This has turned out to be wonderful.
Timeline of the scandal through LetsRun eyes if anyone is interested.
Video is posted months ago showing coach touching athlete during workout
Board goes crazy, video is edited to remove touching
Everyone generally agrees it was kinda creepy
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Asst coach posts here promoting her own article about how the coach is endangering athletes
No specific details given
Board lights up about how coach is abusive - no details - very few recurring poster names, many seem to be random keystrokes indicating that only one or very few posters are backing up abuse claims under several monikers, board in general against coach
Separate debates go on about what a coach is and is not allowed to say about weight and eating. The side that is vilifying coach agrees that even passive comments about weight can trigger a girl into a downward spiral of eating disorder and no coach should ever say anything about weight
Coach fired
Alex P Keaton's Left Nut wants to know whether coach's comments were passive or if he actually forced girls into unhealthy habits and weights - is informed he is not entitled to such details, that he is an idiot with no work ethic and could never get into an ivy, is generally berated for asking for specifics before joining mob against coach
Slowly more details emerge (about the ongoings, not specifics about what coach did)
Turns out it's not 100% of athletes that think he's abusive, potentially only a small percentage - one of whom has a father on staff at university that led the investigation against coach. Father also ran at university but during a time that it was more of a club setting without strict enforcement of any team regulations
Board can't agree whether issue is about touching or coach being too strict about practice and/or weight
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Gotta say, still no details about what actually happened that led up to the firing which is quite unsatisfying. Apropos of nothing else -- a kind reminder to raise your daughters to be strong-willed independent women. Don't raise them to believe they are entitled to everything and that any discomfort, no matter how mild or intense, is cause for a full-scale meltdown.