Say/Think what you will, but ....

[rucoe89]

The Rutgers AD and HC Football and BB jobs are amongst the worst in the country. Weak state and university support, no media support, fickle fans, and no legacy identity. Perhaps Rutgers, like NJ, is just doomed to be nothing more than an afterthought on the national stage.

 

[vkj91]

Being one of the worst P5 is still better than pretty much all non P5. There will be lots of resumes faxed over to the Hale Center...don't you worry

 

[RUQB17]

I tend to agree with you 89. I do believe that it can be turned around. Kids these days are more attracted to trendy vs traditional. We need to find some people (not just a coach) that can make RU a trendy place. Not an easy task.

 

[RUQB17]

This also isn't all about athletics. Let's pay Snookie to talk to students, but allow a relatively tiny group to push Condie Rice out of the way. Moves like this make the whole community look foolish.

 

[RutgersSam]

NJ is an afterthought? Where do ppl get this crap? If NJ is an afterthought, then so is every other state with comparable/smaller populations and demographics, which includes 80% of the US.

 

[Steve91562]

One aspect better then most schools -- any new coach will get a lot of time to prove himself. In other schools, Schiano would've of been fired before 2006, and Flood at least by 2013.

 

[czxqa]

Sounds to me like someone is struggling with feelings of inadequacy. Rutgers is a once in a lifetime opportunity. This is Ohio State before Woody Hayes, Bama before Bear Bryant, Penn State before Paterno.
We all know the advantages Rutgers has from a geographical perspective. Talent, media, money, it's all here. Schiano already showed the program can be a winner. Where else can a talented head coach go and have the chance to be a legend?

Nick Saban will always be second best to Bear Bryant. Coaching candidates, we offer the chance to take your place among the legends of the game. Who has the vision, talent and courage to meet the challenge?

 

[RUforlife]

With 9 pro teams to the immediate north of the campus and 4 more to the immediate south it is a tough market. But a great football coach could carve out fall Saturdays as something unique and thereby garner enough attention to make it a very attractive job. Basketball would be a little tougher, the BE is still a good conference and UConn and Syracuse are still good programs.

 

[lighty]

Rutgers is a once in a lifetime opportunity

It really is. Where else do you have a state with 7 or 8 million people and no other college football teams at the FBS level? Not to mention being in the NYC market -- the biggest media market in the world that only has Army in its midst.

The right coach could truly do amazing things here.

 

[ClassOf02v.2]

All Rutgers needs to do is create an environment where the president, AD, football coach, and other coaches are rowing the boat in the same direction. That's what worked with McCormick, Mulcahy & Schiano and that's what HASN'T worked since.

 

[scarletrider]

All Rutgers needs to do is create an environment where the president, AD, football coach, and other coaches are rowing the boat in the same direction. That's what worked with McCormick, Mulcahy & Schiano and that's what HASN'T worked since.

True. Winning will consolidate all the factions. A visionary leader can do that. Greg wasn't perfect but a vision he had.

 

[rutgers4life11]

The Rutgers AD and HC Football and BB jobs are amongst the worst in the country. Weak state and university support, no media support, fickle fans, and no legacy identity. Perhaps Rutgers, like NJ, is just doomed to be nothing more than an afterthought on the national stage.

Or perhaps those are all the factors you get when you hire a guy who only had 2 years experience as a Co-OC... and was terrible at it.

Get a competent guy with the B1G name, and RU's a sleeping giant ready to seize great fanship and media support.

 

[rufeelinit]

I wonder more about not putting our best foot forward. Any coach who has options is going to be looking for support rather than dealing with questions and uncertainty. If we don't have an AD and have a track record of trying to fire coaches for cause then I would concerned about trusting whomever I am negotiating with.

 

[SanFranRutgers]

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[UMRU]

$450k per year and you get to be around college sports all day for your job. Got to be someone good who would deal with problems.

 

[ArminRU]

Maryland sucks worse than us.

Illinois just gave a contract to their interim coach.

Maybe Rutgers isn't that bad of a job. Chance to coach in maybe the best conference/division in the country. Fertile recruiting area. High risk, high reward job. If you succeed at Rutgers, get ready to be rockstar and on ESPN more than any other coach. Sounds like a job where a real winner and leader would want.

 

[RUQB17]

So it doesn't represent poor decision making and lack of a backbone from our administration?

 

[SanFranRutgers]

So it doesn't represent poor decision making and lack of a backbone from our administration?

I withdrew that, but since you brought it back, no, it absolutely does not. The "administration" had nothing to do with hiring Snookie and the administration didn't rescind an invitation from Dr. Rice.

There's plenty of nuanced, biting criticism for the Rutgers administration, but the stuff about Snookie and Condi is just TMZ-level misdirection.

 

[RUonBrain]

All Rutgers needs to do is create an environment where the president, AD, football coach, and other coaches are rowing the boat in the same direction. That's what worked with McCormick, Mulcahy & Schiano and that's what HASN'T worked since.

Row the boat?