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JayRU09 said:
Well, what is bad is that our best decision maker in terms of hiring is a walking mess (Julie).

She has made some terrific hires. If she can get out of the spotlight she will be our best AD ever.

She's hired:

Fridge: Obvious credentials are obvious. Best and most qualified OC we've ever had. 2 time ACC coach of the year, won the ACC as a head coach, multiple bowl games, almost always a top 25 offense. OC at Georgia Tech when they won a national championship and for the Chargers when they made the Super Bowl.

Donny Pritzlaff: New associate head coach for Wrestling. Was at the same position at WISCONSIN and MICHIGAN. We hired away the guy for the same position in wrestling from MICHIGAN. This is equal to us hiring Narduzzi to be our DC or us hiring Kevin Ollie in 2011 to be our assistant head coach in basketball.

Tom Luicci: Will be our AD's PR and media guy. Was the Star Ledger's RU beat writer for decades now. Just started.

Marco Battaglia: RU legend, will be in charge of trying to get larger donations to the AD and smoothing over relations with former players.

If she could just shut up for a minute (thinking that's why Tom was hired), she'd already be viewed as one of our best ADs. And this is all in her first year. As much as people want to rag on her, the score board says different.
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This is such a priceless quote, I could not resist, sorry - - "Obvious credentials are obvious."

Her hires are good hires if you don't like your current head coach. Typically, the head coach builds a staff not the AD. She just put in place 2 people that have the current staffs looking over their shoulder. That may be a good long-term move, if you see it thru, but it can't help in the inaugural season of a new conference. And it can't help football recruits who have to be convinced Flood is gone shortly.

And i think it is great she hired a guy from the paper she wished would just go away.

good luck w/her.
 
Flood brought in Fridge. But Julie as the AD hired him and had to right to not hire him. She wants Flood gone so to allow him to bring in Fridge is a big deal to me and shows that even when she wants someone gone she will give them the resources to try and win.

And who is the other guy? If you're talking about Donny everyone in the NCAA wrestling world has called it a home run hire. Obviously our wrestling coach was key in bringing him in but again all hires go through the AD, and she's the one to put the package together that attracts the candidate to sign the dotted line.

I think people really underestimate the role of the AD in getting assistants to sign with the school.
 
mushroomgod said:
They still care because of advertising , although carriage fees make up the large % of profits..
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The advertising revenue for the BTN is extremely low. Suprisingly low. And some huge percentage like 90% of it is generated on the 10-12 CFB Saturdays.

Maybe it's headed up, but it's all cable fees that drive it now.
 
JayRU09 said:
I like when people say no one cares about us and then the whole nation gets up in arms over a snafu involving graduation speakers.

If anything these scandals have shown the B1G chose correctly because even PSU can't get on the news for hiring two guys linked to rape scandals in the post-Sandusky era.
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I think the whole nation felt that gut punch that Rutgers took when LeGrand was injured. I know as UConn fan it reminded me of when Jazz Howard was killed. Having adopted LeGrand, who is a great young man, I do think that "the nation" was a bit upset when RU shat all over him.

Seriously, when are you going to get rid of Julie Hermann? She's a nightmare for Rutgers.
 
huskypantz said:
Visiting this board several times per day in anticipation for the "accurate " rumor thread stating UConn's headed to the B1G.
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and yet every time a new post goes into the Key Tweets thread....
 
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I gotta say Eric Legrand and his attitude/ outlook on life after his injury is about the only positive thing that's ever come from Rutgers athletics.

Hopefully EL52 will walk again, he certainly has the right state of mind.
 
We'll get rid of her when she stops making awesome hires. Once she stops talking and just keeps doing her job as she has been she will go down as our best AD ever.

Hell, she's the only AD we've ever had with actual experience in an athletic department.
 
JayRU09 said:
We'll get rid of her when she stops making awesome hires. Once she stops talking and just keeps doing her job as she has been she will go down as our best AD ever.

Hell, she's the only AD we've ever had with actual experience in an athletic department.
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lol...oh man that was so...Rutgers.
 
whaler11 said:
The advertising revenue for the BTN is extremely low. Suprisingly low. And some huge percentage like 90% of it is generated on the 10-12 CFB Saturdays.

Maybe it's headed up, but it's all cable fees that drive it now.
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You don't have to be a fan of Ro-Tel products to know this.

That no one gets this joke is reason enough for Delany to add UConn.
 
Out of curiosity...does anyone remember if Rutgers was scheduling B1G opponents the year or two before they accepted an invite into the B1G?
 
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Husky25 said:
Correct. The Big Ten doesn't care if anyone watches the Big Ten network up to the point that the cable companies keep it off a specialty tier and pay the carriage fees. On the other hand, Once a channel is offered on a basic tier, it is pretty safe from being moved back to a specialty tier (MSG notwithstanding).
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I think Cablevision did that with BTN. At least in northwest CT. I'm pretty sure I was getting BTN for a while, and its been subscription only since last fall. Never really bothered watching it, but don't remember seeing that blackout screen before last fall while channel surfing.
 
