(This is the second part of a three-part series. Click here to read part one.)
PISCATAWAY — The rising sun was starting to peek through the horizontal blinds, and the man who now occupies the big office at the Rutgers football headquarters had covered a lot of ground during an early-morning interview that was stretching into its second hour.
A rusting ice machine. An inadequate hydrotherapy tank. A series of important weight-room improvements. A do-or-die fundraising initiative. The challenges, big and small, of competing in the Big Ten. And, stepping back and looking at the big picture, how all of that ties into the time demands on a man running a Division 1 football program for the first time.