SOUTH ORANGE -- Words of encouragement -- instead of pointed barbs -- across the line in the Rutgers-Seton Hall rivalry?
Welcome to the era of Pat Hobbs and Pat Lyons as athletics directors at intra-state rivals, both of whom are breaking fundraising records.
Before Hobbs was hired in November 2015 as Rutgers athletics director, he was head of Seton Hall Law School, interim athletics director and head of the search committee that lured Lyons from Iona to be his full-time successor in February 2011.