Rutgers coach Kyle Flood condemned the actions of former Scarlet Knights running back Ray Rice after a video surfaced of Rice punching out his fiancée in elevator in an Atlantic City hotel.
TMZ.com posted the new video, which had not previously been released. A video of Rice dragging his unconscious fiancée, Janay Palmer, out of the hotel elevator in Atlantic City had been widely viewed since Feb. 15, but this was the first look at the ferocity with which Rice punched Palmer.
"The video I saw this morning was difficult to watch as a husband and a father. There is nothing that can justify what I saw on that video," Flood told ESPN New York.
"Family is family. But at Rutgers we hold ourselves to an extremely high standard. And we expect a lot of out of players. We expect a lot of our coaches and our staff members we have here in the Hale Center. And we expect a lot of our alumni and because of those expectations this is a sad day."
Rice, a running back with the Baltimore Ravens, is currently serving a two-game suspension from the NFL for his actions.
Rutgers airs a “Knights in the NFL” video prior to home games and it features Rice, the school’s all-time leading rusher. Rice rushed for 4,926 yards from 2005-07. Flood said he wasn’t sure whether Rutgers would edit Rice out of the video.
"We'll make those decisions later in the week," Flood said. "Those are things that I'm really not that involved in. This is all kind of new this morning. We'll make those decisions later in the week."
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