Rutgers has embarrassed itself repeatedly lately, but that is a small price to pay for all those near-wins.
Until recently, the Rutgers athletic department was known mostly for existing. The school was very rarely in any national title conversations and most of those occurred in the offseason, among Rutgers alumni who had been drinking.
Well, the reputation has changed. Rutgers is now the nation’s leader in botched public relations and clueless decision-making. You call it incompetence, I call it branding.
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