DeMoss named interim HC; one player speaks up to dispel rumors

[Bayareahusky]

This story just gets sadder (and creepier) as the details come out.....

The "inappropriate" relationship....... then the pregnancy rumor, then one of the Marquette transfers feels she has to clear her name by posting picture of her, in her lifted shirt, showing flat abs.....

and now the allegation by virtually the whole rest of the team to the effect that the woman Tyler had affair with was treated with favoritism..... not held to the standard as the rest of the team was.....

that is ultimately sad..... if Tyler wanted to be a jerk.... OK.... the young woman, whatever her part in this.... OK, but to affect the entire rest of the team adverse.y... to the point they had to call for a meeting...

It is very sad....

 

[ThisJustIn]

Two Consenting Adults.

Nope. Very complicated and insidious power dynamic at play here (Unless, of course, you're ok with a professor sleeping with a student... oh a teacher sleeping with an 17year old).

After the LSU/Pokey Chatman todo, every and any NCAA institution should have made sure they had a clear "professional behavior' policy. I wrote an epically long piece for the WBCA in 2005 when there seemed to be a flurry of sexual misconduct by coaches. You may recall the Seattle piece "Coaches who Prey" which outlined, in pretty horrifying detail, how high school coaches were shuffled from school to school to avoid publicity. Not unlike a religious institution we all know.

Policies won't prevent stupidity and line crossing, but at least folks have some recourse...

 

[veryolddog]

After reading this thread and the other threads, I am a little confused about who was involved with T. Summitt. It seems that Pumroy and Santos were both mentioned. Was he involved with both and got Pumroy pregnant? Or, was it just Pumroy? Or, is the pregnancy a myth?

My wife has very definite opinions about where T. Summitt's brain is located that I cannot post here. But, as a good husband, my wife is always right.

 

[pinotbear]

Nope. Very complicated and insidious power dynamic at play here (Unless, of course, you're ok with a professor sleeping with a student... oh a teacher sleeping with an 17year old).

After the LSU/Pokey Chatman todo, every and any NCAA institution should have made sure they had a clear "professional behavior' policy. I wrote an epically long piece for the WBCA in 2005 when there seemed to be a flurry of sexual misconduct by coaches. You may recall the Seattle piece "Coaches who Prey" which outlined, in pretty horrifying detail, how high school coaches were shuffled from school to school to avoid publicity. Not unlike a religious institution we all know.

Policies won't prevent stupidity and line crossing, but at least folks have some recourse...

The sad thing is, TJI, there are a lot of folks who are OK with a professor sleeping with a student. I remember reading a letter in "The Chronicle of Higher Education", maybe 20 years ago or so, from a UVA professor defending the practice, explaining how healthy and educational it was for the student. While I was working at Connecticut College in New London about the same era, a policy forbidding such relationships was shot down by the faculty. Mind you, that had more to do with a power struggle between the college president and the faculty than anything, but, still..