But GW’s coach, who happens to be a friend of mine? Abusive? Gimme a break. Total crap. Didn’t happen. And if something maybe did happen, the players are pussies.
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A bunch of jock-buddies of Mike Lonergan promise us up and down that it’s all lies and there’s much more going on at GW but they’re not in a position to share it with you but when the real story comes out you’ll see it’s all crap.
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July 24th, 2016 at 1:51AM
So, I’m chair of my university’s athletic committee (and actually spent a year as an interim head coach of a program) and one of the new emphases I’ve developed is to try to wean our coaches from using terms like “pussy/ies” to describe male athletes. Now, I’m at a Division II university where being the faculty chair of this sort of body can have sway — a faculty chair of a committee (a civilian, if you will) couldn’t have much power at GW, never mind at a major DI program. But an AD ought to be able to make clear beforehand that any incidents where coaches caught calling players pussies (or fags, or what have you) are out. It couldn’t happen with Alabama football, but surely it could happen at lots of places that grant the power to the AD and presidents.
July 24th, 2016 at 6:07AM
Derek: Yes. If I understand you correctly, you’re underlining the fact that while major Div I programs are untouchable by anyone (faculty, administration), a minor Div I place like GW (a place which, unlike, say, Alabama, actually has serious academic commitments) should have in place people (ADs in particular; but probably lots of other athletic dept administrator/coach/liaison types) able to intervene in meaningful ways when something ugly and actionable starts to happen. The GW situation does sound like one in which repeated complaints were made to an athletic dept administrator who did little or nothing about them.
To make matters worse, my guess is that a place like GW is always going to feature academically-minded presidents who really don’t want to get involved in athletics.
July 25th, 2016 at 4:26PM
I think that’s basically right. The reality is that the biggest program at GW is men’s basketball, and it isn’t THAT big. And they don’t have a coach who is untouchable — maybe never have. What, Mike Jarvis is probably the biggest name they have had as men’s HC?
Interestingly, though, just down the way at Georgetown the men’s basketball program has managed to have a hell of a lot of pull at a school that has elite academics. THAT I’ve never quite understood.