Rutgers could be B1G door mat for years

[tweeterhawk]

Or why it is essential to have an AD who is also a good fundraiser.

Column: Rutgers and Julie Hermann have surrendered on fixing the men's basketball program

It was another Big Ten game and another double-digit blowout, this time an84-54 drubbing by the visiting Indiana Hoosiers, but the remarkable part? This wasn't close to the most depressing moment of the month for the most loyal Rutgers basketball fans who suffered through it.

That happened not at the RAC, but down the road at the visitors' center six days earlier. That wasn't a game, but a Court Club meeting where the message from Julie Hermann, as summarized by one person in the room when the athletic director address a hundred or so diehards, was essentially this:

"You can forget about having any hope for your program for the next decade."

There was no vision offered, let alone blueprints, and Hermann made it clear none was coming any time soon. Rutgers won't get its full piece of the Big Ten revenue pie for another five years, and even when it does, Hermann made it clear that there are priorities more important than fixing the outrageously outdated basketball facilities. It could be 10 years before those are finally addressed. Ten years!...

 

[1hawkeye1]

that is not good for the B1G. I'm curious though. C Vivian seems to be able to build a consistent winner there. How come the women can and the men can't?

 

[trj]

I see all that BIG cash will be put to good use. Yep, Rutger athletics is going get that New York footprint the BIG covets.

 

[CalvaryHawk]

that is not good for the B1G. I'm curious though. C Vivian seems to be able to build a consistent winner there. How come the women can and the men can't?

Cuz it's a football school.

 

[eveningnewsteam]

I see all that BIG cash will be put to good use. Yep, Rutger athletics is going get that New York footprint the BIG covets.

Agreed. Joke. If they wanted any hope of getting the New York footprint, they needed Syracuse. Nobody gives a **** about Rutgers

 

[Knight78]

From the article: "Rooting for Rutgers men's basketball is like signing up for a dull pain that never goes away."

Ouch.

 

[LawVHawk]

that is not good for the B1G. I'm curious though. C Vivian seems to be able to build a consistent winner there. How come the women can and the men can't?

Good point and question. I think C Vivian was a known-enough quantity when she got to Rutgers that she was able to build a solid program even with mediocre to poor facilities. She knew what it took to compete in the Big Ten and was able to attract the athletes to compete in what was then a weaker league that Rutgers was in.

Rutgers men's basketball has been in such turmoil it has been harder to compete, both in the school's previous affiliations and now as it moves to the B1G. Rutgers facilities are such that it will not be as attractive to recruits considering programs in nearby Maryland, Penn State, Indiana and Purdue, as well as other better non-B1G schools. It sounds like the AD doesn't see that changing any time soon.

 

[atomicblue224]

Because StevenAlfraud could be jumping from USC to Rutgers?