How did this baseball program fall this quickly?

the story broke a year ago about this time
Luke Heimlich sex crime surfaces as Oregon State baseball nears ...
..... 15 years old when the crime occurred in his family's home in Puyallup, Washington. Heimlich pleaded guilty to a single charge of sexually molesting his 6-year-old niece. As a juvenile, his Washington record was wiped clean after completing court ordered rehabilitation.

"Oregon State does not have a policy barring student-athletes with prior felony convictions from competition. And the athletic department, like the university at large, does not ask student-athletes to disclose criminal convictions during the admissions process", was OSU's statement,.. but evidence shows Heimlich disclosed his 2012 conviction to Oregon State prior to joining the team in 2014.

Under Oregon law he must register as a sex offender, Heimlich registered as such in Benton County, Or. after arriving at Oregon State,.. he was cited in April 2017 for missing an annual update, it put the case in the Oregon court records for the first time,.. That's when an Oregonian reporter found and broke the story

he's a senior, I just want him to go away, far away

 

I'm sure it was purely scientific research