If there is one legitimate criticism in the Athletic article, it is this. According to Jim Delaney,
“Maryland has won a football championship and a basketball championship and Rutgers is way behind. But Rutgers has shown that indication … You can’t make up in five years or 10 years for lack of investment, infrastructure-wise. I think they’re gonna be OK, but not in a five- or 10-year window.”
He is basically saying our facilities are not up to par here. Which isn’t a secret as Rutgers commissioned a study saying the same. It was posted on scarletknights.com at one point.
When you go to Ohio State and Michigan, you realize we are way behind in facilities.
Can’t really fault him, for thinking this way, because football has been mostly dreadful, since we joined in 2014. But thanks to Greg Schiano’s extraordinary recruiting efforts, and despite a non-competitive infrastructure, we are recruiting competitively for football. That’s the result of a lot of hard work and dedication.
Which is why I keep saying no one else could do the Rutgers job as effectively as Greg Schiano. Florida has become integral to our recruiting efforts, and North Carolina has, as well. No other Coach could recruit as effectively.
The incoming ‘24 Class could be the best in our history. Now the RAC needs to be renovated and the Football Fieldhouse needs to be built.
And Rutgers will start a fundraising campaign this fall, according to Hobbs on a podcast. So it will soon be time for fans to step up. We’ll probably need $100M to get started.
Lots of people spend lots of time on this website and hopefully a good portion step up and contribute what they can, so we have good things to talk about in upcoming years. And we can put the talk about football not having adequate facilities to rest.
“Maryland has won a football championship and a basketball championship and Rutgers is way behind. But Rutgers has shown that indication … You can’t make up in five years or 10 years for lack of investment, infrastructure-wise. I think they’re gonna be OK, but not in a five- or 10-year window.”
He is basically saying our facilities are not up to par here. Which isn’t a secret as Rutgers commissioned a study saying the same. It was posted on scarletknights.com at one point.
When you go to Ohio State and Michigan, you realize we are way behind in facilities.
Can’t really fault him, for thinking this way, because football has been mostly dreadful, since we joined in 2014. But thanks to Greg Schiano’s extraordinary recruiting efforts, and despite a non-competitive infrastructure, we are recruiting competitively for football. That’s the result of a lot of hard work and dedication.
Which is why I keep saying no one else could do the Rutgers job as effectively as Greg Schiano. Florida has become integral to our recruiting efforts, and North Carolina has, as well. No other Coach could recruit as effectively.
The incoming ‘24 Class could be the best in our history. Now the RAC needs to be renovated and the Football Fieldhouse needs to be built.
And Rutgers will start a fundraising campaign this fall, according to Hobbs on a podcast. So it will soon be time for fans to step up. We’ll probably need $100M to get started.
Lots of people spend lots of time on this website and hopefully a good portion step up and contribute what they can, so we have good things to talk about in upcoming years. And we can put the talk about football not having adequate facilities to rest.
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