I completely disagree with your interpretation of this particular statement. Before reading what he actually said, I would have guessed that he would have implied that we would NEVER compete with the OSUs of the world. By design. The fact that he sets a timeline to it tells me that he's not opposed to the idea of taking steps to build the program. I take that as a huge plus relative to what I thought his attitude to big time sports to be. And I haven't been a fan of his to date.
President Barchi's latest comments on the Football program
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"Lack of institutional control" is bad.
See:
http://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...ack-of-institutional-control-definition-miami
"When the NCAA investigates whether or not an institution is lacking control, the focus is on how the officials in charge of compliance at the school are doing their job. The NCAA looks at which rules are in place, and if the rules are properly enforced by compliance officials"
Also see:
http://www.ncaa.org/governance/institutional-control
"Any athletics program must reflect the ideals of the institution it represents, and it is up to the athletics director to constantly inform the president (or the person to whom the athletics director reports) of all relevant developments within the program. As you prepare to pursue a career as an athletics director, you must seriously consider this important responsibility."
Reading that and Julie's Wikipedia entry does not give one a sense of confidence she survives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Hermann
Regarding institutional control etc...could that go as far back as TP as well as Julie if true. Of course the Barchi method is to point the finger elsewhere and not at the top. I guess the buck always seems to stop elsewhere and yet aren't the school presidents who vote on most of the NCAA legislation and are ultimately responsible for things.
Also how does he expect to be competative in 5-6 years when he is hell bent on cutting spending as opposed to fining ways to hire top coaches and to fund any needed facility improvements. Seems to me part of the success equation needs to include prudent investments to produse results. Maintaining the status quo just will not do it.
No question that being a member of the B1G with similar land grant and state universities both in size and quality has been a big boost for Rutgers. Academic consortiums, increased exposure, faculty exchange opportunities and the increase in quality applications underscore the benefits already seen and being received.
And please will the BOG or anyone else hire and have visible a press secretary type person/spokesman who is always present to assist and often provide official responses etc on behalf of the president or University.
And by the same token if Barchi is going to comment on athletics from a credible perspective then perhaps he should make himself more visible at athletic events....especially fb and both l men's and women's bb and where we have recent success in soccer and wrestling. Of course if he would spend more time living on campus that would help too and make attendance much easier; especially for bb, soccer or wrestling even if only for a short time at the end of the day. We know he has has events for football games but his visibility at key spots such as the area in Athlete's Glen or even the Audi Club appears to be non existent. The position he has put himself in must make it difficult since the chorus of boo's would be obvious.
Also how does he expect to be competative in 5-6 years when he is hell bent on cutting spending as opposed to fining ways to hire top coaches and to fund any needed facility improvements. Seems to me part of the success equation needs to include prudent investments to produse results. Maintaining the status quo just will not do it.
No question that being a member of the B1G with similar land grant and state universities both in size and quality has been a big boost for Rutgers. Academic consortiums, increased exposure, faculty exchange opportunities and the increase in quality applications underscore the benefits already seen and being received.
And please will the BOG or anyone else hire and have visible a press secretary type person/spokesman who is always present to assist and often provide official responses etc on behalf of the president or University.
And by the same token if Barchi is going to comment on athletics from a credible perspective then perhaps he should make himself more visible at athletic events....especially fb and both l men's and women's bb and where we have recent success in soccer and wrestling. Of course if he would spend more time living on campus that would help too and make attendance much easier; especially for bb, soccer or wrestling even if only for a short time at the end of the day. We know he has has events for football games but his visibility at key spots such as the area in Athlete's Glen or even the Audi Club appears to be non existent. The position he has put himself in must make it difficult since the chorus of boo's would be obvious.
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When Barchi indicated that he expects it to take 5 years for RU FB to become competitive in the conference I interpret that to mean he is waiting for the full B1G revenue share to set that expectation. Could mean that he will not invest heavily in athletics until those increased revenues are recognized.
The smoking comment is surprising coming from a college president.
The smoking comment is surprising coming from a college president.
The problem is that we are left to interpret what he meant. A more unequivocal statement of support for developing and maintaining a program that is capable of competing for BIG championships while sustaining a strong commitment to academics is what I want to hear.
"Lack of institutional control"???
WTF are you coming up with his nonsense? Stop, just stop.
He means we do not have the talent or depth to compete week in and week out with top 10 teams which we don't and everyone here that thinks we do is smoking some serious dope
All you have to do is look at WVU they've struggled since switching conferences and were much further along than we are
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I would suggest that the current investigation, sponsored by RU, is the definition of institutional control.
We all know this, but for someone so smart, he said something my mom would have said (when she passed she was almost 88, and had dementia)
This is correct, as Barchi is still increasingly cutting the athletics budget. There not only won't be the same budget available, it will be progressively lower. Killingsworth said it well in his op-ed piece, that the BOT and BOG, including the president, need to get involved with raising money, just as they do at other universities. They are in enormous positions of influence, and they aren't using their positions effectively. There's a balance to be struck, and they aren't striking it. Instead they just say "cut cut cut," when they should be helping Julie raise money. That's what the leaders at tOSU and Michigan and elsewhere do.
As for the Flood apologists on here, I haven't seen any in quite a while. That ship has sailed, so we should put that one to rest---Barchi gets his crap all on his own.
And in light of this, Barchi didn't even watch the tape of Mike Rice when Tim handed it to him personally and let him know it was bad, so bad that the lawyers were involved. Leadership is lacking. Barchi should have been hired to a special position to merge the med school, but not given the added responsibility of running the university. The BOG fvcked up in asking one person to do both jobs, and we are paying the price for it now. When handed a golden opportunity to raise the profile of Rutgers in a positive way, our leadership, with all the ostensible intellectual capital at our disposal, makes a mistake that someone in a small business wouldn't make.
Great for Silencer, however, "lack of institutional control" is a completely different level of things and throwing that out there, on a public board with practically no information out in public yet, is absurd IMHO. I don't even think I've heard that term thrown at Louisville and, well, they have trouble "controlling" a lot of things lol!
The president of a P5 school that pays their woman's bball coach more than their football coach. How can he get it? We are probably the only P5 or G5 school where this is happening. UCONN being the only exception (deservedly so).
While I take issue with your strawman characterization that I -- or anyone standing with Flood and Rutgers -- is an "apologist," I'm right here.
Hmmm....
What is the take away from this post, I wonder?
Oh yeah, THIS one.
Who is Louisville's director of athletics compliance?
Who is Rutgers' director of athletics compliance?
That's a textbook definition of "lack of institutional control"
I was responding to the OP who referred to them as apologists, so it wasn't my characterization.