Keith Sargeant @KSargeantNJ 1h1 hour agoBREAKING: Rutgers investigating football coach Kyle Flood for possible rules violation http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2015/08/rutgers_investigating_football_coach_kyle_flood_fo.html…
This ain't good
- Thread starter Halldan1
- Start date
Keith Sargeant @KSargeantNJ 1h1 hour agoBREAKING: Rutgers investigating football coach Kyle Flood for possible rules violation http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2015/08/rutgers_investigating_football_coach_kyle_flood_fo.html…
Ryan Dunleavy @rydunleavy 15m15 minutes agoKyle Flood defends his behavior after report of investigation by @RutgersU for rules violation http://on.app.com/1EhT8pj #CHOPNation #RFootball
Ryan Dunleavy @rydunleavy 13m13 minutes agoLot of bad days for @RUAthletics over years. Kyle Flood investigation plus suspension of 5 players, including QB and captain, is up there.
NCAA spends time cracking down on the nickel & dime type infractions, but a big money maker like UNC can essentially get away with a fictitious academic department that 4/5th of one of their Championship teams majored in
Yep - this is what I conclude as well. They're always chasing chicken-**** and kissing the *** of the mega-powers. Totally FIFA-like. Boo-hiss.
Chris Carlin @ChrisCarlinSNY 16h16 hours ago.@KyleFloodRU has integrity, and he never wants anything but the best for his players. This isn't going out on a limb. That's truth.
Ryan Dunleavy @rydunleavy 2h2 hours agoColumn by @GregTufaro: #RFootball coach Flood should have known better but shouldn’t be fired for mistake http://mycj.co/1EmxlwG #CHOPNation
Column by @GregTufaro: #RFootball coach Flood should have known better but shouldn’t be fired for mistake http://mycj.co/1EmxlwG #CHOPNation
Whether you think Flood deserves to be fired or not; I don't think RU Football is going very far with him at the helm.
tara sullivan @Record_Tara 2h2 hours agoWhat is taking Rutgers so long to resolve Flood situation? The wait is helping no one. Typical RU mismanagement. https://shar.es/1vj22H
Rutgers’ Kyle Flood will coach opener despite ongoing academic probe
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nati Harnik/AP
Rutgers coach Kyle Flood remains under investigation to determine if he violated school or NCAA rules by contacting a faculty member over the academic status of one of his players.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Kyle Flood will coach Rutgers in its season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday despite an ongoing academic investigation.
Flood announced Thursday after practice there hasn’t been a resolution in the investigation into whether he violated school or NCAA rules by contacting a faculty member about the academic status of a player.
Athletic director Julie Hermann attended practice, but didn’t comment. The university has been examining Flood’s actions for about a week.
“I have no reason to believe I won’t be coaching on Saturday,” Floor said.
Flood said he wasn’t sure if cornerback Nadir Barnwell, whose academic status is in question, would be eligible to play Saturday.
Flood refused to speculate on whether he would be disciplined, saying he’ll be respectful the process. He also wouldn’t say whether he had a contingency plan for who would coach the team if he was suspended or fired.
“It’s not something we do as a coaching staff. I have a very talented coaching staff, so I have guys that have been head coaches. But again, I will be coaching the game on Saturday,” Flood said.
Flood said he doesn’t think the investigation has been a distraction for his team.
“I feel right now this has brought the team closer together,” Flood said. “I feel good about where the team is at mentally. Ultimately, we’re going to find out Saturday at 12 noon.”
Flood is entering his fourth season as head coach and his 11th overall at the university. He’s 23-16, taking the Scarlet Knights to a bowl game in each of his first three seasons.
The scene and feeling at practice was different Thursday.
There was a higher security presence, with a security officer blocking Scarlet Knights Way, the road to the Hale Center. More Rutgers officials than usual attended practice.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/c...-coach-opener-ongoing-probe-article-1.2347411
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nati Harnik/AP
Rutgers coach Kyle Flood remains under investigation to determine if he violated school or NCAA rules by contacting a faculty member over the academic status of one of his players.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Kyle Flood will coach Rutgers in its season opener against Norfolk State on Saturday despite an ongoing academic investigation.
Flood announced Thursday after practice there hasn’t been a resolution in the investigation into whether he violated school or NCAA rules by contacting a faculty member about the academic status of a player.
Athletic director Julie Hermann attended practice, but didn’t comment. The university has been examining Flood’s actions for about a week.
