It's going down
- Thread starter RU4Real
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This.
Reading some of the other responses here is laughable. Rutgers and Maryland were brought in to give other B1G teams a venue to expand footprint. That was the bottom line. If they improve that is added bonus.
And Rutgers brings Phila and NYC markets in that regard. But again, less to do with Rutgers itself and more to do with footprint exposure for other schools, particularly B1G East schools.
The markets and MORE CONFERENCE GAMES to SELL in both football and basketball. Its no coincidence that following expansion they increased the number of games against conference foes. They could have went to 14 teams and still kept conference games at 8.
Add the new markets and ties to alums working in NYC and DC regions... and all you have to do is look at how much revenues increased. We definitively added value. I only wish we could have given them Schiano-quality football.
I read somewhere here that the announcement will be on Monday. @Knight Shift is this consistent with your info?
I have stated I don't have any info on that. See @Spare130 . To be clear, my post yesterday was based on information from several posters here, including @Spare130 and a poster I cannot find/remember that an announcement would be made next week, together with something I heard yesterday second hand from someoneI consider a fairly solid source that the deal was done. I will not talk to that source for several weeks.
Lots of people with info and sources in this thread. I have a follow up question: Is it down yet?
If you could get Mike Leach to come here then I'd sign up for that -> GS. But none of the names mentioned over GS...not even close.
Has anyone heard about the parade route and when is it going to start. Are we expecting Greg to make an appearance at the parade? Any talk of a pep rally and autograph signing at the RAC next week? If only we had a home game this week, ugh, bad timing, but at least Greg will be available for the 150th year celebration on campus.
I think that many people are thinking that we have to hold on to what we've got.
Well, at least we've got each other, and that's a lot!
Until more info is dropped, here is some sick photos hop for you to enjoy. My best work.
Wake up wake up wake up
It’s the first of the month
So get up get up get up
Cash your checks and come up
It’s the first of the month
So get up get up get up
Cash your checks and come up
Send the media to the State Theater....meanwhile the festivities a couple doors down at the NBPAC
Thanks. Hopefully, good health, lol. But seriously, a month off and then either coming back to my current area at Merck as a well-paid part-time contractor (~10 hours a week, likely) or possibly taking a full-time role with a small start-up that seems very interested in my skillset, at a nice bump up in salary (always wanted to work for a small company and this one has <75 people, so I'd get to do "everything" on the process side, but really not sure I want to do full-time) or doing some consulting part-time with a former boss who now owns a small consulting business. Or maybe doing something totally different (DJ-ing, fundraising, teaching, etc.), since we're good, financially, or maybe just, you know, retiring, since I have lots of hobbies - maybe I could catch up to and pass @Caliknight, @bac2therac and @AreYouNUTS on number of posts, lol.
You are leaving a few months early, based on the last few quarters, next years bonuses could be epic. 5 more years for me! My brother appears to be finally done working, just built a beautiful house down in NC on the inner coastal.
Just to be clear, as I said the other night, I haven't heard anything about an orchestrated "takedown" of Hobbs, but that's not the kind of thing I would've ever asked about. What I had heard and have posted about before is that Hobbs is on thin ice, due to his complete bungling of the football program, his 1st, 2nd, and 3rd most important responsibilities, as well as for being described by people on the inside as "an absentee landlord" when it comes to running the AD. He does, obviously, get major points for fundraising and his other coaching hires, so firing him would likely be difficult without some dirt and he just supplied it.
Having said that, however, the more important thing to the big boosters, from what I've heard, is making the right football hire and there has been concern that Hobbs might hire somebody less qualified than Schiano for the same amount of $$ we could get Schiano for and a weakened Hobbs is far less likely to do that. My guess is now that we have a weakened Hobbs, a Schiano hire is just about a done deal, since we know Greg wants the job, which is the one thing I've been consistent on saying for months, from my nearly unassailable source on Greg.
A weaker Hobbs also means that Greg probably has pretty free reign on football, like he did under Mulcahy. However, I don't subscribe to the theory that Greg will try to plunder $$ from other sports - I think the fact that we let the other sports go under Bob/Greg was mainly a function of doing everything they could to make the football program a success, i.e., build the facilities, get the stadium expansion done, put the academic support in place, etc., so that we'd be attractive for a better conference than the BE, which did work, but required $$ that we didn't have from the conference and so some of it came from other sports. I look at that as a necessary evil, since if they didn't do what we did, we wouldn't have gotten into the B1G as @Upstream pointed out so well, earlier (reposting the same story he did the other day). We shouldn't have to do that moving forward. We'll soon see what unfolds...
https://www.espn.com/college-football/bowls06/news/story?id=2706450
I don't have a met degree either, so then I'd have to criticize myself, lol.
What I'm getting is better than any bonus - I'll leave it at that. :Wink:
I never said I heard anything about an orchestrated takedown. My post was limited to confirming what others posted here had said about Greg being hired. We'll see if we all heard correct information.
Hate to be so paranoid but why does Alvarez want Rutgers to be successful ? Maybe we should seek Bill Walsh’s insight?
And you don't need that. You have @bac2therac for that. By the way, is it cold or warm out this morning?
I know this topic has moved two pages past this, but let's not rewrite history here (and really, it goes to show how good the media is at smearing us).
Julie said NJ.com/Star Ledger lives off of bad stories about Rutgers and that by not giving them any bad stories to write about that the paper would die.
(Not) Shockingly, this was twisted into her saying she wished the paper would die just for funsies.
When you said, "And @RU848789 also said he had heard similar thing" in response to 4Real's post, I thought you meant a takedown of Hobbs, since that's what the thread was basically about. No issue if that's not what you meant (and just meant that Hobbs was on thin ice and Greg was likely to be hired), but hopefully you can see why I thought that.
To a bowl? No. 8 year rebuild. It's a process. We are young.
But we've got each other, and that's a lot.
Nice! I'm hoping for a nice exit package in 2023, otherwise I'll just hang around until they have no choice
Should we take bets on GS' comments in his upcoming presser about using any of the following:
- It's a process
- In the mix
- Rock solid foundation
- Dinged
- Someday our best will be enough to beat the best
That he walks in to "Who Says You Can't Go Home?"
- It's a process
- In the mix
- Rock solid foundation
- Dinged
- Someday our best will be enough to beat the best
That he walks in to "Who Says You Can't Go Home?"