Barchi's last role was the President of Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) in Philadelphia, which is basically a smaller, more prestigious version of UMDNJ per-merger. It is a private university with 1,000 undergraduates and 800 graduates, and offers about two dozen degrees all in health sciences. The school does not even have an athletic department at any level, just a rec center, which, albeit, does look nicer than the RAC. Rutgers is a state flagship university offering hundreds of degrees in all areas with 45,000 undergraduate and 20,000 graduate students and has a D1 athletic program.
For all intent, this looks like Rutgers bought UMDNJ and then made the UMDNJ the president of the combined entity because of his special knowledge in one area (medical schools). In the corporate world, it would be like Bank of America buying Valley National Bank in Jersey (or Webster bank in CT) and then making the former CEO of Valley National the CEO of all of BoA because of his experience of the banking market in Bergen County. Makes no sense.