It’s really been the year of the coaches, hasn’t it? These incredibly well compensated university employees (at public universities they tend to have the highest state salary) can accumulate all the losses, scandals, and lawsuits they like – there’s always another school begging for them to take millions of dollars and be the most powerful person on campus.
Take Mike Kramer, fired by Montana State, where he didn’t notice or whatever a sophisticated drug market run by a bunch of his players. The drug scandal and a nasty lawsuit behind him, Kramer was pantingly courted by Idaho State, which knew a winner when it saw one.
So now the police are investigating Kramer because he shoved a player a mite too hard (he’s been accused of this sort of thing in the past), and the player is hurt, angry, and suing. Plus there’s a videotape of the incident.
I know what you’re saying. But UD, it’s not as though he forced him to have sex in a shower! Point taken. Still, it’s kind of disturbing…
October 20th, 2012 at 9:24PM
I hadn’t thought about how the sub-basement behavior of Coach Sandusky could be used to immunize everyone on all the upper floors of horrible conduct against censure. Thanks!!