Rutgers Coach Abuse

[BMac]

Rutgers basketball coach pulls a Bob Knight.

Love watching Jeremy Schaap (Cornell alum) absolutely pummel the Rutgers AD for not firing the coach.

[Jordan 04]

Love watching Jeremy Schaap

...said no one, ever.

And yes, he should be fired.

[Jim Hyla]

The sad part to me is:

"No, I'm not personally offended by it," Graham said in a telephone interview from his home in Durham, N.C. "I was brought up like that.

Is this what it has come to? It's so common, even at young ages, that it's just accepted?

[Trotsky]

Love watching Jeremy Schaap

...said no one, ever.

Not true.  Jeremy Schaap says it with every smug look.

[Towerroad]

Rutgers basketball coach pulls a Bob Knight.

Love watching Jeremy Schaap (Cornell alum) absolutely pummel the Rutgers AD for not firing the coach.

I think the AD is the problem.

[ugarte]

Rutgers basketball coach pulls a Bob Knight.

Love watching Jeremy Schaap (Cornell alum) absolutely pummel the Rutgers AD for not firing the coach.

I think the AD is also the problem.

FYP. If the problem with the AD is that he didn't fire the coach, that doesn't absolve the coach.

[Ben]

Rutgers basketball coach pulls a Bob Knight.

Love watching Jeremy Schaap (Cornell alum) absolutely pummel the Rutgers AD for not firing the coach.

I think the AD is also the problem.

FYP. If the problem with the AD is that he didn't fire the coach, that doesn't absolve the coach.

Rice got fired this morning. This is the AD's attempt to keep his job.

[BMac]

Thank goodness. That AD looked like an absolute tool on OTL. You couldn't get an actor to look more guilty.

[Scersk '97]

Rutgers basketball coach pulls a Bob Knight.

What is there to say but that others have been fired for much, much less.  [Insert oblique reference to Mark Morris here.]

[ugarte]

Rutgers basketball coach pulls a Bob Knight.

What is there to say but that others have been fired for much, much less.  [Insert oblique reference to Mark Morris here.]

And Morris WON.

[Trotsky]

Rutgers basketball coach pulls a Bob Knight.

What is there to say but that others have been fired for much, much less.  [Insert oblique reference to Mark Morris here.]

And Morris WON.

Not when it counted.

[Scersk '97]

Rutgers basketball coach pulls a Bob Knight.

What is there to say but that others have been fired for much, much less.  [Insert oblique reference to Mark Morris here.]

And Morris WON.

Not when it counted.

And thank goodness for that!

[billhoward]

So give Jeremy Schaap credit for being the catalyst that brought about change at Rutgers, first basketball coach Mike Rice dismissed and then athletic director Tim Pernetti resigning, each with very nice severance or contract fulfillment deals of $1 million each. Pernetti had the tough job of trying to improve sports in a state with incredible HS football, basketball, lacrosse and other players ... and most of them go somewhere else. Pernetti was trying to level the playing field.

The Rutgers campus is split up, there is no world-class (okay, regional world class) campus like UConn, no great town like Amherst, the facilities are kind of impersonal, and taxpayers have balked at expanding the football stadium. But there is this: When the Star-Ledger reported on how much money was being spent, or trying to be spent, on the football stadium, it also quoted a prof who said that in his long years at Rutgers, only now was he seeing lots of students wearing college logo-wear that said Rutgers. Rutgers also hurt itself by killing minor sports whose alumni have gone on to Olympic and Wall Street fame, namely rowing.

Meanwhile, Rutgers boosters who say they were about to fund something big on campus tell the Star-Ledger they're less inclined now that their man Pernetti is gone. There's a pony in there somewhere.

[TimV]

Newspapers say part of Pernetti's settlement was...an iPad.  Who did he have to throw a basketball at to get the ante upped to that???::doh::

[scoop85]

Newspapers say part of Pernetti's settlement was...an iPad.  Who did he have to throw a basketball at to get the ante upped to that???::doh::

Yeah,I found that to be the height of absurdity.