With the 2017-2018 academic year and spring sports season coming to an end, the Rutgers athletics marketing department perhaps saved their best idea for last. While the marketing for Rutgers sports has been fantastic all year, whoever came up with the idea to have a Dad joke competition between football head coach Chris Ash and men’s basketball head coach Steve Pikiell deserves high praise. Watching the coaches of the two highest profile programs at Rutgers share a lighter moment together was pure genius and extremely refreshing.
Ash and Pikiell will always be linked in a way, as they were hired just four months apart, which signaled in a new era for Rutgers under athletic director Pat Hobbs, who only arrived on campus shortly before them.