Rutgers Coach Mike Rice... Yikes

by **unipanther99** » April 2nd, 2013, 3:10 pm

Not MVC related, but it's the talk of college basketball today...

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/ ... rs-players

This isn't good. Both he and the AD should be fired in my opinion.

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by **Snaggletooth** » April 2nd, 2013, 5:17 pm

I agree. There is just no place for that.

by **pafan** » April 2nd, 2013, 5:27 pm

Makes Bobby Knight look like Tony Dungy.

by **UE 71** » April 2nd, 2013, 5:49 pm

I'm not privy to all the facts, but what I've seen in the video, the coach should be fired and banned from any NCAA institution for life going forward. As a parent of a former BCS school student-athlete, had this happened to my son, I might have taken matters into my own hands. There is no room for this type of behavior in college sports. If this were to happen between a parent and child, criminal charges would be coming. :twisted:

by **Ace Dad** » April 2nd, 2013, 6:28 pm

I went to view the tape thinking that fans were overreacting. However, never have I observed a college coach exhibit such behavior. I will be shocked if he is not fired within the next two weeks. The AD used poor judgment in not firing the guy and I am very careful in second guessing leaders.

by **unipanther99** » April 2nd, 2013, 8:18 pm

I heard an interview with the AD and he said the President of the University was involved with the decision to suspend the coach last year, implying that the president saw the video. Either they double down on standing by the coach, or they all have to go IMO.

by **UNIFanSince1983** » April 3rd, 2013, 5:43 am

It is easy to just suspend a guy when you are the only ones that have seen the video. Now that the world has seen it I think there is no way they can keep this guy. In my opinion he should have been fired then. This actually borders on assault. On his way out the players should get the swear and curse at him all while firing basketballs at his head.

by **PowderBlue** » April 3rd, 2013, 6:45 am

UE 71 wrote:I'm not privy to all the facts, but what I've seen in the video, the coach should be fired and banned from any NCAA institution for life going forward. As a parent of a former BCS school student-athlete, had this happened to my son, I might have taken matters into my own hands. There is no room for this type of behavior in college sports. If this were to happen between a parent and child, criminal charges would be coming.

I don't disagree with your overall premise here (he should be fired), but I'd like to point out that the young men playing for him are deemed adults, so the parent/child argument is irrelevant. That being said, I have zero issues with a coach with some real fire. I have zero issue with a vulgar coach, there are vulgar people all over the place in this world. Kids can choose to transfer and not play for a coach whose personality they don't agree with. However, I have real issues with throwing basketballs at the head and knees of your players. That's assault in my opinion.

by **Chuck A** » April 3rd, 2013, 7:50 am

PowderBlue wrote:
I don't disagree with your overall premise here (he should be fired), but I'd like to point out that the young men playing for him are deemed adults, so the parent/child argument is irrelevant. That being said, I have zero issues with a coach with some real fire. I have zero issue with a vulgar coach, there are vulgar people all over the place in this world. Kids can choose to transfer and not play for a coach whose personality they don't agree with. However, I have real issues with throwing basketballs at the head and knees of your players. That's assault in my opinion.

I do agree that the players are adults in the literal sense of the word, but come on. The parent/child or authority/subordinate argument does come into play. Those kids, sorry, adults, are bound to Rutgers by a scholarship that pays for their education. There are only so many schollies around D1 basketball. Some of the players can't afford to transfer so are bound to Rutgers. If these players weren't bound to a contract, you don't think as adults, they would defend themselves? They can't because with defending themselves or retaliating comes dismissal from the program and the coach getting on the horn and calling members of his coaching fraternity to now blackball the leaving player. That 10th. 11th, 12th and so on player at the end of the bench cannot so readily transfer as he won't have other institutions lining up for his services.

From the video (and you don't need to watch hundreds of hours of it), Mike Rice is a mean-spirited man with a hair-trigger temper and if something is not done to rein in his emotions (like therapy and being away from anything competitive), we'll be reading about or watching a report on him in the news with an orange jumpsuit on.

by **unipanther99** » April 3rd, 2013, 8:28 am

And... he's fired.

IMO, the AD should be gone as well.