J.P. Pelzman

Asbury Park Press

Some Twitter snark Wednesday evening led to an impromptu Rutgers fund-raising drive later that night and into this morning.

Booster Jeff Towers, who along with his wife Amy provided most of the funding for the new $8 million-plus Marco Battaglia Practice Complex for football, Tweeted early today that $50,000 had been raised for Rutgers Big Ten Build.

Towers took umbrage at a Tweet Wednesday by a Twitter user named Nick Searles, who said in a Tweet, “#Rutgers named their starting QB. No one in #NewJersey cares.”

He was referring to the fact coach Chris Ash announced Monday that Louisville graduate transfer Kyle Bolin had beaten out incumbent Gio Rescigno and true freshman Johnathan Lewis for the position.

Towers Tweeted at Searles that “You are absolutely dead wrong about that…I live in NJ and I care.”

So Towers put his money where his tweet was, saying on Twitter that for every fan showing they care, “we will donate $100” to the Rutgers Big Ten Build. The original goal was $9,000 because Bolin wears No. 9.

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Jon Newman, another avid Rutgers booster and fund-raiser, tweeted that he would donate $1 for anyone tweeting #IcaRe.

Towers said in a tweet at 4:14 a.m. Thursday morning that $50,000 already had been raised, and also urged fans to show up for the season opener at High Point Solutions Stadium versus Washington on Sept. 1.

Staff Writer J.P. Pelzman: jpelzman@gannett.com

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