By Dara Sharif
With the appointment of Eddie Jordan as men’s basketball coach, Rutgers University hopes to turn the page on the abuse scandal that has rocked its athletic program.
Jordan, a Rutgers alum with two decades’ experience in the NBA, most recently as an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Lakers, pledges to help bring “integrity” back to the Scarlet Knights and the university as a whole. When Rutgers joins the Big Ten in the fall of 2014, Jordan would be the only Black men’s basketball coach in the conference.
