Rutgers

[LA Muskie]

Can they do anything right over there? http://m.espn.go.com/wireless/story?storyId=9315982

Can't help but think they might be better off taking a page out of George Costanza's playback and doing the opposite of their instinct.

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[xubrew]

Rutgers is quickly becoming the most entertaining athletic department in history. It's great. I love train wrecks so long as I'm not on the train.

[DC Muskie]

How does the president of that school still have a job? Is he Gordon Gee's twin brother or something?

[xubrew]

How does the president of that school still have a job? Is he Gordon Gee's twin brother or something?

He is presiding over the most entertaining time period in the history of Rutgers athletics. I hope he never loses his job. He's doing a great job as far as I'm concerned.

[muskienick]

Despite all the disparaging remarks made about the President of Rutgers, didn't he somehow engineer the unbelieveable move of their sports programs from the grasps of a horrible AAC to the Big Freaking Ten? Heck, I think most of the A-10 members would have been pissed had Rutgers dropped their pathetic football program and applied to, and were accepted by, the A-10. Is being a fine academic school THAT important to the Big 10 that they have virtuall no concern about the sports programs? (Well, to answer my own question --- NO! Nebraska is now a member of the Big 10.)

[DC Muskie]

It just keeps getting funnier!

http://tracking.si.com/2013/05/28/julie-hermann-sex-discrimination-lawsuit-abusive-coach-scandal/

[XUFan09]

Despite all the disparaging remarks made about the President of Rutgers, didn't he somehow engineer the unbelieveable move of their sports programs from the grasps of a horrible AAC to the Big Freaking Ten? Heck, I think most of the A-10 members would have been pissed had Rutgers dropped their pathetic football program and applied to, and were accepted by, the A-10. Is being a fine academic school THAT important to the Big 10 that they have virtuall no concern about the sports programs? (Well, to answer my own question --- NO! Nebraska is now a member of the Big 10.)

Nebraska does "okay" at football.

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[muskienick]

Nebraska does "okay" at football.

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So you agree with my ultimate answer to my own question. (The Big 10 chose Nebraska because of their traditionally good football program; not because of the quality [or lack thereof] of their academics.)

[XU 87]

Let's suppose she did call her players vulgar names in 1996. Does that disqualify her for life from holding a job in college athletics?

[LA Muskie]

Let's suppose she did call her players vulgar names in 1996. Does that disqualify her for life from holding a job in college athletics?
Maybe. Maybe not. I can't judge in the hypothetical. But it sure as hell should have disqualified her from leading an athletic department that just had to fire its coach (and demanded the resignation of its AD) over similar conduct. Oh, and there's also the sexual discrimination JUDGMENT against Tennessee as a result of her treatment of an assistant coach. Mind you that's not an allegation. That's FACT as determined by a Tennessee jury.

[XUFan09]

So you agree with my ultimate answer to my own question. (The Big 10 chose Nebraska because of their traditionally good football program; not because of the quality [or lack thereof] of their academics.)

Yup. But Nebraska actually is a pretty good school academically and was in the AAU until recently. They were one of the worst in the AAU, and so it's no surprise that they failed to meet requirements upon a review, but that's still pretty good (especially since apparently part of their problem was that too much research was dedicated to usage of corn or something related to that).

[XU 87]

[QUOTE=LA Muskie;395647] But it sure as hell should have disqualified her from leading an athletic department that just had to fire its coach (and demanded the resignation of its AD) over similar conduct. /QUOTE]

Fair enough.

[xubrew]

I believe Nebraska was an AAU member when the Big Ten invited them. Had they not been, I don't think the Big Ten would have taken them and would have gone with Mizzou instead. Granted, having a great football program helped, but it isn't as if the Big Ten invited Boise State. Nebraska was an AAU member.