Former Rutgers mens basketball coach Mike Rice tells The New York Times magazine intensifying his "in your face" methods led to the abusive tactics caught on tape and his eventual firing.
A report commissioned by Rutgers University after a scandal led to the ousting of its basketball coach and athletic director finds breakdowns in communication as the university learned about the coach's physical and verbal abuse of players.
Eric Murdock promised Rutgers officials he would tell "the God's honest truth about Mike Rice" in a tirade when his contract was not renewed last June.
After the previous Rutgers Athletic Director Tim Pernetti was forced to resign following the firing of basketball coach Mike Rice, for abusing his players, new Athletic Director, Julie Hermann, is promising changes will be made at the university.
The costs of a scandal in Rutgers' men's basketball program will not be pushed onto students through tuition hikes, and the university is trying to come up with a fair formula to use to allocate state aid among its three campuses, the school's president told lawmakers Monday.
A New Jersey State Senator plans to introduce a resolution to dock Rutgers University an amount in state aid equal to their payouts related to the Mike Rice scandal.