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The Flood-Hermann fiasco further tarnishes the Rutgers brand as NCAA releases findings | Politi

The three most feared words in college athletics -- Notice of Allegations -- have now arrived in Piscataway, and it is hard to decide what is most remarkable about what the NCAA's 18-month investigation uncovered.

Well, start here: Rutgers is facing of seven violations stemming from a football season when it won four games. This is a team that couldn't win even when it was breaking the rules.

The football program under Kyle Flood -- and those last three words, while far less feared, are critically important here -- was an embarrassing mess where players routinely failed drug tests without penalty, where the women in the "ambassadors" program operated with no regard for the rules, and where the head coach failed to monitor any of it.