After the firing of Rutgers head coach, Mike Rice, the athletic director Tim Pernetti has decided to resign. The player abuse scandal has caused some serious drama over at Rutgers and Tim Pernetti decided to step down before it got any worse. He claims he was the one who originally wanted to fire Rice but had to take the legal route which resulted in the suspension and fines. Although, I'm not sure would have mattered if he fired Rice from the beginning because the director of player development was reportedly fired for blowing the whistle on Rice. Pernetti could have either gotten fired last year when the video first surfaced, or last week when it resurfaced. It comes down to ethics in cases like this. Do you do the right thing, tell on the bad guy and potentially lose your job? Or do you keep your mouth shut and hope this whole thing blows over and maybe the bad guy will stop being so bad. Pernetti definitely did the right thing by resigning and admitting he messed up, so at least he saved himself a little bit of face there. However, he would have saved himself a lot more if he really would have spoken up in the beginning.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/05/sport/rutgers-athletic-director-resigns/index.html?iref=allsearch
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