Pernetti chucks Rutgers under the bus

[prankster]

The 30 minutes of tape in the public domain was apparently made from 250 hours of tape of practices made over two seasons: 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. That works out to 125 hours per season. I think I can be pretty confident is saying that Rutgers practiced more than 125 hours per season. The existing tapes cover only a portion of the practices. That opens several questions 1: were all the practices taped; 2: if so what happened to the other tapes; 3: if all the practices weren't taped, who decided what should/should not be taped?

I'd also be interested in who had knowledge of the taping of practices. Having had some considerable experience with public sector budgeting; I believe that there should have been a line item in a budget somewhere for taping practices. It wouldn't have been difficult for Pernetti to have found out that some of the practices were taped. This reminds me of "Casablanca" where Captain Renault is shocked to find out that there is gambling going on at Rick's.

I haven't seen anyone ask how Murdoch was able to gain access to the tapes.

How the heck did Murdoch get access to those tapes?

(You're welcome.)

 

[huskymedic]

The 30 minutes of tape in the public domain was apparently made from 250 hours of tape of practices made over two seasons: 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. That works out to 125 hours per season. I think I can be pretty confident is saying that Rutgers practiced more than 125 hours per season. The existing tapes cover only a portion of the practices. That opens several questions 1: were all the practices taped; 2: if so what happened to the other tapes; 3: if all the practices weren't taped, who decided what should/should not be taped?

I'd also be interested in who had knowledge of the taping of practices. Having had some considerable experience with public sector budgeting; I believe that there should have been a line item in a budget somewhere for taping practices. It wouldn't have been difficult for Pernetti to have found out that some of the practices were taped. This reminds me of "Casablanca" where Captain Renault is shocked to find out that there is gambling going on at Rick's.

I haven't seen anyone ask how Murdoch was able to gain access to the tapes.

From the released Lacey Report:

"Independently, Rutgers responded to the July 11, 2012 request from EM’s counsel for the videos of all Rutgers men’s basketball practices. Daniel McMullen, the video coordinator for the men’s basketball team, compiled all of the practice videos and “burned” them onto DVDs supplied to him by EM’s lawyer. This compilation included 219 DVDs recording hundreds of hours of the Rutgers men’s basketball team practices during the 2010- 11 and 2011-12 seasons. The videos, as well as various others materials, were forwarded to attorney Kozyra."

My question would be... If EM's attorney was requesting copies of video's of the pracices from Rutgers, no lightbulbs went off in Pernetti's or General Counsel's to review them first???

 

[zymurg]

well, I obviously missed the Murdoch version about the tapes. Clearly the AD should have had some discs burned, unless he had a pretty good idea what was on the tapes and wanted to preserve some deniability. Pernetti went out of his way not to find incriminating evidence on Rice. There is a long breadcrumb trail. He chose not to talk to people about the tapes. If he didn't want to watch the tapes, he could have gotten a staff member or an intern to do it. My guess is that he feared what might be on the tapes.

People often act irrationally when they are in tight spots. Pernetti was his own worst enemy. In the immortal words of Pogo: "We have seen the enemy and it is us."

 

[selles]

well, I obviously missed the Murdoch version about the tapes. Clearly the AD should have had some discs burned, unless he had a pretty good idea what was on the tapes and wanted to preserve some deniability. Pernetti went out of his way not to find incriminating evidence on Rice. There is a long breadcrumb trail. He chose not to talk to people about the tapes. If he didn't want to watch the tapes, he could have gotten a staff member or an intern to do it. My guess is that he feared what might be on the tapes.

People often act irrationally when they are in tight spots. Pernetti was his own worst enemy. In the immortal words of Pogo: "We have seen the enemy and it is us."

HobokenHusky linked the outside counsel report in page 2 of this thread - it's an interesting read, provides a lot of additional info.