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‘”I think it’s sad to see all this money being poured into the football program, and we have members of the football team robbing and beating up other students,” said Rutgers senior Tyler Williams.’

As for the players, as one explains, “We’re really a tight team. You’re going to defend your brothers. I’m going to do anything for those guys I’m out there playing with.” Which sounds wonderful until you see it play out in a bar when one of them gets in a fight and the others rush in to play defense. Or when some on-campus criminal mastermind organizes them into an armed home invasion team. They’re a violent lot, the Rutgers football guys, and very group-oriented. There’s no I in RUTGERS FOOTBALL.

Coach Flood will do anything for the guys. He even sets up little teas with faculty members to swap ideas on how best to educate them.

[One] get-together lasted about 50 minutes … and resulted in [a] part-time prof agreeing to assign [one player] extra work that could improve his grade because she felt “implicitly intimidated” and “uncomfortable,” given Flood’s status.

Flood gets along just as well with full-time faculty.

[A faculty rep] believes Flood’s decision to lean on a part-time professor who earns around $4,800 per class and enjoys little job protection wasn’t an accident. “A tenured professor like me would have told him go to hell.”

Yes, go to hell highest paid public employee in New Jersey! (And don’t forget those bonuses for, uh, successful get-togethers with professors!) Go to hell most powerful man on campus who with one word can rouse hordes of fans to ruin my life! Tenured Rutgers Faculty to Flood: Go To Hell!

Ah but they’re weary now, weary… (Headline: RUTGERS COMMUNITY WEARY…)

They need to bring back Ray Rice, pride of Rutgers, to slap a little sense into them…

Margaret Soltan, September 19, 2015 6:36AM
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5 Responses to “‘”I think it’s sad to see all this money being poured into the football program, and we have members of the football team robbing and beating up other students,” said Rutgers senior Tyler Williams.’”

  1. Anon Says:

    They don’t need Ray Rice. They just need more people like Mark Killingsworth: http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2015/08/mark_killingsworth_calls_on_rutgers_president_barc.html

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Anon: Absolutely. This blog has followed Killingsworth closely. Just put his name in my search engine.

  3. Derek Says:

    I actually think there is something to the idea that they wouldn’t generally be as overt about bullying tenured faculty. As we’ve seen time after time, they need compliant faculty to maintain the whole illusion. One whistleblower would undoubtedly have his or her life made a living hell, but it also would be terrible for the program, coach, and what have you. Better to knuckle down on adjuncts and lecturers and to steer students toward the friendly faces in the friendly majors. Path of least resistance, man. Path of least resistance. (I also bet these guys take TONS of online classes. I imagine we can come up with a list of the reasons why this would be so.)

    dcat

  4. Anon Says:

    No need for a search engine. He was one of my professors at Rutgers.

  5. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Anon: I’m guessing he’s a great professor.

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