In the footage, Rice can also be heard screaming obscenities and homophobic slurs.
Rice was suspended for three games and fined $50,000 after Rutgers' athletic director Tim Pernetti reviewed 30 minutes of the tapes in December, according to ESPN.
Rice was fired on Wednesday after the footage went public and Rutgers received heavy criticism.
In a statement, from Bloomberg's Scott Soshnick, Pernetti said:
"I am responsible for the decision to attempt a rehabilitation of Coach Rice. Dismissal and corrective action were debated in December and I thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, but I was wrong. Moving forward, I will work to regain the trust of the Rutgers community."
Gilvydas Biruta, a former Rutgers player from Lithuania who transferred to Rhode Island, told ESPN that the main reason he left was because of the way Rice treated him:
"He would throw his cap at me and he would call me many names. The adjectives were creative. They were mean words." Biruta said Rice's insults were often not about his game but about him personally. "If you're going to criticize me as a basketball player, I'm OK with that," he said, "but he would criticize me as a person."
Other players were more supportive of Coach Rice's technique. Player Tyree Graham told "Outside The Lines" that he "backed what Coach Rice did for the most part" and that sometimes Rice "crossed the line" but he understood his tactics.