According to the terms of the contract Julie Hermann signed when she became Rutgers University’s Athletics Director in May 2013, the state university was on the hook for “her full base salary and health and pension benefits, but no other amount or item’’ if she was fired “without cause.’’
Despite a tumultuous 2 1/2-year tenure that included national headlines for a series of gaffes and culminated with the Rutgers football program getting placed on two-year NCAA probation, Hermann was terminated without cause, university President Robert Barchi said after giving her the pink slip on Nov.