Rutger's facilities for anything but football,and the current administration's attitude toward sports, are gonna make it hard to attract a decent,let alone good coach.
The RAC is undersized and out dated.
One of their biggest supporters called RU's facilities "Not Big Ten ready".
Their president and A.D. have said not to look for facility upgrades for at least 10 years.
In a recent article about it they said (I'm paraprhasing) "they are in the process of puting together a plan to put together a plan to upgrade facilities."
Whatever that means.
Their wrestling room is so small they have to stagger practices
SO really instead of racking on Northwestern that is in the top 50 of 350 schools in spendig we should be hammering Rutgers for sitting there reking in money and not planning to spend anymore.
Hurley grew up in Jersey City and attended St Anthony's, a notoriously underfunded and ancient catholic HS. To say he would not take the Rutgers job because of facilities is a bir crazy and would be a little uncomfy at dinner when his pops is in his almost 40th year of coaching in those old st anthony's facilities.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/coach-bob-hurley-the-sage-of-.../
For anyone to think rutgers is below BH I would think that coming home and the recruiting advantages he sees would be quite attractive....and part of the family mission
There's a big difference recruiting high school and college.Especially in North Jersey.
St.Anthony's recruits on Hurly's reputation alone.
I know a lot of Rutgers' grads and they say The RAC was undersized since it was built.They called it an embarassment and that was before they went into the B1G.
Rutgers found out that,until they improved their football facilities they had trouble landing even 3 star recruits with a very popular coach.
In addition to facilities,Rutgers also has budget issues that could affect how much they could pay a couch,especially since they have had issues with getting donations with their current president and A.D.