Brian Kelly

[Bueller]

Who remembers this? He's probably been on meds after ND told him to cool it.

 

[Section124]

Rutgers could use a douche like Kelly as Head Coach. It's time to win. Doing it the Schiano way gets us no where.

 

[Caliknight]

Kelly is too old. We need a younger douche.

 

[Anon1754923206]

Kelly is too old. We need a younger douche.

A younger douche…

 

[njrexguy]

A splashy name who knows how to win. So he's old. He's knows how to coach.
I think we need a proven winner. But I don't see him coming here, unless he's look for a big challenge

 

[Furrari360]

Almost anything is better than the current staff we have. If he will take reduced $ due to his LSU $. Do it.

 

[Knight Shift]

Small complication. Rutgers is under a hiring freeze effective July 9, 2026.

Hiring Freeze and Position Cost Control Measures Guidelines | uhr.rutgers.edu

uhr.rutgers.edu

 

[-RUFAN4LIFE-]

Small complication. Rutgers is under a hiring freeze effective July 9, 2026.

Hiring Freeze and Position Cost Control Measures Guidelines | uhr.rutgers.edu

uhr.rutgers.edu

You think they are not going to fire coaches and hire replacements?

 

[Anon1754923206]

Small complication. Rutgers is under a hiring freeze effective July 9, 2026.

Hiring Freeze and Position Cost Control Measures Guidelines | uhr.rutgers.edu

uhr.rutgers.edu

That would be the MOST Rutgers reason for remaining stuck with GS

 

[Knight Shift]

You think they are not going to fire coaches and hire replacements?

Two different things. Anyone can fire whomever they want to fire. If they want to hire, they have to jump through several hoops to get approval to hire. Hiring a very expensive head football coach while paying a $18M buyout is going to go over real well with the engineering and med school professors looking to hire post docs and others for conducting funded research that is actually MAKING money for the university.

 

[PessimisticallyHopefulPragmatist]

Small complication. Rutgers is under a hiring freeze effective July 9, 2026.

Hiring Freeze and Position Cost Control Measures Guidelines | uhr.rutgers.edu

uhr.rutgers.edu

If anything like with large corporations, it's likely a general freeze, but exceptions are always considered.

 

[PSAL_Hoops]

Two different things. Anyone can fire whomever they want to fire. If they want to hire, they have to jump through several hoops to get approval to hire. Hiring a very expensive head football coach while paying a $18M buyout is going to go over real well with the engineering and med school professors looking to hire post docs and others for conducting funded research that is actually MAKING money for the university.

For this reason, Zinn has to be praying that we somehow look a bit better against USC. There are multiple reasons why it would be better and cleaner to wait until after this season ends. But if we keep getting embarrassed that won’t be possible.

 

[-RUFAN4LIFE-]

If anything like with large corporations, it's likely a general freeze, but exceptions are always considered.

Exactly

 

[Knight Shift]

Exactly

Quite the different situatin

 

[-RUFAN4LIFE-]

Quite the different situatin

Football is the chief revenue driver for athletics. I’m sure the bottom line will look better if donations, sponsorships and other revenue drops because they didn’t move on from Greg. This is being penny wise and pound foolish. They stand to lose more in the long term by doing nothing.

 

[RUTrack94]

All these coaches have bloated egoes and cannot collect enough money. Thats why

if LSU pays him X and we pay 1M, does he still
make X or does he make X + 1M

 

[Knight Shift]

Football is the chief revenue driver for athletics. I’m sure the bottom line will look better if donations, sponsorships and other revenue drops because they didn’t move on from Greg. This is being penny wise and pound foolish. They stand to lose more in the long term by doing nothing.

Nobody said do nothing.
Fire, sure. Play with interim coach. Don't rush to hire new HC.

 

[Anon1754923206]

Almost anything is better than the current staff we have. If he will take reduced $ due to his LSU $. Do it.

Is that how that works?!?

 

[-RUFAN4LIFE-]

Nobody said do nothing.
Fire, sure. Play with interim coach. Don't rush to hire new HC.

No HC is coming midsession to coach a team they didn’t put together.

If someone is named before the season is over they will assemble a staff, do some HS recruiting & prep for the portal.

 

[Knight Shift]

No HC is coming midsession to coach a team they didn’t put together.

If someone is named before the season is over they will assemble a staff, do some HS recruiting & prep for the portal.

Maybe we agree more than we think.
If GS is fired, fans need to be patient on timing of hire. There is no great hurry to have someone in place right away.

 

[kupuna133]

Maybe we agree more than we think.
If GS is fired, fans need to be patient on timing of hire. There is no great hurry to have someone in place right away.

If he’s fired. Can’t imagine anyone would be hired until at least a week after our season end. Roughly 1st second week of December at the earliest.