“I have no reason to believe I won’t be coaching on Saturday,” Floor said.
Flood said he wasn’t sure if cornerback Nadir Barnwell, whose academic status is in question, would be eligible to play Saturday.
Flood refused to speculate on whether he would be disciplined, saying he’ll be respectful the process. He also wouldn’t say whether he had a contingency plan for who would coach the team if he was suspended or fired.
“It’s not something we do as a coaching staff. I have a very talented coaching staff, so I have guys that have been head coaches. But again, I will be coaching the game on Saturday,” Flood said.
Flood said he doesn’t think the investigation has been a distraction for his team.
“I feel right now this has brought the team closer together,” Flood said. “I feel good about where the team is at mentally. Ultimately, we’re going to find out Saturday at 12 noon.”
Flood is entering his fourth season as head coach and his 11th overall at the university. He’s 23-16, taking the Scarlet Knights to a bowl game in each of his first three seasons.
The scene and feeling at practice was different Thursday.
There was a higher security presence, with a security officer blocking Scarlet Knights Way, the road to the Hale Center. More Rutgers officials than usual attended practice.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/c...-coach-opener-ongoing-probe-article-1.2347411
He's got bigger problems.
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i...rrested.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i...rrested.html#incart_2box_nj-homepage-featured
Rutgers football in shambles as five arrested for brawl, break-ins
By Howie Kussoy
September 3, 2015 | 3:09pm
Rutgers coach Kyle Flood Photo: AP
Two days before Rutgers is scheduled to open its season, the reeling program has suspended five players indefinitely after they were arrested Thursday for their alleged roles in a group assault or a series of home invasions.
Safety Delon Stephenson, cornerback Ruhann Peele, fullback Razohnn Gross and defensive back Nadir Barnwell, as well as former Scarlet Knights player Daryl Stephenson, have been charged with assaulting four people, including a 19-year-old male who suffered a broken jaw. The men also were charged with riot and conspiracy to commit a riot stemming from the April incident in New Brunswick, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Ruhann PeelePhoto: AP
Dre Boggs, a sophomore who had been expected to be a starting cornerback this season, faces charges of robbery, burglary while armed and conspiracy to commit an armed robbery after allegedly breaking into three homes on the Piscataway campus, along with former Rutgers player Tejay Johnson, to reportedly steal money and marijuana from the student dorms.
“The students involved are currently suspended from our program,” Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann said in a statement. “We continue to monitor the situation. We will have no further comment as this is a pending legal matter.”
Barnwell already had been in the middle of an ongoing scandal at the school — an investigation into coach Kyle Flood allegedly contacting a school professor regarding the grades and eligibility of the junior.
Delon StephensonPhoto: AP
Prior to news breaking of the arrests, Flood said he anticipated coaching Saturday at home against against Norfolk State.
“I have no reason to believe I will not be coaching on Saturday,” Flood said Thursday.
The university has been examining Flood’s actions for about a week. Flood said he doesn’t think the investigation has been a distraction for his team.
“I feel right now this has brought the team closer together,” Flood said. “I feel good about where the team is at mentally. Ultimately, we’re going to find out Saturday at 12 noon.”
Flood is entering his fourth season as head coach and his 11th overall at the university. He’s 23-16, taking the Scarlet Knights to a bowl game in each of his first three seasons.
With AP
By Howie Kussoy
September 3, 2015 | 3:09pm
Rutgers coach Kyle Flood Photo: AP
Two days before Rutgers is scheduled to open its season, the reeling program has suspended five players indefinitely after they were arrested Thursday for their alleged roles in a group assault or a series of home invasions.
Safety Delon Stephenson, cornerback Ruhann Peele, fullback Razohnn Gross and defensive back Nadir Barnwell, as well as former Scarlet Knights player Daryl Stephenson, have been charged with assaulting four people, including a 19-year-old male who suffered a broken jaw. The men also were charged with riot and conspiracy to commit a riot stemming from the April incident in New Brunswick, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Ruhann PeelePhoto: AP
Dre Boggs, a sophomore who had been expected to be a starting cornerback this season, faces charges of robbery, burglary while armed and conspiracy to commit an armed robbery after allegedly breaking into three homes on the Piscataway campus, along with former Rutgers player Tejay Johnson, to reportedly steal money and marijuana from the student dorms.
