(South Kingstown, RI)--University of Rhode Island women's tennis coach Gordon Ernst, who is charged in a national college recruiting scandal, is resigning.The university made that information public on Saturday.Ernst is accused of taking bribes of more than two-and-a-half-million dollars to accept a dozen recruits for the tennis team at Georgetown from 2012 to 2018.The Cranston native was named head coach at URI last August.