(09-07-2021 03:26 PM)TexanMark Wrote: Amazing read. If this was a corporation people would be going to prison.
https://www.njherald.com/in-depth/news/w...1QSa-d_vu0
Oh good, a disparaging news article about Rutgers published in a Gannett owned paper with direct ties to the Newhouse School, just happens to drop the week of the Syracuse game.
First, misappropriation of public funds is just the way it is in NJ.
Second, even if this was a private company nobody would be going to jail, you would have never heard about it.
Finally and most important, the reporters never touch on what alternative course Rutgers had.
The only option was the safety and security of the BIG Ten. RU is where it belongs as a member of the richest and most prestigious association of public universities there is.
What other choice did RU have? Stay in the AAC with a collection second and third tier universities with which we mostly had no history, dealing with equally high travel costs and one fourth the revenue; only to be left out when the B12 would expand and not invite us. There was no going back to the BE, so at best the second alternative would have us end up back in the A-10 as another, poorer version of UConn or UMass. Better yet, we could have taken NJIT's spot in America East, playing the NYNE publics and park our football in the CAA.
I can only imagine what kind of stories the local press would be writing about any of that.