By ESPN.com news services Tim Pernetti was praised by top campus officials when he suspended ex-coach Mike Rice for physically and verbally abusing his players in December, according to a report by the Newark Star-Ledger
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By Associated Press Former Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti is getting $1.2 million in salary, plus an iPad, car allowance and more than two years of health insurance coverage under a settlement agreement. …read more
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By Alicia Jessop, Contributor 113 days. On December 13, 2012, Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti determined that a three game suspension without pay and a $50,000 fine were appropriate sanctions for former Rutgers head men’s basketball coach, Mike Rice. The sanctions came after Pernetti reportedly viewed video footage of team practices Rice held in which Rice purposefully chucked basketballs at players, kicked one player and shouted homophobic slurs at others. Details of why Rice was sanctioned by the athletics department in December was largely pushed under the rug, as the general public was not privy to the video footage Pernetti viewed. The blinders were removed from the public’s eyes earlier this week, though, when ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” aired footage of Rutgers’ men’s basketball practices. On April 5, 2013 the public’s outcry over Rice’s behavior and Pernetti’s sanctions in their wake was loud enough to cost Pernetti his job. …read more
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By Mark Russell The fallout over Rutgers abusive basketball coach Mike Rice continues to spread, as the university’s athletic director Tim Pernetti is about to be fired, too, according to an AP source. Or perhaps he’ll be allowed to resign, suggests the Star-Ledger . Pernetti was first given a video depicting Rice yelling at… …read more
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As a university educator for the last 16 years, I must say that Tim Pernetti‘s firing as of Friday morning was both just and necessary. …read more
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As a university educator for the last 16 years, I must say that a failure to oust Rutgers athletics director Tim Pernetti in light of his mishandling of the Mike Rice situation would be the mother of all hypocrisies and double-standards within a university setting. …read more
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By NFL.com Rutgers University athletic director Tim Pernetti is under fire for waiting months to cut coach Mike Rice loose, but former football players are backing Pernetti. …read more
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After the Mike Rice firing on Wednesday morning, ESPN cited a source close to the Rutgers University Board of Trustees who told “Outside the Lines” on Wednesday afternoon that Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti‘s job was safe for now because of his prior work on getting Rutgers into a lucrative Big 10 deal last fall. …read more
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