But minutes before the 50-Yard Line Celebration — a banquet that honors the biggest financial supporters to the Rutgers athletics program — Hobbs was stopped in his tracks.
“We had been thinking about giving another gift but we didn’t think we were going to announce it Thursday night,’’ Greg Brown said. “So Anna and I had talked minutes before, and then we got in the elevator to go down for the dinner. It was Hobbs, (chief of staff) Ryan Pisarri, Anna and me. Hobbs is talking to Ryan, and Anna whispers to me, ‘We should do more.’ I said, ‘I think $2 million would be great.