NEW BRUNSWICK — Nine days after Rutgers President Robert Barchi suspended Kyle Flood for three games and fined him $50,000 following an independent investigation that found the football coach to be in violation of an academic policy, the university's principal faculty board offered a public rebuke for Flood's actions.
The Rutgers New Brunswick Faculty Council issued a resolution that deemed his penalties "incommensurate with the gravity of his violations of university policies and ethical standards'' and called on the university administration to "halt and reverse the decline in the ethical and academic standards in our football program and the continuing damage to the university's reputation.