Perhaps Steve needs to learn that an employer can be happy with your performance, then have concerns or doubts, speak with you about it, think you have gotten the message, and improved, and then see you slide back into the disappointing behavior, creeping on a female athlete.
I doubt many believe that Areson just moved to Houston because she liked his coaching and she had no designs on notching him.
The issue would not have been that they had sex while in NOP or not. It's pretty likely despite their protests that they did what comes natural -- since she ended up moving there, and following him, and then making the beast with two backs with him.
The issue in that kind of working relationship would be that Magness should not have been giving OR accepting any kind of flirtations, romantic overtones, sexual innuendo jokes, what ever.
In that kind of professional coaching to athlete relationship, for the times of the day that the male coach is working with a female athlete, he must professionally consider himself neutered of those behaviors -- his job depends on it -- as did Magness's.
He has some lack of life experience and some blind spots to not understand that he is not clean in this; he made behavioral mistakes.
Why would Alberto ask him what he saw while at Nike? Perhaps because, if the guy was delusional (and frankly receiving or giving romantic intentions in that kind of environment, Alberto wanted to know what other delusions the guy might have projected into his shifting narrative of his time at NOP.
When Magness had his first concerns the proper procedure in work work land is to not ask your superior in passing, it is to schedule a meeting with your direct report, express your concerns and cc your concerns or notes from such a meeting to HR. What you don't do is creep on your female charge. Receiving or giving.