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Rutgers must fire head football coach Kyle Flood immediately

By Connor Muldowney

Sep 12, 2015; Piscataway, NJ, USA; Rutgers Scarlet Knights head coach Kyle Flood reacts after a play during second half of game against Washington State Cougars at High Points Solutions Stadium. The Washington State Cougars defeated Rutgers Scarlet Knights 37-34.Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 12, 2015; Piscataway, NJ, USA; Rutgers Scarlet Knights head coach Kyle Flood reacts after a play during second half of game against Washington State Cougars at High Points Solutions Stadium. The Washington State Cougars defeated Rutgers Scarlet Knights 37-34.Mandatory Credit: Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports /
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Rutgers has suspended head football coach Kyle Flood for three games, but he should be fired immediately.

At this point in time, it’s starting to seem like a bad joke. Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood has been suspended for three games, as he violated the school’s code of ethics for trying to get in contact with a professor of one of his players after he was told not to.

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Just two years removed from the ugly Mike Rice situation, former head basketball coach at Rutgers who was fired for physical and verbal abuse of players, the athletic department for the Scarlet Knights has another tough decision on his hands.

Should Rutgers fire Flood for his inexcusable actions or just uphold the suspension?

As the details keep emerging from this case, it’s becoming more clear what the correct option is, and that is to fire the fourth-year head coach for his actions. He was instructed not to speak with any faculty members about his players and their academics, yet chose to do so anyway.

Following the specifics of the case, the university has blindly stood by the decision to only suspend the football coach, and not fire him. The university’s statement is unnerving.

For a coach to basically flat-out ask if there was “anything that could be done” to change the grade of one of his players to make him eligible for the 2015 season goes to show what kind of individual Kyle Flood truly is.

If the university plans on saving face and owning up to its mistakes by trying to hide this blatant disregard for university rules, then it will need to relieve Flood of his duties before the 2015 season becomes more of a mockery than it already has.

It’s no longer about football. The guys who are on the team now and who want to be Scarlet Knights have to deal with the media circus every single day regarding their head coach being above the school’s law.

To ensure these players, and future ones, don’t follow the footsteps of the the five players dismissed before the team’s opening game, as well as Leonte Carroo who was suspended indefinitely for an incident immediately following week two’s loss, the university needs to let this man go.

The black eye is just getting darker and the more the administration stands by the suspension, the uglier it gets.

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