Sounds like a bunch of SJW BS.
No one really says anything specific. Just that he made them uncomfortable. Sounds like he may make an inappropriate joke every once in a while.
Back in my day a coach joking around with his runners was part of building a relationship. I don't think kids today are used to adults in positions of power joking with them.
Isn't his wife on the coaching staff? I doubt there is anything sexually inappropriate since she's around the team every day.
What the?!?! How do you still have a job after something like that? I know coaches who have been "released" for far less. This guy actually laid hands on females, and made comments that went WAAAY past the proverbial "line."
Agree -- why is this person still employed?
Multiple complaints, but apparently through different channels -- Lehigh failing to connect the dots?
longboat wrote:
Agree -- why is this person still employed?
Multiple complaints, but apparently through different channels -- Lehigh failing to connect the dots?
Sounds like hes more of a Penn State type a coach, than Lehigh.
This isn't the 90's wrote:
Sounds like a bunch of SJW BS.
No one really says anything specific. Just that he made them uncomfortable. Sounds like he may make an inappropriate joke every once in a while.
Back in my day a coach joking around with his runners was part of building a relationship. I don't think kids today are used to adults in positions of power joking with them.
Isn't his wife on the coaching staff? I doubt there is anything sexually inappropriate since she's around the team every day.
Amen . No one likes a meanie for a coach . They can only be told how great they are .
PatriotLeagueInfo wrote:
https://thebrownandwhite.com/2019/08/02/track-and-field-head-coach-issues-apology-to-team-over-alleged-insensitive-comments/Thoughts?
This is pretty bad. I'm not sure if he should still be coaching to be honest. I think he should have consequences for his actions, maybe a year suspension without pay, maybe total dismissal. I'm not saying he should never be forgiven as some lines haven't been crossed but he needs to have a strong consequence.
Well at least he’s not doing Pill Cosby moves, drugging kids, and doing weird s&m sexual assaults...
Which one will crack first???
"The Brown and White" Sounds unprofessional all the way around.
Reminds me of like the Todd Packer of college coaches, if any of this is true.
"What has two thumbs and likes to bone your mom? This guy!"
This isn't the 90's wrote:
Sounds like a bunch of SJW BS.
No one really says anything specific. Just that he made them uncomfortable. Sounds like he may make an inappropriate joke every once in a while.
Back in my day a coach joking around with his runners was part of building a relationship. I don't think kids today are used to adults in positions of power joking with them.
Isn't his wife on the coaching staff? I doubt there is anything sexually inappropriate since she's around the team every day.
I think you are way off base here. Did you not read the part where the father of a female recruit heard him make sexual comments about a athlete and said she was hot. Then said his son thought she was hot. Made these comments at final dinner.
I am shocked that Lehigh didn’t fire him. Multiple complaints, kicking girls in the butt, hitting them on the butt with a stick, recruits parents writing the school. If this guy is this stupid doing stuff like this in 2019 the school is really leaving themselves vulnerable to a major lawsuit is something happens. I predict he will be gone before the month is out.
The coach sounds like a social misfit. Of course you have LRers defending the idiot. How hard can this be: 1) Do not touch your athlete's butts 2) Do not make sexual comments about or around your athletes
I should have added if he isn’t fired pretty soon the AD, title IX coordinator and anybody else who has information on this will be packing their bags. This has the makings of a pretty big story.
longboat wrote:
Agree -- why is this person still employed?
Multiple complaints, but apparently through different channels -- Lehigh failing to connect the dots?
How is it we have an award named after Bill Bowerman, the super creeper who peed on his athlete in the shower?
Hounddogharrier wrote:
This isn't the 90's wrote:
Sounds like a bunch of SJW BS.
No one really says anything specific. Just that he made them uncomfortable. Sounds like he may make an inappropriate joke every once in a while.
Back in my day a coach joking around with his runners was part of building a relationship. I don't think kids today are used to adults in positions of power joking with them.
Isn't his wife on the coaching staff? I doubt there is anything sexually inappropriate since she's around the team every day.
Amen . No one likes a meanie for a coach . They can only be told how great they are .
Yeah, nothing specific except for the multiple reports in the article of him slapping female athletes' butts. It is literally textbook sexual harassment.
Sounds like the administration is complicit. Although one of these complaints may not result in being fired, there is a whole lot of smoke here.
How is this guy still coaching?
Licketysplit wrote:
Hounddogharrier wrote:
Amen . No one likes a meanie for a coach . They can only be told how great they are .
Yeah, nothing specific except for the multiple reports in the article of him slapping female athletes' butts. It is literally textbook sexual harassment.
A case could be made that its assault, this guy would be best to resign immediately and disappear for a while.
My first inclination is to question the accuracy of things like this. As an ncaa coach, I can definitely say that a lot of kids will lie about anything. While I do believe that the vast majority tend to be decent, there are too many that have an axe to grind because of their own deficiencies and insecurities.
With that being said any of these touching incidents are true then he absolutely deserves to lose his job.
Hiram dude wrote:
My first inclination is to question the accuracy of things like this. As an ncaa coach, I can definitely say that a lot of kids will lie about anything. While I do believe that the vast majority tend to be decent, there are too many that have an axe to grind because of their own deficiencies and insecurities.
With that being said any of these touching incidents are true then he absolutely deserves to lose his job.
Is there really that much incentive to lie though, with several reports across multiple years and throughout different event groups? The biggest kicker in this whole thing is the prospective student athlete who's father reported him. What incentive is there to lie about that? Also how about the athlete who was able to leave the team while keeping her scholarship because of something he did? I know the easier solution at times is to sweep it under the rug as fast as possible but letting someone keep their scholarship if they had no case at all sets the administration up for failure in the future. Either they found the story credible and that's the action they took, and seemingly NONE against the coach, OR they just didn't want the fight which is a bad precedence.