“The students involved are currently suspended from our program,” Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann said in a statement. “We continue to monitor the situation. We will have no further comment as this is a pending legal matter.”
Barnwell already had been in the middle of an ongoing scandal at the school — an investigation into coach Kyle Flood allegedly contacting a school professor regarding the grades and eligibility of the junior.
Delon StephensonPhoto: AP
Prior to news breaking of the arrests, Flood said he anticipated coaching Saturday at home against against Norfolk State.
“I have no reason to believe I will not be coaching on Saturday,” Flood said Thursday.
The university has been examining Flood’s actions for about a week. Flood said he doesn’t think the investigation has been a distraction for his team.
“I feel right now this has brought the team closer together,” Flood said. “I feel good about where the team is at mentally. Ultimately, we’re going to find out Saturday at 12 noon.”
Flood is entering his fourth season as head coach and his 11th overall at the university. He’s 23-16, taking the Scarlet Knights to a bowl game in each of his first three seasons.
With AP
Ryan Dunleavy @rydunleavy 1h1 hour agoIt's been a bad day when you start a sentence "In a third home invasion ..." http://on.app.com/1ECxsUI #CHOPNation #RFootball #B1GFootball
The issue involving Flood contacting a player's professor concerning the Player's grade has gotten a lot more complicated for Flood. It is now being reported that the athletic dept. academic staff told Flood not to contact the professor and Flood did so anyway.
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i...l_program_u.html#incart_2box_sports_index.ssf
http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i...l_program_u.html#incart_2box_sports_index.ssf
Politi getting roasted by RU fans in the comments on that article. I don't even want to see that board right now.
ESPN
Arrests at Rutgers just the latest in a long list of problems for Scarlet Knights
Dana O'Neil, ESPN Senior Writer
A New Jersey prosecutor announced Thursday that among 10 Rutgers students arrested and charged for their roles in an alleged assault and home invasion of another student, five were current Rutgers football players.
The arrests, announced just two days before the Scarlet Knights' football opener against Norfolk State, come on the heels of an investigation into football coach Kyle Flood. Flood is accused of contacting a professor about the academic status of one of his players.
The latest incident is, sadly, not the first.
The university, which joined the Big Ten in 2012, has been the subject of an ever-lengthening list of bad and bizarre news for more than a decade, making the school an easy punch line and the athletics department appear as a rudderless ship.
In some cases, one event precipitated the next -- a coach was fired, a new one hired. In others, it was what can only be construed as independent bungling.
The best way, perhaps, to understand the depth and breadth of the problems at Rutgers, is to explain it all in linear fashion, from one bad moment on the timeline to the next:
July 2001: Two years after two players and a manager filed a lawsuit against him for civil rights violations, Kevin Bannon is fired as men's basketball coach. The players alleged that Bannon made them run wind sprints naked after losing a strip free throw contest. The lawsuit was dropped; Rutgers supported its coach until the Scarlet Knights recorded their third consecutive losing season and failed to make the Big East tournament.
February 2006: Gary Waters flies to Kent State for his own Hall of Fame induction there. A blizzard snows the basketball coach in, however, and he does not make it back to campus in time for the Scarlet Knights' game against Marquette. One month later, Waters announces he will resign at the end of the season.
April 2010: Fred Hill, who followed Waters, allegedly is involved in a shouting match with coaches from an opposing team during an on-campus baseball game (his father, Fred Hill Sr., was the Rutgers baseball coach from 1984 to 2013). Athletic director Tim Pernetti orders the younger Hill to stay away from the field. Two days later, he is spotted there again. After protracted negotiations to work out a separation agreement, he and the school part ways.
April 2013: ESPN's Outside the Lines airs video of basketball coach Mike Rice berating and pushing players during a practice. He uses foul language and gay slurs to chastise his players. Rice is immediately fired, and AD Pernetti resigns.
May 2013: New athletic director Julie Hermann comes under fire days after being hired. During her tenure as head volleyball coach at the University of Tennessee, players accused Hermann of ruling through humiliation and fear. She also was questioned at the news conference announcing her hiring at Rutgers about a lawsuit in which a former assistant coach was awarded $150,000 after alleging she was fired for becoming pregnant. She discounted a question regarding a video making such an allegation. A video from the assistant coach's wedding later surfaced.
