Sports ‘Unsustainable’: How Rutgers athletics quietly racked up $265M in debt September 4, 2021 Jean Rimbach and Abbott Koloff, NorthJersey.com Comments Off on ‘Unsustainable’: How Rutgers athletics quietly racked up $265M in debt This was the year Rutgers athletics expected to be on firm financial ground. Instead, the move to the Big Ten has come with $265 million in debt.