The Rice is Fried....and the pan's still hot....

DeanMurdoch wrote:Good. Now hopefully they have the sense to make things right with E. Murdock, who was a class act during his years with the Vancouver Grizzlies.

The teachers are doing the schooling at Rutgers, and that is the way it is supposed to be. Dozens have rightfully called for the firings of the athletic director, Tim Pernetti, and the president, Robert Barchi, proving there is an actual heartbeat among faculty members often bulldozed by the sports machine raging about America's campuses.

More than 50 professors have signed a letter seeking Pernetti's ouster, and some 28 have reportedly called for Barchi's removal, too. They know what every right-minded observer of this depressing Mike Rice case knows:
The president and athletic director lost the moral authority to lead the moment they decided last year that Rice's repeated physical and verbal abuse of student-athletes, packaged with homophobic and misogynistic slurs, did not constitute immediate grounds for dismissal.

"Both Pernetti and Barchi should be shipped off campus as soon as possible," said William C. Dowling, university distinguished professor of English and American literature at Rutgers, "and their last paychecks should be sent after them."

DoubleDipper wrote:Finally, some campus activism similar to what Geez and I saw in a (much) earlier era…..

PurpleGeezer wrote:Not sure what you are talking about. My campus activism had a big component of ME trying not to get thrown out of school.....

up7587 wrote:Don't heap too much praise on Murdock. He never would of made the video public if Rutgers had paid him.

up7587 wrote:Did Murdock own the tapes, or did he appropriate University property to blow the whistle on Rice?

up7587 wrote:Don't heap too much praise on Murdock. He never would of made the video public if Rutgers had paid him.

Rutgers hires Julie Hermann as AD

Rutgers has hired Louisville senior associate athletic director Julie Hermann as its new athletic director, sources said Wednesday.

Hermann will replace former athletic director Tim Pernetti, who resigned following the firing of men's basketball coach Mike Rice.

"I'm very excited for her to have this opportunity," Louisville AD Tom Jurich told ESPN at the ACC spring meetings in Amelia Island, Fla. "Rutgers has a real gem. Julie is someone I've relied on in the past 15 years and she's never let me down. I truly believe Rutgers has a bright future with Julie at the helm."

Hermann, 49, will become only the third female AD at a BCS school joining NC State's Debbie Yow and Cal's Sandy Barbour.

DoubleDipper wrote:From ESPN:

Rutgers hires Julie Hermann as AD

So the woman hired to clean up the mess after an abusive coach was herself, an abusive coach.
Congratulations, Rutgers. You really have outdone yourself this time.

Julie Hermann should never have been hired as athletic director. If the allegations from her former players are true – and there are too many of those players for them to be dismissed – then, in the mid-1990s, Hermann was not much different than the man who made Rutgers the worst kind of punch line.

She was not much different than Mike Rice, terrorizing her players with “mental cruelty” and labeling them “whores, alcoholics and learning disabled,” according to a letter from members of the 1996 team.

The charges are chilling, and all these years later, the women on those teams have nothing to gain from lying. They said Hermann ridiculed them over their weight, pulled them from games and made them do 100 pushups on the sideline and denied them showers or meals after losses.

“We have been lied to, publicly humiliated, and ripped apart as both players and people,” the two-page letter obtained by The Star-Ledger reads.

And now, Rutgers figures to be publicly humiliated again, and its community ripped further apart.