Hobbs to Rutgers?
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I wonder if Hobbs mandate is just to find their next AD or does it extend to hiring their FB coach as well.
And of course Rick Pitino will be his consultant on all head coaching decisions , including football. LOL
On a more serious vein with RU needing to hit a HR on hiring its next head FB coach why would you turn to someone with primarily a law background and little experience in athletics other then firing a BB coach and hiring another one to replace him and that coach has achieved little success in the past five years.
On a more serious vein with RU needing to hit a HR on hiring its next head FB coach why would you turn to someone with primarily a law background and little experience in athletics other then firing a BB coach and hiring another one to replace him and that coach has achieved little success in the past five years.
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Strange, you say? This is an hysterically funny hire. Rutgers has hired the person responsible for Willard being at Seton Hall because as the dean of the SH Law School and not knowing what the hell he was doing, he called on Ricky Pitino to recommend the hire.
Rutgers, the State University, an on going joke. Thank God they do not carry the great state of New Jersey's name. Didn't they vet Dean Hobbs? Unless they plan to move him over to their law school, in that case good move.
Rutgers, the State University, an on going joke. Thank God they do not carry the great state of New Jersey's name. Didn't they vet Dean Hobbs? Unless they plan to move him over to their law school, in that case good move.
Is he there to fund raise or be the AD? Seton Hall has a Director of Fund Raising and a Director of Gift Giving and Pledges and neither one of them is our AD.
Dean Hobbs left as dean of a prestigious law school to work for the Governor of New Jersey in a lesser position than the one he held. Now he leaves the Governor's office to be an AD at a large public university in a prestigious conference for which he has little to no experience. The best he can show on his AD resume is Kevin Willard. Something tells me Rutgers has made another mistake in a long history of mistakes in their athletic department. Couldn't happen to a better school,
Dean Hobbs left as dean of a prestigious law school to work for the Governor of New Jersey in a lesser position than the one he held. Now he leaves the Governor's office to be an AD at a large public university in a prestigious conference for which he has little to no experience. The best he can show on his AD resume is Kevin Willard. Something tells me Rutgers has made another mistake in a long history of mistakes in their athletic department. Couldn't happen to a better school,
IMHO, this is an idiotic hire for a Big Ten school. He may be great at fund-raising but in terms of athletic acumen he is a dilettante.
Alvarez, Hollis, Barta and Smith will be on a conference call tomorrow laughing their heads off and Delany will be left shaking his, but hell there is still all those television dollars.
Despite the rolling in the aisles, it seems very clear that Pat Hobbs has been instrumental for OUR Law School and by all knowledgeable accounts is a great fund raiser. I wish him well.
Rutgers abruptly cleans house, fires bumbling AD, football coach
By Mark W. Sanchez
November 29, 2015 | 1:55pm
As the scandals mounted and the wins didn’t, change was needed at Rutgers. Julie Hermann was the first casualty. Head football coach Kyle Flood followed her out the door.
Hermann, the athletic director whose tenure was marked by controversies since Day 1, is out, according to nj.com. While school president Robert Barchi has not announced his decision, the report indicates early Sunday afternoon she was set to be asked to resign, with her oversight over the football program as the motivation for her ouster.
The Scarlet Knights football team was embroiled in controversy this year, with Flood being suspended three games and fined $50,000 after a university investigation found him guilty of violating school policy when he sent an email to a professor badgering her about the grades of one of his players.
At the time, Barchi said he considered firing Flood. A few months later, and a 4-8 season later, those considerations have been realized, according to nj.com.
While Barchi has not announced Flood’s dismissal, Rutgers reportedly was set to have a team meeting Sunday afternoon.
Flood’s email impropriety dimmed in comparison with the scandal that preceded his professor bullying, however. Five Rutgers football players were arrested just days before the season opened for their alleged roles in a group assault or home invasions. The five soon were dismissed from the team, which went on to a horrid season, capped off by a massive meltdown against Maryland on Saturday in a 46-41 loss.
Hermann, who was hired on May 14, 2013, became the first female AD at the New Jersey school. But her stint began ominously, as reports soon surfaced alleging wrongdoing while she was head volleyball coach at the University of Tennessee in the late 1990s. A lawsuit revealed she had discouraged a coach from getting pregnant; former players came forward with troubling stories that painted her as less of a coach and more of a bully.
Still, Rutgers, who turned to her to replace Tim Pernetti, a casualty of the Mike Rice scandal, stuck by Hermann. The school’s patience was tested soon after, as football player Jevon Tyree accused a coach of bullying him in November 2013. Hermann came forward, saying she had twice spoken with the cornerback’s parents about his concerns.
“That’s ridiculous that she would even say that,” Tyree’s father, Mark Tyree, told nj.com in flat-out a denial. “That’s scary.”
Somehow, Hermann was able to weather the many storms. With a contract that is guaranteed through 2018 at $450,000 a year, and with Barchi praising her fundraising efforts, she had escaped unscathed through scandals that others may not have survived. But with a losing football program in chaos, Barchi pulled the plug on the two he felt most responsible.
