Somewhat related to Pitt since the baseball team was playing at Rutgers. The Rutgers men’s basketball coach and son of the baseball coach there lost it.
In front of several reporters and hundreds of fans, Hill made a scene on the diamond after the Rutgers baseball team beat ranked Pitt 9-8 in a wild finish Thursday.
In the bottom of the ninth, with Rutgers trailing 8-7, runners on second and third and two outs, Mike Lang’s grounder to short was fielded cleanly, but the throw to first was off the mark, allowing the tying and winning runs to score. Pitt coach Joe Jordano protested the call at first base, prompting a huddle by the umpires.
During the huddle, Hill (whose father is RU’s longtime baseball coach) was out onto the diamond in front of the Rutgers dugout and launched into a profanity-laced tirade in the direction of Jordano and the Pittsburgh coaches.
The next day, Pittsburgh AD Steve Pederson called Rutgers’ Tim Pernetti to complain about Hill’s conduct.
Now the Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti is “actively investigating” it.
“”We are actively investigating the incident involving the head men’s basketball coach that took place at our baseball game last Thursday on campus,” Pernetti said in a statement released to MyCentralJersey.com Tuesday. “”The reports and eyewitness accounts are very concerning.”
The only reason why Hill even made it to this point as still employed is because Rutgers is so broke they can’t afford to buy him out. This might just do it.
Why you ask? A beautiful day and the field is a mere 5 miles away.
The high point was meeting up with Danny Lopez’s parents. Nice folks. I learned from them that the team has had incredibly high turnover.
Low point: Rachel and I yelling “Let’s Go Pitt” at some players and receiving worse than blank stares from them in return.
Last I heard they were ranked 24th.
New psychological profile discovered: Fear of Inferiority
