"There are hats involved."

A fictional high-school football player on Suburgatory considered Rutgers along with non-existent schools in Florida and Nevada on last night's episode.

The Right Decision

I'm glad to see that Rutgers made the decision it did this morning to end Mike Rice's role as the men's basketball coach, but we have to ask ourselves how much more quickly the University would have acted if you change the words "coach" and "player" to "professor" and "student".  There would have been no second chance after the first blow. Period.

No employee of our favorite school (or any school) should be able to grab, push, kick, verbally abuse, and throw basketballs at any student.  Just because we're joining the Big Ten, we don't have to tolerate that sort of BobbyKnightWoodyHayes bullying and thuggery.

Fire Mike Rice or Get Rid of Men's Basketball at Rutgers.

It's that simple.

I don't read sports pages when Rutgers isn't playing football and I'm not a big follower of the game of "basket-ball", but this tape on ESPN was brought to my attention today. The asshole shown in these videos reminds me of the kind of fascistic gym teachers who made me hate scholastic sports when I was in Junior High in Los Angeles. If I played for him, I'd lose on purpose.

Not only does he need to be fired immediately, but every player on the team needs a free shot to throw a basketball at his balls before he leaves. I wish one of them would have decked him when he laid hands on them during practice.

Any reader of BeatVisitor.com will know that I'm not a sports fan, I'm a Rutgers fan. But fuck Rutgers Men's Basketball until Mike Rice is gone.