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Apparently, disgruntled Rutgers football fans have gone scorched earth on Athletic Director Patrick Hobbs in the 24 hours since negotiations to bring Greg Schiano on board as the programs next head coach fell through. With the mob lighting up the message boards and social media and calling for Hobbs job, one fan took to Wikipedia to make his point.

On Monday morning -- less than 24 hours after Schiano-Rutgers negotiations were officially declared dead -- Hobbs Wikipedia page listed his full name as Patrick Weasel Hobbs. The entry ends by saying In 2019, his ego killed Rutgers football.

An edited Wikipedia entry for Rutgers Athletics Director Patrick Hobbs.

It is a unique display of a common feeling among the Rutgers fanbase.

In the hours after the breakdown was reported Sunday, a steady stream of fans expressed their frustration with a #FireHobbs hashtag on Twitter. One fan created a Change.org petition that called for leadership change atop the Rutgers athletics department. It has 930 signatures as of 11 a.m. Monday.

"Rutgers nation,'' the posting read, "has lost confidence and trust in him.''

High-level donors publicly expressed their frustrations with Hobbs.

Im terribly disappointed in Pat Hobbs, Doug Dolan, a longtime Rutgers booster and the Universitys former athletics director of fundraising, told NJ Advance Medias Keith Sargeant. This has been a train wreck hurtling towards a cliff for a while now. I dont know everything thats gone on behind the scenes. But my opinion is, the way things have fallen apart, Hobbs needs to pay for this with his job. I dont believe he knows whats necessary to run a major college football program.

(NJ Advance Medias Keith Sargeant contributed to this report.)

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Somebody messed with Pat Hobbs Wikipedia page: Hes a weasel with an ego that killed Rutgers football' - NJ.com