<p>They’re doing at Rutgers what the cowards at Penn State never had the guts to do. So it makes you wonder what are the different factors at work. I suspect I know - when the first eight came out for the firing of Prez, it became okay for everyone else to express their minds. Courage is contagious.</p>
<p>mini, I had to abridge the above quote for length, but the ESPN piece tells the history of the Rutgers faculty speaking out on the subject of sports.</p>
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<p>Ditto! Hey, write that one on the calendar—LOL!</p>
<p>Professor Dowling has led the fight against Rutgers going to Division 1 athletics since RU attempted the change. He leads a group called the Rutgers 1000 and they have wanted to keep Rutgers playing Princeton, Colgate etc.</p>
<p>There are many that feel the same.
RU has been losing money on sports for some time and I wonder if they kept Rice because there was the opinion they would have to pay him. Looks foolish in hindsight.
Pernetti has been cutting program and costs within the athletic department in an attempt to balance the budget.</p>
<p>“The F.B.I. is investigating whether the assistant coach at Rutgers who first voiced concerns about the abusive behavior of his boss, Mike Rice, tried to extort the university.”</p>
<p><a href=“F.B.I. Investigating Ex-Rutgers Assistant Eric Murdock - The New York Times”>F.B.I. Investigating Ex-Rutgers Assistant Eric Murdock - The New York Times;
<p>Dowling has been playing that game for many years. Hardly news he can find a few to agree with him. Academics are very envious of the money in coaching. They should buy a whistle and see how they do.When RU become part of the BIG it should be able to break-even on athletics with no outside support.</p>
<p>barrons that is the hope. Right now students pay $1000 in fees to fund athletics that is a big problem.</p>
<p>I agree that Dowling’s hands are, euphemistically, not clean in this issue. He’s been a vocal critic of college sports for years and his rants have an odor of envy. But even someone you disagree with is right from time to time. Dowling is right about the poor judgement of some people at Rutgers.</p>
<p>That being said, I’m not sure that attempting to “rehabilitate” Rice wasn’t a credible option. In fact, I think Rice may have a potentially valid claim for a counter suit since by all accounts he did what his bosses told him to; paid fines, sat for counseling and cleaned up his act.</p>
<p>The best speculation I have heard thus far is that the AD and Rice agreement last fall was amicable, with Rice knowing there was no way he would be permitted to join the program when it becomes a B1G member. In other worlds, Rice would quietly serve his suspension, pay his fine and collect the remaining millions on his contract following the B1g move, but not coach at Rutgers after 2013.</p>
<p>Sounds like a Steubenville defense. Everyone else does, he was just unfortunate to be caught on tape. If it wasn’t for Murdock making such a big deal, no one would have known.
Nope, not buying it.</p>
<p>You’re comparing throwing a basketball at a player with rape? I can’t believe people are dismissing Eric Murdoch releasing this tape and his wrongful termination lawsuit. ESPN’s agenda as usual is shameless. Ask Bernie Fine the Syracuse assistant coach accused of molestation by ESPN after the Penn St scandal if he’s received his apology yet from ESPN.</p>
<p>As I’ve read the articles about this case, it made me wonder how parents would feel if one of their child’s profs started throwing textbooks at students’ heads and berating them with profanities and hateful speech during a lecture. In any other employment situation I can think of, this guy would not only have been fired, he’d probably have been arrested.</p>
<p>I agree that this all sounds pretty bad, but I have to say: what would the impression be of this coach if you watched ALL the tape and not just the highlights of bad behavior? I’d hate to have to defend a tape which contains only the worst things I’ve done over the last three years. Of course, some behavior is so bad that doing it even once should get you fired, and maybe this coach’s behavior was like that.</p>
<p>Hunt- in concept I agree with you but there was enough in the highlights to fire him. He shoved someone really hard from behind and the kid went flying. I could argue the shoves he made when facing players were to toughen them up fighting through picks etc but there was so much on the tape showing he was just a bully.</p>
<p>I hope some kid sues the NCAA and claims I transferred because of the treatment why should I give up a year of eligibility.</p>
<p>Good point, Tom, and there’ve been a few of them. Several felt picked on because of ethnicity. Might be all kinds of lawsuit there (making fun of the Lithuanian and Guinean kids, such as mocking their accents, for instance. Even one case of that is one too many). It’s a shame he got away with that as long as he did.</p>
<p>If those profs had tenure or a strong union contract it would be hard to fire them on a first offense. Police with unions have gotten away with that and worse. Generally they have to get a chance to improve first. Not employed at will as in private sector.</p>
<p>Barchi actually said he would have trouble firing any professor for the language. He said the physical contact would most likely allow him to fire them.</p>
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<p>[New</a> Rutgers Basketball Coach Doesn’t Have Degree - ABC News](<a href=“http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/rutgers-basketball-coach-degree-19154026#.UY2kPbXCZac]New”>http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/rutgers-basketball-coach-degree-19154026#.UY2kPbXCZac)</p>
<p>Looks like the new Rutgers coach is a Rutgers dropout. Lead by example?</p>
<p>Here’s an update. Jordan never represented he graduated from Rutgers. It was Rutgers that said that in his on-line bio. I am a bit shocked that in 4 years, plus random semesters after his 4 years of eligibility he only accumulated 103 credits. (I changed majors and ended up with 160 credits in 4 years!)</p>
<p>[Rutgers</a> admits Eddie Jordan did not receive degree, states that snafu will not affect future | NJ.com](<a href=“Rutgers admits Eddie Jordan did not receive degree, states that snafu will not affect future - nj.com”>Rutgers admits Eddie Jordan did not receive degree, states that snafu will not affect future - nj.com)</p>
<p>Wow. great example he’s setting for the players. “Graduating is important—um, sometimes.”</p>
<p>Disgusted that he will be the highest paid public employee in NJ.</p>
<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>
<p>I believe the new President is completely disengaged in the athletic department and has no interest in sports at all.</p>
<p>He better start getting involved.</p>