This is not the big deal that it has been made out to be. ESPN made the story, without ESPN pushing the buttons this probably blows over because NO ONE cares about Rutgers basketball. Comparisons to Penn State are ridiculous. While it is obvious that the coach was over the top his conduct wasn't criminal and the fact is that college athletics and probably most other things involved with Universities are all about money. The way colleges handle most things makes your head spin from admissions, to tenure to them accepting millions of state and federal aid yet still cutting staff all the while sitting sometimes on billions of dollars of endowment money.
In effect a coach at a 2nd rate program goes over the top in practice, his assistant quits/gets fired and uses the tape to try to blackmail the school and presumably the coach and AD, the AD goes to the President who doesnt bother to view the tape and hands out a suspension which costs the coach a nice chunk of money and a few games on the bench. Fast forward a few months and all of a sudden everyone is covering up something? Huh? Didn't they punish the coach very publicly? Just because people don't think that it was severe enough everyone should be fired? This is political correctness run amok. The only one suing anyone is the blackmailer. As I said before no crimes were committed. No player is suing or charging the coach or assistant or AD. The scandal is more or less leaves Rutgers basketball in the same place it was before, nowhere. Bob Knight choked a guy and Texas Tech and ESPN had no problems hiring him afterwards. Yeah firing him at the time was probably the prudent thing to do. Yeah I can see the President of the school covering his ass by sacking him now because bad PR is the enemy of a school president. But this is hardly the big deal that its been made out to be.
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