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I think behind the scenes Rutgers and UCONN had at least an amicable relationship, Cuse and UCONN? Not so sure.

Plus Syracuse is about as far away from the Big Ten mold as a school can get, at least in terms of what they're looking for now.
 
I'd much rather be in a conference with Rutgers than Cuse. IMHO we developed a rivalry with RU that has the neccessary "hate the othet school" dynamic neccessary to become that "rival" matchup. Like BC, Cuse always looked down on us...then when we beat the snot out of them in the 90's on the bb court they looked down on us more. Plus RU is more of a regional rival than Cuse.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
I gotta say Eric Legrand and his attitude/ outlook on life after his injury is about the only positive thing that's ever come from Rutgers athletics.
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Alexi Lalas, real American hero:

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jostar1 said:
Some good quotes in this article:

In the fall of 2011, Syracuse and Pitt announced they were leaving the Big East for the ACC. And Notre Dame said it was coming along in all sports but football in September 2012.
Texas A&M and Missouri officially joined the SEC in July 2012.
And on it went, as rumors and wild speculation became the norm. It was crazy. It was scary, too.
There sat the Big Ten, quiet amid the chaos. Finally, Delany had to act. The tipping point: The ACC’s move into the Big Ten’s geographic region.
“At that point, there was more risk to not do anything,” said Delany. “It was worth the risk to change. To not change with other leagues coming into our areas … “
Enter Rutgers and Maryland.

But these recent events in New York and Washington, D.C., are sneak peeks of what’s ahead and how this historic conference is changing.

“Clearly this will make the Big Ten more TV money,” said Tranghese. “This has to raise their economic profile with a presence in New York and Washington. Maryland already has a significant profile in Washington. It’s not the same with Rutgers. It’s in New Jersey. They have not had a lot of success. There is a long road to hoe before they can make an imprint in New York. New York is different than Jersey. Rutgers has good support in New Jersey, but it’s not New York. And no one captures New York unless you win. It’s simple. You lose, they forget about you. You win, they embrace you.”

http://btn.com/2014/05/07/dienhart-big-tens-big-bold-move-east/?cmp=user shared twitter
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What will get UCONN a B1G invite is the quality of it's athletic dept staff, and with Kevin, Geno, Bob Diaco, and Warde. Everything else, money, alumni, NYC/NE/MSG, attendance, potential TV ratings, emanates from that and falls into place.
 
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Stinger92860 said:
It's going to make money, provided the BTN is on basic cable. Given a redo, they still pick Rutgers.
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In five years, how many less people do you think will be willing to pay an extra $100-120/month for television when they can watch most of it over the Internet for $40?
 
IthacaMatt said:
In five years, how many less people do you think will be willing to pay an extra $100-120/month for television when they can watch most of it over the Internet for $40?
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That making the assumption that live sports programming will be available online and that it will be the price of something like Netflix or hulu. If the ala carte model of TV happens, the average sports viewer will probably see an increase in price to watch their teams. The sports fan will no longer have the bravo fan sharing the cost of espn, sny, etc.

The B1G would not be the only conference affected by that as the whole model these conference TV deals and the networks that pay them are based on would crumble.
 
IthacaMatt said:
In five years, how many less people do you think will be willing to pay an extra $100-120/month for television when they can watch most of it over the Internet for $40?
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40 X 8M is still lot of money. It's the 8M that matters.
 
specialisthusky said:
That making the assumption that live sports programming will be available online and that it will be the price of something like Netflix or hulu. If the ala carte model of TV happens, the average sports viewer will probably see an increase in price to watch their teams. The sports fan will no longer have the bravo fan sharing the cost of espn, sny, etc.

The B1G would not be the only conference affected by that as the whole model these conference TV deals and the networks that pay them are based on would crumble.
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That's where we're headed, eventually. Cable TV rates are too high compared to other carriers like wireless telecomm, dish and broadband Internet. People will simply mirror the app feed to their large screens. That's what I already do today when I can't get a soccer match on TV, I get it online and watch in my living room.

My point is that if Delany thinks he's going to get an extra $20M a year from cable TV for the BTN, he's smoking crack. I've watched BTN, had it for a few years. Its production values are poor and the product is kind of boring, but money can fix some of those things.
 
specialisthusky said:
That making the assumption that live sports programming will be available online and that it will be the price of something like Netflix or hulu. If the ala carte model of TV happens, the average sports viewer will probably see an increase in price to watch their teams. The sports fan will no longer have the bravo fan sharing the cost of espn, sny, etc.

The B1G would not be the only conference affected by that as the whole model these conference TV deals and the networks that pay them are based on would crumble.
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If you know where to look, programming is free online already. It may not be HD yet, but it's there.

This is just a theory, but if the cable companies go ala carte, they open up the door of bypassing the networks and cable systems altogether. For example, what Internet site did you access to watch the day time NCAA games? It used to be CBSsports.com. This year it was the NCAA. In some respects over the air and cable channels are becoming an unnecessary middle man and the only thing that they will control is the infrastructure...until the network goes completely wireless.
 
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