Rutgers scandal reveals perverse nature of U.S. college sports

[marmar]

from the Toronto Star:


Rutgers scandal reveals perverse nature of U.S. college sports
Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice is a symptom, rather than any sort of cause, of a profoundly corrupting system. The NCAA is no longer a sporting organization. It’s a sociology experiment.

By: Cathal Kelly Columnist, Published on Mon Apr 08 2013


[font size="1"]Chris Szagola/Cal Sport Media / MCT
Rutgers University basketball coach Mike Rice berates forward/centre Derrick Randall during an NCAA game against Seton Hall last month. Rice was fired last week after a video showing him physically and verbally abusing players went viral.[/font]


In their panic to rid themselves of the two men who a) perpetrated and b) attempted to cover up the abuse of teenage students, Rutgers University agreed to pay the pair more than $2 million (U.S.).

Actually, that’s not quite right. Rutgers is a state school. So the roughly 9,000,000 residents of New Jersey are each going to kick in a quarter to help hustle these two mopes out the back door.

This is a delicious way to end things, since it reinforces the the first principle of this problem — money, and who has it.

It’s been a week since ESPN “uncovered” a video mixtape of Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice berating his players during practice. He calls them “c----” and “b------” and “f------.” Pick a letter in the alphabet and string out a bunch of dashes behind it, and it probably fits here. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/sports/basketball/2013/04/08/rutgers_scandal_reveals_perverse_nature_of_us_college_sports.html

[KG]

1. he fucking lucky none of those players didn't give him the beat-down he so richly deserved.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Mike Rice is an example of what is going wrong in sports.

[xchrom]

3. du rec. nt

[tabasco]

4. Not just college

I've seen some really fucked-up coaches in high school sports.