TX bends over to Bev Kearney

She played the trifecta card: ethnicity/gender/orientation.

She's set for life.

house of cards wrote:

She played the trifecta card: ethnicity/gender/orientation.

She's set for life.

Hardly...I'm sure they settled for half the million she asked for, with 20% of that going to atty fees. Can't live the rest of your life on $400k, and no school in their right mind would hire her after pulling something like that.

I think Bev will be coaching again at a college/university.

house of cards wrote:

She played the trifecta card: ethnicity/gender/orientation.

She's set for life.

It also seems she had a strong case since Applewhite did something similar and was punished far less severely.

Since UT had already sunk $500,000 into getting it dismissed, settling even for $1M is cheaper than continuing to fight it.

If UT had fired Applewhite, her case would have gone no where.

Luv2Run wrote:

house of cards wrote:

She played the trifecta card: ethnicity/gender/orientation.

She's set for life.

It also seems she had a strong case since Applewhite did something similar and was punished far less severely.

Since UT had already sunk $500,000 into getting it dismissed, settling even for $1M is cheaper than continuing to fight it.

If UT had fired Applewhite, her case would have gone no where.

Bullpockey on Applewhite. First of all:

1. Applewhite came forward voluntarily and IMMEDIATELY; and showed REMORSE.

2. Applewhite had a 1 time dalliance in the intoxication of a national championship win.

3. The dalliance was with a colleague, not a student/athlete.

4. A more accurate comparison was with the black male football operations staffer who was sexually harrassing young women in the athletic dept. He was terminated as was Bev.

5. IMHO Bev threw Applewhite and his entire family under the bus.

6. When did Bev ever show remorse?

So wait, she sleeps with a student athlete, the biggest faux paux in coaching, and she thinks she was somehow discriminated against when being fired? Dismissal is pretty standard procedure for ANY coach that does such things. I mean, y'all see the way male coaches are skewered on here for such things.

Will probably now file suit against any school that doesn't hire her. Good luck NCAA

Well, not a colleague but a student trainer. Major slept with a student trainer. Just to be 100% clear.

And Bev did not sexually harass anyone. She had a consensual relationship.

Dude I’ve lived in Texas. The good ole’ boy system is alive in well there. Do you actually think Bev being black, female, and gay had nothing to do with how the two situations were handled?

Not saying Bev was in the right, not by any means. But “boys will be boys” is basically what they did to Major and career-ending termination is what they did to Bev.

Honest Joe wrote:

Well, not a colleague but a student trainer. Major slept with a student trainer. Just to be 100% clear.

And Bev did not sexually harass anyone. She had a consensual relationship.

Dude I’ve lived in Texas. The good ole’ boy system is alive in well there. Do you actually think Bev being black, female, and gay had nothing to do with how the two situations were handled?

Not saying Bev was in the right, not by any means. But “boys will be boys” is basically what they did to Major and career-ending termination is what they did to Bev.

Guess you didn't read. One time occurrence for Applewhite.

Also, Applewhite self-reported the next day. Different than what Bev did.

Didn't Bev's affair go on for years? Also, wasn't the athlete living with Bev?

Quite different than Applewhite's one night stand. Who wouldn't have been exhilarated with a Fiesta Bowl win?

How say u?

Kearney was very, very successful at Texas first of all. How many national championships did Applewhite bring as player and assistant coach? I think that they go overboard on consensual relationships between adults as cause for termination and suspension because people are desiring beings like any other animal. Substantial, not incidental, harassment and abuse of power are where you should draw the line. In my memory, Kearney was no saint in all of this, using her power in ways that favored some over others based on whether they were close to her. So, it was not about just one relationship. The university should have settled immediately. The lawsuits with universities go on for years because they have deep pockets, law firms on retainer, and usually can wait it out over their former employees, whose reputations are destroyed in the process.

Yea Right! wrote:

I think Bev will be coaching again at a college/university.

So, why hasn't she been coaching anywhere the last 5 years since Texas fired her? She's done since she had a relationship with a student-athlete and provided them improper benefits -- housing, meals, car.

You don't know as much as you think you do,. or you have a very bad memory.

1. Applewhite did not come forward voluntarily. The student trainer was completing a UT job application and there was a question regarding "relationship with UT employee". She obviously didn't understand the difference between "relationship" and "fling" and wrote down Applewhite's name. It wasn't until several months/years later that it was uncovered.

2. The fling was when the team was at the Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State; not a national championship game

3. A student-trainer is not a "colleague" of the Offensive Coordinator; closer to being a subordinate even though she didn't report directly to him