PISCATAWAY -- The first thing you should know about Patrick Hobbs is he's not a miracle worker. If he were, Hobbs would've found a way to add more hours to a day.

The man charged with fixing the Rutgers athletics department had a whirlwind first month, hiring a new football coach, developing a six-month strategic plan and introducing himself to key supporters in the weeks since replacing embattled Athletics Director Julie Hermann.

"The hardest part,'' Hobbs said during a recent interview with NJ Advance Media, "is there simply is not enough time in the day. Everywhere I turn, there are things that I want to do, phone calls I want to make, people I want to meet, coaches I want to get time with, student-athletes who I just want to say hello to and find out where they're from, why they came to Rutgers, how is their experience at Rutgers. I wish there was 72 hours in a day.''

Six days after being named Rutgers AD on Dec. 6, Hobbs hired Chris Ash to lead the football program. He then turned his attention to the athletics facilities, studying the ambitious plan unveiled by university President Robert Barchi and approved by the university's governing board last June.

His initial thoughts on the state of Rutgers athletics facilities?

"We're not where we need to be,'' Hobbs said.

Which is why he is so eager to present the multi-phase plan that features a practice facility to accommodate the basketball, wrestling and volleyball programs and includes a redesign of the Hale Center to make it a football-only facility.

Initially, Rutgers officials intended to move the men's and women's soccer and lacrosse programs to underneath the south end zone of High Point Solutions Stadium, where office space and locker rooms would be built.

But Hobbs said discussions have turned to the possibility of building a new training facility for the soccer and lacrosse programs adjacent to Yurcak Field, the home stadium of the soccer teams.

"Phase 1 would be the multi-sport training facility,'' Hobbs said. "But it's really integrated with all of the pieces. Fortunately, we have alums across our sports who are incredibly enthusiastic about lacrosse, about soccer, about football but also the sports that would be housed in there. I really envision that first facility as a facility that impacts all sports either directly or indirectly. If we do it right, it really should be a place where recruits from all of our sports would be brought to that facility. We'd have rooms there were coaches can meet with recruits.''

He plans to spend the first few weeks of January meeting with Rutgers' head coaches, evaluating the needs of each program.

"I want to ask them about where they are, what are the impediments to their success, what do they see as necessary things for this year, next year and the year after in order to grow and be successful,'' Hobbs said. "It starts with a conversation with each individual coach. Because no one knows better what is an impediment to the success of their program than that coach. I already know one of the answers -- probably the first answer -- will be better facilities.

"So that's why we're going through a full sprint on the facilities side of this. But if there are other things that they outlined, things that can be addressed pretty quickly, then we'll do that.''

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