Your institution is fooling you into believing that it cares about college football. It does not and the most recent hires are a clear indication of where they want the program! We can go round and round of who should have been hired at the end of the day a sitting Governor contacted your President and (supposedly) suggested hiring Hobbs. Then he (Hobbs) hires a co-defensive coordinator from OSU. Who has Ash hired since landing the job? This makes no sense and I refuse to believe that the AD is not indirectly involved in his most recent hires. Are we to believe that this HC and his most recent hires will turn this program around, produce winning seasons and a potential trip to the Rose Bowl? If you believe this then Hobbs, Barchi and the faculty succeeded.
Absolute falsehood. Hobbs is a Democrat. It was at John Farmer's suggestion, who is counsel to Rutgers.
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i..._story_on_how_patrick_hobbs_became_the_n.html
Farmer said he first learned Barchi was considering a move on the athletic director position the day he first reached Hobbs on the golf course.
"Clearly by Friday, Dr. Barchi was thinking about it or he wouldn't have called me," he said. "He reached out and asked me if I knew anyone who could step in as AD."
Hobbs was the first name that came to mind. While the two were not close friends, they knew each other as law school deans and occasionally had lunch together. They even coached against each other in a basketball matchup of height-challenged law students in which neither opted to put in a 'ringer.'
"I thought he would be a good fit," said Farmer. "I knew that Pat was on sabbatical and, as a result, might be available on short notice. I also thought that, coming from a career in academia and with his background as chair of the SCI and his training as a lawyer, Pat would be able to harmonize the athletics imperatives with academic and compliance values."
Farmer added that Hobbs had received high marks from everybody.
"He had to make difficult decisions at Seton Hall and he did," he said. "And he knows New Jersey. It won't take him six months to find out where Edison is."
After introducing Hobbs to Barchi on Monday, Farmer stepped out of the picture as additional meetings that week were set up with Greg Brown, chairman of the Rutgers board of governors, and with Kenneth Schmidt, who heads the board's athletics committee.
Barchi said he had initially set out to find an interim director of athletics who could stabilize the department before launching a national search, but the play soon changed in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.
"We really were looking for someone who had impeccable credentials and the highest ethical activity, someone who was known throughout the state and the government and in the business and academic communities; someone who had experience both in academia and in athletics," he said at the trustees meeting last week.
Barchi said it was clear to everyone that Hobbs had the attributes required for the university's next director of athletics.
Hobbs, in an interview, recounted his meeting with Barchi from his own perspective.
"We started talking about it as sort of an interim possibility, and the more we kept exploring it and what I thought about the opportunity and what he thought I might be able to do, it turned," Hobbs said. "Then it was, 'Would you do this?' And I said 'Heck, yeah, I'll do this.'"
When he went on sabbatical in June, Hobbs said he knew he wanted to pursue leadership opportunities in higher education again, but had decided he was going to take a year to think about what he wanted to do.
"This opportunity came along, and it just sort of was like the perfect fit and the perfect time," he remarked. "That's why I think this happened so quickly, because Dr. Barchi could see this was something I was looking for, and this was something he was looking for, so we're going to make it work."
