Julie Hermann Still Can't Get Out Of Her Own Way

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Let's just recap for starters...

Julie Hermann was a women's volleyball coach and an assistant AD at the University of Louisville, BUT...
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Here's her presser from Rutgers in full when she was hired...
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Then, she gave a press conference on June 5th of 2013 after the initial furor- where she took no questions and just flat-out talked for the entirety of the "opportunity..."


How the Media Relations Department still hadn't clamped down in any way was somewhat surprising, and she almost made it ten months without making more headlines. But she was speaking in a Media Ethics and Law class at Rutgers where a student transcribed her remarks in an article on the muckgers.com website.

Hermann is credited as saying about the Newark Star-Ledger newspaper:

“That’d be great [if the Star Ledger died]. I’m going to do all I can to not to give them a headline to keep them alive because I think I got them through the summer.”

“I’ve got one guy over at the Ledger – he has one mission. That’s to get any [athletic director] at Rutgers fired. That’s his hobby,” Hermann said.

Well, Steve Politi over at the Star-Ledger may just be that guy... but there's a big issue over at the newspaper...

The Star-Ledger laid off 167 people last week, the latest round of devastating cuts in a struggling industry. They were advertising execs and business writers, clerks and copy editors. Some had worked at the newspaper for decades. Most have families and mortgages.

It was, for anyone who works here – or, for that matter, anyone with an ounce of compassion – an awful couple days.

Clearly, it wasn’t for Julie Hermann. She must have been tickled, because this is the same woman who stood up in front of a class of journalism students a few weeks ago and said it would be “great” if the newspaper died.

And that's just his opening three paragraphs...it's a great read...

How the Media Relations Department still hadn't clamped down in any way was somewhat surprising...
(The HQ feels that we've already written that caveat before...)

And how Hermann is still an Athletics Director is beyond us...