November 2013: Freshman Jevon Tyree accuses then defensive coordinator Dave Cohen of bullying him. An independent investigator found that, although Cohen behaved inappropriately during a study hall, it did not escalate to the level of bullying. Later that year, Cohen was fired for strictly football reasons, according to coach Flood.
August 2015: NJ.com reports and the school later confirms that Rutgers is investigating Flood for impermissible contact with a university professor regarding the status of one of his players. He did not ask for a grade change but instead inquired as to what his player could do to improve his grade. NJ.com identified the player as defensive back Nadir Barnwell.
Thursday: The five players arrested on charges of assaulting a fellow student are junior defensive back Ruhann Peele, sophomore fullback Razohnn Gross, junior defensive back Delon Stephenson, sophomore defensive back Andre Boggs and Barnwell, the player at the center of the investigation of Flood. The players have been suspended indefinitely.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...-latest-long-list-issues-athletics-department
Arrests at Rutgers just the latest in a long list of problems for Scarlet Knights
A New Jersey prosecutor announced Thursday that among 10 Rutgers students arrested and charged for their roles in an alleged assault and home invasion of another student, five were current Rutgers football players.
The arrests, announced just two days before the Scarlet Knights' football opener against Norfolk State, come on the heels of an investigation into football coach Kyle Flood. Flood is accused of contacting a professor about the academic status of one of his players.
The latest incident is, sadly, not the first.
The university, which joined the Big Ten in 2012, has been the subject of an ever-lengthening list of bad and bizarre news for more than a decade, making the school an easy punch line and the athletics department appear as a rudderless ship.
In some cases, one event precipitated the next -- a coach was fired, a new one hired. In others, it was what can only be construed as independent bungling.
The best way, perhaps, to understand the depth and breadth of the problems at Rutgers, is to explain it all in linear fashion, from one bad moment on the timeline to the next:
July 2001: Two years after two players and a manager filed a lawsuit against him for civil rights violations, Kevin Bannon is fired as men's basketball coach. The players alleged that Bannon made them run wind sprints naked after losing a strip free throw contest. The lawsuit was dropped; Rutgers supported its coach until the Scarlet Knights recorded their third consecutive losing season and failed to make the Big East tournament.
February 2006: Gary Waters flies to Kent State for his own Hall of Fame induction there. A blizzard snows the basketball coach in, however, and he does not make it back to campus in time for the Scarlet Knights' game against Marquette. One month later, Waters announces he will resign at the end of the season.
April 2010: Fred Hill, who followed Waters, allegedly is involved in a shouting match with coaches from an opposing team during an on-campus baseball game (his father, Fred Hill Sr., was the Rutgers baseball coach from 1984 to 2013). Athletic director Tim Pernetti orders the younger Hill to stay away from the field. Two days later, he is spotted there again. After protracted negotiations to work out a separation agreement, he and the school part ways.
April 2013: ESPN's Outside the Lines airs video of basketball coach Mike Rice berating and pushing players during a practice. He uses foul language and gay slurs to chastise his players. Rice is immediately fired, and AD Pernetti resigns.
May 2013: New athletic director Julie Hermann comes under fire days after being hired. During her tenure as head volleyball coach at the University of Tennessee, players accused Hermann of ruling through humiliation and fear. She also was questioned at the news conference announcing her hiring at Rutgers about a lawsuit in which a former assistant coach was awarded $150,000 after alleging she was fired for becoming pregnant. She discounted a question regarding a video making such an allegation. A video from the assistant coach's wedding later surfaced.
November 2013: Freshman Jevon Tyree accuses then defensive coordinator Dave Cohen of bullying him. An independent investigator found that, although Cohen behaved inappropriately during a study hall, it did not escalate to the level of bullying. Later that year, Cohen was fired for strictly football reasons, according to coach Flood.
August 2015: NJ.com reports and the school later confirms that Rutgers is investigating Flood for impermissible contact with a university professor regarding the status of one of his players. He did not ask for a grade change but instead inquired as to what his player could do to improve his grade. NJ.com identified the player as defensive back Nadir Barnwell.
Thursday: The five players arrested on charges of assaulting a fellow student are junior defensive back Ruhann Peele, sophomore fullback Razohnn Gross, junior defensive back Delon Stephenson, sophomore defensive back Andre Boggs and Barnwell, the player at the center of the investigation of Flood. The players have been suspended indefinitely.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...-latest-long-list-issues-athletics-department
It's the by- product of Big Time college sports. Schools have put athletic ability over character when they give out scholarships. You don't find this happening at the Patriot League schools.
