Chris Christie To Help RU -- But Not the Academics

by: huntsu

Tue Nov 01, 2011 at 05:00:00 PM EDT

Gov. Chris Christie has told Rutgers University officials he's ready to help the athletic department respond to the string of defections that have weakened the prestige of Big East Conference and threatened the future of the state university's $58 million sports program.

Look, I'm a huge fan of Rutgers football and cheer when our basketball teams do well.  But there are thousands of New Jersey's finest minds who are unable to attend Rutgers because we keep cutting the funding for the school and raising tuition.  

But instead of the Governor stepping in and saying, "We need to ensure our state university is affordable for every qualified student," he steps in to help deal with the Big East defections.

The Governor has no sense of proportion, value or importance.  Instead it's good if he likes or benefits from it, bad if he doesn't.