There’s nothing like the NCAA basketball tournament that makes people stand up and notice a college. You don’t think some impressionable kid—male or female—wasn’t looking at the final four schools (Louisville, Michigan, Syracuse or Wichita State on the men’s side, or Louisville, UConn, Notre Dame and Cal on the women’s side) and saying “I want to go there!”
No such luck, however, for Rutgers and its basketball program.
Anyone want to go to a school that now has a history of homophobia as well as physical abuse of students?
Oh, and besides that, the team doesn’t win basketball games.
The scandal involving now ex-coach Mike Rice is an embarrassment and a cautionary tale. If officials aren’t aware of what’s going on in the gyms and locker rooms, they had better take notice.
Then they wouldn’t look so bad when it gets to the finger-pointing.
Bad enough that there was so much hesitation to pass judgment and take action on Rice.
