Rutgers got some 'splainin' to do....

[Starman]

Rutgers, in the market for a new AD following the player-abuse scandal involving former men's hoops coach Mike Rice, finds out their choice as AD, Julie Hermann, was ousted as Tennessee volleyball coach in 1997 after being accused of -- you guessed it -- being abusive toward players.

http://www.nj.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/05/rutgers_new_athletic_director.html#incart_flyout_sports


Oops.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Get your **** together rookie.

Sincerely,

The Big Ten

 

[SockPuppet]

The Star-Ledger = good investigating.
Rutgers administration = bad investigating.

 

[MileHigh]

Fantastic job of reporting.

 

[baddecision]

Congratulations to Craig Wolff for a job well done. One overworked and underpaid reporter exposed the entire athletic department of the Big Ten's newest member as a crew of complete incompetents.

 

[Roscablo]

Wow. If anything this proves she is a tremendous liar. To say she doesn't remember the letter, the video or being in the wedding is absolute bull ****. Those were three pretty big life events, I'd say. Two of them together -- and would you really not remember being in the wedding of the woman you had help coach with you for many years and then you fired in such a controversial way? -- helped bring her down to the tune of $150,000 and the other made her lose her only big-time college coaching job. No way she "forgets" when her entire team bands against her in that way. These things weren't that long ago and had way too much impact on her life.

My guess is these big lies equal truth to what happened. Sounds like Rutgers lied too about knowing about the suit or didn't inform the search committee, which is pretty bad itself.

I have no idea what Rutgers does with this considering all the bad press it's gotten recently. It would seem bad to have an AD who did everything that got you into hot water. Not to mention her trying to sidestep it all reveals what kind of person she really is.

 

[Armchair_QB]

The Star-Ledger = good investigating.
Rutgers administration = bad investigating.

See, I don't think it's bad investigating.

I think the school discovered all this - and the story does say they were aware of the lawsuit - but stupidly figured it a) didn't matter or b) nobody else wound find out or care.

 

[User 1019]

The Star-Ledger = good investigating.
Rutgers administration = bad investigating.

See, I don't think it's bad investigating.

I think the school discovered all this - and the story does say they were aware of the lawsuit - but stupidly figured it a) didn't matter or b) nobody else wound find out or care.

+1. Knew it and didn't tell anyone.

 

[EStreetJoe]

The Star-Ledger = good investigating.
Rutgers administration = bad investigating.

See, I don't think it's bad investigating.

I think the school discovered all this - and the story does say they were aware of the lawsuit - but stupidly figured it a) didn't matter or b) nobody else wound find out or care.

Great investigating and reporting by the Ledger.
Bad investigation on Rutgers part. Story says that they had a head-hunting firm give them a list of 47 recommended candidates that were thoroughly vetted. Then the co-chair of the search committee (a woman) decides to ignore the list of recommended candidates and nominate a woman whose background hadn't been vetted.

 

[EStreetJoe]

ESPN put out a positive story about her this morning in response to the Ledger piece:
http://espn.go.com/new-york/college-sports/story/_/id/9314419/former-colleagues-come-defense-julie-hermann-new-rutgers-scarlet-knights-athletic-director-abuse-allegations

 

[Armchair_QB]

The Star-Ledger = good investigating.
Rutgers administration = bad investigating.

See, I don't think it's bad investigating.

I think the school discovered all this - and the story does say they were aware of the lawsuit - but stupidly figured it a) didn't matter or b) nobody else wound find out or care.

Great investigating and reporting by the Ledger.
Bad investigation on Rutgers part. Story says that they had a head-hunting firm give them a list of 47 recommended candidates that were thoroughly vetted. Then the co-chair of the search committee (a woman) decides to ignore the list of recommended candidates and nominate a woman whose background hadn't been vetted.

Does make you wonder if a male AD would survive in the same situation.

 

[Mark2010]

Um, why is a former volleyball coach at Tennessee being named AD at a BCS school to begin with?

