Ive generally avoided any longwinded discussion the past few months as I have just been turned off at the whole charade at bringing Ash back. ive said this before and was laughed off the threads. The school doesnt have the admininstrative support, state support, donor support to argue its a Big 10 school.....and we know that the product on the field in football has only been relevant a decade...and only one year at a real top 20 level and we will not even go into 27 years of basketball not making the NCAA tourney. Some will call me self loathing but based on performance and based on the reality of our situation with our BOG, President, lack of donors, and general lack of care by NJ residents, why should Rutgers be in this conference. We are at a point where RU has one last chance to prove it should be competing in Big 10 sports. If it ****s it up this time, thats all folks. There is no going back.
Listen ive been follwing RU for years...well before I attended RU in the late 80s. The talk of sleeping giant has droned on for about 40 years now and we generally have just rolled over and farted. Uncle Bob and Greg Schiano got us into the Big 10 period. President McCormick was pro sports at the time but remember the Star Ledger (who we still have posters who fawn over these trashy writers) went after hard on spending. We pissed away the Big 10 invitation because our AD couldnt properly fire a coach that should have been fired because his bosses were worried about cost..then our President couldnt be bothered to watch a video tape and proceeded to throw that AD under the bus (not saying TP has no culpability). He then proceeds to f up the next hire by not properly vetting Julie..its wasnt her fault they hired her...which then immediately put her on the hot seat with the press and she was subsequently muzzled and neutered by Barchi who could give a shit about sports. Then Barchi someone gets Hobbs planted in their laps and claim that money is not an issue. What dopes fell for that line..of course it is...Its the reason that Hollywood Hobbs who was an incredible fundraiser yet a big time failure hiring Ash couldnt can him after year 3. We all knew but Hobbs made the problem 10000x worse by bringing him back.
Barchi will be gone but things will not change here. I am still convinced the school just wants to do the bare minimum and cash checks, it will point to minor success in sports that dont move the needle and say they eliminated the subsidy. It will not matter that football goes 1-11 every year.
Our current situation is worse than the Shea years because back then we didnt have the facade of Big 10 and big time. That we are drawing similar attendance numbers to back then despite the allure of Big 10 football is damning. Of course winning changes everything but the only time this program won was under Schiano and then a couple of seasons with Flood with Schiano recruits
Its a critical moment right now because I think Greg Schiano is our only hope to IMMEDIATELY stop the bleeding and raise our profile. The program is in such shambles that they cannot afford to take a flyer on an unknown. This isnt the same situation as the Ash hire. We literally need help like yesterday. How can any kid want to come here at this point. Recruiting just halted full stop, we have no coach and its not even halfway through the season. Our two impact offensive players are leaving. The rest of the team has given up. This requires someone to be hired NOW. Greg has to be hired. I dont give a shit what people say about his ceiling. I am not looking for ceiling, I cannot even begin to think about bowls and championships and Hobbs is a turd for even insulting the fanbase with talk of a championship. We desperately need some stability in the program, a calmness, a reassuring to the fans. This is coming from a very vocal GS critic. Its disgusting to me the current state of the program. Today I didnt not turn on the tv at all..no ****ing interest. I have always at least turned it on in the background or started to watch before checking out but today i said what is the point. If a guy who went to the Alabama game as a 8 year old and used to tune into Johnson/Brunner and Larry Pitt on WCTC in the 80s hoping for a bowl season to reach the point of not even bothering to watch and leaving games halftime thats a warning sign that is in critical condition where if something isnt done we are going to lose an entire fanbase.
There is potential to win here and gain fervent fan support. Greg did this already. Even in Flood's best Big 10 year we had phenomenal crowds. One thing is clear, the RU fanbase does not want to support losers and they can smell a loser a mile away. The idiocy of Pat Hobbs insulting us by bringing Ash back cannot be understated. But Hobbs by firing Ash after 4 games...and look we all wanted Ash gone ASAP... seemingly didnt have a plan on what to do after 4 games, he didnt take into consideration what would happen with transfers, he didnt take into consideration that the team would simply stop playing, he didnt take into consideration our recruiting would stop....Hobbs needed to fire Ash but he needed to have a plan ready to go which means he needed to have Schiano all lined up and ready to go and apparently this isnt the case. Do you think the fanbase is buying tix if he hires the Buffalo or Toledo coach. We will continue to bleed tix next year. Hobbs and this school has one choice left. Hire Greg and do not **** it up again. Give him the keys and step out of the way.
