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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3117789, member: 9403"] In today's climate, I would not be at all surprised to see such a lawsuit, just to make a point. She's all but admitted the discriminatory practice - imagine the headlines and the bad PR for Notre Dame if it had to defend it. Moreover, these kinds of statements can be used as evidence that the employer in general is looking the other way to known gender discrimination by its managers, and that there's a pattern and practice of known discriminatory hiring, so if I were Notre Dame, I'd be really, really unhappy about her statements unless they're justifiable under the law, because they could hurt it its legal position in other, unrelated potential suits. Also: if there isn't an exception, the Dep't of Ed could bring an investigation for the university knowingly violating Title IX. In the Devos Dep't of Ed, anything's possible. And that doesn't take a male assistant coach suing. So I suspect MM knows she's on safe legal ground here, or she's really careless. [/QUOTE]