Here is the link

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9125796/practice-video-shows-rutgers-basketball-coach-mike-rice-berated-pushed-used-slurs-players
 

Mike Rice should be banned from college athletics for his actions over a long period of time. Too severe? IMO  NO!

ElDuque wrote:

He should not have done what he did, deserved to be punished, and even if he is not fired, will probably not be able to recruit anyone after this, so his career may be finished in a year or two.

That said, the talk show jackals are overreacting and beating the story to death. Overlooked is the ransom threat from the former aid who comes out stinking like rhymes-with-Pitt.

 
Speaking of sports talk radio; the local Pitt aplogists on 93.7 (three clowns on the morning drive show) spent a lot of time yesterday trashing Rushel Shell, calling him lazy, and claiming that he never picked up a weight, and just didn't have the necessary work ethic to be successful at Pitt.  Funny how they turned on the guy as soon as he decided to transfer.  Why weren't they concerned about his work ethic before?  Sounds like the spin doctor AD Petersen gave them a script to read!  SInce the news for Pitt got much worse by this morning, they totally shifted gears and declared that the show today would be dedicated to "discussing" the "horrible" behavior of Mike Rice at Rutgers.  What a disgrace; blah blah blah, always ready to attack someone else to deflect attention from the mess at Pitt.

Don't think for a minute that Mike Rice is the only college coach at any level who is abusive to his/her players.  I've seen coaching of this type even in High School.

He got fired because it's on video, and thus, undeniable.  No video and he still has a job.  That's the way the world works.

He deserved to be fired.   Having said that.....

I think ESPN is not going to be happy until Mike Rice takes his own life.   Seriously, it is 24/7 Mike Rice on TV.   Jay Bilas is such a sanctimonious piece of crap.  

levon, a former player (the kid who got smacked in the face with the basketball) has been on talk shows defending Rice. It's certainly not getting a lot of air time tough.

I think it's funny that Jay Bilas was puffing out his chest this week telling people that he actually witnessed Rice doing bad stuff and that he told one of Rice's assistants to do something about it. Yet he never filed a public report at the time.

Don't get me wrong ... the release of the video justifies the firing of Rice and the AD, and the president of Rutgers ought to step down. But it is funny how Rice gets villified while a guy like Calipari, who has already screwed two Universities, is treated like royalty.

And Sandusky ought to have a nail-studded baseball bat delivered to his tenders.

ElDuque wrote:

levon, a former player (the kid who got smacked in the face with the basketball) has been on talk shows defending Rice. It's certainly not getting a lot of air time tough.

I think it's funny that Jay Bilas was puffing out his chest this week telling people that he actually witnessed Rice doing bad stuff and that he told one of Rice's assistants to do something about it. Yet he never filed a public report at the time.

Don't get me wrong ... the release of the video justifies the firing of Rice and the AD, and the president of Rutgers ought to step down. But it is funny how Rice gets villified while a guy like Calipari, who has already screwed two Universities, is treated like royalty.

And Sandusky ought to have a nail-studded baseball bat delivered to his tenders.

RIght ED, I heard Bilas defend his position on radio yesterday, saying that the behavior he witnessed was not the same level of abuse seen on the videos.  He said it was profanity and verbal abuse rather than physical.  Keep in mind this was witnessed by a number of TV technicians and Bilas, so apparently Rice wasn't really inhibited by the presence of outsiders at this shootaround.  It should have been an indicator that much more was going on in closed practices. 

ESPN is very calculating as to who it attacks, the bottom line is always a factor for them.  Look at how they sat on the Bernie FIne video and other evidence until the Statute of Limitations expired on the potential charges.  Could it have been because Syracuse was involved and many highly placed execs, and on-air personalities at ESPN are Syracuse grads, not to mention potential damage to the huge ESPN contract with the Big East?
 

I lowered my cable service to the second level from basic.  I no longer get ESPN.  I felt a lot of my cable bill was going to conference football TV contracts sponsored by ESPN.  I felt that by continuing to pay, I was contributing to the conference realighnments which are ruining college sports.  The bad thing is that Fox Sports and CBS are going to gin up contracts of their own.  I still have those two on my cable.