Report: Rutgers on the hook for a lot of money after latest round of firings

By foxsports
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Joining the Big Ten is expected to be a financial windfall for Rutgers athletics, and given recent personnel moves, that's a good thing. 

According to NJ.com, Scarlet Knights administrators have a significant fingernail need just to pay a group of former employees sent packing over the past five years. 

Football coach Kyle Flood and director of athletics Julie Hermann are set to be paid a combined $2.56 million after they were let go Sunday, but they are just the latest employees to be fired since 2010. 

Among those the school has also fired are two men's basketball coaches, the lacrosse coach, another athletics director and its director of athletics communications. 

Via public records requests, NJ.com was able to add up the value of those buyouts and separation agreements and came up with a staggering figure of "dead money" for the public school: $5.6 million.