's legacy is pretty darn solid, he didn't do everything exactly the way it should have been done in retrospect, and he was not popular during his tenure. Not at all. As noted, he came from Bennington, which is about as far from Rutgers is today as you can imagine. Not quite as far in the early 1970s.
And McCormick Jr., who finished the reorganization that Ed started, also accomplished what he wanted but kind of embarrassed us along the way. Kind of a lot. It was bad.
Barchi handled the initial Rice thing totally incorrectly. A university president should not get involved in athletics unless it's necessary, and his lack of experience with D-I sports betrayed him in that situation. Had he stepped in and did the right thing at the time, we don't have nearly as much controversy because it would have been ONLY about Rice and not about Pernetti or Barchi. The Flood email doesn't rise to the Rice level of mess, so I don't really think Barchi is needed other than to issue a statement of support.
In any event, as noted, the med school is the biggest thing Rutgers can be involved with, and while you can debate what he did at Thomas Jefferson and how remarkable or unremarkable it was, at least his experience is in an area we can use. After Barchi, I would hope that a provost or VP from a P5 school (reseach-oriented, of course; Wake Forest wouldn't count) is next.
And McCormick Jr., who finished the reorganization that Ed started, also accomplished what he wanted but kind of embarrassed us along the way. Kind of a lot. It was bad.
Barchi handled the initial Rice thing totally incorrectly. A university president should not get involved in athletics unless it's necessary, and his lack of experience with D-I sports betrayed him in that situation. Had he stepped in and did the right thing at the time, we don't have nearly as much controversy because it would have been ONLY about Rice and not about Pernetti or Barchi. The Flood email doesn't rise to the Rice level of mess, so I don't really think Barchi is needed other than to issue a statement of support.
In any event, as noted, the med school is the biggest thing Rutgers can be involved with, and while you can debate what he did at Thomas Jefferson and how remarkable or unremarkable it was, at least his experience is in an area we can use. After Barchi, I would hope that a provost or VP from a P5 school (reseach-oriented, of course; Wake Forest wouldn't count) is next.
