Keli M. Zinn

I just think that the standard has to be higher.

Kelly Zinn is the athletic director for a reason.

She came from LSU.

We're thrilled that we almost blew the game against Maryland.

That is ...

If you're L- if you're Kelly Zinn looking at that- It's bad

... that looks terrible.

Yeah.

It's gonna be a disastrous two or three-win season.

And at some point you gotta say a change is necessary.

And what I say to Kelly Zinn is this.

Kelly Zinn, frying-

I said Jim Smith in regards to the Rutgers athletic director last week.

It's Kelly Zinn from LSU.

I got it mixed up because I was talking about Mike Loxley.

at maryland for a second and jim smith is the athletic director at maryland so i just got a little bit mixed up there so i apologize for that but yeah um philip says loxley's already quite quit uh well you know you might not be wrong about that philip so all right well you've been on here for 43 minutes and this was a solo show that i didn't think would go any longer than like Honestly, 25 minutes.

Tell it like it is.

And speaking of telling it like it is, I'd like to repeat, Kelly Zinn-

Oh, my God.

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People, people, uh, a lot of people see the writing on the wall.

Um, again, I don't know when and if it's gonna happen, but I, I have to imagine Kelly Zinn, President Tate talks about, you know, all the big hires they've made on the, on the business side of things.

Uh, th- they, they come from big-time football.

You know, LSU, SEC for President Tate.

I mean, West Virginia for Kelly Zinn.

She's seen a lot of success there.

It's, the, the, I, I can't see...

You are 100% right, and I have said this before.

Look, Kelly Zinn did not move from sunny Louisiana and championship calor- caliber LSU to come to New Jersey and see a team be mediocre, and we were less than mediocre tonight.

Because unlike Boston College, UMass, Howard, and USC, this game showed complete domination.

Yep.

Brian Kelly, you need to smarten up, and I'm gonna tell you why.

Yes, you were successful at Cincinnati and brought Notre Dame to the national title game, but you didn't have a great stint at LSU and nobody wants to hire you now, but I know you wanna coach and I know you know you can coach with the best of them.

What a better case for redemption both for Rutgers and you to come together to build Rutgers into a contender and to vindicate your reputation? The time is now, and Kelly Zinn, I've invited you on the show.

You've not, you've not responded.

So after 18 seasons, are you gonna ask why the hot seat now? And of all the coaches, why is Brian Kelly's name surfacing for this? So The Athletic, they did a story, and this is what really kind of got this started.

They did a story recently that suggested there is mutual interest between the school and Brian Kelly based on previous relationships with Rutgers President William Tate and Athletic Director Kelly Zinn.

All right? They all used to work at LSU when Brian Kelly was there, then they came to Rutgers, and now here's just Brian Kelly looking for a job.

Yeah.

William Tate was the president at LSU before.

Kelly Zinn worked with the athletic department.

And lo and behold, the stars are aligning, right? So aligning so much so that Brian Kelly was asked about it point blank on a recent Sirius XM radio show.

"So what's, what's the deal with all the speculation? Are you at Rutgers?" And he, he gave an answer.

If they're able to just build that pipe, keep on strengthening that pipeline and not letting a lot of star players from this area that are for star recruits leave, they're going to be able to just keep on building on that.

Yeah, and I think one of the best thing that Rutgers Athletic Department has going for it is Kelly Zinn, the new athletic director.

She comes from a championship pedigree at LSU.

She is a tireless worker, and she has spent her time here thus far building meaningful relationships with the community and really cultivating those donor relationships with the unconditional support of President William Tate, such that there's vertical alignment, as Coach Sciano would say.

The second thing is this, I think for Rutgers, um to see meaningful uh you know donors you know you know contributing meaningfully we don't need to have necessarily a winning season we need to have a signature win over a powerhouse big 10 program until that happens Who's going to believe that Rutgers is going to be competitive in the Big Ten? That's what we're missing, a victory over a Michigan, over an Indiana, over a Penn State.

I think once that happens, coupled with Kelly Zinn's amazing efforts, I mean, when she hit the ground running here at Rutgers, and she has been transformative.

She's very, very bright, hardworking, and they have the recipe for success, but I think they need to see results.

And the number one result is we need to see a signature win.

answer.

He's going to be fired when Kelly Zinn has had seen enough and when she has the money to do it.

I don't know when that'll be, but it could be two weeks.

It could be the end of the year.

If they had just played with that effort in the first two games, I think they would have been 2-0.

And, you know, people, I'm seeing tweets, oh, if they had A.T. Kelly-Mance, it would be 3-0.

Sure, if they had Brian Leonard and Mike Thiel, they'd be 3-0 too.

But they're not walking through that door.