Eric Peterson (former UCLA coach, now Tulane) married his UCLA athlete and former CA high school standout Alejandra Barrientos.
Eric Peterson (former UCLA coach, now Tulane) married his UCLA athlete and former CA high school standout Alejandra Barrientos.
Hi, I'm an athletics administrator at a major private university, and I'm corrupt. The following quote from the previously posted story link, completely flies right over my head, because, well, I'm power-hungry... and again, corrupt...
It's the fiction of the all-powerful professor embedded in the new campus codes that appalls me. And the kowtowing to the fiction - kowtowing wrapped in a vaguely feminist air of rectitude. If this is feminism, it is feminism hijacked by melodrama. The melodramatic imagination's obsession with helpless victims and powerful predators is what's shaping the conversation of the moment, to the detriment of those whose interest's are supposedly being protected, namely students. The result? Students' sense of vulnerability is skyrocketing.
Here is a link that is readable without subscription...
http://laurakipnis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Sexual-Paranoia-Strikes-Academe.pdfThere is so much in this story that I am simply too stupid to understand. But, I've been granted immunity to abuse my 'power', because it is recognized that I'm an idiot, and a useful idiot, at that.
Oh, and one more thing... I highly suggest that if anybody reading this has to face myself, or other administrators in dealing with "policy violations", don't audio record it... because, I might slip and call your situation something that it is not, and completely expose myself as a fraud.
Hoot-Hoot!!! (wait, is that a sexually inappropriate term? Did I just contradict myself? Everybody, shut up...)
They can, but not being academics, it's not the immediate ostracism and immediate firing that happens with professors. Professors having relationships with students damages the reputation of the university as a whole. Coaches are not academics and while part of the university, athletics is seen as very separate part, almost a private fiefdom depending on how much revenue producing sports bring in. Coach/athlete relationships are disreputable but are often handled in-house without immediate firing.
I just think it's incredibly unethical for a coach who is in an authority, power position to be dating an athlete. I don't care what the age is.
US Track and Field considers any type of boundary breach with regards to sexual, emotional or physical between a coach and athlete to be unethical, and for good reason. Coaches should not sleep with their athletes. Hello?! It's not rocket science.
http://www.usatf.org/Resources-for---/Coaches.aspx
and
http://safesport.org/what-is-safesport/misconduct-in-sport/emotional-physical-and-sexual/
If I'm correct the women's xc coach at Kentucky dates a former athlete. Also, didn't Layne Anderson's wife run for him?
In 2012 the NCAA provided all schools with a well written, well researched article called Staying in Bounds. It strongly encouraged (but did not require) NCAA schools to implement policies forbidding coach-athlete amorous relationships. It clearly outlined why it's wrong and what can(and does) happen as a result of these relationships.
http://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/Staying+in+Bounds+Final.pdf
For all people that do not see an issue with these types of situations, I STRONGLY recommend you read the article. It says all amorous relationships, even if mutual, constitute sexual abuse.
Most guys become coaches of the gal their banging. If she's fast it's their fast pass
Coach-athlete relationship will mostly die out now that trannies begin to take over female athletics.