The Journal reports again on the ongoing Locksley saga, link. The coach is being punished for the physical confrontation involving an assistant coach.
Although there are two distinctly separate controversies, only one is being reported upon. There is the "alleged" "assault and battery" on a subordinate employee, and there is the handling of the assault and battery by UNM senior administrators.
UNM Athletic Director Paul Krebs initially responded to the assault and battery by slapping Locksley's wrist; verbal and written reprimands.
The ensuing storm led to an investigation by UNM's Human Resources department, after which Krebs upped the ante to a 10 day suspension without pay.
And now UNM President David Schmidly says, according to the Journal,
"I believe it is now time to move forward ..."He would like to move past Krebs' initial mishandling of the incident. No one will look into a good ol' boy cutting another good ol' boy some slack in a disciplinary process.
Paul Krebs is paid almost $400K per year, to be on top of things. Yet, he is not expected, apparently, to be on top of University Policy. Even Krebs admits to his ignorance;
"It was made clear to me we were not following university policy. (unclear who "we" are)The enhanced consequence will apparently end the controversy over the punishment for a head coach violating school policy. It doesn't even begin to address the controversy over the gross mishandling of the incident by the UNM Athletic Director.
It doesn't appear that that issue will be looked into by anybody. Schmidly is done with it; he is ready to "move forward".
Even Regent President Raymond Sanchez is done with it. The Journal reports he said;
"Hopefully this will put an end to the controversy."Gross mishandling of a significant problem, and rather than
addressing that issue, the good ol' boys will instead;
"move forward".
No good ol' boy's head will roll.
It isn't moving forward at all.
If anything, it is just more of the same old, same old.
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