Rutgers coach suspended, fined

**TheRealVille** · 04-03-2013, 08:40 AM

Quote:(CNN) -- A video released by ESPN shows Rutgers University's head basketball coach shoving players, kicking them, hurling balls at their heads and yelling what appears to be homophobic slurs and profanity.
The video, which was made public Tuesday, shows Coach Mike Rice during the men's basketball team practices.
In addition to grabbing and shoving players, Rice is also seen in the video berating them and using profanity.
Rutgers athletic director Tom Pernetti suspended the coach for three games and fined him $50,000 after watching the video in November. He said he chose suspension rather than termination even though both options were on the table.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/03/sport/rutg...?hpt=hp_c2

**geauxtigers75** · 04-03-2013, 09:04 AM

Wow. I've had coaches yell at me and jerk me around by my facemask, but this dude is a loose cannon, I don't see how his players stick around.

**FBALL** · 04-03-2013, 09:04 AM

If you're going to act like Bob Knight you better win like Bob Knight.

This guy won't make it to next season. The ESPN "blowup a story for ratings machine" will grind this guy up. It will be run on every ESPN TV and radio show until he is gone. The outrage will be nauseating.

**TheRealVille** · 04-03-2013, 09:05 AM

After the way he treated the players, and the putting Rutgers in a "bad limelight", I can't see him there next year, either.

**judgementday** · 04-03-2013, 09:19 AM

IMO, he will still be there next year....this video came out last year and he was reprimanded for it so technically this is old news. He has since then attended anger management counseling.

With being said, I would have fired him than issuing a suspension/fine.

**judgementday** · 04-03-2013, 09:45 AM

The AD is meeting with him today.

**FBALL** · 04-03-2013, 09:50 AM

judgementday Wrote:IMO, he will still be there next year....this video came out last year and he was reprimanded for it so technically this is old news. He has since then attended anger management counseling.

With being said, I would have fired him than issuing a suspension/fine.

Doesn't matter. ESPN just got ahold of it. They won't let it go. Controversy brings ratings. They are on 1st Take right now calling for his head.

Stephen A Smith claiming he threw balls at the players head. Thats just false. I never saw that once. Every ball he threw was at lower body.

He will be fired by this afternoon.

ESPN has spoken.

**FBALL** · 04-03-2013, 09:52 AM

Nevermind this afternoon.

They just fired Rice.

**FBALL** · 04-03-2013, 09:53 AM

ESPN claims another.

**TheRealVille** · 04-03-2013, 10:09 AM

If I had a kid playing for Rutgers, the firing would be welcome news to me. He has no right to lay hands on them.

**TheRealVille** · 04-03-2013, 10:11 AM

FBALL Wrote:Doesn't matter. ESPN just got ahold of it. They won't let it go. Controversy brings ratings. They are on 1st Take right now calling for his head.

Stephen A Smith claiming he threw balls at the players head. Thats just false. I never saw that once. Every ball he threw was at lower body.

He will be fired by this afternoon.

ESPN has spoken.

Look at 15 seconds.

**geauxtigers75** · 04-03-2013, 10:26 AM

The ESPN rating/hype machine can kill you, Rice should have just went ahead and resigned the second it came out on ESPN. He did throw the ball at a kid's head in the video, there's no telling what all craziness he unleashed on them when there wasn't a camera around. It sounds like some Billy Clyde Gillespie-esque shit for sure.

**FBALL** · 04-03-2013, 11:19 AM

It's my opinion the guy deserved to be fired.

Stephen A Smith saying if that was his son he would be putting his hands on that coach is a hypocrit.

I agree the guy should have resigned long before this became a ratings bonanza and saved the school and himself the PC scouring they are currently being hit with.

**FBALL** · 04-03-2013, 11:24 AM

Ok. I saw one that hit a kid in the shoulder. Still haven't seen one that I believe he was throwing at a kids head.

That is embelishment for ratings by the network.

**Strikeout King** · 04-03-2013, 11:46 AM

He's gone.

Let ESPN grab ahold of something and they will make a mountain out of a mole hill, not saying this wasn't bad because it was but ESPN gets something and they run with it.

**ekff** · 04-03-2013, 12:00 PM

Should be fired (period)...

**outdoorsman43** · 04-03-2013, 12:01 PM

He was fired. I think the administration should now be questioned. This story goes way beyond Mike Rice.

**judgementday** · 04-03-2013, 12:06 PM

outdoorsman43 Wrote:He was fired. I think the administration should now be questioned. This story goes way beyond Mike Rice.

This may actually happen now seeing that the video was released by Murdock and his attorneys after he was fired for bringing these complaints to the AD. I do not believe it ends with Rice's firing...

**FBALL** · 04-03-2013, 12:09 PM

ESPN won't stop until the AD iS gone too.

**geauxtigers75** · 04-03-2013, 01:22 PM

They are now saying Murdock tried to blackmail Rutgers for $1,000,000 to not release the tapes? The plot thickens....

**FBALL** · 04-03-2013, 02:04 PM

The network has it. It's a soap opera now.

**RunItUpTheGut** · 04-03-2013, 02:25 PM

I love it. Maybe they'll hire him at ESPN to replace the depating Bob Knight.

All of you know as well as i do, Knight did a lot worse crap than this, he just didnt have cameras around to capture it back then.

PHS Coach · 04-03-2013, 04:14 PM

Unbelievable. His career is over. Anyone who would hire someone who mentally and physically abuses kids, and yes a 18 and 19 year olds are kids, deserves to be fired and never allowed to coach again. I hope those involved that had the opportunity to remove him immediately also get fired. Absolutely no excuse for his behavior. One of his players said to look over it, that is his style of coaching, bull crap. You don't have to use profanities or physically put your hands on people to get their attention. The sad thing is, it goes on all the time even in our local high schools.

**outdoorsman43** · 04-03-2013, 07:03 PM

I'm not going to waste time repeating what everyone else is saying, but I will say this: the power of the media is unbelievable.

**RunItUpTheGut** · 04-03-2013, 08:08 PM

^
Sometimes it can be used for good.
95% of the time its used to destroy someone for ridicolous things.

***Spud6*** · 04-03-2013, 08:19 PM

Where was the AD and the assistant coaches while he was doing this? Why didn't they step up? They looked like to me they were handing him the basketballs to throw at the players like they knew it was coming? And the thing the gets me the most, why didn't the players say something? Were they afraid to tell someone or what?

**Mr. Pike Central** · 04-04-2013, 01:59 AM

The guy deserved to be fired....

**#1 Blackcat Fan** · 04-04-2013, 01:56 PM

RunItUpTheGut Wrote:^
Sometimes it can be used for good.
95% of the time its used to destroy someone for ridicolous things.

This time it was for the good. No excuse for his actions.

**RunItUpTheGut** · 04-04-2013, 02:26 PM

^
Im not arguing there. He deserved it.
The guy was a complete jackass just like Knight. I only said what i did because there is so much hypocrisy when it comes to this. If a "winning" coach had done this then ESPN would be saying how its good, hard coaching. There are so many people that take time to defend someone like Knight when in reality, coaches like him are what make something like this possible.

If were being completely honest though, go back to the 50s and 60s and this would have been the norm at all levels.

**FBALL** · 04-04-2013, 03:08 PM

Amen.

The network got their ratings.