those times when he was jacking up a player or throwing a ball at a player, he was really joking. joking? well, i mean, we re watching some of the footage here. he doesn t look very funny. he s hurling balls at their heads, shoving them around, using some pretty bigoted language, which i won t repeat. all pretty unpleasant. i mean, i suppose the obvious question, though, is how unusual is this he s kicking somebody there. this can t be right, can it tyree? this is unusual behavior, even by sporting coach standards, isn t it? yes, it is. and i think he has come to the conclusion that he made a mistake or what not. but at the same time, if you were at the gym at the time and around coach rice and knew coach rice as the person that i know him as, you understand that he was just probably seeing something that day that you were lacking and he was trying to motivate you. i mean, we all have different ways of motivation. motivating others. and that was one of his ways to try to motiva
my players, my administration, rutgers university, the fans. my family, who is sitting in their house, just huddled around because of the fact that their father is was an embarrassment to them. an emotional former rutgers basketball coach, mike rice, apology this morning after he was fired, rice was caught on camera repeatedly abusing players during practice and using some pretty foul language. my next guest who played for rice is defending him. tyree graham joins me now in a primetime exclusive. welcome to you. so it s not as bad as we think, this guy? no, sir, not at all. he s not as bad as the immediatia right now is making him seem. it s actually kind of sad to the point where, you know, how the family has been misconstrued. coach rice, he s very passionate. don t get me wrong. but at the same time, a lot of
the end of december. did your presidency this tape? yes. reporter: when asked about that, a university spokesman said pernetti meant the president only viewed it tuesday. one new jersey lawmaker says questions still need to be answered. i want to call the hierarchy of rutgers university down to the state house and conduct an investigatory kind of a hearing. i want to know if any of those student athletes ever went to the athletic director and complained about coach rice. it s interesting. he was repeatedly calling them anti gay slurs, this is rutgers university where, of course, a gay student, tyler clementi, committed suicide, and gained national headlines. the coach has been fired. as you point out in your piece, though, other people knew about the behavior and seemed to do nothing. what do school officials say about that? reporter: you know, anderson, we tried to get some answers today and we reached out to both the athletic director and the university president here on
i was aware of the tape when i handed down the suspension at the end of december. did your presidency this tape? yes. reporter: when asked about that, a university spokesman said pernetti meant the president only viewed it tuesday. one new jersey lawmaker says questions still need to be answered. i want to call the hierarchy of rutgers university down to the state house and conduct an investigatory kind of a hearing. i want to know if any of those student athletes ever went to the athletic director and complained about coach rice. it s interesting. he was repeatedly calling them anti gay slurs, this is rutgers university where, of course, a gay student, tyler clementi, committed suicide, and gained national headlines. the coach has been fired. other people in the administration knew about the behavior and seemed to do nothing. what do school officials say about that? reporter: you know, anderson, we tried to get some answers today and we reached out to both the athletic d
so it s not as bad as we think, this guy? no, sir, not at all. he s not as bad as the immediatia right now is making him seem. it s actually kind of sad to the point where, you know, how the family has been misconstrued. coach rice, he s very passionate. don t get me wrong. but at the same time, a lot of those times when he was jacking up a player or throwing a ball at a player, he was really joking. joking? el with, i mean, we re watching some of the footage here. he doesn t look very funny. he s hurlg balls at their heads, shoving them around, using some pretty bigoted language, which i won t repeat. all pretty unpleasant. i mean, i suppose the obvious question, though, is how unusual is this he s kicking somebody there. this can t be right, can it tyree? this is unusual behavior, even by sporting coach standards, isn t it? yes, it is. and i think he has come to the conclusion that he made a mistake or what not. but at the same time, if you