What the devil is going on with Rutgers' football?

[SpacemanSpiff]

I can't say I disagree with the university hierarchy, but they have suspended Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood for three games and fined him $50,000 after a university investigation showed he violated school policies and procedures by contacting and meeting with a professor in attempt to get a player’s grade changed and thus restore his eligiblity.

From a Pat Forde Yahoo article:

The Rutgers report shows the extent to which Flood went to avoid detection in his dealings with the professor: meeting off-campus; communicating only through private emails; and trying to swear others in the know about the grade-change scheme to secrecy. Not the actions of a man who says he simply didn’t know the rule about contacting a professor, and thus made an honest mistake. Nobody goes to those cloak-and-dagger lengths to keep something out of public view if they think they’re not doing something wrong.

This is after six players were kicked off the team recently for being charged with crimes - four for assault, two for home invasion.

I know many large programs have their share of issues and miscreants -- heck, when you have over 100 youths together, it's difficult to keep them all in line -- but this is a bit over the top. And I give Rutgers credit for acting on it rather than ignoring it.

[christie1111]

And he apparently 'helped' with the papers as well.

He clearly knew he was violating the rules at that point.