NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers has suspended football coach Kyle Flood for three games, including Saturday’s 8 p.m. game against Penn State, and fined him $50,000 for contacting a faculty member over a player’s grade.
Rutgers President Robert Barchi announced the punishment Wednesday, a day after he said he received an internal investigative report.
The report found that Flood emailed and met in person with a faculty member even though he knew or should have known of the university’s policies prohibiting coach-initiated contact with faculty members regarding students’ academic standing.
The report also found that Flood provided grammatical and minor editorial suggestions for a player’s paper to complete a course.