Rowan Seth Clev Whistleblower

It’s likely you that wants it to go to court. Only you. Just because.

I think Rowan will argue that they cannot fulfill (most of) the OPRA request without violating Clevenger's FERPA rights. You can't make an OPRA request to get public access to a student's letters of recommendation from his/her high school teachers or guidance counselors, for example, or any internal discussions about admitting, investigating, or punishing Clevenger.

I also think Rowan might have a problem if they were to kick Clevenger off the team, based on “unverified internet rumors” (as Clevenger’s team would argue). If Clevenger were excluded from the team with no additional evidence, he might potentially have grounds for a case against Rowan. Students do not have a “right” to be on sports teams, but schools can’t be reckless or unfair in their removal decisions; students do have a right to due process in
such matters.

In short, I think Rowan would have a hard time doing what people seem to want them do because of their own exposure. I am not a lawyer or supporter of Clevenger, but I can see
trouble for Rowan here.

If it actually somehow exposes (good or bad) Iowa State too, I see no issue with what they said.

OPRA requests take time to fulfill. The law may say the agency has to fulfill the request in 10 days or whatever, but as long as they are providing reasonable updates, they are still within their rights.

Agencies are not required to create documents or answer questions, only to provide existing information that is releasable to the public. The first crack at the OPRA request was poorly worded, but I think the subsequent requests looked a bit better.

Even still, I wouldn't expect a smoking gun to appear from these requests. They are still worth pursuing since it puts pressure on the university and their legal team.

I predict there won't be many developments in the next few weeks. SC will probably race a few fast times before the spring championship season, and then we'll likely have a repeat of indoors where this story resurfaces nationally and protests on the podium, etc.

Over the summer, I 100% expect to hear of runners transferring out of Rowan or quitting the team.

Good points. Rowan is unlikely to make a statement either way. They have their hands tied into a situation where they are forced to look the other way. Clevenger will be allowed to finish out his eligibility at Rowan unless something like a positive test happens.

Surely Rowan can remove him from the team based on the current situation. See Haverford from a few years ago.

By my count, today is business day 8 from the second OPRA on 3/21 (not the rebuttal to the first OPRA request). So they should have heard something yesterday. If RCS has lawyered up as rumored, my guess is they're crafting their response/post.

On the first OPRA request, perhaps. I argued pretty much the same a few weeks ago when they submitted it. But, if you look at the second one filed on 3/21, it makes 0 mention of Clevenger. Their only request for comms with Iowa was the presence and timing of any correspondence, not the content. They requested drug testing records but not the results. Just what drug tests were performed (generally by the department) and their cost.

All of which makes me think the rumor they lawyered up is accurate. Imo the first OPRA request made it very easy for Rowan to hide behind FERPA. The second was clearly targeted to avoid that pitfall.

I don't know if I posted it yet. But one of the posts from Instagram (Rowan clean sport) stated he had the video (the "alleged" one) analyzed by an expert in AI generated videos. So turns out it was 100% a real video. and see this from X:

I wonder why they didn’t take pictures of these supposed packages in his fridge. Seems like this is just teammates trying to create issues as there is no pics or mention of this until the let’s run article.

Someone stating something doesn’t make it necessarily true. Just more “allegedly” stuff. Let’s see the rceipts for the testing of the vid, the documentation. It would help stop all the finger pointing from all sides.

Why hasn't he signed a FERPA? Why did he only accuse people of "hacking" his email instead of saying the contents were false?

This might get nuked but it may seem that the Rowan defenders have resorted to just downvoting everything since their stuff keeps getting deleted.

But on an actual note, while very very optimistic, I want to believe that this situation will cause the NCAA to have a giant sit down round table and rewrite some policies on testing/transfers.

Looks like a lot of posts on both sides were jettisoned. Maybe LRC is worried about getring dragged into a lawsuit someone is desperate to initiate. If that’s the case I don’t blame them.

Nah, it was more because the Rowan kids were having some success in sidetracking the thread towards petty insults that weren't germane to the discussion.

Sorry you got malmo'd. He hit me with that one too.

They nuked their own thread about the piece Gault wrote with no notice, and when someone started a new one they made a statement along the lines of (not a direct quote) "We stand by our reporting. We have no further comment at this time". Granted, that one had some comments that could intimate violence on the track so I get it (this was pre-nationals, so people were speculating protest actions). When the brojos started the thread they mentioned the article had gotten reviewed by legal but by the time it was approved it was late so they waited until the end of the weekend to post it. So at least they had their ducks in a row going into it. Not sure why they're handling this in this way - given the purport to want clean sport, and this thread is literally about an IG account named "Rowan Clean Sport"

Idk, feels weird to selectively nuke comments here, when there are threads way out of control that make this one look tame.

The moderateion is incredibly unjust and unfair. Thank you for your attention to this matter.