Let us Run wrote:
I'm fairly sure that Hadsell has posted on this thread.
And I am far more sure that he has not even looked at this or the other thread about him since the Blade and Deadspin stories came out. As in 100 percent certain. His seeing those was more than enough for one person in one week, and it's not as if anyone needs to actually see what's being posted to have a clear idea of the content. Ignorant nameless people on Web sites like this one are nothing if not predictable.
future plans wrote:
Since you know Kevin so well... Do you have plans to find another coaching job somewhere... I mean does Kevin have plans to find another coaching job somewhere?
No, in fact, he faxed his resume to the Vatican just yesterday since a high-level position just opened up there. (Part of that sentence was in jest.)
In the unlikely event more than a smattering of people here are interested in facts, here are a few.
* Kevin Hadsell has a copy of his cell-phone records from June of last year through December of last year. The number of calls he placed to "Andrea" during this span: zero. The number of times he saw her outside the work environment: zero. That doesn't exonerate him from the contact he *did* have with her, but it puts their whole "relationship" in a much different light than the Deadspin article would have people think.
* Somewhere in this mess was the claim that Kevin would refuse to pay attention to "Andrea" unless he responded to her texts. It's a mystery as to why anyone would make this up, because it is easily disproven. Kevin says that during his entire time at Toledo, he would send out the week's training to his athletes every Monday, in one e-mail, to everyone on the team. So if he had dropped someone's training from these r-mails, everyone else on the list would have seen it. Anyone from the team could comment on this, but but I don't blame anyone one bit for steering clear.
* The guy who wrote the Deadspin article, Doug Brown, wanted what any hack journalist in the employ of a tabloid wants: to break the story first. So, rather than get the text messages through the Ohio Freedom of Information act, like the Toledo Blade did, he got them from "Andrea" herself.
Some have suggested here that "Andrea" may have doctored the texting exchanges between herself and Kevin. That would be an understatement of colossal proportions, because the extent to which she must have done so would have required an investment of many hours. It happens that Kevin obtained a print-out of his texts for October 2012 at some point before all of this hit the fan (or anyone even felt the slightest breeze from it) because he needed to get some phone numbers pertaining to his recruiting efforts. What this print-out shows is that there were nearly 1,100 texts exchanged between Kevin and "Andrea" in October alone, with hers slightly outnumbering his, and that on 21 of the 31 days of that month, she was the one who initiated the "conversation." (He has no plans to make anyone's life more miserable using this "evidence.")
While this, again, doesn't in any way change the fact that each and every sexually explicit or suggestive text he sent was absolutely wrong and in and of itself made him the wrong person for the job her held, it certainly throws into question other people's claims that Kevin was some kind of sociopathic monster who ruled by fear and aimed to bang his way across not only all of Ohio's college campuses but maybe the rest of the U.S. as well. What seems more plain is that he's a guy who pissed away his job by repeatedly coming on to women he shouldn't have. As a few people have emphasized with varying degrees of coherence, anyone in his position has the onus to *not* flirt with members of the team or respond to such flirting, *period*. No wiggle room there. It was bound to catch up with him and this time it did, and in the grand scheme of things, the fact that someone who evidently has plenty of shadiness to her own credit was at the center of his final unraveling doesn't matter. In fact, maybe it was even fitting.
On a final note, no, if you're wondering, Kevin didn't put me up to this, and will most likely never even read it.