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Rutgers Baseball: Litterio era retrospective

As Aaron covered Tuesday, Rutgers Athletic Director Pat Hobbs elected not to bring back Head Baseball Coach Joe Litterio after six seasons at the helm. Litterio’s contract will expire June 30 and Hobbs chose not to extend it. We could review all the components of Hobbs’s athletic vision in “The Relentless Pursuit of Excellence” (TRPE) and assess how baseball measures up, but the main reason for this change is in the won-loss record.

Since 1961 only three men have been the Rutgers head baseball coach, five total since 1938. Litterio is the only one with a sub .