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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 2092889, member: 591"] Probably true about the stadium, what I remember was panic mid-stream due to lack of funds. The problem in many ways was that Rutgers was a small time operation for many years. The AD was the ex-golf coach, the department was full of old paper-pushers, there was no women's marketing to speak of (one of the (many) reasons Grentz left) and football and men's basketball were dreadful when I started following RU in '95 (I was a '78 grad, but I didn't follow them). Mulcahey was a politico pushed on RU, whose solution (from the start at least) was to slap red paint on anything that wasn't moving. But football improved, he began positioning RU towards the B1G, he fund-raised to try and cut the subsidy (funding scholly's was a big thing with him). Men's basketball was hopeless. But I don't think RU has ever really had a serious professional athletic department staff. Most of the problems - whether the silly, stupid or financial - come down to no one really thinking about what they are doing. The current AD - Hobbs - while I don't care for him, at least made the MBB change for poor performance reasons. Flood, Hermann and the hiring of Jordan were not on his watch, he is really in a position of trying to clean up messes. There was recently an expose on Rutgers salaries, while CVS is the 3rd highest paid coach in the B1G, trust me - even the high paid football and men's BB coaches are near the bottom. And some of the non-revenue salaries are utterly deplorable. The problem is trying to run a P5 program with mid-major level donors. [/QUOTE]

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