Hadsell coached there for 15 years. There are probably 150 women that went through his program during that time. Yeah we all heard about the thing dating Shook but that was when she was a graduate assistant when that came out.
I know personally 3 big name D1 coaches that married athletes they coached in college. One of them coached his wife of 33 years when she was a high schooler.
They all would have been justifiably dismissed under the current climate about that stuff.
Hadsell deserves to fight this one sided sensational media attack. This is his career.
He obviously acknowledges he broke the guidelines his university enforces. But the sensational websites like deadspin and letsrun don't investigate. They just put it out for hits.
Looking for the next Jerry Sandusky story. Hadsell is or was a partier. He might have had a few beers after 5 and went to a practice. He may have hung out at the hotel bar drinking on road trips. Like other coaches, Bill Dellinger, Ron Warhurst. They never coached women though.
As far as I can tell he kept the line drawn. I don't believe he was buying cases of beer for the team and drinking with them after a big meet. There are allegations by one source that may not be factual.
He might have mentioned that going on birth control would be detrimemtal to their running. He denies it. But if he did is that sexual harrassment?
A well known coach of hurdlers that is still an icon (and who married one of his college athletes) sent an athlete home on a Greyhound bus travelling for getting caught buying a fried blueberry pie at McDonalds at an airport stop.
Hadsell needs to grow up but he's no monster or predator. This is serious stuff. Thrown out on the internet where any rumor is taken as facts.