But hey. It’s Jersey.
Five current Rutgers football players, including the cornerback at the center of a university-led investigation into coach Kyle Flood, were charged Thursday with assaulting a group of individuals, including one student whose jaw was broken during the unprovoked attack.
… [Nadir Barnwell, one of the men charged,] is at the center of the investigation of [Rutgers football coach Kyle] Flood, with the university looking into whether the Rutgers football coach broke school policy by contacting a professor regarding Barnwell’s grades. The junior cornerback was declared academically ineligible in the spring, according to two school officials.
Flood defied academic support staff when he contacted the professor, two sources told NJ Advance Media.
And then there’s the Rutgers basketball program.
Lordy lordy. I have seen me some scuzzy programs, but Rutgers athletics lately takes the cake.
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“Coach Flood exemplifies our university’s standards and values both on and off the field,” Rutgers president Robert Barchi said in a statement.
That wasn’t long ago, right after he gave him a contract extension and a big raise. And, you know, what Barchi said is absolutely true. Putting its students in harm’s way via sadistic coaches and criminal players, and not giving a shit about academic integrity, is the Rutgers standard.
PS: They’re gonna have to pay over a million dollars to buy Flood out of his contract.
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I knew this was going to get funny.
Hands-on research in Criminal Justice majors.
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From a comment thread:
[H]alf our secondary just got arrested.
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Coach Flood Sings to His Favorite Player
I know I stand in line until you think you have the time
To talk some football with me
And if we find someplace to meet, I know that there’s a chance
You’ll end up beating on me
And afterwards you’ll drop into a quiet little place and break a jaw or two
And then I’ll go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like “I love you”
I can see it in your eyes
That you despise the same old lies you heard the night before
And though it’s just a line to you, for me it’s true
And never seemed so right before
I practice every day to find some clever lines to say
To make the meaning come through
But then I think I’ll wait until the evening gets late and I’m alone with you
The time is right, your perfume fills my head, the stars get red and, oh, the night’s so blue
And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like “I love you”
September 4th, 2015 at 5:35AM
How amazing that the player in question is named Nadir. Nomen est omen, the Romans said.
September 4th, 2015 at 6:40AM
Tony: I’ve been eager to point that out, but didn’t want to, er, stoop too low…
September 4th, 2015 at 7:59AM
Let’s not overreact. These CJ majors are simply pursuing internships in which they will get the benefit of experiential education. Why listen to some dweeb natter on about Miranda warnings in a way-dull class when you can get the real thing?
September 4th, 2015 at 11:03AM
These comments (and others near it) are more on point: “I wish I could be as sanguine. I just checked the espn site and it lists 124 players on the roster. Fifty nine of them are freshmen. If so, then 18 of 65 players or nearly 28% of sophomore and up players are in criminal justice. Considering that some of the 25 sophs would not have declared their majors yet, the true percentage is actually much higher.
The NCAA has studied this issue and is suspicious of rates in excess of 25 percent. The RU rate is too high. It’s far more likely that the players are being steered into this major because it’s understood that they will receive a “break” in it. By the way, the last time I checked on this issue General Studies was very popular at Michigan.
Of course, the schools and boosters will deny any special treatment for the players, but that’s the reality. Welcome to big time sports.”
Afram at UNC
CJ at RU
GenStud at UM
PubAdmin at Auburn….etc.