Official Statement Re Flood
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Great, so it's not over and we can't just move on. Oh wait yes we can, we just rather not and continue with this meltdown. Congrats to Flood's disciples for all that has happened since his arrival as HC. You ask for patience and it leads to more and more embarrassment. Thanks! UnFRIGGINbelievable.
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I don't understand why he wasn't fired. Not only willful violations of important policy but deceitful too. Then he does some of the kid's paper -- what does that make him? A cheater? Or just stupid?
not knowing any better, I would think HR got involved on this issue. Is part of their job to determine what level of punishment is adequate for the offense.? Is too harsh a punishment liable?
Here's a working link to the report. The emails are in the report. http://president.rutgers.edu/sites/president/files/Final Report.pdf
Flood got off kind of easy when you consider that he edited the paper that was submitted. Had the paper been graded and counted toward Barnwell's reinstatement he'd have likely been fired. No matter what kind of "player's coach" Flood wanted to be ....no good could have come of this. Very poor judgement.
I actually don't think that was a violation of any kind. I mean, some grammar and punctuation? I think that's kind of cool, actually: the writing tutor Coach!
The facts are much worse than I anticipated. He is indeed lucky not to be fired considering the other unrelated incidents. That being said, O'Leary survived at UCF although essentially responsible for the death of a player as determined by a civil jury.
How this impacts RU going forward remains to be seen. I would just laugh if, for example, UNC gets off scot free and we get sanctioned by the NCAA. Coach Flood, next time don't say you are using private email accounts because you wish and say they are beyond the reach of OPRA. Further, any professor that gives a private email address to a coach should be terminated ASAP. Better get that rule in the RU policies.
And if a student is going to try to get a grade change, why not try to do it soon after the semester is over? I thought he needed to do well in a summer class not get a grade change for a spring class. The official party line that we were to believe was that the "student" had to do well in a summer class when the reality was quite different. The more I write and think about this mess the more pissed I become.
Remember the University of Georgia case where the coach was suspended for 6 months. The major difference is that their coach got his professor friend to create a no show class after the semester was over. Here we are trying to get a grade change 2 months after the semester is over.
It is not very difficult in virtually every endeavor to distinguish right from wrong. There is a right way to go about things. Too many people here went about things the wrong way. Even if Flood truly didn't know that he was violating policy, can he say this was the right way for a player to get a grade to remain eligible? Too many statements quoted in the report do not have the ring of truth. I believe the fallout from this is far from over.
How this impacts RU going forward remains to be seen. I would just laugh if, for example, UNC gets off scot free and we get sanctioned by the NCAA. Coach Flood, next time don't say you are using private email accounts because you wish and say they are beyond the reach of OPRA. Further, any professor that gives a private email address to a coach should be terminated ASAP. Better get that rule in the RU policies.
And if a student is going to try to get a grade change, why not try to do it soon after the semester is over? I thought he needed to do well in a summer class not get a grade change for a spring class. The official party line that we were to believe was that the "student" had to do well in a summer class when the reality was quite different. The more I write and think about this mess the more pissed I become.
Remember the University of Georgia case where the coach was suspended for 6 months. The major difference is that their coach got his professor friend to create a no show class after the semester was over. Here we are trying to get a grade change 2 months after the semester is over.
It is not very difficult in virtually every endeavor to distinguish right from wrong. There is a right way to go about things. Too many people here went about things the wrong way. Even if Flood truly didn't know that he was violating policy, can he say this was the right way for a player to get a grade to remain eligible? Too many statements quoted in the report do not have the ring of truth. I believe the fallout from this is far from over.
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