Two months after a Rutgers athletics financial report showed a $38.6 million shortfall in its $84 million operating budget, the university's top faculty group offered a public rebuke for the program's spending.
The Rutgers New Brunswick Faculty Council unanimously voted to pass a resolution deploring the deficit and calling on the athletics program to retain an outside consultant to review the department's financials problems and prepare a "realistic'' financial plan "that will eliminate the program's deficits as quickly as possible.''
Rutgers Athletics Director Pat Hobbs wasn't available for comment on the Faculty Council's resolution, but, in an interview with NJ Advance Media earlier this week, said he understood the public scrutiny of his program's finances.