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[QUOTE="CIL, post: 2487273, member: 22"]
FULL DISCLAIMER: I’m a huge Babers fan, and this isn’t an Ash vs Babers post.

Yup.  I know this goes against conventional board wisdom, but he would have been a solid hire (including here) almost anywhere else but Rutgers.

He’s a very good recruiter and a very good X’s and O’s guy.  He inherited probably a more difficult scenario than Babers did here at Syracuse, which should tell you just how toxic the Rutgers program has become.

First, and arguably the most pressing issue is that the athletic department is a complete mess.  Completely bleeding money and poor leadership has really hurt that school.  Hiring Hermann was a disaster, although Pernetti’s drunken spending was no help either.

Secondly, allowing the B10 to completely move into their recruiting territory has hurt some of the advantages they had built under Schiano.

NJ has always produced talent, but now it is really opening up to the Michigan’s and Ohio State’s of the world, let alone the competition from Penn State, ND, and more similar regionals like SU, Virginia, BC, etc.

It has also hurt some of their ties into Florida, as Schiano pulled consistent talent from that state.  Florida is SEC and ACC country - it’s a much tougher sell for them now.
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