William F. Tate IV

The time for change is now and Brian Kelly is the man.

What, what did, what did President Tate say in his press conference when he came to Rutgers?

Oh, God, yeah.

He said, "Win."

Yeah, I, I totally agree.

I was at the USC game too.

And you know, one thing I want to say is, look, uh, to Kelly Zinn and the president Tate, why did you come to Rutgers? Why'd you move from beautiful Louisiana and come to the middle of New Jersey? I suspect you came here because you're gonna win.

You wanna win.

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.

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.

[laughs] Uh, the athletic director Kelly's in was LSU's executive deputy AD.

The university president, William Tate, was LSU's president.

So, uh, it's not a search, it's more of a reunion.

Yeah, they know each other.

Hicks scare.

Hi, Tate.

Hicks is going to be a top 70 player that you and Ryan are talking about in the draft.

I've already been talking about him.

I mean, it would be pretty funny.

It would be pretty funny.

The thing with him and Rutgers, the athletic director went with William Tate, the president.

Both were at LSU while Brian Kelly was there.