Flood was suspended three games on Monday and fined $50,000, a penalty handed out after a four-week-long school investigation into his impermissible contact with a faculty member regarding a student’s grade. The investigation began when Flood sent an email, from a private address, to a professor inquiring into the academic standing of Nadir Barnwell, whose status had been in question. The advisor reminded Flood that it’s a violation to contact faculty members.
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“I know Coach Flood understands the severity of his transgressions and I am fully supportive of President Barchi’s decision to impose a suspension and a significant fine“, Hermann said in a statement.
The off-the-field side would’ve been a big enough problem, but with the allegations that Flood helped out with a player’s paper that needed to be submitted, along with the contacting of a faculty member, Rutgers had to levee the suspension if only to give everyone time to assess the situation.
The investigation also showed that Flood is comically bad at breaking rules.
“I have a lot of communication with teachers, ” Flood previously told NJ.com. With that designation, we have an obligation to provide outstanding educational opportunities, to ensure high quality and productive research, to serve the local, national and world communities, and to do so with integrity and a steadfast commitment to the central academic mission of our university. “We all want the same things for our student-athletes”. The key finding: An academic adviser said Flood had been told not to have any contact with the professor.
The coach faced suspension or being fired if he was found to have gone against institutional policy. Six players have been dismissed from the program following arrests and three former players were arrested.
Rutgers football has spent weeks in the crosshairs of public criticism, a series of negative headlines capped by the latest ugliness, the domestic violence arrest of one of its star players, Leonte Carroo.
“After meeting with Coach Flood, the faculty member agreed to review an additional paper as partial satisfaction for the requirements of a course the student had already completed”. Simply, coach Flood has no excuse for not knowing the rule and following it. Tyree quit during his second season with the Scarlet Knights, citing both the abuse and that a coach threatened to head-butt him, according to the Associated Press.
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“I take full responsibility and accept the consequences of my actions”, Flood said in a statement. Fellow cornerback Dre Boggs and fullback Lloyd Terry have been hit with home invasion charges while Barnwell and another three players face assault charges. “Many students all over campus receiver what are called “T grades” – doing work outside of when the class ends that semester to earn a better grade”.
