Page 6 - Eric Murdoch News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

These really shocking developments. >> shocking is right. the university became aware of this video back in december, but it was released to the public yesterday causing shock and outrage over rice's homophobic rants and physical abuse toward his players. now the university is under mounting pressure to fire rice. >> hurling basketballs at players' legs, even their heads. [ bleep ] >> reporter: grabbing, pushing, kicking, and punching them. and screaming homophobic slurs. [ bleep ] >> reporter: this video obtained by cnn's "outside the lines" shows rutgers head basketball coach mike rice going...

We certainly want passion in our coaches but this passion crosses the line. as far as murdoch who you referenced, he said, listen, this is not the kind of conduct representative of the university. more so, i don't think that it goes to motivation of players and how do you expect us to be successful if you have a coach name-calling and putting his hands on people? he's fired for that and says he was fired for insubordination related to that? i don't think so. we'll see legal action as a result of this and i think the school will have some answering to do as to why he, eric murdoch, was fired as...

Rutgers standard is, and at this case, the coach varied from that and paid saying pent for it, we are taking this first offense to educate mike rice on the rutger's standard. >> i hear who leaked the video. it wasn't leaked at all. how did it become public? how did espn get their hands on it? >> eric murdoch, and his attorneys, who have been in discussion with rutgers about his employment, produced and provided the video. which is vifine. we are a public university, we expected it to be produced. we didn't produce it in december. we are concerned about the welfare of student athletes and a lot...

>> no. >> for this coach. it's several -- is it several practices? >> it was 30 minutes of video that was actually showed to university officials back in december. of course we're just seeing a part of that. what i think is interesting here, actually, you make a good point christine, we're hearing from nba superstars lebron james, you know, ray allen, who are saying, look, this is not commonplace. this is not the way it should be. and they're sounding off on twitter. >> eric murdock, who we believe was the man and his attorney who made this video public who was involved with rutgers basketball...

Some nba stars are sounding off about rice's homophobic rants and abuse toward his players. hurtling basketballs at players' legs. even their heads. [ bleep ] >> reporter: grabbing, pushing, kicking, and punching them. and screaming homophobic slurs. >> [ bleep ] you're a [ bleep ] [ bleep ] >> reporter: this video obtained by espn's "outside the lines" shows rutgers head basketball coach mike rice going off the handle and abusing his players during practices from 2010 through 2012, according to the sports network. the footage surfaced after eric murdock who was rice's director of player devel...