Rutgers Imploding....5 FB Players Arrested Today

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Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Anthony A. Caputo, director of the New Brunswick Police Department, announced that four Rutgers University students and two former students were charged today with assaulting a group of individuals, including one student whose jaw was broken during the unprovoked attack.

Five were current Rutgers football players.

In a separate case, one of those former students and four others were charged with participating in home invasions in which victims, who also were members of the student body, were targeted for their drugs and cash.

Nine of the 10 defendants were arrested today. One remains at large. The arrests stem from an active and continuing investigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office and the New Brunswick Police Department.

123blue

September 3rd, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^

Is there any way to blame this on Dave Brandon? I like to think that it was all his doing that Rutgers is in the B1G so that (even if completely incorrect) could suffice.

HimJarbaugh

September 3rd, 2015 at 5:43 PM ^

I heard the B1G was ready to invite Texas, Syracuse, Georgia Tech, and Virginia but Brandon came in with a business plan for acquiring Maryland, Rutgers, and Illinois State (he apparently thought they were big because "Illinois is a big state and...the Chicago market"). He had it nailed down to the conference buyouts and projected TV revenue.

The league knew Illinois State was a terrible idea but were persuaded by his pitch and so rather than trying to lure Texas and/or the best of the ACC, they went with Brandon's pitch of "value" and invited Maryland and Rutgers. The next day Maryland announced they would join and then Rutgers the day after.

Feeling emboldened by the decision, Brandon felt he could help the team by urging Al Borges to play it conservatively in the 2nd half against OSU.

/s

chatster

September 3rd, 2015 at 3:49 PM ^

Sportscaster U, the school that had the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner in Ernie Davis, along with other great running backs like Jim Brown, Floyd Little and Larry Csonka, has been a football disaster since “Gerg The Program Killer” destroyed the football program while he was the head coach there from 2005-2008.  Doug Marrone briefly made the football program relevant, but his successor, Scott Shafer, the man Syracuse got in the trade with Michigan for Gerg, is sitting on a very hot seat. They’re 45-77 in football since the 2005 season. (Rutgers football is 79-49 over the same period.)
 
Syracuse now is better known as a basketball/lacrosse school, but the men’s basketball program – led by Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim, has had its own scandals in recent years and is currently on probation, while the men’s lacrosse team (five NCAA championships from 2000 through 2009) has made the Final Four only once since 2009.
 
Although Syracuse (about 246 miles from NYC) is located in New York State, unlike Rutgers (about 36 miles from NYC and about 59 miles from Philadelphia), it’s not in the New York City TV market. They were supposed to go to the ACC in 2004, but the Governor of Virginia forced the ACC to add Virginia Tech when Boston College and Miami also left the Big East.

Ty Butterfield

September 3rd, 2015 at 1:37 PM ^

Sounds like Rather Hall. I guess they need Tiger Woods to run his SUV into a fire hydrant again to push this story off the front page.

Steves_Wolverines

September 3rd, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^

I don't think Harbaugh would allow them to sit at the Big Boy table. They don't even deserve a seat at the kiddie table in the kitchen. Their rightful seat is wherever SMU souls went in 1987 and 1988. 

 

Rupertus

September 3rd, 2015 at 1:40 PM ^

Holy hell. Is this article real? I mean, this is just too much.

Note that Nadir Barnwell, the player at the center of the current Kyle Flood mess, is one of the listed defendants. Can we expect Flood to call the police trying to get the charges dropped?