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MU's new AD in a messy situation
Posted on: September 6, 2016 at 11:20:22 CT
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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/aug/30/sdsu-beth-burns-lawsuit-witness-stand/
the trial is expected to last as long as four weeks and include dozens of witnesses, including SDSU president Elliot Hirshman, outgoing athletic director Jim Sterk and men’s basketball coach Steve Fisher. It figures to provide a rare glimpse into the daily operations of a college athletic department, not all of it flattering.
Burns was fired in April 2013 after 16 years at SDSU, where she is the all-time winningest women’s basketball coach and where she had just completed a school-record 27-win season. She is claiming breach of contract (that she was fired without cause) and whistleblower retaliation because, in the words of attorney Ed Chapin, “she sought equal opportunities for the women’s basketball program.”
Chapin referenced notes that Sterk kept on Burns, saying: “The reason we can’t show them to you is Mr. Sterk destroyed this file. He says (a few months after Burns was fired), he threw those notes in the garbage. He knew, he had knowledge that a lawyer might be involved. Yet he destroyed the file.”
It is sure to be a subject of Sterk’s testimony, but when that will be and how it might affect the start of his new position at Missouri remain uncertain. Sterk was in Missouri last week but returned to San Diego over the weekend.
the trial is expected to last as long as four weeks and include dozens of witnesses, including SDSU president Elliot Hirshman, outgoing athletic director Jim Sterk and men’s basketball coach Steve Fisher. It figures to provide a rare glimpse into the daily operations of a college athletic department, not all of it flattering.
Burns was fired in April 2013 after 16 years at SDSU, where she is the all-time winningest women’s basketball coach and where she had just completed a school-record 27-win season. She is claiming breach of contract (that she was fired without cause) and whistleblower retaliation because, in the words of attorney Ed Chapin, “she sought equal opportunities for the women’s basketball program.”
Chapin referenced notes that Sterk kept on Burns, saying: “The reason we can’t show them to you is Mr. Sterk destroyed this file. He says (a few months after Burns was fired), he threw those notes in the garbage. He knew, he had knowledge that a lawyer might be involved. Yet he destroyed the file.”
It is sure to be a subject of Sterk’s testimony, but when that will be and how it might affect the start of his new position at Missouri remain uncertain. Sterk was in Missouri last week but returned to San Diego over the weekend.
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