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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...
Backpedalling in an interview he did on the radio yesterday. he said look the decision to suspend rice came from the fact that he was remorseful, he apologized, he acknowledged his wrongdoing. but at this point, you know, this video has gone viral. there's so much outrage from people, i think that the pressure is certainly mounting for more to be done here. >> clearly public relations problem for this program. >> oh, i think so. i think it will be a very interesting day at rutgers today. >> oh, yeah. >> this is not over. >> thanks, pamela brown. new developments this morning in the case of t...
Work alongside rice and officials launched an investigation after they were alerted to rice's behavior and watched this video and officials came to the conclusion that it was about to suspend rice for three games and also impose a fine. but after this video was made public yesterday, there really was outrage, an outcry to do more to fire rice. and so that is why we're hearing from the university this morning that rice is out of a job. the question still remains if there will be disciplinary action taken against pernetti and other university officials. >> there are some high-profile athletes we...
>> instead rice was suspended for three games and fined after the video surfaced. at the time, university officials said the move was in response to, quote, inappropriate behavior by rice. but after the video was released to the public yesterday, people are saying the university downplayed rice's suspension last december. now they're facing a grilling over why he didn't take more action. here's what he said on espn yesterday. >> the moment that we became aware of the video in november, when it was presented to us by eric and his lawyers we immediately commenced an independent investigation int...