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Rutgers suspends Flood for contact over player's academic status

Sep 16, 2015 at 4:12p ET

Sep 16, 2015 at 4:12p ET

Rutgers suspends Kyle Flood three games and fined him $50,000.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Rutgers has suspended football coach Kyle Flood for three games 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.