🏈 Rutgers withdrew Eric LeGrand's commencement speech offer

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Former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand says the university offered him the chance to give this month's commencement, then reversed course. LeGrand made the statement on Twitter on Monday hours after the university announced former Gov. Tom Kean would be the speaker. Rutgers spokesman Greg Trevor said Tuesday that he would look into LeGrand's claims.

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[planomateo]

Can Rutgers get anything right? How can they keep messing things up... Betcha Gov Christie's gonna use this for some campaign movement.

AD Julie Hermann seems to find a knack for inserting her foot into her mouth.

 

[PhillyGirl]

I know several folks who work for Rutgers (both faculty and staff), and .. Rutgers is a travesty right now. There are a LOT of tensions among faculty/staff versus the administration, a bit of which came out re: the whole Condoleezza Rice thing recently (shady secretive admin dealings and whatnot). Plano, You can bet the Gov (ugh, I am embarrassed he is my home state's governor, but we are used to embarrassing politicians!) will turn it for 2016.

 

[planomateo]

 

[PhillyGirl]

Pat Forde:

"From the abusive basketball coach (fired) to the scapegoat athletic director (fired) to the amnesiac and tone-deaf replacement athletic director (not fired yet, somehow) to the new basketball coach without a degree from the very school that hired him (working on it) to disrespecting a classy guy in a wheelchair, Rutgers is on a roll of prodigious incompetence."

 

[ElephantStomp]

Rutgers on a roll.

Christie will use it somehow that's just what politicians do, use anything and everything they can to get an advantage. Christie is going to win the republican nomination whether he uses it or not. Hopefully he does as good on a national level as he's done as a governor, but that's for a different forum.

 

[TerryP]

 

[planomateo]

Wonder how truthful they are being...

It was never our intention that Eric would be the only speaker. We have resolved that miscommunication and are delighted to have him participate.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Rutgers on a roll.

Christie will use it somehow that's just what politicians do, use anything and everything they can to get an advantage. Christie is going to win the republican nomination whether he uses it or not. Hopefully he does as good on a national level as he's done as a governor, but that's for a different forum.

As someone who is from the state he presides over, I beg to differ :over: but yes, different forum for sure

 

[PhillyGirl]

He really is a classy kid. Props to him.

 

[TheChief]

Christie is a classy kid?

 

[PhillyGirl]

Christie is a classy kid?

No no, LeGrand!

 

[shipley00]

AD Julie Hermann seems to find a knack for inserting her foot into her mouth.

Which would make her a champion Twister player because at the same time she can't get her head out of her a$$.

 

[psychojoe]

Which would make her a champion Twister player because at the same time she can't get her head out of her a$$.

Now that evokes some strange mental pictures.