Dave Zirin: Rutgers Has Some Explaining to Do

Dave Zirin: Rutgers Has Some Explaining to Do

Dave Zirin: Rutgers Has Some Explaining to Do

The university’s new athletic director has a record of abusing players—and lying about it. How long will her selection hold up? Dave Zirin breaks down what’s at play on MSNBC.

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Why did Rutgers University—which recently fired basketball coach Mike Rice over homophobic taunts—hire an athletic director, Julie Hermann, with a history of verbally and physically abusing college athletes? “I would call what’s happening at Rutgers a clown show, but I fear that would be a grave insult to clowns,” The Nation’s Dave Zirin says. Zirin joins MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts to discuss Hermann’s reputation, the opaqueness of her selection and what’s next for Rutgers’s athletic program.

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