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Fred Hill out at Rutgers
Fred Hill is out as Rutgers men's basketball coach.
According to a report at MyCentralJersey.com, the coach reached a financial settlement with school officials today and will inform his team in a 3 p.m. meeting that he's no longer the coach.
The school was reportedly looking to fire Hill with cause after an outburst last week at a Rutgers-Pitt baseball game. Athletic director Tim Pernetti announced last month that Hill would be back next year despite having completed his fourth straight losing season.
But the outburst and what has been described as subsequent insubordination prompted Pernetti to consider firing Hill with cause, which would have allowed the school to avoid paying Hill the $1.8 million remaining on his contract.
According to the MyCentralJersey report, a formal announcement is expected as soon as this afternoon from Pernetti. The report lists former Boston College and Ohio State coach Jim O'Brien, former St. John's coach and current ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla, former Wake Forest coach Dino Gaudio, Rhode Island coach Jim Baron and Temple coach Fran Dunphy as candidates to replace Hill.
Rutgers will join Seton Hall, St. John's and DePaul among Big East schools with coaching changes.
According to a report at MyCentralJersey.com, the coach reached a financial settlement with school officials today and will inform his team in a 3 p.m. meeting that he's no longer the coach.
The school was reportedly looking to fire Hill with cause after an outburst last week at a Rutgers-Pitt baseball game. Athletic director Tim Pernetti announced last month that Hill would be back next year despite having completed his fourth straight losing season.
But the outburst and what has been described as subsequent insubordination prompted Pernetti to consider firing Hill with cause, which would have allowed the school to avoid paying Hill the $1.8 million remaining on his contract.
According to the MyCentralJersey report, a formal announcement is expected as soon as this afternoon from Pernetti. The report lists former Boston College and Ohio State coach Jim O'Brien, former St. John's coach and current ESPN analyst Fran Fraschilla, former Wake Forest coach Dino Gaudio, Rhode Island coach Jim Baron and Temple coach Fran Dunphy as candidates to replace Hill.
Rutgers will join Seton Hall, St. John's and DePaul among Big East schools with coaching changes.
posted by Kyle Franko at
12:58 PM
6 Comments:
Mike Rice would be the best fit for the program. Young, feisty, good recruiter. The last thing they need is to go the retread route.
BTW, I don't want to get in the way of the Fairfield news and all, but some updates on RT at Portsmouth would seem to be more in line with the target audience.
TMD,
The target audience is MAAC fans, so the Fairfield stuff is relevant. However, as you were leaving this comment, I was posting a quite lengthy RT update, which is now up.
Enjoy.
If Rutgers is smart they would give Cooley whatever he wanted
Ben,
I was just kidding with you. You are a Fairfield alum, so it's only natural that you would slant that way, ever so slightly.
Just trying to keep every fan happy, TMD. Not always an easy task! In any case, we'll do our best to keep tabs on RT.
Plus, this team blows so badly it's hard to slant things their way. Seriously, we must have one of the longer NCAA tourney droughts going, going on what 15-16 years?
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