To quote Jim Croce, "you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull on Superman's cape", and you don't thumb your nose at the little history and tradition that Rutgers football has.
As a history teacher, I'd always get the question, "Why do we have to learn this?". I could always fall back on the Spanish philosopher George Santayana's famous statement:
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It appears that Coach Ash has decided to forget the past, and in so doing has, in my opinion, shown a good deal of disrespect for Rutgers' history and tradition.