Posted on 06/07/2007 7:06:28 PM PDT by abb
Duke University has reached a financial settlement with Mike Pressler, the former men's lacrosse coach who lost his job in the wake of since-debunked rape allegations involving his team.
Though the university would not disclose terms of the deal, a school official confirmed Thursday that Duke reached "an amicable, fair financial settlement" with Pressler a few months ago.
"Coach Pressler is an excellent coach and did a great job building the Duke men's lacrosse program," John Burness, Duke's vice president for public affairs, told The Associated Press. "Unfortunately last spring it was essential for the team to have a change of leadership in order to move forward.
"We regret the negative consequences this decision had on Coach Pressler. He and Duke reached an amicable, fair financial settlement in which Duke recognized his contributions to the lacrosse program and the circumstances of his departure."
Lee Southren, Pressler's agent, declined to comment Thursday night.
Pressler was in his 16th season at Duke when a woman told police that she was attacked by three players at a March 2006 team party where she was hired to perform as a stripper. The allegations eventually led the the university in Durham to cancel the remainder of the highly ranked team's season and accept Pressler's resignation.
Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans were indicted on charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual offense. They were later cleared by state prosecutors, who called them "innocent" victims of a "tragic rush to accuse."
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I’m just wondering if Nifong is going to get away with the **** he did.
I think Nifong should be in Jail .
What on Earth does that mean? He couldn't win the big game? He couldn't recruit (Besides white privileged jocks)? He couldn't attract paying spectators?
OR
He was the faculty scapegoat, it's not like we could fire a corrupt president and 88 others and gosh darn it some one had to be fired - why not the guy coaching the falsely accused. It seemed so PC at the time.
In other news, Duke University has announced that it will sell all of the buildings on the Eastern half of the campus and naming the remaining buildings on the western half "Property of Mike Pressler."
At the same press conference, Duke's President, Richard Brodhead introduced a new uniform that he himself will be wearing for the next two semesters. The uniform consists of a pink tu-tu, green spandex tights and a plain white shirt with his name "Dick" in large letters across his chest. The President says the uniform represents an experiment in tolerance and diversity and added that he welcomes the opportunity to proclaim himself a doo-doo head.
4 young men?
(Off topic: I went to wideawake.net ...WOW, big banner "Looking for Casual Sex?" and various kinky chat rooms, plus 'ads' for various thingies ...Howlins there?
Heck at my age the only performance enhancing stuff I look at has to do with my shuffleboard game ;^))
I’m really sick and tired of the way that college football and basketball are sold to the public as this “rah rah” celebration of old fashioned Americana, complete with brass bands and fresh faced cheerleaders. Meanwhile, our college campuses have been transformed into commie boot camps by the left wing professors and administrators.
Conservative sports fans can console themselves by saying “I’ll bet ‘Pa Joe ain’t no liberal”, “I’ll bet old Bobby Bowden ain’t no commie”, “I’ll bet Bobby Knight doesn’t hang out with professors from the women’s studies department”.
Well I say to hell with all of them. The magnificent “Coach K” is the most well known person at Duke. What has he said about this scandal? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. If he ain’t part of the solution, he’s part of the problem.
Sure would be nice if conservative sports fan would boycott the Bowl games and March madness. Well I can dream, can’t I?
Shame on all of us for watching these games and helping to finance these cesspoools of America hatred. I love sports as much as the next guy, but enough is enough.
Yes, should have been at least 7 digits.
jokepa made a contribution to the campaign of one of Jesse Helm’s last D opponents-former exec or CEO of a pharmaceutical co that run against Helms.
I dare you to tell Coach Knight to his face that he hangs out with Women’s Studies Profs.
I Posted the Correct Link to get to wideawakes at Post 29 .
You forgot the S , it’s wideawakes.net/forum
WideawakeS is a political forum site , & it’s a family friendly site .
At least two of them, a married couple, moved to Vanderbilt.
maybe a change of leadership AT THE TOP would have been a better move......
afterall, a fish stinks from the head down...
HMMM...Do you know something that we need/would like to know?
One of those embarrassing "eye for an eye" verses in the Old Testament requires that false accusers incur the same penalty they sought to impose upon the accused. I think God's ways make sense.
That tells me that is was not enough.
Anyway, what do Burness and Dickhead care? It's not their money.
Laugh out loud funny. Thanks
I guess part of the settlement is that Duke is allowed to just keep making up lies and refusing to acknowledge their many mistakes.
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