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This can't be true.....No way they would have missed this in this age, especially with one of their own.
 

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Lol. Grounds for termination? Or was the RU AD in on it and helping sweep it under the rug?

Didn't this happen with George O'Leary at Notre Dame?
 
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Lol. Grounds for termination? Or was the RU AD in on it and helping sweep it under the rug?

Didn't this happen with George O'Leary at Notre Dame?

It's absolutely grounds for termination. You cannot be a Division 1 head coach or even an assistant without a college degree. Those are the rules. The fact that Jordan lied about it, and the school he claims to have graduated from hired him is mind boggling.

For the record I am also strongly in favor of the B1G terminating Rutgirls invite
 
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Per Adam Zagoria, and at least one other website on a quick search...

"The NCAA mandates that you have a college degree before you can become a college head coach or assistant."

This could be fun...
 
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Sloppy deadspin article. It says that lack of degree wouldn't have prevented him from getting job.
 
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He would have had to get his degree before taking job. If he doesn't have a degree now, it is a violation plain and simple.
 
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Per Adam Zagoria, and at least one other website on a quick search...

"The NCAA mandates that you have a college degree before you can become a college head coach or assistant."

This could be fun...

StevePoliti: From the NCAA: "Those standards are established by the schools that are doing the hiring, not the NCAA." No degree required. (Politi is a Sports columnist for The Star-Ledger)

Doesn't make the point moot that the State University of New Jersey press release about the hiring says he has a degree, when he doesn't...
 

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Rutgers is such an incredible fuc&ing mess. What is great is they keep using the same search firms too. I know for the new AD they are using the same one that they used to hire Pernetti. You would think you would mix it up just cuz. What makes the B1G think this school is ever going to get it together?
 
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For the record I am also strongly in favor of the B1G terminating Rutgirls invite
We need them or a NY school as members of the B1G to have a shot at getting an invite to the B1G. However, their misfortunes can work to our advantage in recruiting and perception.
 
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As they strut in B1G... :mad:

ESPNAndyKatz 6:50pm via Tweet Button
Rutgers says coach Jordan has no degree. Jordan said he simply registered wrong but did complete the work in '85: http://espn.go.com/new-york/mens-co...new-rutgers-hoops-coach-eddie-jordan-graduate

BrendanPrunty 7:06pm via Web
Rutgers releases statement on Eddie Jordan, saying it acknowledges it was in error reporting Jordan had earned a degree.

http://www.scarletknights.com/basketball-men/news/release.asp?prID=13237

BrendanPrunty 7:06pm via Web
Rutgers however says that neither the school, nor NCAA, require a head coach to hold a baccalaureate degree.
 
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Does anyone else think it's unnecessary for a college coach to be required to have a college degree?
 
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It is necessary.

Secondly, they have to terminate him now. You can't lie about your degree. This makes a mockery of Rutgers' degrees if they keep him.
 
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It's necessary when you are trying to graduate your players. I can't imagine it'd be easy to preach the importance of a degree and be taken seriously when you never earned one yourself.

This situation is so Rutgers.
 
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huskiesnyc said:
It's absolutely grounds for termination. You cannot be a Division 1 head coach or even an assistant without a college degree. Those are the rules. The fact that Jordan lied about it, and the school he claims to have graduated from hired him is mind boggling.

For the record I am also strongly in favor of the B1G terminating Rutgirls invite

One would hope that the big ten would negate our entrance into the conference. And take UCONN. but I do admit...this is a clusterf...
 
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Lol. I think another good question is how he managed to take 24 credit hours in the spring of 1974, while playing in every Rutgers basketball game as a starter. I mean, I suppose it's possible, but 24 credits is tough even if you're focused on that alone.
 

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Does anyone else think it's unnecessary for a college coach to be required to have a college degree?
I don't think it's necessary for Rutgers to have a head coach. They could get the same results by using the winner of a halftime shooting contest.
 

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God bless Rutgers.

Aside from being another RU-level tire fire, here is the real mess to be dealt with...

"Some of the professors are still around and some are gone, but they all know I was in class and did my work,'' Jordan said. "There was arrogance on my part when I was told I didn't register right, and then I left to (coach at) Old Dominion. I was told my classes were never recorded. I saw a transcript. I will have to find it. I was there and I completed the work. My professors that are still there know that. That's it."

There's no coming back from that if it's inaccurate. I realize that Rutgers' policy, (one I am sure they wrote sometime this morning), does not require a coach to have a degree, but Jordan has opted to double-down.

He says he did the coursework, but someone at Rutgers up and did not record the classes correctly. Honestly, if there's one school where that might be possible, it's Rutgers, but something tells me that Jordan greased the skids with that comment.
 
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Didn't register correctly? As in didn't take the necessary classes to graduate? As in didn't graduate?

"Yeah, I was there. I took Intro to Basketball 1000 when I was supposed to be in Calculus 3500 but hey I did the work."

24 credits in a semester? Yeah athletes take a lot of intersession classes but those don't go towards fall or spring semesters I don't think.
 
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Tenspro200fst: 598403 said:
And yet the B1G still wanted them over us.
Besides MBB, what does UCONN offer, that Rutgers cannot offer?
 

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Besides MBB, what does UCONN offer, that Rutgers cannot offer?

A trophy case that isn't empty.

Multiple sports(Mens and Womens) that have won BE and National Championships.

Coaches with college degrees.
 
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