Rice is obviously fired now, and I am not defending him in any way, but he was disciplined over the incidents back in December. This is not some new scandal that Rutgers was trying to sweep under the rug as ESPN basically tried to portray.

Pernetti might have felt it would be too disruptive to fire Rice in mid-season after interviewing all the witnesses and current players, perhaps the buyout was too expensive, or maybe he thought Rice would get better with anger management.

I do agree that Rice should have been fired the morning after the season ended, for putting up yet another losing record, and have no idea why Pernetti let him hang around until ESPN aired an old video to basically force his hand. Bad move.