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School. we're going to go live as soon as it starts. pamela brown, she is in -- tell us what to expect out of the news conference. do we think there's going to be more fallout? >> caller: we . >> reporter: well, i think we're going to learn more about his future here at university. we just moments ago received the resignation letter from tim addressed to the university president. and in that letter he says i write in confirmation of our conversation earlier today during which we agree that it was in the best interests of rutgers university that i step down from my position as director of int...

As i said, this mutual decision is in the best interest of rutgers. and we will learn from this situation going forward. i respect tim's decision to step down. and i sincerely wish him well. i will be moving to appoint an interim athletic director in the coming days. that concludes my statement. i am now going to read to you at tim's request the letter that he has posted to the community that's recently gone up on the scarlet knights website. it will be available to you all. what i'm reading now are tim's words. this is his letter of resignation to me. i write in confirmation of our conversati...

Tenure is no longer sustainable for the university which i attended and where a piece of me will always remain. so of course we hope to learn more about this decision when this press conference begins here, suzanne, in just about 15 minutes from now. but of course this is at least the third casualty after the release of the video showing head basketball coach mike rice hitting, grabbing, kicking his players and using gay slurs. if that happened -- that video was released tuesday, wednesday less than 24 hours later we find out mike rice is fired. and also you mentioned that the assistant basket...

Want to go directly to rutgers university. this is the president of the college speaking after the scandal, of course the tape that came out that really snarled the athletic director as well as the coach of the basketball team after abuse that was found on that videotape against some of the basketball players. let's listen in. >> -- that i had the opportunity to witness personally for the first time what tim had seen last fall. i was deeply disturbed by the behavior the video revealed, which was much more abusive and pervasive than i had understood it to be. as tim acknowledged wednesday, his ...

Just how egregious the offenses were and how out of keeping with the rutgers community's values they were. at the time, the legal team advising tim and me agreed that the decision we made was within the bounds of reasonableness. i should add here today as of yesterday interim senior vice president and general council john wolf has resigned from his leadership position. tim pernetti is a sincere and honest man. he's a skilled athletic director with many strengths. he has had and made a number of decisions that have positioned rutgers athletics well and played a leading role in the negotiations ...