Fallout from the scandal over the firing of Rutgers University’s cantankerous basketball coach continued this past week as officials announced the resignation of the school’s top in-house lawyer and the start of an internal probe of the affair.

Senior vice president and general counsel John Wolf — part of the decision-making team that kept Mike Rice on staff despite mounting evidence of his abusive conduct toward players — is being replaced, at least temporarily, by Rutgers Law School-Newark Dean John Farmer Jr.

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