Manahan and NJ.com Stirring up Trouble Again

[Knight Shift]

Thought the cretin Manahan crawled under a rock.

Former Cheer team member hired in 2016. Targum uncovered posts he made on Twitter/X while a student, and they were bad.

What does Pres. Tate have to do with this. They found him out and fired him.

https://dailytargum.com/article/mullin-departs-spirit-program-resurfaced-tweets-reveal-rape-racist-jokes-20261112

 

[Knight Shift]

Seems Manahan is no longer employed by NJ.com since July 2025. Good riddance.

This piece speaks volumes:


A testament to the lasting effects of this management style is that everyone I spoke to requested anonymity because they feared professional repercussions and/or Manahan’s personal vindictiveness. (Dom Cosentino, who worked for Manahan for nearly three years and is now my colleague at Deadspin, was the only person to publicly describe Manahan’s management style as borderline abusive, in tweets he later deleted because of his own fears of repercussions. He has since decided to go on the record expanding on the points he made in those tweets.)

Privately, it was a different story.

“You live in fear,” one source with experience working with Manahan said. “Get an email from Kevin and you think you’re on the verge of being fired. [...] I had heard horror stories about what it’s like to work with Kevin before I started, so my approach was just to hunker down and use it as a springboard.”

“[There was] a constant adversarial attitude between him and his employees, just constantly living in fear of getting an angry email, berating you or even threatening your job,” a different source said. “Even if you just made an honest mistake.”

The subject of Manahan threatening his staffer’s jobs or otherwise belittling them in emails came up over and over again; Deadspin reviewed several emails from Manahan that corroborate descriptions of this behavior.

Deadspin | NJ.com's Sports Director Sounds Like The Boss From Hell

Deadspin | NJ.com's Sports Director Sounds Like The Boss From Hell

deadspin.com

 

[Anon1754923206]

Seems like some old rancid douche who got what he needed to get…

 

[RUChet]

Like seriously what is wrong with some period

Besides being a douche he’s clearly an idiot putting that out there in public!

 

[Knight Shift]

Like seriously what is wrong with some period

Besides being a douche he’s clearly an idiot putting that out there in public!

Not excusing the behavior but it was 10-14 years ago when he was a student.

We told both of our kids (now adults), what you post on social media will follow you forever.

 

[DJ Spanky]

Not excusing the behavior but it was 10-14 years ago when he was a student.

Exactly. He posted that in his second semester in school according to that witch hunt article.

 

[bac2therac]

Not excusing the behavior but it was 10-14 years ago when he was a student.

We told both of our kids (now adults), what you post on social media will follow you forever.

This

If the guys reputation as a coach the past decade was solid. It shouldnt matter what was tweeted in 2012 when twitter was basically a wasteland before 2016 and filled with stupid comments like this

My question is who and why was someone searching this guys account

But ultimately not deleting these posts when he had the chance is a lesson he will learn

He oversaw Sir Henry

 

[Caliknight]

Not excusing the behavior but it was 10-14 years ago when he was a student.

We told both of our kids (now adults), what you post on social media will follow you forever.

I’ve seen a lot worse from people
I saw just get voted into office.

 

[MrsScrew]

I actually know Scooter, personally. Met him years ago in a bar local to where I lived so it's more of an acquaintance kind of thing.

I never, ever got vibes like this from him. He's married, I *think* has a kid on the way. I sat with him for part of a MBB game last year. He was telling me how they were working to get partial scholarships for the cheer/dance team. He used to be the "handler" for the Scarlet Knight as well.

Certainly not condoning anything he has tweeted, but why are people digging up his tweets from 14 years ago when he was a clearly stupid 19y/o? Was it just him they were looking at because something happened recently, or will more dirt be found on other RU employees because they are looking up everyone's twitter history