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Um, why is a former volleyball coach at Tennessee being named AD at a BCS school to begin with?

You do realize that she didn't go from volleyball coach at Tennessee to sitting on her couch for the last 16 years, then suddenly got hired out of the blue at Rutgers as the AD, right?

 

[Starman]

Um, why is a former volleyball coach at Tennessee being named AD at a BCS school to begin with?

You do realize that she didn't go from volleyball coach at Tennessee to sitting on her couch for the last 16 years, then suddenly got hired out of the blue at Rutgers as the AD, right?

Of course but you would think one of the very first things the search committee would do would be to dig into the reasons behind the abrupt termination of her coaching career.

And when I say "dig," I mean DIG. If you hire the right "diggers," they can find out how many times she was tardy for reading class in second grade.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Um, why is a former volleyball coach at Tennessee being named AD at a BCS school to begin with?

You do realize that she didn't go from volleyball coach at Tennessee to sitting on her couch for the last 16 years, then suddenly got hired out of the blue at Rutgers as the AD, right?

Of course but you would think one of the very first things the search committee would do would be to dig into the reasons behind the abrupt termination of her coaching career.

And when I say "dig," I mean DIG. If you hire the right "diggers," they can find out how many times she was tardy for reading class in second grade.

Definitely, and I agree with that. Especially from a school trying to dig itself out from a similar scandal in the first place.

I was just talking about the apparent thought process that a volleyball coach at Tennessee could never be qualified to be AD at a BCS school.

 

[LongTimeListener]

The thing that stinks to high heaven is the search committee giving them 47 names, and then none of those are good enough so one board member plucks this other person out of thin air, and they hire her without giving any weight at all to an issue that was at least partially related to a discrimination lawsuit. I'm sure the reporter that nailed them this time is looking into that relationship, and I can't wait to read that.

 

[Starman]

The thing that stinks to high heaven is the search committee giving them 47 names, and then none of those are good enough so one board member plucks this other person out of thin air, and they hire her without giving any weight at all to an issue that was at least partially related to a discrimination lawsuit. I'm sure the reporter that nailed them this time is looking into that relationship, and I can't wait to read that.

If nothing else you would think the circumstances that created the vacancy -- Rice's alleged abuse (physical, mental and emotional) of players -- would have made any allegations whatsoever of "player abuse" in the history of any applicant an instantaneous black flag.

From what I've heard today, RU appears to be doubling down and sticking with her. Good luck with that ****.

 

[buckweaver]

And when I say "dig," I mean DIG. If you hire the right "diggers," they can find out how many times she was tardy for reading class in second grade.

Sounds from the story like Rutgers already knew about this.

They just didn't care.

 

[Armchair_QB]

The thing that stinks to high heaven is the search committee giving them 47 names, and then none of those are good enough so one board member plucks this other person out of thin air, and they hire her without giving any weight at all to an issue that was at least partially related to a discrimination lawsuit. I'm sure the reporter that nailed them this time is looking into that relationship, and I can't wait to read that.

If nothing else you would think the circumstances that created the vacancy -- Rice's alleged abuse (physical, mental and emotional) of players -- would have made any allegations whatsoever of "player abuse" in the history of any applicant an instantaneous black flag.

From what I've heard today, RU appears to be doubling down and sticking with her. Good luck with that ****.

Mike Rice's lawyer applauds them for sticking to their guns.

 

[dixiehack]

The thing that stinks to high heaven is the search committee giving them 47 names, and then none of those are good enough so one board member plucks this other person out of thin air, and they hire her without giving any weight at all to an issue that was at least partially related to a discrimination lawsuit. I'm sure the reporter that nailed them this time is looking into that relationship, and I can't wait to read that.

Or it could be they were trying to go cheap. She was supposed to make $450k a year as a Big Ten AD dealing with the cost of living in North Jersey. I can't see the cream of the crop wanting to take on that much responsibility while getting paid like a linebackers coach.