The New Brunswick Faculty Council, a group of Rutgers professors, said on Friday that punishing Kyle Flood, the head football coach, with a three-game suspension and a $50,000 fine for contacting a player’s professor to try to make the player eligible was too lenient a penalty.
Although the resolution released by the council did not explicitly call for Flood to be fired, it said that the current penalty was “incommensurate with the gravity of his violations of university policies and ethical standards.”
Citing the recent dismissals or suspensions of six players for reported offenses that include assault and robbery, the council said, “The apparent decline in ethical and academic standards in the football program strikes at Rutgers’ core value of integrity and is doing great harm to the reputation of the university.