Less than a week after Rutgers apologized for posting pictures of fans making crude Penn State remarks, NJ.com found that Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann made a crude comment of her own that referenced convicted child rapist and former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky in a staff meeting last fall.
Rutgers AD made Jerry Sandusky joke of her own
The school just apologized for posting an offensive Penn State picture.
Jim O’Connor-USA TODAY Sports
Multiple people interviewed by NJ Advance Media -- who would speak only on the condition of anonymity because they feared retribution -- said Hermann was talking about "reaching out and touching the donors" of the program and her punchline was to not do it "in a Sandusky way."
Rutgers acknowledged the comment and defended Hermann’s words, saying it was an off the cuff remark that wasn’t directed at Penn State. Overall, it has been a bad week for Penn State-Rutgers relations.
Bad intent or not — intent doesn’t really matter with this kind of stuff — this is the latest instance in a long line of troubles that Hermann has faced since taking over at Rutgers last year. She was hired in the wake of a coach abuse scandal, but she was alleged to have abused her own players when she was a volleyball coach at Tennessee, was accused of turning a blind eye to abuse on the Rutgers football team and said it would be “great” if the New Jersey Star-Ledger went out of business.
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