Rutgers' Kyle Flood may be in some trouble
Hot off the presses. NJ.com reports that Flood is under investigation for a potential rules violation related to impermissible contact. Sounds like he may have tried to lean on a professor for a player who needed grades.
Update: Flood fires back.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
He's an honest, stand-up guy, unlike Harbaugh.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
I do know this - the Kyle Flood who was speaking at Big Ten Media Day? That'll be the same Kyle Flood if you run into him on campus, shaking down professors...
August 25th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
The Floodgates really open
August 25th, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^
I'll be dammed.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:16 PM ^
But someday this will be water under the bridge.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:55 PM ^
current.
August 25th, 2015 at 7:42 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 11:54 PM ^
Information keeps flowing in. The situation is really still quite fluid at the moment. I suggest builiding a dam to stem the tide of all these reports.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:10 PM ^
August 26th, 2015 at 10:43 AM ^
the Rutgers football program is going to have the wind at their back for long...
(Sorry, I don't understand how to make puns)
August 25th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 3:29 PM ^
Do we really want Rutgers to stay terrible? I wouldn't mind if they were a little better.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
I challenge anyone to reread the details of what North Carolina did--and hasn't faced any type of real punishment for--and then try to give even the slightest shit about this.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:36 PM ^
Do I have to reread this?
August 25th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 1:55 PM ^
Sign with UNC and grad transfer to Michigan immediately. Solid plan as long as people confuse it with a regular UNC degree.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:10 PM ^
"Regular" UNC degree? There were entire sham departments. There are no reputable UNC degrees until the situation is rectified. Anyone "touting" a UNC degree is an idiot.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:45 PM ^
It just won't be at a Power-5 school. Remember, there's uncertainty about what the NCAA is actually allowed to enforce. They don't even know.
Big schools will get away clean, smaller schools like Alaska-Anchorage who can't afford to defend themselves will be punished severely.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
just after UNC was about to release its report to the NCAA regarding the charges against it, the school had to reconsider because of newly uncovered academic-related problems within two of its women's programs. So this has further languished Carolina on an island of ill-repute without an axe being dropped on anyone outside of the usual suspects for culpritzation outside any lockeroom.
For the football and basketball programs it's essentially business as before with no major consequences. Roy Williams just never had an inkling that guys who were playing for him were taking no-show courses with papers written by others. You either accept this at face value and whatever investigators supposedly found and were willing to disclose, or you just think nobody really wanted to know who knew how much and when they learned about it.
In any case, the people who created the academic fraud on behalf of the athletes have taken the fall. And that's the way it goes these days. It's like a hack job at a government agency. A lot of detail without much subsequent accountability.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:25 PM ^
Apparently UNC's athletic department took Chris Carter's advice.
"You always have to have a fall guy".
August 25th, 2015 at 3:53 PM ^
UNC hasn't yet given their response to allegations from the NCAA. The NCAA doesn't instill confidence, but once they decided to reopen this case, I think harsh punishments are definitely in play.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
I challenge anyone to reread the details of what North Carolina did--and hasn't faced any type of real punishment for--and then try to give even the slightest shit about this.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:08 PM ^
Is this like a double-dog dare?
August 25th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
for your subtle jab
August 25th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
Sounds like the creek might be rising at Rutgers.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^
The have a plan for that occasion
August 25th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
Did he lean on the professor like this?
No? Then there's no trouble. This is the NCAA, man. If UNC can glide by then anything goes with grades. They ain't here to play school.
I wish it weren't so.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:07 PM ^
but no video .... no problem.
NCAA enforcement is a joke; they make Goodell look like Learned Hand.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:19 PM ^
more like cardozo
August 25th, 2015 at 1:08 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^
I don't know. I thought they were supposed to be holding head coaches to a higher standard now.
I found this article http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/01/07/Opinion/Clfton-Kelly-Wagner.aspx
with this:
Under the new model, coaches can no longer turn a blind eye to impermissible conduct. Head coaches are now presumed to have knowledge of all actions or omissions in their program and may be penalized individually for violations committed by staff, unless they can prove they took measures to prevent such conduct. As explained by Ed Ray, chairman of the NCAA board, the onus is on the coaches:
“We expect head coaches to provide practices and training and written materials that instruct their assistant coaches how to act. If they’ve done that, it can become mitigating evidence that they shouldn’t be held accountable for what [a member of their coaching staff] did. But head coaches have to have these things in place or the presumption will be that they didn’t care enough to set standards and take responsibility for their programs. If there is no guidance and an assistant goes rogue, then it’s partly the head coach’s fault and he/she should be held accountable.”
Simply stated, head coaches are on notice. No longer will claiming lack of knowledge prevent individual sanctions.
I wish it meant something, though. This article is a couple of years old, but the NCAA still seems to have zero enforcement.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:55 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 2:45 PM ^
I know, right? As I was putting that post together, I thought - well this is a fucking waste of time. This means nothing.
Glad you got a laught out of it, though.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
I mean he coaches in NJ and grew up in Queens I imagine he's got a little mafia in him somewhere...
August 25th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^
Hey, I'm from New York and lived in both Brooklyn and Jersey City for a number of years, and I catagorically deny having any Mafia ties whatsoever, and, further, should you have any additional questions in this regard, I kindly request that you direct them to my attorney, Bruce Cutler.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:05 PM ^
It's just a way to can Flood and hire back Schiano. RU & Schiano is a match made in heaven for both
August 25th, 2015 at 1:16 PM ^
waiting on the PSU job?
August 25th, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^
Rut Roh!
August 25th, 2015 at 1:07 PM ^
Coaches behaving badly.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:10 PM ^
This sounds like some sort of cheesy segment on Sportscenter to be aired every Friday.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:11 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 1:15 PM ^
Actually this is something that should be automatically reviewed. However, it won't be. A review will then be initiated but it will have been far too late since the clock ran out after an on purpose false start.
The NCAA will later confirm that this is all legal.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:02 PM ^
Flood's response was terrible. He admits to asking professors if his players can do something to get a better grade, then claims what he's asking for is commonly done for regular students. If it's routine, why is the head coach the one making these requests? It seems like the students are perfectly capable of speaking for themslves. If not, they have academic advisors.
I've come to realize that our faculty here at Rutgers is beyond reproach
It's hard to read this and not wonder just how he's found this out.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:14 PM ^
YOU GUYS IM SO GLAD THEY'RE IN OUR CONFERENCE
August 25th, 2015 at 1:14 PM ^
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