“Mike has undergone some pretty intensive sensitivity training as part of this whole deal and has dealt with, or continues to deal with a lot of those issues. This is not the kind of thing that once the basketball season is over, penance is paid,” Pernetti said. “I’ve had a sports psychologist working 60-to-80 hours with him since the suspension took place. He’s going to be involved in all those communities that he may have or will offend on the going-forward basis.”

He’s … troubled. Five minutes with the about-to-be-released DSM-V and you’ll come up with a list of disorders as long as one of Mike’s you-faggot-piece-of-shit tirades. They’ve got him in with a head man 60-80 hours so far and counting.

Who’s paying, by the way? That sounds expensive, and Mike is already real expensive – not only in sheer dollars (Rutgers pays him hundreds and hundreds of thousands each year) but in terms of what tatters of reputation the always shit-besmirched Rutgers (sports at Rutgers is the gift that keeps on giving) has left. Not to mention the lawsuits from parents of the players he’s…

Hey, wait! What about the players? Is Rutgers going to hire psychologists to spend 60-80 hours with traumatized eighteen-year-olds who came to college figuring yeah college… College. Where The Dark Knight drills balls at your head and calls you a fucking cunt.

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UD thanks Phil.

… warns Bloomberg.

Pish posh.

The Bloomberg writers rehearse all the familiar outrages –

Rutgers University forgave $100,000 of the football coach’s interest-free home loan last year. The women’s basketball coach got monthly golf and car allowances. Both collected bonuses without winning a championship.

Meanwhile, the history department took away professors’ desk phones to save money and shrank its doctoral program by 25 percent. After funding cuts by the deficit-strapped Legislature, New Jersey’s state university froze professors’ salaries, cut the use of photocopies for exams and jacked up student tuition, housing and other fees.

Rutgers also increased funding for sports. The 245-year-old school spent more money on athletics than any other public institution in the six biggest football conferences during the 2009-2010 fiscal year, based on data compiled by Bloomberg. More than 40 percent of sports revenue came from student fees and the university’s general fund.

— that sort of thing… But no one cares. A few odd professors maybe.

The tension the writers are picking up on has to do with fans worrying about how their teams are going to do this year.

An editorial in North Jersey:

… The same state university that has gone into deep debt to expand its football stadium now is seriously considering a massive overhaul of its athletic center. This is a very bad idea.

The Rutgers Athletic Center has not been expanded since it was built 31 years ago. A bigger and better center may be desired, but now is not the time. The proposed expansion includes a new basketball practice facility, adds premium and club seats, replaces the playing court and scoreboard and creates an atrium that would house retail stores and a hall of fame. New coaching offices also would be built.

To date, there are no estimated costs for the ambitious plan, but Rutgers hopes private fund raising, plus income from the sale of premium and club seats, will pay for the project. Where have we heard that before? Ah, yes, Rutgers’ football stadium.

The expanded stadium was going to be financed with private funds. But the money didn’t materialize and the university had to borrow much of the needed $102 million. Has no one inside the athletics department noticed the recession?…