And it’s Rutgers. At Rutgers, you bankrupt the school subsidizing athletics. At Rutgers, all that money you took from students buys coaches who abuse students. So that’s, uh, students buying their own abuse. Strange goings-on at a university.
At Rutgers, the new athletic director brought in to clean up the program after problems with abusive coaches turns out – allegedly – to have been an abusive coach.
In smaller ways, too, the new clean-up person at Rutgers already looks like an embarrassment.
[Julie] Hermann was also a central figure in a 1997 discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of Tennessee.
Former assistant volleyball coach Ginger Hineline claimed that she was discouraged from becoming pregnant while working under Hermann.
Hermann made remarks at Hineline’s June 1994 wedding that became central to the lawsuit, which ended with a jury siding with Hineline and awarding her $150,000.
Hermann denied the existence of the video at her introductory news conference at Rutgers on May 15.
“There’s a video? I’m sorry, did you say there’s a video? There’s no video, trust me,” Hermann said.
But The Star-Ledger posted a video on its website, showing Hermann at the nuptials joking that she hoped Hineline would not get pregnant any time soon.
I’m sorry, there’s a video, trust me.