NFL Coaching Changes: Who Should, Who Should Go

[DerbyCat]

As someone who works in a DI athletic department, I have to tell you that the administrators response doesn't surprise me in the least, although I would have expected better from someone who I thought was as classy as Joe Pa. DI coaches, especially football and basketball coaches, aren't expected to worry about anything but winning. I'm sure the AD told coach, "don't worry, we'll take care of it". The AD doesn't want ANY bad press about his department so he'll get his boss to sign off on burying this story and *hope* that it doesn't happen again on campus. I'm not surprised that the grad assistant and janitors didn't want to call police, no one wants to be the person to speak up in that situation because the fear is always there that you will lose your job and be black-balled. It is really hard to "do the right thing" if it can damage the reputation of a program - people think they'll be brought down as collateral damage.

I had an issue with our basketball program and while discussing it with an administrator I was told, "we're not going to bother coach with that, he just needs to worry about winning". Seriously? What ever happened to doing the right thing? College athletics is a business, ends justify the means.

[clyde]

Originally Posted by DerbyCat

As someone who works in a DI athletic department, I have to tell you that the administrators response doesn't surprise me in the least, although I would have expected better from someone who I thought was as classy as Joe Pa. DI coaches, especially football and basketball coaches, aren't expected to worry about anything but winning. I'm sure the AD told coach, "don't worry, we'll take care of it". The AD doesn't want ANY bad press about his department so he'll get his boss to sign off on burying this story and *hope* that it doesn't happen again on campus. I'm not surprised that the grad assistant and janitors didn't want to call police, no one wants to be the person to speak up in that situation because the fear is always there that you will lose your job and be black-balled. It is really hard to "do the right thing" if it can damage the reputation of a program - people think they'll be brought down as collateral damage.

I had an issue with our basketball program and while discussing it with an administrator I was told, "we're not going to bother coach with that, he just needs to worry about winning". Seriously? What ever happened to doing the right thing? College athletics is a business, ends justify the means.

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