By Adam Clark, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
NEW BRUNSWICK — The three game suspension and $50,000 fine of Rutgers coach Kyle Flood amounts to a “slap on the wrist” that’s emblematic of an athletic department allowed to operate with complete autonomy, the president of the university faculty union said Wednesday.
David Hughes, president of Rutgers AAUP-AFT, said Wednesday that the union has yet to poll its members about whether they are satisfied with Flood’s punishment. But Hughes said he thinks a faculty member who broke university rules would receive a more severe penalty.
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“For a normal person, $50,000 is a lot of money,” Hughes said. “For Coach Flood, $50,000 is sort of change for the pinball machine.”
Hughes added that coaches who break the rules at Rutgers are a “protected species.”
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