is it because he was a "rutgers man"? is that the reason?
if so, then should we love every "rutgers man" regardless of how bad they do?
if so, then should we love every "rutgers man" regardless of how bad they do?
why do some people on here love pernetti so much?
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He's a male and he's a RU guy and hes a good ol' boy.
The Big Ten thing is just the cop out reason why people say they love him.
The guy oversaw the worst performing (on field and financial) division one athletic program in the entire NCAA.
I bet if you ask non-RU alumns vs RU-alumni if they think TP did a good job you would get differing results.
The Big Ten thing is just the cop out reason why people say they love him.
The guy oversaw the worst performing (on field and financial) division one athletic program in the entire NCAA.
I bet if you ask non-RU alumns vs RU-alumni if they think TP did a good job you would get differing results.
But, but, they nominated him for an award!
TP is a good guy, a really good guy, but he was probably not the best athletic director. That said, we all have strengths and weaknesses. If you mention any US President, people who like that president will point to all of the good they did, and if someone doesn't like a president they will point to all of the bad decisions. Even our "greatest" presidents have their detractors. Some people say Roosevelt was a socialist who put us on the path to being a welfare state. Some people say Ronald Reagan's attacks on an already crumbling Soviet Union combined with a soft stance on environmental issues created the mess we have throughout the middle east today.
So TP negotiated our entry into the Big Ten. There is a chance, probably a likelihood that this would have happened anyway, but who can say? If our AD was a real prick with no media ties or negotiating savvy, the deal might not have gotten done. TP negotiated the deal, and may very well have used his knowledge of media to negotiate a better deal than perhaps they originally offered. We don't really know because it is not public. Entry to the Big Ten was not a zero sum game, like a lot of people want to make it. The whole deal had to be negotiated. BUT, TP made fairly disastrous decisions as far as hiring coaches went. In many ways, TP was the opposite of Julie. He was a CEO, interested in talking with the people, and making business decisions. Julie is an athletics person. I am sure she would much rather be tasked with running a successful athletic department and have the Directors Cup be her measure of success.
TP is a good guy, a really good guy, but he was probably not the best athletic director. That said, we all have strengths and weaknesses. If you mention any US President, people who like that president will point to all of the good they did, and if someone doesn't like a president they will point to all of the bad decisions. Even our "greatest" presidents have their detractors. Some people say Roosevelt was a socialist who put us on the path to being a welfare state. Some people say Ronald Reagan's attacks on an already crumbling Soviet Union combined with a soft stance on environmental issues created the mess we have throughout the middle east today.
So TP negotiated our entry into the Big Ten. There is a chance, probably a likelihood that this would have happened anyway, but who can say? If our AD was a real prick with no media ties or negotiating savvy, the deal might not have gotten done. TP negotiated the deal, and may very well have used his knowledge of media to negotiate a better deal than perhaps they originally offered. We don't really know because it is not public. Entry to the Big Ten was not a zero sum game, like a lot of people want to make it. The whole deal had to be negotiated. BUT, TP made fairly disastrous decisions as far as hiring coaches went. In many ways, TP was the opposite of Julie. He was a CEO, interested in talking with the people, and making business decisions. Julie is an athletics person. I am sure she would much rather be tasked with running a successful athletic department and have the Directors Cup be her measure of success.
The stadium expansion handcuffed him financially, and Mulcahy's primary objective was football, to the detriment of everything else. It would have taken a long time to overcome that.
