Navy Times article

the below article appeared in the Navy Times.....hence I will gladly await the day the SCUM of Rutgers gets theirs......and they will.

The president of Rutgers University apologized Tuesday to Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler after Rutgers University fans serenaded Navy football players and fans with profane jeers during much of a 41-24 win by the nationally ranked Scarlet Knights on Sept. 7.

Bill Squires, a 1975 Naval Academy graduate who serves as a Naval Academy recruiting coordinator in New Jersey, was at the game. He said he first heard the abuse in the second quarter when a section of about 60 drunken students began screaming at a small group of midshipmen who sat in an adjoining section.

“All the sudden I hear this ‘F--- you, Navy, f--- you, Navy’ chanting for like 45 seconds,” he said, adding that Navy fans and football players ignored the hard words, but the Navy band did not. It struck up “Anchors Aweigh,” drowning out the hecklers.

Later, when he and a Navy lieutenant stationed at the Naval Academy walked to a stadium bathroom, Squires said a drunken Rutgers fan confronted them in the doorway, screaming more profanity at them about how badly Navy was losing.

And when Midshipman Reggie Campbell, a 168-pound slot back, was tackled returning a kickoff, “showing all the heart and desire that the Navy team stands for” against the larger Rutgers players, according to Squires, the same group of fans jeered and cursed him, chanting “you got f---ed up” in unison as he walked from the field.

Squires, who has run Yankee Stadium, Giants Stadium and the Cleveland Browns’ stadium during a long career in sports management, said he was no stranger to the antics of obnoxious fans.

“I am very attuned to fan misbehavior, and I have seen some pretty bad things in my day,” he said. “This is one of the worst. It’s in the top 3.”

Rutgers officials apparently agreed.

“No student athlete should ever be subject to profane language directed at them from the crowd, and certainly not the young men of the Naval Academy who have made a commitment to serve our nation in a time of war,” university President Richard McCormick wrote in an open letter to Fowler and the Rutgers student body. “Your midshipmen conducted themselves with dignity throughout the game and have my admiration.”

Naval Academy athletic department spokesman Scott Strasemeir said he was aware of the incident but declined to comment, other than to say that there had been communication between officials at both schools about it and that the Navy athletic department considered the matter closed.

“How anybody can root against a service academy when [graduates] are going to be asked to put their lives on the line, I don’t know how you can do that.” Squires said. “It goes to show you the social changes taking place in our country. It’s not just Rutgers. It’s elsewhere throughout this country. But it wasn’t more plain and visible than what I saw Friday night.”

Squires said that older Rutgers fans showed more respect for the Navy team.

“They weren’t 100 percent jerks. It was really the students. It was young kids who don’t seem to get it,” he said, contrasting the Rutgers’ fans actions with the midshipmen who were there.

“I was so proud of the midshipmen because there was no reaction from them,” Squires said. “They took it. They stood tall. They did what they were taught to do. I am not sure, if I was 30 years younger in my white uniform, I wouldn’t have reacted differently.”