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Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice in trouble; video shows him abusing players

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  1. GRENDEL

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    Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com
    Posted: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 3:44 PM It's been known for a while that Rutgers men's basketball coach Mike Rice has a hot temper. A well-known such outburst resulted in Rice being suspended three games and fined $50,000 this past December.

    Now new evidence has emerged to show that Rice's behavior wasn't just a one-off occurence. Instead, Rice is shown to have engaged in a sustained pattern of such behavior between 2010 and 2012.

    ESPN reported Tuesday afternoon that it has obtained dozens of hours of tape of Rice's practices, and that the footage shows Rice frequently abusing his players. On clips shown during Tuesday's "Outside The Lines" show, Rice is seen throwing basketballs at players and shouting at them.

    According to ESPN, there were plenty of unprintable epithets in those shouts. Rice also shoved, grabbed and kicked his players at times.

    One of Rice's assistants, Jimmy Martelli, is also seen engaging with players on footage shown to ESPN. Martelli is the son of Saint Joseph's coach Phil Martelli, and Rice was an assistant on Hawk Hill from 2004 to 2006.

    Another protagonist in the affair is Eric Murdock, the Rutgers basketball program's former director of player development. Murdock reportedly showed some tape of incidents involving Rice to Rutgers athletic director Tom Pernetti before he was fired last July.

    In an interview with ESPN, Murdock's attorney accused Rutgers of firing his client because of his reporting of Rice's conduct, and said that a wrongful termination lawsuit is forthcoming.

    Once word emerged that ESPN had the tape, Rutgers' athletic department showed footage to a group of reporters, including some from the Newark Star-Ledger.

    There are more details of what appeared on the tape from ESPN.com here and the Star-Ledger here. There's also a video below with highlights from the "Outside The Lines" broadcast

    http://www.philly.com/philly/sports...water_as_video_shows_him_abusing_players.html
     
    #1 GRENDEL, Apr 2, 2013
  2. macho GRANDE

    macho GRANDE Elvis, was a hero to most but................

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    He's done.
     
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    FlyerFanatic YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO!?! YEEEHAAWW
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    at this point the AD should be too.

    they saw those videos months ago...only 3 games. thats a joke.

    the coverage from espn and the media at this point might finally do it though. just lead off sportscenter.
     
    #3 FlyerFanatic, Apr 2, 2013
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    I'm surprised his players didn't retaliate, or form some kind of mutiny against him. I'm sorry, but if I'm a 22 year old man who's got the strength that these guys have, nobody is firing a ball at me, kicking me, and shoving me, let alone insulting me. He doesn't belong anywhere near a basketball court.....what he really needs is a broken nose, but anger management will suffice.
     
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    No kidding, he's really lucky he didn't have a Latrell Sprewell type on his team otherwise he would have gotten beat into the ground.
     
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    That's good and all, except that pulling a Sprewell will get your ass blacklisted from playing ball. You better be real good if you're going to try to do that.
     
    #7 da_juice, Apr 2, 2013
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    Lol sure you would. Easy to say what you would do since your basketball career is not on the line
     
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    Are you kidding? You could get half of the team to gang up on him. What are they going to do, suspend everyone? At the very least players could have complained to the AD, not sure if that happened.
     
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    What kind of father raises his son to be like this?
     
    #10 Carl Herrera, Apr 2, 2013
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    A bunch of players ganging up on the coach what could possibly go wrong
     
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    Players should've united and went to AD together, don't know why that didn't happen.
     
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    Apparently Mike Rice, who you may know as the annoying color commentator for the Blazers.
     
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    Bad behavior from coach or players is only tolerated when the team is winning. Ask Bobby Knight.
     
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    Wow. Someone has a temper issue.
     
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    disgusting
     
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    And... He was fired this morning.
     
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    No team at any level should hire this guy.
     
    #18 sammy, Apr 3, 2013
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    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    He'll be lucky is he keeps his pants. Law suits galore
     
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    Athletic director Tim Pernetti should be fired too.
     
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