That really was a great article and goes to the core of why Chris Ash was ultimately the wrong guy for RU and Jersey.
Like many, simply because he'd had been named to run the most important program at RU, (from the standpoint of institution image perception anyway), I hoped Ash would have success, and at the very least erase a lot of the bad vibes left behind by Flood. In many ways, though, he did neither.
And I always thought his dismissal of awards named in honor of Frank Burns, Douglas Smith, and Mark Mills was beyond disrespectful. -I never had the privilege of knowing Smith and Mills, but I DID know Coach Burns. In fact, for years he lived right down the street from me and was a consummate gentleman and someone who epitomized what a Rutgers legend should be, and whenever we saw each other, whether at a game or while he was walking for exercise with his late wife through our neighborhood, he always stopped and talked with me as a result of our mutual love of this university.
So, Chris Ash can now take his apparent know-it-all approach, (and his money), and go back to Ottumwa, or buy it, or do whatever he wants. But at least this mid-season move on the part of our AD sends the message that Rutgers isn't going to be content to remain college football's whipping boy that continually says, "Thank you, sir. May I have another?". -And, hopefully, Pat Hobbs has learned from the past and will choose someone this go-around who actually is a fit for this school...and this state.
