NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) – A committee appointed to conduct an independent review of the Rutgers University athletic program has issued a report sharply critical of the school’s athletic director and its president and board of governors for failing to properly oversee “an increasingly successful and fiscally complex athletics program.”
The nine-member Athletics Review Committee found that the university “operated with inadequate internal controls, insufficient inter-departmental and hierarchical communications, an uninformed Board on some specific important issues, and limited Presidential leadership.”
Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick said he would take immediate action to address recommendations contained in the 35-page report, issued late Wednesday.
Meantime, the football team is 5-5 and riding a 4-game winning streak entering Saturday’s noon tilt with Army. Read my feature here on the running back by committee that Schiano has employed thusfar.
And read about how Schiano agrees with President-elect Barack Obama on the need for a playoff system in college football.