It's your choice if you want to believe him or not, but @nyctarheel23 had some interesting info in this thread:
http://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/th...en-brighter-with-a-cpl-of.54770/#post-1055939
"This is the most significant development that led to the news of today,.
AD choice was ingenious as we have someone who can represent us in the
forthcoming NCAA report, as well as raise money with any AD in the country,
with the exception of Jeremy Foley."
Read the story on how Ian McCaw, who was light on major football experience, and while working in various capacities in athletics at smaller universities, did not have a resume prior to Baylor that inspired confidence.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbe...reatest-organizational-turnarounds-in-sports/
If Pat Hobbs can succeed the way he did at Seton Hall Law School, he may well be able to do the same as AD of Rutgers. I like the hire. I know Pat Hobbs. He has the connections, the drive, the personality, the education and work ethic to get it done.
The parallels of Rutgers and Baylor:
"A program already mired in mediocrity was now found to have an endemic culture of cheating and a total disregard for the amateurism ideals that were at the very essence of why the department existed in the first place. With support almost non-existent from its own university community, and an outcast in the eyes of the public at large, the Baylor Bears were left to wilt into irrelevancy on the vine of their own self-induced exile."
“During the first few months following the scandal, morale had sunk to an all-time low in Waco,” recalls McCaw. “The department had lost all credibility with the university community, and many questioned whether we should even remain a major college athletics program. I knew that first thing we had to do was regain the trust of the students, professors, and alumni who were the very lifeblood of the university. If we could get them behind us, then the right decisions necessary to rebuild our reputation would become self-evident.”
Part of regaining that trust meant that McCaw and his leadership team had to systematically address the issues plaguing the department. This meant implementing a managerial strategy of both retrenchment and renewal. Retrenchment refers to actions focused on addressing the short-term – mitigating losses and stabilizing the organization to counter those processes that caused the poor performance in the first place. Renewal on the other hand focuses on the long-term – implementing practices designed to catalyze growth in the areas the organization has determined it can be most successful in.
Indeed, the department’s reflection and analysis identified a unique value proposition composed of five key elements that they could focus on in order to rebuild credibility and attract the coaches and talented student-athletes necessary to achieve its desired level of success. They included the fact that Baylor is:
http://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/th...en-brighter-with-a-cpl-of.54770/#post-1055939
"This is the most significant development that led to the news of today,.
AD choice was ingenious as we have someone who can represent us in the
forthcoming NCAA report, as well as raise money with any AD in the country,
with the exception of Jeremy Foley."
Read the story on how Ian McCaw, who was light on major football experience, and while working in various capacities in athletics at smaller universities, did not have a resume prior to Baylor that inspired confidence.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbe...reatest-organizational-turnarounds-in-sports/
If Pat Hobbs can succeed the way he did at Seton Hall Law School, he may well be able to do the same as AD of Rutgers. I like the hire. I know Pat Hobbs. He has the connections, the drive, the personality, the education and work ethic to get it done.
The parallels of Rutgers and Baylor:
"A program already mired in mediocrity was now found to have an endemic culture of cheating and a total disregard for the amateurism ideals that were at the very essence of why the department existed in the first place. With support almost non-existent from its own university community, and an outcast in the eyes of the public at large, the Baylor Bears were left to wilt into irrelevancy on the vine of their own self-induced exile."
“During the first few months following the scandal, morale had sunk to an all-time low in Waco,” recalls McCaw. “The department had lost all credibility with the university community, and many questioned whether we should even remain a major college athletics program. I knew that first thing we had to do was regain the trust of the students, professors, and alumni who were the very lifeblood of the university. If we could get them behind us, then the right decisions necessary to rebuild our reputation would become self-evident.”
Part of regaining that trust meant that McCaw and his leadership team had to systematically address the issues plaguing the department. This meant implementing a managerial strategy of both retrenchment and renewal. Retrenchment refers to actions focused on addressing the short-term – mitigating losses and stabilizing the organization to counter those processes that caused the poor performance in the first place. Renewal on the other hand focuses on the long-term – implementing practices designed to catalyze growth in the areas the organization has determined it can be most successful in.
Indeed, the department’s reflection and analysis identified a unique value proposition composed of five key elements that they could focus on in order to rebuild credibility and attract the coaches and talented student-athletes necessary to achieve its desired level of success. They included the fact that Baylor is:
- A great academic institution and the oldest in the state of Texas;
- A member of one of the top conferences in the nation, the Big 12;
- Situated in arguably the most talent-rich states in the country to recruit;
