Boland leaves Baylor

Wow. He just kept on going after she didn't respond. And it was SO late. Comes across like he was into a few beers himself already and wanted to keep it going. Also reads like he maybe knew the first message itself was bad but kept on trying to lighten and fix the situation with further messages, which only came across as more inappropriate, desperate, and creepy.

Also, I know there's plenty of 21 and older college students, but it's a big assumption that she can even legally have beers.
 
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Sardines said:
I would not be happy with just a resignation, especially if he texted my daughter like that. They should've fired him on the spot. It's this sort of stuff that universities keep letting men off for harassing women, especially students!
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I would agree. It seems like based on some former college players tweets that this has been a pattern. Hopefully this is the end of his career.
 
Sardines said:
I would not be happy with just a resignation, especially if he texted my daughter like that. They should've fired him on the spot. It's this sort of stuff that universities keep letting men off for harassing women, especially students!
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I mean, it's Baylor, there was a contingent there that wanted to bring Art Briles back to coach football a few years after the scandal broke.
 
atatu said:
I mean, it's Baylor, there was a contingent there that wanted to bring Art Briles back to coach football a few years after the scandal broke.
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Yes, and they paid him 15 million to leave too. The thing is they believed Briles didn't "know" about the assault. You'd think covering up sexual/physical assault would be cause for firing. But now that Lozano's suit is still in progress, let's hope she gets some of those millions back!
Still with this one, text messages and everything, AND the previous issues, firing would be the right thing to do!
 
What is it about Baylor?

I grew up in a different part of the country and had not really heard much about that school. However, when I was in college, there was a scandal where our married men's basketball coach was caught sleeping with his student secretary. When it was discovered, the flood gates opened up and it turns out he had been doing that kind of stuff with many of the student age coeds, and even an underage girl at one of the summer camps. He lawyered-up and avoided jail time, but was fired and his wife divorced him. But guess where he ended up?

He joined Dave Bliss's coaching staff as an assistant at Baylor a year later. Anybody who was following basketball back then knows about what happened with Bliss and his crew. For me, Baylor always had a dank cloud in my mind because I couldn't believe they hired a guy like that. But it looks like they still do. Just the height of hypocrisy for a supposed Christian school.
 
This surprised me-- I talked to him a few times when he was at UVa, seemed like a good guy. His father in law also knew my college coach in MN, so we'd chat periodically. Obviously dismissal was the right call here-- texting a college student you have power over to go to a bar at 2 am is extremely unprofessional.
 
Long time out of following college tennis and I was just randomly thinking about this. I wonder how Boland has been cancelled so hard. How has he not had a redemption arc yet and landed another job somewhere in college tennis? What he did was scummy and it made sense to fire him and he has now served a few years in exile but was it so bad that he should be permanently shut out?

Think about what some other people in other college sports have done and are still coaching. Chris Beard in basketball and Hugh Freeze in football prime examples off the top of my head. I'm sure there are others.
 
bluetrain4 said:
I've told my Brian Boland story before. He went to St. Cloud Tech high school in St. Cloud Minnesota - state tennis power at the time (late 80s, early 90s). I played him in the Minnesota Section 8 team tournament final and lost. In Minnesota there's an entire team tournament separate from the individual tournament, like NCAAs.

Many year later, when he popped up as UVA coach, I thought the name sounded familiar and sure enough, it was him. All the way from St. Cloud to UVA and NCAA titles - I'm a little surprised he left.
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St. Cloud had the good tennis teams (Tech and Apollo) outside of the twin cities when I played high school in the late 80's/early 90's. But since then Rochester has had the power teams, and they have been really strong in the past few years. The city has produced a number of pros and D1 players (Butorac, Mattek Sands, Neel, Aney, Vile, Palen, etc.)
 
Vicious Vik said:
Long time out of following college tennis and I was just randomly thinking about this. I wonder how Boland has been cancelled so hard. How has he not had a redemption arc yet and landed another job somewhere in college tennis? What he did was scummy and it made sense to fire him and he has now served a few years in exile but was it so bad that he should be permanently shut out?

Think about what some other people in other college sports have done and are still coaching. Chris Beard in basketball and Hugh Freeze in football prime examples off the top of my head. I'm sure there are others.
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Someone popped into the Clemson tennis thread to say Clemson was talking to Boland during the last coaching search. I have no idea if that was true or not.
 
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