Gordon Monson: Does Utah State’s football coach deserve the benefit of the doubt? He didn’t give it to women.
Jul 04, 2024
When news emerges out of a football program and athletic department of the kind coming from Utah State this week, when a head football coach and an assistant athletic director are told they’ll be fired for reasons tied to Title IX policies, it gives pause for two things: 1) To mourn that ignorant attitudes and stupid decisions are still being held and made by prominent university sports leaders, and 2) to celebrate that when those misguided attitudes and decisions are held and made, there are consequences for them from the powers that be beyond the traditional wag of the finger and slap on the wrist.