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发帖数: 4978 | 1 Julie Hermann, Rutgers Athletic Director, Accused Of Abuse
NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to speak with Rutgers
officials about a report that the woman hired to clean up the school's
scandal-scarred athletic program quit as Tennessee's women's volleyball
coach 16 years ago after her players submitted a letter complaining she
ruled through humiliation, fear and emotional abuse.
Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak says the governor is aware of the report
about Julie Hermann in the Star-Ledger of Newark, but wants to get more
details before commenting.
"He's not going to make any judgments at this time," Drewniak said in an
email to The Associated Press on Sunday.
The Star-Ledger reported that Tennessee players wrote the mentality cruelty
they suffered when Hermann was coach was unbearable, adding she called them
"whores, alcoholics and learning disabled."
Hermann was hired on May15 to replace the ousted Tim Pernetti, who was let
go after basketball coach Mike Rice was fired for abusive behavior.
The 49-year-old Hermann is scheduled to take over at Rutgers on June 17. She
is set to become the first woman to run the Scarlet Knights' athletic
program and one of three female ADs at the 124 schools playing at college
football's top tier.
However, it's uncertain whether the report will force Rutgers to re-consider
the appointment. It also could give impetus to those who want new
university president Robert Barchi to step down after yet another black eye
for the state's largest university.
The university had not issued a comment by 4 p.m. Sunday.
Hermann was not immediately available for comment, but told the Star-Ledger
that she did not recall the Tennessee letter. The newspaper said when it was
read to her by phone, she replied, "Wow."
Rutgers board members Candace Straight and Joseph J. Roberts Jr. did not
return telephone calls by the AP seeking comment.
"The questionable decision-making at this program so heavily funded by
taxpayers continues to astound me," Assembly speaker Sheila Oliver said in
an email to the AP.
Louisville Athletic Director Tom Jurich, who was Hermann's boss for almost
the last 16 years, was surprised by the report.
"For me to say this is a shock, it totally is because of the tremendous job
she did for me," Jurich said Sunday in a telephone interview. "When she was
with me at Northern Arizona, her players adored and loved her. I never heard
anything about this at all from the Tennessee players and a lot of them
have come through Louisville a number of times. Everybody is always singing
her praises."
The Star-Ledger report said that wasn't the case late in her coaching career
at Tennessee.
In the letter submitted by all 15 team members in 1996, the volleyball
players said Hermann called them "whores, alcoholics and learning disabled"
and they wrote: "It has been unanimously decided that this is an
irreconcilable issue." The players told The Star-Ledger that Hermann
absorbed the words and said: "I choose not to coach you guys."
After a series of interviews with many of the former Tennessee players about
Hermann, The Star-Ledger said:
"Their accounts depict a coach who thought nothing of demeaning them, who
would ridicule and laugh at them over their weight and their performances,
sometimes forcing players to do 100 sideline push-ups during games, who
punished them after losses by making them wear their workout clothes inside
out in public or not allowing them to shower or eat, and who pitted them
against one another, cutting down particular players with the whole team
watching, and through gossip.
"Several women said playing for Hermann had driven them into depression and
counseling, and that her conduct had sullied the experience of playing
Division I volleyball."
The Star-Ledger asked Hermann about the players' lingering grievances.
"I never heard any of this, never name-calling them or anything like that
whatsoever," she told the newspaper. "None of this is familiar to me."
Hermann had promised a restart the Rutgers' athletic program following the
ouster of its men's basketball coach and the resignation of other officials.
"No one on the coaching staff doesn't believe that we need to be an open
book, that we will no longer have any practice, anywhere at any time, that
anybody couldn't walk into and be pleased about what's going on in that
environment. It is a new day. It is already fixed," Hermann said at her
introductory news conference.
At that news conference, Hermann was questioned about a 1997 jury verdict
that awarded $150,000 to a former Tennessee assistant coach who said Hermann
fired her because she became pregnant.
Rutgers' problems started in December when Rice was suspended three games
and fined $75,000 by the school after a video of his conduct at practices
was given to Pernetti by Eric Murdock, a former assistant coach. The video
showed numerous clips of Rice firing basketballs at players, hitting them in
the back, legs, feet and shoulders. It also showed him grabbing players by
their jerseys and yanking them around the court. Rice can also be heard
yelling obscenities and using anti-gay slurs.
The controversy went public in April when ESPN aired the videos and Barchi
admitted he didn't view the video in the fall. Rice was fired and Pernetti,
assistant coach Jimmy Martelli and interim senior vice president and
university counsel John Wolf resigned.
Even when Rutgers has made a move that was well received, there was a glitch.
After hiring former Scarlet Knights star Eddie Jordan to take over the
basketball program, the university made the mistake of calling him a
graduate when he had never finished work for his degree.
Now the Hermann problem has popped up when many thought the worst was over,
and that the athletic department could start focusing on its move to the Big
Ten in 2014.
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: Julie Hermann, Rutgers Athletic Director, Accused Of Abuse
: NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to speak with Rutgers
: officials about a report that the woman hired to clean up the school's
: scandal-scarred athletic program quit as Tennessee's women's volleyball
: coach 16 years ago after her players submitted a letter complaining she
: ruled through humiliation, fear and emotional abuse.
: Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak says the governor is aware of the report
: about Julie Hermann in the Star-Ledger of Newark, but wants to get more
: details before commenting.
: "He's not going to make any judgments at this time," Drewniak said in an
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