Rutgers basketball coach caught on tape abusing players

[Jazzy]

In December, Rutgers University mysteriously suspended its men's basketball coach without pay.



Now we know why.



A video has surfaced showing head coach Mike Rice being verbally and physically abusive to his players, and some are now asking why he hasn't been fired.



The video shows Rice manhandling members of the Rutgers basketball team, throwing balls at players, and shouting gay slurs. Andy Staples, senior writer of Sports Illustrated, said of that kind of conduct, You don't do that. You cannot do that. That may have been OK in 1950. It is not OK in 2013.



Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti first saw the video back in November, when Eric Murdoch, a former college basketball standout and the team's director of player development at the time, showed it to him.



In December, Rice was suspended for three games and fined $50,000. Pernetti said in a radio interview, All that behavior was unacceptable and whether you do it once or a hundred times, one time is too many. He knew exactly what he screwed up and what he did wrong.



After ESPN aired the video on Tuesday, criticism followed quickly. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he was deeply disturbed by the conduct displayed.

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Suspended without pay? WTF! This man needs to be FIRED!