The Rutgers softball team had gone $6 over its food travel budget during a stop at a Cracker Barrel in early March 2019.The punishment? According to multiple players, at their next practice, a group of team members were told to run six, 100-yard wind sprints — one for every dollar over — and each in less than 17 seconds, until some of them were left crying, collapsed or doubled over in exhaustion.First-year head coach Kristen Butler directed the March 12 sprints from the field, players said. Butler called her in for a meeting on May 20, and, according to Moy, “she just flat-out said, ‘We don’t want you back anymore.’”Moy said that Butler instructed her to leave the room “to go sign the transfer papers.” She declined, but Rutgers’ office of financial aid issued Moy a letter two days later saying her scholarship was cancelled, according to the document obtained by NJ Advance Media.Another scholarship player said Butler did the same with her, citing a list of complaints in their exit meeting and presenting the player with transfer papers to sign.Butler and the university said no single coach has the authority to revoke scholarships.“Scholarships may be reevaluated for a number of reasons, including, but not limited to, when student-athletes engage in serious misconduct,” Butler said.In January 2015, months after the Big Ten announced a commitment to scholarship protections, Power-5 Conferences adopted an NCAA rule that prohibited reducing or not renewing scholarship aid based on a student’s “performance or contribution to a team’s success; an injury, illness or physical or mental medical condition; or any other athletics reason.”Tim Nevius, a former NCAA investigator who serves as the executive director of the College Athlete Advocacy Initiative, said Rutgers’ actions appeared to contradict the Big Ten’s 2014 proclamation that an athlete’s scholarship “will neither be reduced nor cancelled provided he or she remains a member in good standing with the community, the university and the athletics department.”“They say these are four-year, guaranteed scholarships, but the fact is coaches and schools find ways to get out of their commitments,” Nevius said. None of Rutgers’ 22 other sports program saw even remotely the same percentage of turnover.The former Rutgers players and their parents also claimed senior Rutgers athletic officials, including athletics director Patrick Hobbs and deputy director of athletics Sarah Baumgartner, failed to adequately address the alleged abuse even after numerous players and parents complained.The allegations against Butler and Smith, based on interviews with former Rutgers players, parents of former players and legal documents obtained by NJ Advance Media, include:The alleged abuse was disclosed by seven former Rutgers players and five parents, some of whom asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. Butler said none of the team’s conditioning sessions were abusive and that she never punished the team with conditioning.
Butler said Smith left the team at the end of the 2019 season, calling it a family decision.Also in the spring, players said, Smith enforced a team rule by confiscating cellphones at night on road trips. An eighth player entered the portal in July, and two more players left the program but remain enrolled as students at Rutgers, bringing the total of defections to 10.The eight names submitted to the transfer portal since October 2018 makes for the highest total of any school in the 14-team Big Ten Conference, and twice as many as the next two highest schools.Butler said turnover is “typical during a coaching transition.”Moy is still on campus and has her scholarship, but she has no support from Rutgers athletics.She doesn’t know if she’ll ever play softball again.The same goes for Erin Collins, an outfielder who started 45 games in 2019.
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