We aren't receiving a full share of Big Ten money yet....and we won't for a while. Yet, we need to compete against established powers in our own conference. Is there hope? Is there a chance?
Part 1
Like every other school, Rutgers filed its 2015 (2014-15 school year) NCAA finance report. And we obtained it through an Open Public Records Act request. As we reported, the news was pretty good. The "subsidy", the direct institutional support as the NCAA report calls it, for Rutgers athletics had declined by almost 35%. And the Rutgers administration was quick to say that this was a sign of things to come.