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Post by rgs318 on Dec 15, 2023 10:18:36 GMT -5
NJ 's Greg Sciano shows what FBS coaching can mean. At 4+ million a year he was the lowest paid head football coach in the Big Ten. He will now ghet over 6 million with increases every year through 2029 when his base salary will be 7.75 million a year. What did he do to get this huge salary? Good question. According to the Record in NJ, his record this year of 6-6 is the best at Rutgers since 2014 - he helped Rutgers rise to mediocrity. They will be playing in this year's Pinstripe Bowl. As a NJ taxpayer, I am annoyed that my tax money goes to pay for this (and to start closing the football debt of over 20 million dollars).
I am glad that HC is not getting into this race to buy better coaches and athletes. NOW who will be our leader on the football field in the coming (present) year?!
PS: His early success and bowl wins came befoie Rutgers was a member if the Big Ten.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Dec 15, 2023 11:11:48 GMT -5
What did he do to get this huge salary? Good question. Two answers. 1) These are the going rates for Power 5 football. The market dictates it. 2) He still has enough good will from what he accomplished in his first stint at Rutgers, specifically from 2005 - 2011 when he went 49-28 and won bowl games in four of five seasons. |
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Post by fz on Dec 15, 2023 12:21:41 GMT -5
What a waste of $$$ for the taxpayers in NJ.RGS maybe NJ could give free tickets to senior citizens.Let those who went to state colleges donate to pay that $$$
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Post by purplehaze on Dec 15, 2023 12:27:56 GMT -5
I think that Rutgers is still in a transition phase regarding the full media rights $ that the established members get ? once there in at 100 pct, their bottom line will look much better.
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 15, 2023 12:53:54 GMT -5
It can't look too much worse.  |
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 15, 2023 12:56:04 GMT -5
Overall, Rutgers athletics is in debt to the tune of $250 MILLION dollars. Is that something that is an effective ROI in anyone's opinion?
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Post by timholycross on Dec 15, 2023 13:56:28 GMT -5
At least with a private school, whatever they pay, you're pretty much assured they can afford it.
With a public institution, there is a much greater ability to play fast and loose with the numbers and it's most likely in some way, shape or form that the taxpayers are bailing the Rutgers and UConns of the world out.
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Post by mm67 on Dec 15, 2023 15:25:12 GMT -5
Left unsaid, the cost in academics facilities/offerings - class size, course offerings, lab equipment, faculty pay and God knows what else.
Football, football, football. Football above everything else. All kinds of idiotic arguments about football providing improved academics, not factually supported in academic journals. Rutgers is in the football entertainment business. Ridiculous! Trouble is, most New Jerseyites(?) don't give a rat's butt about Rutgers football. Buyer beware.
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Post by rgs318 on Dec 15, 2023 15:53:44 GMT -5
You may be right 67. Sadly the few who do care are TPTB at Rutgers and politicians in the state capital. They seem to give a blank check to the football coaches. A faculty committee studied the expenses chalked up to football and it was a list of financial abuses that have continued unchecked.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Dec 17, 2023 8:46:16 GMT -5
Left unsaid, the cost in academics facilities/offerings - class size, course offerings, lab equipment, faculty pay and God knows what else. Football, football, football. Football above everything else. All kinds of idiotic arguments about football providing improved academics, not factually supported in academic journals. Rutgers is in the football entertainment business. Ridiculous! Trouble is, most New Jerseyites(?) don't give a rat's butt about Rutgers football. Buyer beware. And their years-long campaign to bill themselves as "Metro NY's College Football Team" hasn't worked, even with Big Ten membership. The only time I hear about anyone going out to New Brunswick for a game is when my friends who are Michigan fans go out there to see the Wolverines play. College football is bigger than people think in NYC but it's predominantly transplants who move here and continue to support their alma mater or hometown team. There's a "home bar" in Manhattan for every major college football and basketball team. Some alumni bases are so big that they have multiple home bars fighting each other to be the gameday spot. Outside of that, the only school that has any significant # of subway alumni here is Notre Dame. And with regards to their home state of NJ, you're correct that no one cares about Rutgers sports except people who went to Rutgers. I will say that UConn does better in this dept. I have plenty of friends at Holy Cross who grew up in CT that bleed purple obviously but have long supported UConn as well. |
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Post by sader1970 on Dec 17, 2023 9:32:01 GMT -5
UConn is smart enough to play most basketball and football games, not in Storrs, which is pretty much the boondocks but in or near the capital Hartford. Easy enough to get to almost anywhere in the small state. UMass, not so much.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Dec 17, 2023 11:03:27 GMT -5
UConn is smart enough to play most basketball and football games, not in Storrs, which is pretty much the boondocks but in or near the capital Hartford. Easy enough to get to almost anywhere in the small state. UMass, not so much. True. Umass similar to Rutgers in the sense that they dont have a ton of organic following anymore outside of alum. During their run in the 1990's, different story. Mullins Center sold out every game and they were also packing the Centrum, Fleet Center (now TD) and Providence Civic Center (now The Dunk) for neutral court games. Yesterday, the Minutemen hosted and beat West Virginia at the MassMutual Center in Springfield in front of a little over 4,000 spectators. Flies. Our couple games v. them at the DCU over the last 15 years haven't moved the needle much either. Didn't help the game against them in December 2009 we had a major winter storm day of game. I havent been to the Mullins since 2008 but I really liked the venue then. I thought it was like a mini-TD Garden. |
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Post by alum on Dec 17, 2023 11:04:23 GMT -5
UConn is smart enough to play most basketball and football games, not in Storrs, which is pretty much the boondocks but in or near the capital Hartford. Easy enough to get to almost anywhere in the small state. UMass, not so much. But Gampel is a much better place to see a game. |
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Post by bfoley82 on Dec 17, 2023 23:53:18 GMT -5
UConn is smart enough to play most basketball and football games, not in Storrs, which is pretty much the boondocks but in or near the capital Hartford. Easy enough to get to almost anywhere in the small state. UMass, not so much. They literally split the basketball schedule between both sites. UConn Men play 8 home games at Gampel and eight at XL UConn Women play 7 games in Gampel and seven in XL. |
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