The Board of Governors is meeting today, in an emergency closed-door session, regarding "athletics matters" and "pending or anticipated litigation" (see what I did there with the quotation marks?)
Since the announcement went out, speculation has run wild. What is the cause for an "emergency" meeting? And if lawyers are involved, it can't be good, right?
The range of possible agenda options is vast. Here's our best attempt to explain the options.
Best case: "Athletics Matters" and "Pending or Anticipated Litigation" are Unrelated Agenda Items
If you think of Rutgers as an enormous, diverse business conglomerate, it should come as no surprise that the University is sued frequently, for every imaginable possible cause of action.