- Here's a video of Joe Martinek talking to a Long Valley school. Joe's been making the rounds lately.
- Congrats to Todd Frazier for making his MLB debut on Monday.
- When is that Aspire ticket sales deal starting up anyway? Have they been too busy wooing Maryland?
- David Tyree is still trying to raise money for Eric LeGrand. Will it be hard for people to make the June 18th event with Dano with a bowling fundraiser earlier in the day?
- Per Marc Koller, former RU assistant Darren Rizzi recently lost his step father.
- How come no one noticed this NY Times story about making cheerleading a scholarship sport yesterday? Competitive cheerleading, yes, that is absolutely a sport under any imaginable definition.
- According to a Pew Research survey, most presidents of private universities think athletics have a positive impact on their schools. Public university presidents are split down the middle.
- Baseless rumor of the week: did the Big East have interest in adding BYU as a football-only program?
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Penn State's basketball coach left for Navy. All the respect to the service academies and all, but that's going from the Big Ten to the Patriot League; and people are honestly arguing whether it's a step up. Not that this honestly matters too much, but the sheer spectacle of it all is interesting. All parties don't end up looking to great out of this. They wouldn't dare spend their gigantic reserve of football money on a top coach like they've done in wrestling and lacrosse, would they? Could be a good job for Al Skinner if he wants it though.
- State of Rutgers wonders whether a NFL lockout will have a positive effect on college football attendance.
- North Carolina is fighting a judge's order to turn over phone records and parking tickets to the media, which is still trying to get to the bottom of the myriad allegations surrounding the UNC football program.
- Is anyone else wildly jealous about how the state of Connecticut is spending a fortune on UConn's medical school, while Rutgers is still fighting to regain the UMDNJ campus that was stolen decades ago? Metrics like the U.S. News rankings have no basis or validity at all, but prospective students treat them as gospel, so in a way they are a self-fulfilling prophecy over time. Rutgers is a university that has a great faculty that can match up with anywhere. A UMDNJ merger would make RU shoot up in the rankings over night, which again is a sad commentary on how the ranking metrics work considering that there would be no direct substantive change, but the influence that a merger would have over admissions selectivity cannot be ignored.
- Rutgers #2 Phil Furmanski is stepping down.
- Today's NJ Supreme Court budget ruling court wreck havoc on the state budget. That is, if the ruling comes in as expected, and Gov. Christie is inclined to enforce it. Any across the board spending cuts would be very painful to Rutgers at this point. That sure would be something if the state cuts one pool of education funding to increase another.
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