Mike Rice is gonna have a bad Sunday

[jorge34]

I give those players credit, they had the restraint to not knock that little punk ass out.

 

[Perspective]

A basketball coach throws basketballs at players' heads and throws out some homophobic slurs? You don't think that's a story?

I don't think half of that's a news story.

 

[johnhuskies95]

Pernetti's going to go on the Artie Lange show tonight to talk about this. At some point you would think the idiots at Rutgers would tell him to take a deep-breath, stop the public appearances, and go back to the drawing board. He's really gone all-in on this.

 

[gtcam]

this guy is a total idiot. you cant throw balls at players you cant shout ethnic slurs. this guy cannot continue to coach. a player would be nuts to play for him

 

[metsfan2323]

Rutgers should go after Steve Pikiell.

 

[2UCONN04]

I went into the video thinking that it was just him screaming at this players to hustle and such. What I saw was an out of control freak that mocked his players, physically abuse his players and completely making a mockery of the coaching profession. He literally kicked his players and not just shoved but grabbed and threw his players in anger along with firing basketballs at players heads. How he wasn't fired in the first place is beyond me. He actually should have been escorted out of the building in handcuffs after the video first surfaced in Nov.

 

[HobokenHusky]

To quote a fan from earlier in the winter, before Rutgers went 5-13 in the Big East: "I'll take the Rice era over the Ollie era any day!"

That is a real quote (might be a bit paraphrased).

 

[huskymedic]

Brendan Prunty (@BrendanPrunty)
4/2/13, 9:41 PM
NJ Assembly Speaker Shelia Oliver has called for Mike Rice to be fired. Leaders of both sides of NJ Legislature have called for firing now.

Toast...

 

[TRest]

Brendan Prunty (@BrendanPrunty)
4/2/13, 9:41 PM
NJ Assembly Speaker Shelia Oliver has called for Mike Rice to be fired. Leaders of both sides of NJ Legislature have called for firing now.

Toast...

It's not over until C. Vivian Stringer weighs in.

 

[junglehusky]

This jackass probably thinks he's a tough guy because he can use his position of authority to belittle and demean his players. I'm no psychologist but my hunch is that aside from drill sergeants who know exactly what they're doing (and if Rice knew what he was doing he'd probably have the team competing for a NCAA berth instead of the NIT), coaches who do this kind of crap nowadays are covering up their own giant insecurities.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

I was an athlete and I have worked in higher end most of my adult life. If the AD and President looked at that film and thought 3 games, a fine, and counseling was enough to address the situation, it tells me two things about them: 1) They lack the requisite judgement to lead. 2) They have no concept of the time in which they live.
The second point is clear because the only way you think 3 games is enough is to assume the tapes would never go public. In this era you have to assume any recorded footage will become public. Shows me they are clueless. And this is an institution protecting a coach who built the school. This guy is a loser as a coach. Why risk the house to protect him?

 

[huskymedic]

NJ.Com Story

"I am responsible for the decision to attempt a rehabilitation of coach Rice," Pernetti said in a statement released by the university Wednesday morning. "Dismissal and corrective action were debated in December and I thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, but I was wrong. Moving forward, I will work to regain the trust of the Rutgers community."

 

[TRest]

The AD claimed on FAN that the school president was on board with the 3 game suspension. I would bet that the president's office will come out with some type of statement that "he was kept abreast of the situation by the AD, and based on his version of events agreed to let him handle it by suspension. The president had not seen and was not fully informed of the contents of the video."

Just bumping this up there to pat myself on the back. Don't judge me.

 

[Horatio]

Hey, I hate to be a Vulture hovering over wounded programs players and recruits but Rutgers has commits from a - 3 star pg that played in at south kent prep, Shane Rector, and a 3 star Juco wing, 6'7" Chris Griffin. Anyone know anything about these kids. Their also going to have about three transfers.

 

[B1GEast]

Hey, I hate to be a Vulture hovering over wounded programs players and recruits but Rutgers has commits from a - 3 star pg that played in at south kent prep, Shane Rector, and a 3 star Juco wing, 6'7" Chris Griffin. Anyone know anything about these kids. Their also going to have about three transfers.

If we wanted them, we would have offered long before they committed to rutgers, that's one program that absolute cannot compete against uconn for basketball recruits, even in their own state, if it's uconn or rutgers, it's uconn.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Sportscenter had a thing tonight saying OTL confirmed that Pernetti's job is safe. For now.

 

[Horatio]

If we wanted them, we would have offered long before they committed to rutgers, that's one program that absolute cannot compete against uconn for basketball recruits, even in their own state, if it's uconn or rutgers, it's uconn.

Good points. Yeah , I forgot it was "Rutgers".

 

[AJC88]

Mike Rice with a powerful defense of his actions

 

[huskymedic]

Sportscenter had a thing tonight saying OTL confirmed that Pernetti's job is safe. For now.

Permetti said TD same about Rice yesterday. "For now" is the operative word:

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/04/mike_rice_scandal_leaves_unans.html#incart_river

"Sweeney and Oliver, both Democrats, took the issue further.

"The very fact that Rutgers would subject these kids to this kind of behavior after the fact calls into question, yet again, what goes on in the athletic department over there," Sweeney said. "The athletic director has many questions to answer and one has to wonder whether he should pick the new coach."

Oliver said Rutgers owed an explanation of what happened. "Rutgers has done the right thing by firing Mr. Rice, but that still doesn't resolve questions about how he was allowed to continue overseeing college students after this behavior first came to the attention of Rutgers administration last year," Oliver (D-Essex) said in a statement. "I'm puzzled as to how anyone could think Mr. Rice was someone who should be representing our state university on a national level."

"I expect a full and detailed explanation from the Rutgers administration as to why Mr. Rice was not dismissed sooner and how exactly that decision was made. If answers aren't forthcoming, we are prepared to do what's needed to get them for the people of New Jersey."

 

[huskies20]

There is absolutely NO chance they will fire the AD.

told ya

 

[CAHUSKY]

told ya

Yup. I couldn't have been more wrong. I still can't believe they dropped the guillotine on Pernetti. He went from the best AD in Rutgers history to an ex-employee in the blink of an eye. Im shocked he didn't hang on.