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WHY THE HELL HASN'T MIKE RICE BEEN FIRED YET?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by shockey, Apr 2, 2013.

  1. MCbamr

    MCbamr Member

    Whether Rice gets any money or not is interesting, but the big story is that Eric Murdock is going to get enough money to buy Rutgers and rename it for himself.
     
  2. Sure he will. Rutgers is worth $500,000, though?
     
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Board lawyers: Would Murdock get any money? He wasn't even under contract, they just decided not to renew him. Maybe there's a whistleblower lawsuit in there.

    In any case he has probably lost any chance of future earnings in the coaching profession, which looks at snitching about the same way Carmelo's gang buddies do.
     
  4. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Brilliant.

    www.theonion.com/articles/jerry-sandusky-horrified-by-behavior-of-rutgers-ba,31926

     
  5. Small Town Guy

    Small Town Guy Well-Known Member

    Reminds me of Coach K's criticisms of the Baylor assistant who taped noted humanitarian Dave Bliss.
     
  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    This all also assumes Rice has conducted himself as a complete gentleman every single second during games and practices since the original incident.

    What do you think are the odds of that? Screw-loose fuckers like that can't turn it on and turn it off.

    My bet is there have been watchful video eyes on every RU practice all season and they may have caught him going postal again.
     
  7. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Sure Murdock is going to get money, because if this isn't retaliation, I have a hard time believing anything else is. Not renewing him was the retaliation. He's going to say but for the retaliation against him, he'd have been working for X years at least (probably mirroring how long he had already been there or how long his predecessor was there.) Those are his damages, back pay and front pay. (Of course, I do not practice in NJ and have no idea what their laws are.)

    Sadly, yes Murdock's lost many opportunities because he was the snitch and Rice is going to get another chance. Very sickening that that is how a public institution is run.
     
  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Interesting thing about Murdock is how many times did he need to see this type of behavior before he blew the whistle. Once? Twice? 10? 30? Or until he wasn't renewed?
    There shouldn't be any whistleblower protection if there isn't anything to protect.
    Figure Rice gets paid. If he was fined and had to agree to counseling, I assume paperwork was signed. Of course, if it can be proven he was dishonest during the initial investigation of this, and signed his name to a document he knew to be false, the paperwork would be tossed.
     
  9. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    As I mentioned before Murdock saw abusive behavior first hand as a freshman at Providence when Gordon Chiesa was the coach. A bunch of players quit the team including Marty Conlin. Chiesa was fired going into the next season.
     
  10. I agree, I doubt Rice was a choir boy after he was first punished.

    But RU higher ups got caught slacking on this ...
    Whoever leaked the video didn't think Rice got enough punishment.
    When the video got out and the shit hit the fan RU officials had to cover their ass. Their statement says as much ...

    In a statement posted on the Rutgers Web site Wednesday, Pernetti said: “I am responsible for the decision to attempt a rehabilitation of Coach Rice. Dismissal and corrective action were debated in December and I thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, but I was wrong. Moving forward, I will work to regain the trust of the Rutgers community.”

    IE: Pernetti is trying to save his ass.
     
  11. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    You obviously don't know what my point of view is because my point of view is not to defend Rice - he should have been fired - or is behavior - I said it was absurd and I'm surprised nobody kicked his ass for it -- or his use of the words faggot and fairy -- I said I don't condone the use of those words even a little.

    So once, again, you obviously don't know my point of view.

    My only point of view is that his choice of a couple of words in this video is not his worst offense, or even close to his worst offense and that it is sad that the only reason this thing has gotten the play it has is because he used a couple of words that the whiners among us have deemed to be over the line.

    Had it just been he is yelling and throwing basketballs and calling people pussies - I bet you he isn't fired and there isn't the "outrage" that there is now and that is ridiculous.

    But you and Dickhead Whitless keep trying to turn this into "Zag thinks people should be alllowed to call each other faggots" if it makes you feel better about your sorry little existence.
     
  12. Pancamo

    Pancamo Active Member

    The assistant coaches who didn't step in and stop the raving lunatic are as bad as Rice.
     
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