Also, I sincerely hope the school is blanketing the team with mental health resources. Rojo mentioned it in his initial post but this really feels like a situation that could result in suicides.
Looks like she (Hanna) is removed now as well from the coaching page.
Gannett (the parent company of both USA Today and IndyStar) is absolute trash. Stories about abuse this heinous should not be hidden behind a paywall. Paywalls are for stories like "The Top Three Doggy Vacation Destinations this Fall", NOT for brave women recounting horrific abuse in the hopes of protecting others.
Imagine if the first news outlets to write about Nasar or Sandusky put those stories behind a paywall. But I guess I'm naive and think that Gannett will put public good above profits for even a second.
It was the Indy Star that broke the Nasar case. Same pay wall company. USA Gymnastics is just way bigger then Huntington. Not saying it doesn't deserve the media attention, but it was much bigger. I think we will see more women come forward in the coming days. The Johnsons didn't just start with these few.
Stories about abuse this heinous should not be hidden behind a paywall.
I get what you're saying, and I agree with the sentiment. But somebody has to pay the guy that researched and wrote the article.
One could argue that if you want to support good investigative journalism like this, then you should pay the $1 to read the article. Otherwise, wait 24 hours for the rest of the media outlet to pick it up.
Also, I sincerely hope the school is blanketing the team with mental health resources. Rojo mentioned it in his initial post but this really feels like a situation that could result in suicides.
Looks like she (Hanna) is removed now as well from the coaching page.
Stories about abuse this heinous should not be hidden behind a paywall.
I get what you're saying, and I agree with the sentiment. But somebody has to pay the guy that researched and wrote the article.
One could argue that if you want to support good investigative journalism like this, then you should pay the $1 to read the article. Otherwise, wait 24 hours for the rest of the media outlet to pick it up.
Yeah I completely understand that advertising revenue alone isn't enough to keep the lights on at probably any small news outlet. I also don't have any problem paying for journalism, in fact I'm subscribed to two newspapers, albeit national ones.
What I could have done a better job getting across in my original post is that news like this being as accessible as possible helps it reach eyes outside of our bubble. And while the stories about the original story are great, they won't be as hard hitting as the first piece. Anyone reading LetsRun probably cares enough to find a way to bypass the paywall, but the average person might never know about this if the content is constantly paywalled. Average people should know about this too, even if they aren't going to be as passionate as the crowd on here.
I think a balance can be found between putting a paywall behind content that is interesting and will likely provide subscription revenue, while making stories like this accessible to people who don't go out of their way to read running news.
Following up on the financial angle of this scandal (my post 220 and ForFusion 202): Follow. The. Money. HU is already hurting for tuition-paying students, is in competition with many other small, faith-based, Evangelical Christian schools for a finite pool of potential students. Any hint of impropriety (PEDs, sex, cover up) can tip the applicant balance away from HU. The PEDs are important because that is one reason why Lauren hid her husband’s sex crimes from the university. She was afraid that any investigation would uncover the drug use (it did) and put her job and her recruiting in jeopardy. But PEDs are also the reason that HU let Nick continue contact with the runners even after his conviction. He was the conduit to the PEDs. So, the university turned a blind eye in order to keep “winning.” Even more important: ForFusion says HU “… just raised 56.6 million dollars in August. Seems like they have a good chunk of change in their pockets right now.” Wrong on two counts. They raised that money over the course of a seven-year capital campaign, and that money is not in their pockets. It is in pledges, not in the bank, and pledges can be rescinded at any time. And donors don‘t like to be associated with slime (see MIT and Jeffrey Epstein), so the risk of withdrawal of at least some of those pledges is very real. This is why Sherilyn Emberton’s letter to the HU board of trustees simply asks for their support in difficult times (translation: please make sure the money keeps coming in).
I think the PED issue is not a consideration for the University that's just noise. But the sex abuse is an issue for both supporters and will have an impact on potiential enrollment. Since the university has been supporting and championing this program for some time now, it looks really bad, administrators (AD, VP of Spiritual Formation, VP of Student Life) have to go. The sooner the better.
Is it reasonable to think that Austin Roark, the head track coach who is now interim XC coach, was unaware of what was going on with the distance coaches/runners?
I would have to disagree. Especially in the manner the potential PEDs were administered. Unsafe for any athletes, especially when they don’t even know what is being injected. It’s unfathomable to be given any injectable by a coach and not a doctor or medical professional.
As a potential donor or athlete, it would make me very hesitant that administration would turn a blind eye to PED or any medication use, that isn’t governed by a doctor. This would discredit any accomplishments along with the fact it is morally wrong in many ways.
Is it reasonable to think that Austin Roark, the head track coach who is now interim XC coach, was unaware of what was going on with the distance coaches/runners?
It's prudent to wait & see. Give him the benefit of the doubt. I don't think we should assume other coaches (aside from those named and on the xc staff) were complicit until there is some sort of evidence to support that.
I would have to disagree. Especially in the manner the potential PEDs were administered. Unsafe for any athletes, especially when they don’t even know what is being injected. It’s unfathomable to be given any injectable by a coach and not a doctor or medical professional.
As a potential donor or athlete, it would make me very hesitant that administration would turn a blind eye to PED or any medication use, that isn’t governed by a doctor. This would discredit any accomplishments along with the fact it is morally wrong in many ways.
Agreed... Hell in that kind of conservative circle even if he was just injecting a Covid-19 vaccine against their will it would probably cause more outrage than the sexual assault/rape allegations.
The sad truth is that if it doesn't effect white adult males then the powers that be do the bare minimum to get the mob to stop annoying them with this thing they don't care about. They put Hines and Lauren Johnson on leave yesterday not because they thought they should, but because of the 'annoying journalists and keyboard warriors'. They were not swift to act after initial incident or the current lawsuit and story dropped.
Yet IHSAA hasn't attempted to move a xc semi state. Gotto love the money driven association that is more worried about money and inconvenience then athlete safety.
