I can't say I agree with this. I see if falling under a "sexual harrassment" type of incident. In some cases, those can be career killers. In others, $ is the salve for all wounds.
For me, as well as for most (I would hope) this isn't at all an issue about Pokey being gay. Who cares? Is she not a capable coach/person either way? I think she is, but this is worse. This is an issue about relations between a coach and a player (much like a professor with a student), it's wrong whether heterosexual or homosexual. She should be chastised for her actions with that player/players, not her sexuality. :geauxtige:geauxtige
Actually it happens all the time. Students and professors are all consenting adults. It's only a problem if harassment is an issue. Consenting relationships are perfectly legal, even though the university frowns on it.
We are on the same page. I do wonder, was it one of the parties involved that came forward about it? If so, this could get dicey. Was it the asst. coach that revealed the information? If so, why? Because it was a wrong thing happening or other motivations?
Before I comment, I assume this is still all alleged and that everything we're saying could be nonsense anyway. But, yeah, I don't think this is simply, "Oh Pokey's just a lesbian, she'll get a job in California easy." If she had sexual contact with someone who was at the moment playing on the team, this brazenly violates I would think the coach-player trust relationship (the elder head coach, even if Pokey is fairly young, essentially taking advantage of a subordinate), and it's also a big deal in terms of parents. If I were the father of a daughter who was being recruited to play college basketball, how could I trust that a coach like her wouldn't try to sexually use her? If this was Pokey having a relationship with a former player, meaning at the time of contact was a former player, I think she could resurface somewhere significant after a year or two, likely somewhere on the coasts. Despite the age difference, that player would have no longer been a subordinate. If she did this with someone who was then on the team, I think she's in deep trouble professionally. She'll end up somewhere since she wasn't breaking the law, but it would be at some backwater we've hardly heard of, and possibly as an assistant, and probably after a significant period of time. This has nothing to do with homosexuality. There are more serious issues here than that.
I suspect its a lovers spat which makes the motivation pretty clear. It just goes to show you how dangerous work relationships can be if thats the case. I doubt this is nonsense of she wouldnt have resigned. I also suspect this may have taken place with a player who was on the roster at the time or a current player. If it was a former player then it shouldnt have resulted in a resignation because we would have 2 consenting adults and no misconduct despite the age difference. Its all going to surface but it makes sense that much of our speculation about the truth will probably be close to accurate. Just like much of our speculation yesterday (in the deleted topic) ended up being accurate.
Nobody knows. All that has been reported is that "someone in the basketball program" informed "LSU". When Pokey heard that LSU knew, she resigned. It's almost certainly not a case of Bob Starkey trying to be ambitious. He's a career assistant under Dale Brown, Sue Gunter, and Pokey Chatman and he's not going to apply for the permanent head coach position. I suspect that basketball program gossip just became athletic department gossip and reached the AD, who informed the chancellor.
lets say hypothetically, there was a coach who lived with her lover for a few years who unexpectedly walked in on coach during an act with a player. then jilted one went to the assistant which created an avalanche. lets hypothetically say this happened.
