Matt Sugam
Mike Rice has taken the first step to rehabilitating his now tarnished image.
The former Rutgers head coach is receiving anger management counseling at John Lucas’ Wellness and Aftercare Program in Houston, Lucas told ESPN.com.
Rice has been there for two weeks and there is no timetable for how long his stay will be. Rice is also working with former college basketball players at Lucas’ pre-NBA Draft camp.
Matt Sugam
While the Big Ten is No. 1 in total revenue created and distributed among its member schools, their conference commissioner is No. 2 when it comes to his compensation.
The USA Today reports that Jim Delany ranks second behind Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott in pay for the 2011 calendar year, according to the most recent tax documents available.
Scott made nearly $300,000 more than Delany, with about $3.1 million in pay that includes $1.575 million in base salary and about $1.5 million in bonus and other pay. It is the second straight year Scott is the highest paid commissioner.
Matt Sugam
The soon to be renamed American Athletic Conference will have their conference meetings today through Wednesday in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Rutgers is not there.
The reasoning in simple. As soon as a team announces its leaving the conference, it cannot attend formal conference meetings, according to university bylaws. Rutgers joins the Big Ten in 2014.
Matt Sugam
By Matt Sugam
No head coach had the Mike Rice scandal hit closer to home than Phil Martelli.
Rice had been an assistant for Martelli at St. Joe’s from 2004-06, and his son Jimmy was an assistant for Rice at Robert Morris before following him to Rutgers.
After the release of the video tapes of Rice physically abusing players and spewing gay slurs, Rice was fired. Jimmy was seen in the video shoving players, and he too resigned.
Matt Sugam
Last week, Eddie Jordan made headlines when Deadspin reported that he never got his degree from Rutgers.
It’s not an issue since he didn’t mislead Rutgers officials in any way during the hiring process, nor did he lie and tell them he received his diploma.
Now the question is, will he graduate from Rutgers now that he’s the Scarlet Knights head coach?
Matt Sugam
Last week, Eddie Jordan made headlines when Deadspin.com reported that he did not graduate from Rutgers.
While both Rutgers and Jordan confirmed that this was indeed the case, there was the question of whether or not he misled Rutgers officials when he was being hired.
He didn’t.
Matt Sugam
Eddie Jordan is set to fill the assistant coaching vacancy on Rutgers’ bench.
Kyle Triggs, who worked with Jordan when on the Los Angeles Lakers staff, will fill that void, sources told SNY.tv. Triggs was the assistant to the head coach when Mike Brown was the head coach of the Lakers, and was retained as an assistant by Mike D’Antoni.
Before working in the NBA, Triggs was an assistant coach with Division 2 Walsh University in Canton, Ohio.
Matt Sugam
Logan Kelly will be on scholarship.
Rutgers head coach Eddie Jordan told MyCentralJersey.com that Kelly has been elevated from a walk-on to a scholarship player for next season.
A rising sophomore, Kelly becomes Rutgers’ 10th scholarship player. He totaled three minutes of playing time last season in three games.
Matt Sugam
The Big Ten’s tax returns came in and – to no one’s surprise – they’re doing pretty well for themselves.
The document, which comes via the USA Today, shows the conference made $315 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012.
The Big Ten increased their annual revenue by more than $50 million, and had a total revenue that was $42 million more than the SEC reported for a fiscal year that ends August 31, 2012.
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Rutgers has received National Letters of Intent from forward Junior Etou and former Iowa State shooting guard Kerwin Okoro, the school announced.
“We are very excited to add these talented young men to our program,” head coach Eddie Jordan said in a statement. “Kerwin is a competitive playmaker who brings toughness to the floor. Junior is a skilled and team-oriented player who rebounds and defends with tenacity. Both love to play the game.”
Etou is a 6-foot-8 forward from Arlington, Virginia who went to Bishop O’Connell High School, who was coached by Jordan last summer as a member of the D.C. Assault’s under 17 team.
