OT- Bob Davie Suspended After Being Accused Of "Inappropriate Conduct"

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The University of New Mexico announced Thursday it is suspending head football coach Bob Davie for 30 days in the wake of a new report from an outside investigator.

A Chicago law firm hired by UNM says it could not conclude that football coaches or staff has obstructed with criminal investigations or misconduct cases involving players based on its review of three incidents, according to newly released documents.

But the firm is recommending leadership “take strong action to ensure that the University does not and will not — in any aspect of the University’s program, including athletics —tolerate sexual harassment, sexual assault, physical abuse or other prohibited misconduct against its students.” It is also urging greater oversight of the athletic department and other units “with respect to their handling of incidents of alleged misconduct” following its recent probe, according to the report it filed with UNM last month.

That includes the firm’s examination of one case in which a female student had reported to UNM Police that a football player had raped her.

Witnesses told Black that Davie had “held an all team meeting in which he told the players to ‘get some dirt on this whore,'” according to Hogan Marren’s report. The firm said it was not able to independently confirm Davie’s actual comments, as players and coaches it contacted said they weren’t at the meeting or didn’t remember Davie using those words or remembered only hearing they needed to protect their teammate and provide information to Davie.

However, its report states that Bob Davie personally met with a UNM police officer along with a player the coach said had information related to an investigation that another player had raped a female student. The player showed police video of the female student possibly posted after the alleged incident.

“Coach Davie argued that the video, which showed the student making comments about breaking up with someone but did not mention (the accused player) undermined the female student’s credibility by showing she was seeking revenge and continued to advocate on the (accused player’s) behalf with the officer,” the report states.

The alleged victim also later complained to student advocate complaining that football players talking about the rape case had said Davie “”was going to take care of it.” In following up, the Office of Equal Opportunity spoke to UNMPD who expressed concerns Davie was interfering with the investigation. One officer “confirmed that Coach Davie admitted he had spoken to the players about the case and produced two players who had found a (redacted word) video of the alleged victim.”

UNM suspending Davie in the wake of outside investigation

 

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