Amazing that Rutgers didn't have someone already lined up and committed before firing Jordan
If not Timmy, maybe they go after the Stony Brook coach or as a long, long shot Kevin Boyle ( no college experience but he does have NJ roots and connections in The Garden State).
Maybe The Honorable Paultzman knows if Timmy's buyout at Iona is an issue ? Just curious.
Whoever takes the Scarlet Knight job needs to be willing to roll rocks uphill for quite awhile which is a mastery of the understatement.
He will also need to get an etched in stone commitment from AD Pat Dobbs that RU is going to be financially committed to the program in a major, major way.
I have no idea JSJ on the contract. I agree with your assessment of Rutgers job & feel so much of their resources seem dedicated to med school project if I recall correctly.
I graduated from Rutgers dental school. Now living in Fl. ,I'm a little out of touch. What is the med school project?
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Njmonthly.com article which is a bit dated, but captures strategic targeted initiatives. I am not certain of current status. Excerpt;
"Among other things, the complex legislation required Rutgers to create a School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, comprising UMDNJ; the Ernesto Mario School of Pharmacy; the College of Nursing; and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, among other schools.
Major financial-planning and labor-management issues also needed to be resolved, including the distribution of resources among the Rutgers campuses and the appointment of a chancellor for the new health sciences school and two new provosts. And some 3,000 contracts—for clinical research, federal grants, and the like—would have to be transferred from UMDNJ to Rutgers.
As a doctor and a former medical school president, Barchi not only had a strong understanding of what needed to be done, but what was at stake. “Having a medical school is not necessarily a good thing from a financial point of view, since most medical schools lose money,” he said in March. So why merge? “It’s an intellectual advantage,” said Barchi. “It’s an academic advantage. It’s an opportunity for us to build on the strong biomedical and life sciences that are present in Rutgers now, along with the basic sciences and the more applied health care sciences that are being done in the medical schools to generate new programs, new research.”
