University of Texas athletic department - behind the scenes

Wow! A bit of a disturbing read.

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It's a long read, but fascinating stuff.

Distracted Reader wrote:

It's a long read, but fascinating stuff.

long read is an understatement...that thing is a novel! Amazing someone can have that much scandal wrapped around her and still have a job! I mean, can an AD really force a girl out of school for an eating disorder or for being pregnant without being in violation of Title IX or some other women's rights BS?

Also, thought the part about Tonja was interesting. Surprised an assistant makes just as much as the head coach and clearly there is some undermining going on with her and Plonsky. I'll be curious to see who wins out. Mario v. Tonja/Plonsky?

My guess is that Tonja and Plonsky thought they had Mario dead to rights, but this article may have turned the table to Mario's favor...time to grab my popcorn!

Snitches get stitches

Meanwhile, an opening for another sprints job became available today.

Wow. Plonsky's gotta go!

She is a perfect example of what is wrong with college athletics nowadays.

JAD wrote:

Over the years I've heard many people talk about a bad "culture" in the athletic department at Texas and heard former coaches say things about losing their love for coaching at UT, or UT "changed me," etc. Never understood what they were talking about and always assumed people were just being overdramatic, but this article sure paints a dysfunctional situation there. A lot of stuff relating to the track program.

http://www.scout.com/college/texas/story/1792379-texas-women-s-ad-plonsky-asset-or-divisive

If one of those people is Ron Johnson, the guy who claimed (and still claims) to have coached at Texas, well he never actually coached at UTexas.

Whistle Blower wrote:

Snitches get stitches

Sounds like in this case SNATCHES get stitches. Or perhaps Snatches just get paid!

Uh oh spaghetti-os

The word on the street at First Rounds was the whistle blower was the pole vault coach, Sevin.

I heard that about Sevin too. Wouldn't be too surprising

Wow. I've never had a problem with Chris even as she kept rising thru the ranks at UT. Interesting read.

That's the point of the article. Subjective treatment

Astro wrote:

I heard that about Sevin too. Wouldn't be too surprising

Wouldn't be surprised if BOTH Tonja and Sevin tried undermining Mario. Weren't they both Interim heads while Mario was gone? Probably some shady deal worked with Plonsky.

Plonsky probably wanted Tonja to be HC, but needed more people to come to "dark side". I bet they promised Sevin an interim HC job to give him taste of what it'd be like without Mario in picture. They used him as pawn but likely had zero intention of ever using anyone other than TBB.

I can See Clearly Now wrote:

Distracted Reader wrote:

It's a long read, but fascinating stuff.

long read is an understatement...that thing is a novel! Amazing someone can have that much scandal wrapped around her and still have a job! I mean, can an AD really force a girl out of school for an eating disorder or for being pregnant without being in violation of Title IX or some other women's rights BS?

Also, thought the part about Tonja was interesting. Surprised an assistant makes just as much as the head coach and clearly there is some undermining going on with her and Plonsky. I'll be curious to see who wins out. Mario v. Tonja/Plonsky?

My guess is that Tonja and Plonsky thought they had Mario dead to rights, but this article may have turned the table to Mario's favor...time to grab my popcorn!

This is more Tom Herman versus Plonsky and diminishing her and her influence on the men's side...gameday, marketing, etc.

What the author and everyone here is afraid to say that female sports and especially Texas Lady Longhorn teams and the administration make up the "Lesbian Mafia".

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

That should have read "Lesbian Sports Mafia".