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Rutgers Fires Mike Rice

Rutgers University has fired head basketball coach Mike Rice after ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” posted exclusive video footage of him verbally and physically abusing his players. On the footage, Rice can be seen “hurling basketballs from close range at his players’ heads, legs and feet; shoving and grabbing his players;…

Rutgers University has fired head basketball coach Mike Rice after ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” posted exclusive video footage of him verbally and physically abusing his players.

On the footage, Rice can be seen “hurling basketballs from close range at his players’ heads, legs and feet; shoving and grabbing his players; feigning punching them; kicking them; and screaming obscenities and homophobic slurs,” the network reported.

Among other names, the 44-year-old coach calls his players “faggots,” “motherfuckers,” “sissy bitches” and “cunts.”

Take a look …

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Yikes …

Obviously we’re not going to jump down somebody’s throat for being tough on their players (especially without context), but there’s never any excuse for physically abusing a student-athlete. That’s an automatic “see ya” in our opinion.

Amazingly, though, that didn’t happen in this case. In fact was suspended last year and fined $50,000 after Rutgers athletics director Tim Pernetti viewed the video footage – which was not released at the time. Pernitti is now in the hot seat for failing to fire Rice on the spot.

For those of you keeping score at home, Rice posted a 44-51 record in three seasons at Rutgers, including an abysmal 16-38 record against Big East opponents. The Scarlet  Knights never made it to the NCAA Tournament under Rice.

Prior to coming to Rutgers in 2010, Rice was viewed as one of the country’s top young coaches – leading George Mason to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2009 and 2010.

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18 comments

RHood2 April 3, 2013 at 1:45 pm

It is obvious his style at Rutgers got results.

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RHood2 April 3, 2013 at 1:45 pm

It is obvious his style at Rutgers got results.

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southmauldin April 3, 2013 at 1:46 pm

I think he coached at Robert Morris prior to Rutgers.

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southmauldin April 3, 2013 at 1:46 pm

I think he coached at Robert Morris prior to Rutgers.

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Moman50 April 3, 2013 at 3:11 pm

Most basketbll coches are WAY overrated.Actually,they are a dime a dozen.Find some guy coaching a high school team in Davenport,Iowa,.Hes just as likely to do as good a job as some fellow who got lucky at some small college and all the sports mavens have gone goo goo over.

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Moman50 April 3, 2013 at 3:11 pm

Most basketbll coches are WAY overrated.Actually,they are a dime a dozen.Find some guy coaching a high school team in Davenport,Iowa,.Hes just as likely to do as good a job as some fellow who got lucky at some small college and all the sports mavens have gone goo goo over.

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BinxBolling April 3, 2013 at 3:23 pm

Pretty sure he never coached at GMU. Those were the Larranaga days, if I’m not mistaken.

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BinxBolling April 3, 2013 at 3:23 pm

Pretty sure he never coached at GMU. Those were the Larranaga days, if I’m not mistaken.

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GreenvilleLwyr April 3, 2013 at 5:21 pm

It is the job of opposing fans to call his players faggots, not him.

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? April 4, 2013 at 11:01 am

Ha! Great line.

The difference between him and Knight is that Knight was actually successful most of the time.

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GreenvilleLwyr April 3, 2013 at 5:21 pm

It is the job of opposing fans to call his players faggots, not him.

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? April 4, 2013 at 11:01 am

Ha! Great line.

The difference between him and Knight is that Knight was actually successful most of the time.

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Whammy Tailbigg April 5, 2013 at 11:56 pm

I like the rugged foul mouthed type. yyyyyuuuuummmmmmm

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Whammy Tailbigg April 5, 2013 at 11:56 pm

I like the rugged foul mouthed type. yyyyyuuuuummmmmmm

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Sailor April 6, 2013 at 12:25 pm

It’s too bad one of the players he manhandled didn’t give him an elbow in the kisser!

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Sailor April 6, 2013 at 12:25 pm

It’s too bad one of the players he manhandled didn’t give him an elbow in the kisser!

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Rastus J. April 9, 2013 at 10:03 pm

They asked one his players if he was “hurt” by being called a motherfucker. The playere responded that he never though much of it since that what his mamma called him all the time.

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Rastus J. April 9, 2013 at 10:03 pm

They asked one his players if he was “hurt” by being called a motherfucker. The playere responded that he never though much of it since that what his mamma called him all the time.

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