<p>They’re in a pickle. Even if it can be demonstrated that Jordan was completely unaware that Rutgers misrepresented his academic history, the university looks like a bunch of bozos.</p>
<p>There’s some irony here given that the basketball team has a fairly high graduation rate of about 80 percent. To some extent NCAA basketball success is inversely proportional to graduation rate, so, perversely, Jordan’s hiring could be a step in that direction. </p>
<p>The university is also claiming that a college degree is not a requirement to be the coach (it’s not an NCAA requirement) even though a current job listing for an assistant basketball coach position says applicants must have a degree. </p>
<p>I wonder what the Big 10 is thinking–although this is less egregious than Ohio or Penn State.</p>