Listen ive been follwing RU for years...well before I attended RU in the late 80s. The talk of sleeping giant has droned on for about 40 years now and we generally have just rolled over and farted. Uncle Bob and Greg Schiano got us into the Big 10 period. President McCormick was pro sports at the time but remember the Star Ledger (who we still have posters who fawn over these trashy writers) went after hard on spending. We pissed away the Big 10 invitation because our AD couldnt properly fire a coach that should have been fired because his bosses were worried about cost..then our President couldnt be bothered to watch a video tape and proceeded to throw that AD under the bus (not saying TP has no culpability). He then proceeds to f up the next hire by not properly vetting Julie..its wasnt her fault they hired her...which then immediately put her on the hot seat with the press and she was subsequently muzzled and neutered by Barchi who could give a shit about sports. Then Barchi someone gets Hobbs planted in their laps and claim that money is not an issue. What dopes fell for that line..of course it is...Its the reason that Hollywood Hobbs who was an incredible fundraiser yet a big time failure hiring Ash couldnt can him after year 3. We all knew but Hobbs made the problem 10000x worse by bringing him back.
Barchi will be gone but things will not change here. I am still convinced the school just wants to do the bare minimum and cash checks, it will point to minor success in sports that dont move the needle and say they eliminated the subsidy. It will not matter that football goes 1-11 every year.
Our current situation is worse than the Shea years because back then we didnt have the facade of Big 10 and big time. That we are drawing similar attendance numbers to back then despite the allure of Big 10 football is damning. Of course winning changes everything but the only time this program won was under Schiano and then a couple of seasons with Flood with Schiano recruits
Its a critical moment right now because I think Greg Schiano is our only hope to IMMEDIATELY stop the bleeding and raise our profile. The program is in such shambles that they cannot afford to take a flyer on an unknown. This isnt the same situation as the Ash hire. We literally need help like yesterday. How can any kid want to come here at this point. Recruiting just halted full stop, we have no coach and its not even halfway through the season. Our two impact offensive players are leaving. The rest of the team has given up. This requires someone to be hired NOW. Greg has to be hired. I dont give a shit what people say about his ceiling. I am not looking for ceiling, I cannot even begin to think about bowls and championships and Hobbs is a turd for even insulting the fanbase with talk of a championship. We desperately need some stability in the program, a calmness, a reassuring to the fans. This is coming from a very vocal GS critic. Its disgusting to me the current state of the program. Today I didnt not turn on the tv at all..no ****ing interest. I have always at least turned it on in the background or started to watch before checking out but today i said what is the point. If a guy who went to the Alabama game as a 8 year old and used to tune into Johnson/Brunner and Larry Pitt on WCTC in the 80s hoping for a bowl season to reach the point of not even bothering to watch and leaving games halftime thats a warning sign that is in critical condition where if something isnt done we are going to lose an entire fanbase.
There is potential to win here and gain fervent fan support. Greg did this already. Even in Flood's best Big 10 year we had phenomenal crowds. One thing is clear, the RU fanbase does not want to support losers and they can smell a loser a mile away. The idiocy of Pat Hobbs insulting us by bringing Ash back cannot be understated. But Hobbs by firing Ash after 4 games...and look we all wanted Ash gone ASAP... seemingly didnt have a plan on what to do after 4 games, he didnt take into consideration what would happen with transfers, he didnt take into consideration that the team would simply stop playing, he didnt take into consideration our recruiting would stop....Hobbs needed to fire Ash but he needed to have a plan ready to go which means he needed to have Schiano all lined up and ready to go and apparently this isnt the case. Do you think the fanbase is buying tix if he hires the Buffalo or Toledo coach. We will continue to bleed tix next year. Hobbs and this school has one choice left. Hire Greg and do not **** it up again. Give him the keys and step out of the way.