Rutgers announced on Sunday that it had fired its football coach, Kyle Flood, and athletic director, Julie Hermann, two moves amid a flurry of personnel changes in major college football programs.
The Rutgers news was widely anticipated. Flood, who went 27-24 in four seasons as coach, was suspended three games this season for violating university policy in contacting an athlete’s teacher regarding a grade. Hermann became the university’s A.D. in the spring of 2013 and was embattled from the get-go, with allegations emerging that she had been verbally abusive toward players while Tennessee’s volleyball coach in the 1990s.