This is his apology/I have improved.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9128825/rutgers-scarlet-knights-fire-coach-mike-rice-wake-video-scandal

The fact that Mike Rice was THAT overtly abusive towards his players, officials etc but concealed much of it to his employers shows that he was fully conscious of the decisions he was making. As he said: "there is no excuse". Further to that: there never will be.

What a disgrace.

yeah that is not good....remember he was not the only one involved,people up higher new this was going on.

He was given a 3 game ban initially which is pretty poor really, should have been gone once the behaviour was known to officials.

Softies? Coming from someone who doesn't even have the courage to post using their own name!!! Anyway, anonymous, there is a clear difference between a well-intentioned hard-nosed coach and someone who has no self control/is abusing players. Mike Rice unfortunately showed no self-control and was physically assaulting these players. There is no way any sane person can condone this behaviour.

Two words : Mike Krzyzewski

Tyrell, I don't think anon was being serious.

Yeah, good one anon, you obviously had high aspirations in making that Div 5 Rep side didn't you...?

No room in any sport for that kind of shyte!

I'm surprised one of his players didn't knock him the &uck out! The kids prob figured if they said anything or acted out they would lose their scholarship.

Paul STanley (ex Melbourne Tigers & Tassie Devils import) told me he played for Mike's father back in the day (Mike was in high school) and he's not surprised at all by his behaviour ...

Could the guy actually coach, what was his record like? Maybe he was just no good, gets frustrated because of a lack of communications skills, struggles to get the message across and has a short fuse!

Not a great combination for a coach IMO...

Regardless, you can't man handle and push kids around like that and hope to gain any respect whatsoever.

Same stuff happens here and doesn't get dealt with, why, because it's too much of a blemish on a club once it comes out, so they hope it just goes away or isn't talked about...

44-51 record.

Record is irrelevant, surely!

Couple about a certain Sturt coach. Not going to get myself in shit for naming others on here for other problems that Sturt and other clubs, and BSA as a whole have allowed (and still do)

Is it though. Is it...

My thought exactly when I watched this story. I would knock him out, scholarship or no scholarship he is out of line and needs a crack in the mouth. At the very least peg the ball back at him occasionly ;).I'm sure other schools would respect you for it ( cause the coach is way out of line ) that you stand up for yourself when you have been mis treated.
This coach is mental, on the video screened on espn, a kid makes a sweet spin move to the basket and scores then still gets the ball thrown at him.

Also one of the kids said " you can't judge the coach from espn highlights, none of us were scared of him" so maybe they all accepted him for what he is.

A total dick.

Saw that nice spin move too, was thinking WTF is coach going off for? Wonder if he will ever get another coaching gig again?
The whole team should have each grabbed a ball and piffed it back at coach(like in dodgeball), now that would have been funny!