In several dozen hours of video of Rutgers mens basketball practices, head coach Mike Rice is seen hurling basketballs from close range at his plaer's heads, legs and feet; shoving and grabbing his players; feigning punching them; kicking them; and screaming obscenities and homophobic slurs, according to ESPN's Outside the Lines, who obtained the videos. The video includes Scarlet Knights' practices from a span between 2010-2012.
About 30 minutes of the video was viewed in December by athletic director Tim Pernetti, who suspended Rice for three games and fined him $50,000. However, the incidents depicted in the video obtained by ESPN appear to go beyond Pernetti's description at the time, when he cited "inappropriate behavior and language" between the coach and his players.
Eric murdock, an ex-NBA player and a former director of player development for the Scarlet Knights, told "Outside the Lines" that Rice's behavior was "outrageous" and had caused at least three players to transfer from the team, including Gilvydas Biruta, who transferred to Rhode Island prior to last season.
Watch the video posted by ESPN's Outside the Lines below:
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