By Mark W. Sanchez
November 29, 2015 | 1:55pm
As the scandals mounted and the wins didn’t, change was needed at Rutgers. Julie Hermann was the first casualty. Head football coach Kyle Flood followed her out the door.
Hermann, the athletic director whose tenure was marked by controversies since Day 1, is out, according to nj.com. While school president Robert Barchi has not announced his decision, the report indicates early Sunday afternoon she was set to be asked to resign, with her oversight over the football program as the motivation for her ouster.
The Scarlet Knights football team was embroiled in controversy this year, with Flood being suspended three games and fined $50,000 after a university investigation found him guilty of violating school policy when he sent an email to a professor badgering her about the grades of one of his players.
At the time, Barchi said he considered firing Flood. A few months later, and a 4-8 season later, those considerations have been realized, according to nj.com.
While Barchi has not announced Flood’s dismissal, Rutgers reportedly was set to have a team meeting Sunday afternoon.
Flood’s email impropriety dimmed in comparison with the scandal that preceded his professor bullying, however. Five Rutgers football players were arrested just days before the season opened for their alleged roles in a group assault or home invasions. The five soon were dismissed from the team, which went on to a horrid season, capped off by a massive meltdown against Maryland on Saturday in a 46-41 loss.
Hermann, who was hired on May 14, 2013, became the first female AD at the New Jersey school. But her stint began ominously, as reports soon surfaced alleging wrongdoing while she was head volleyball coach at the University of Tennessee in the late 1990s. A lawsuit revealed she had discouraged a coach from getting pregnant; former players came forward with troubling stories that painted her as less of a coach and more of a bully.
Still, Rutgers, who turned to her to replace Tim Pernetti, a casualty of the Mike Rice scandal, stuck by Hermann. The school’s patience was tested soon after, as football player Jevon Tyree accused a coach of bullying him in November 2013. Hermann came forward, saying she had twice spoken with the cornerback’s parents about his concerns.
“That’s ridiculous that she would even say that,” Tyree’s father, Mark Tyree, told nj.com in flat-out a denial. “That’s scary.”
Somehow, Hermann was able to weather the many storms. With a contract that is guaranteed through 2018 at $450,000 a year, and with Barchi praising her fundraising efforts, she had escaped unscathed through scandals that others may not have survived. But with a losing football program in chaos, Barchi pulled the plug on the two he felt most responsible.
I still cannot believe they actually hired Hobbs to be the AD. Holy cow.
But that's Rutgers. Always the reflection of dysfunctional NJ politics.
But that's Rutgers. Always the reflection of dysfunctional NJ politics.
Hobbs wasn't demoted at Seton Hall, why make such a nasty statement? He was a great Dean of the Law School and was responsible for their rise in ranking. Although his leaving to take a $75,000 job as an ombudsman with Christie was peculiar.
Interesting bit on News 12 with its lead story being about the changes at RU . In its narrative about the ongoing investigation at RU one of the areas it mentioned was the handling of blood testing and other area being the ethical status of the program. Draw you own conclusions about what, if anything , that means.
The position with the state commission was part time in addition to being a professor at the Law School. Being a law School Dean is not a lifetime job. Rarely will the Dean serve more than two 5 year terms before returning to teaching or pursuing a career in the private sector. Dean Hobbs resigned to pursue other opportunities. He was never demoted and was still teaching. I do however find his selection by Rutgers to be an odd choice.
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I thought the same thing and I keep wondering if the ongoing investigation is going to reveal issues that will be harmful to RU and they wanted a highly respected person with no negative baggage to deal with those issues and his extensive legal background could serve RU well .
As for PH we know his love for athletics might make this a dream of a lifetime job for him. Will be interesting to see what he says as he is introduced to the media.
beyond the new football coach will have to replace stringer and jordan in next few seasons, no?
I thought it was an odd choice as well for Hobbs. But Hall 91 had the right theory. Hobbs is the successor to take over for Barchi as President of RU. This would make perfect sense.
Especially if the prevailing wisdom that Barchi was selected only given the sensitivity of the merger with UMDNJ is true.
He spoke to Pitino like any other person researching a hire... Seeking references from past employers. Of course Pitino would recommend him as he did when he interviewed for the Delaware job a few years prior! But everyone here forgets that both Pitino and Willard's father both were against him taking the job! People on this board love to spin things to look their way.
Wow, I'm surprised at the vitriol here. I spoke to someone pretty high up the SHU food chain who had nothing but great things to say about Hobbs. Time will tell but seriously RU and SHU are no longer rivals and never will be again. Get over yourselves and find another school to crap on. I would have hoped that with the move to the B1G some SHU folks might adopt RU as their college football team but I guess that won't be the case, at least for most of those on this board.
If you can pick any college football team in the country to root for why the hell would anyone pick Rutgers?
Because Rutgers is the only Division 1 school in the state of NJ, and some people actually have state pride?
RU and Seton Hall haven't been rivals in several years but people like you,who still hold some irrational hatred for a school you no longer play..... is pretty hysterical.
Time to grow up, son. It's unbecoming of you.