25 years ago, Holy Cross played a big time basketball schedule and also played BC annually in FB. They decided to go smaller so they would not have to compromise their standards in order to compete.
They currently enroll 2700 students with an endowment of over 700 million. Yes, they play basketball in a small on campus gym and their football stadium is only half filled these days.
But they are not risking their reputation. Something most of the big time programs do by putting athletics first and bringing in athlete -students instead of student-athletes.
25 years ago, Holy Cross played a big time basketball schedule and also played BC annually in FB. They decided to go smaller so they would not have to compromise their standards in order to compete.
They currently enroll 2700 students with an endowment of over 700 million. Yes, they play basketball in a small on campus gym and their football stadium is only half filled these days.
But they are not risking their reputation. Something most of the big time programs do by putting athletics first and bringing in athlete -students instead of student-athletes.
Since the Gonzo era ended SHU for the most part has been free of the issues that we are reading about now.
Credit Pat Lyons to a degree as well as the athletes.
As I noted on the Trove a couple of days ago Lyons initiated a gathering at Walsh this week of all the student athletes. There in a seminar like setting speakers talked to the students from a podium giving examples on how to best represent their school at and away from their sport.
After the seminar was over the school treated all the athletes to food and drink in an informal setting where everyone could mingle, get to know each other and just talk.
That doesn't guarantee that everyone will 'stay off the front pages'. Hell, we saw that last year when Sina left the men's team shortly followed by Gibbs. But it does help.
Also credit the fact that we don't play football. That's where many of the issues in most colleges rear their ugly heads.
Credit Pat Lyons to a degree as well as the athletes.
As I noted on the Trove a couple of days ago Lyons initiated a gathering at Walsh this week of all the student athletes. There in a seminar like setting speakers talked to the students from a podium giving examples on how to best represent their school at and away from their sport.
After the seminar was over the school treated all the athletes to food and drink in an informal setting where everyone could mingle, get to know each other and just talk.
That doesn't guarantee that everyone will 'stay off the front pages'. Hell, we saw that last year when Sina left the men's team shortly followed by Gibbs. But it does help.
Also credit the fact that we don't play football. That's where many of the issues in most colleges rear their ugly heads.
Dan, the setting that Lyons put together is a nice touch and sets a good tone for sure. The reality though, is that any kids values and attitudes are set way earlier in life. It really starts with recruiting kids that have the right character and not compromising. Tough to do with the money and win at all costs today.
All scholarship offers must pass the desk of our AD. I know for a fact that he has vetoed a few due to concerns regarding their representing SHU.
When I first sat with Pat when he was initially hired he told me his biggest early complaint was the location of his office. At Iona he was on the first floor near the exit of the gym. There he was able to keep his door open to all the athletes and encouraged them to come in at any time to 'just talk' about whatever they wanted to get off their chests.
Unfortunately at SHU his office is on the second floor and that opportunity to bond/help the student athletes doesn't present itself in the same informal manner.
Lyons is all about communication and he does the best he can to educate, mingle with and put his players in the best situations possible.
He attends all the sporting events at the Hall spending countless hours from early morning to late at night supporting the players. And he does that 7 days a week on top of all his regular duties.
In short he is trying to create a proper and healthy environment for his students. It doesn't always work but doing what he does the way he does it significantly increases the chance for success both on and off the athletic fields.
Dan
Like you and many on this Board I've thought about how stupid these kids are when they engage in criminal activity and wind up losing their scholarships and end up in jail or with criminal records and blow a free education.
I've also come to believe that far too many FB and to a somewhat lesser extent BB players don't value the free education they're receiving and going to college is just a " way station " on the way to the pros and the prospect of losing their ship if they engage in inappropriate activities is not a factor in their thinking.
The sad part is that I don't see it changing and the " smell " attached to big time college athletics is going to be with us for the foreseeable future.
Like you and many on this Board I've thought about how stupid these kids are when they engage in criminal activity and wind up losing their scholarships and end up in jail or with criminal records and blow a free education.
I've also come to believe that far too many FB and to a somewhat lesser extent BB players don't value the free education they're receiving and going to college is just a " way station " on the way to the pros and the prospect of losing their ship if they engage in inappropriate activities is not a factor in their thinking.
The sad part is that I don't see it changing and the " smell " attached to big time college athletics is going to be with us for the foreseeable future.
