Basketball Practice Facility Closer To Reality

Jim O'Connor-USA TODAY SportsThank you, Julie Hermann.

That’s how this started. The whole facility process began because the former AD went into a Court Club meeting and essentially said that Rutgers wouldn’t be building a practice facility in five years. It may not have been her exact words—she may have been trying to inspire the donors at the meeting to give more money—but that’s how it was taken. That Rutgers was going to be inactive in the college basketball arms race. So, thanks Julie, because without that I wouldn’t be thanking the next guy.

Ahem.

Thank you, Steve Politi.

If word hadn’t gotten back to you about the meeting, you wouldn’t have written this article saying that Rutgers had…