ThisIsWhyIQuitCoaching wrote:
"The Brown and White was tipped to the allegations by a former athlete, who has since transferred, and investigated numerous allegations against the coach, reviewing reports and emails shared by sources and reaching out to dozens of individuals close to the team in order to obtain confirmation of certain claims. "
I was a high school coach for 20+ years. I'll never coach again. I was never subject to what this guy is going through but the tides changed in this regard to all of these things between 1995-2016.
Sounds like former athlete played a role in the investigation....sour grapes perhaps.
College coaches have to make calls on what you run and how you train and sometimes when collegiate athletes do not improve they point the finger at the coach. It is as simple as that. Maybe there was a discipline situation where the kid got in trouble.
The hitting with batons (sticks?) and inappropriate touching.....I don't know.....maybe a misinterpretation?
I saw some of this happen at the college level - with opposing coaches - but rarely at the high school level and I personally would never be involved with that behavior. When you are teacher, you tend to bring your habits from the classroom to the track and would never touch a kid. However, I see "numerous" and "multiple" used then we find out it is 5/120 athletes. Sounds like one of those transferred and the other quit the team. To be honest, I'm thinking there was more going on with those kids.
So now we are down to 3 kids, an assistant who possibly wants the head coaching job, and a parent.
The number should be zero but the adults here, I'd love to hear more about their takes....but I'm doubtful.
If he had crossed the line, they would have fired him. He must be a good coach and at the university level these days, if you go after someone's sexuality, you are GONE....so I'm thinking they didn't come up with much in the investigation.
Plenty of coaches would grab the Lehigh job in a second so the fact he did NOT get fired says to me the accusations were questionable at best, fabricated at worst.
I'm not saying the coach is innocent. I don't know him. However, I'm not sure why ANYONE would want to coach with these factors coming at them daily. If you have run in college (I ran D1) you have firsthand knowledge of these situations in one way or another. And there are plenty of bad coaches out there.