Stanford is always very mum after they fire people. We hear about it afterwards, such as when Weir, Lananna, Gerard, etc. were fired. It happens all the time. The Athletic Department is a huge corpration taking up 1/3rd of the farm. Stanford has serveral dozen athletic teams. It's merciless. Unlike the academic departments, 95% of the Athletic Department are NOT Stanford grads nor PAC-12 grads nor Ivy grads, thus there is no loyalty whatsoever. Employees have their computers confiscated, are escorted by guards, etc.