resigned. he had coached with rice since their time to the at robert morris and had earned the nickname baby rice for his similar coaching practices. yesterday espn s outside the lines aired video of him using homophobic slurs and throwing balls at players. despite many members of the faculty calling for their dismissals. it may only be the first week of the season but fans are in midseason form. check out this catch in oakland last night. this ball ripped foul into the stands. this fan makes a one-handed catch while managing to still hold onto his beer and not spill any of it. what a catch by that guy. what concentration. and guys, we ve already seen fans fleeing in the stands when balls are headed their way. this guy didn t even flinch, just reached one hand out, grabbed it, still held onto that beer. that s the way you get it done. with his priorities in check. you don t want to miss a game to wait in line.
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 off the handle and abusing his players during practices from 2010 through 2012 according to the sports network. the footage surfaced after eric murdoch, who was rice s director of player development until he was fired, showed it to rutgers
and screaming homophobic slurs. [ bleep ]. are you a [ bleep ]ing [ bleep ]. this video obtained by espn s outside the lines shows rutgers head basketball coach going off the handle and abusing players from practices from 2010 to 2012. the footage surfaced after eric murdo murdoch, rice s director of player development, showed it to rutgers athletic officials. the abuse caused several players to leave. to see your coach physically putting his hands on players. physically kicking players, firing at point-blank range. the verbal abuse, belittling. i was in total shock this guy wasn t fired immediately on the
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 development until he was fired showed it to rutgers athletic department officials. in an interview with espn murdoch says the abuse caused several players to leave. seeing your coach physically putting his hands on players, physically kicking players, you know, firing balls at players from point-blank range, the the verbal abuse, the belittling, yeah, i was in total shock that this guy wasn t fired. immediately on the spot. reporter: on espn tuesday, the school s athletic director was asked why he didn t fire rice.
he was appalled. and hearing from the professional athletes, that was surprising for us, if it s common place, the way they are reacting, shocked me. i think i think what you are hearing from athletes and almost uniformly across the board, is you just can t put hands on guys that way. and that is what has outraged a number of athletes that we have heard from in the last 24 hours. that s certainly what outraged eric murdoch, and i should point out today on outside the lines, we ll have more information from eric murdoch, he relays a story where rice used inappropriate language, not in front of collegiate athletes, but in front of 10, 11, 12-year-old kids at a basketball camp. it wasn t just rutgers practices, there were other incidents that raised serious questions about their behavior. john barr, as you said, more on outside the lines today at