by Kent Sterling Rutgers president Robert Barchi’s performance in his ill-advised press conference demands his removal as president – not because he behaved in opposition to the expectations of the board of governors, but because he delivered upon them. Anyone who has spent a lot of time talking to publicly compensated bureaucrats watched Barchi with […]
by Kent Sterling NCAA chief Mark Emmert is frustrated, and that was clear in the defiant tone at his press conference yesterday. He has good reason to be frustrated. The problems are everywhere, and the solutions are impossible to enact. That will turn a guy who had high hopes when reporting to Indianapolis for duty […]
by Kent Sterling The goal for any administrator is to silence the chants for someone’s head before their names are in being shouted, and Rutgers president Robert Barchi started to hear his name a little too often for his liking. So Tim Parnetti is a goner, and he was always going to be a goner. […]
by Kent Sterling It took a day and a half, but someone associated with Rutgers University blurted out a sensible comment. The most compelling question that remains in the still unfolding story is why athletic director Tim Pernetti continues to hold on to his job. Pernetti is the guy who chose expedience and convenience over […]
by Kent Sterling There is one reason to watch a high school all-star basketball game like the McDonald’s All-American contest that was played last night in Chicago – to identify and assess the kids who will be freshman at the university of which you are a fan. After all, nobody has any affinity to one […]
by Kent Sterling It was inevitable that an addlepated knucklehead on a message board would put two and two together to make 17 when Park Tudor head basketball coach Ed Schilling was hired by UCLA’s Steve Alford. The thinking from the message board conspiracy theorists is that Alford must have hired Ed Schilling because of […]
by Kent Sterling People are weasels. That’s a pretty good rule of thumb for dealing with successful men and women in business. Find the road that is most expedient, and then watch as that is the one chosen by men like Rutgers president Robert Barchi and athletic director Tim Pernetti. They rarely surprise us. The […]
by Kent Sterling Doing what’s right doesn’t matter a damn to most administrators, and Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said as much yesterday. The right thing would have been to fire basketball coach Mike Rice as soon as anyone with the authority to do so saw the videotape showing physical and verbal abuse the first […]
by Kent Sterling The re-emergence of Indiana University’s basketball program has been a steady upward climb since the remnants of the grim Kelvin Sampson era walked out the door after not finding new coach Tom Crean to their liking. But like every climb, up can only be so high, and now after rising to the […]
by Kent Sterling Anyone who has ever given notice to an employer knows it takes great discipline to continue to be focused on the task at hand. I went through it a couple of weeks ago, and despite my best efforts, there is no doubt I relaxed a little bit. By the measurables, I was […]
