Check out this video: http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9125796/practice-video-shows-rutgers-basketball-coach-mike-rice-berated-pushed-used-slurs-players
Former Rutgers Head Coach Mike Rice was fired today following the release of practice videos showing him abusing his players. Apparently, school officials were made aware of this near the end of last year and suspended him for 3 games. Three whole games. Wow. You put college kids under the care of a grown adult and you find irrefutable evidence of harassment and abuse, and you sit him down for three games. This guy should have been fired 2 seconds after officials saw the video!
Talk about holding people to different standards. If someone's history professor pushed, shoved, and hit their students like Mike Rice is in that video, they'd be long gone. If a teacher had flown a ball at someone's head like that, they'd be standing in line for unemployment the next day, if not a jail cell.
My coworker reminded me that this is the same school where that gay male committed suicide following his roommate taping him with another man and sharing it online. Apparently, Rutgers didn't do a very good job of emphasizing respect for fellow students and holding up their students and faculty up to a higher standard.
If they're going to make a turnaround, they should be firing all of their basketball staff for allowing this behavior to run rampant, their Athletics Director should get the boot for not having the common sense to get rid of Mike Rice from the onset, and the entire school should review the role that the AD's superiors played.
Outrageous.
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