PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) a A Rutgers assistant men's basketball coach has resigned amid a scandal over the way his former employer addressed players. A Rutgers running office spokesman confirmed Thursday that assistant coach Jimmy Martelli had left this program. Coach Mike Rice was shot on Wednesday after having a movie was made public showing him pushing and kicking players, throwing basketballs at them and berating them with gay slurs. The firing was first described by The Star-Ledger (http://bit.ly/11sU4ke ). The magazine also noted that Martelli was noticed in a part of the video that wasn't broadcast on television shoving a player during an exercise. Martelli, who also taught with Rice at Robert Morris, could be the daughter of St. Joseph's coach Phil Martelli. He was appointed by Rutgers in-may 2010. Rutgers running director Tim Pernetti was expected on Tuesday whether Martelli was seen shoving people on the video. "Jimmy was spoken to about the way. We dealt with that," Pernetti told reporters after screening the Rice videotape for them. "Certainly the recording dedicated to Mike but it added several other things to light that we dealt with at the same time frame that we dealt with Mike." A native of Media, Pa., Martelli served being an assistant coach at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., in 2006-07. He helped recruit a freshman class that was essential in the college achieving a No. 1 national ranking and its first Division III Final Four appearance in 2009-10. His coaching career was begun by martelli in 2005-06 as an assistant Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pa., where he was the starting point guard for just two years. Along with his coaching and enjoying experience, Martell did at distinctive baseball camps. He worked the prestigious Eastern Invitational Basketball Camp from 2004-2007 and also served as director of the Saint Joseph's summer camp for seven years.
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