My Athletic Director was FIRED

[DerbyCat]

I'm not sure if I'm still stunned or finally completely pissed off. After less than seven months on the job, the university president has fired my boss, the Athletic Director, at Eastern Washington Univeristy. It was a political decision made by petty little people and was totally unjustified. Here's the short (or as short as I can make it) version of the story.

Dr. Hamilton (his nickname was D-Ham) came to EWU last September after having worked at Chicago State, Bowling Green, Duke, Penn State, etc. He played football for Joe Pa at Penn State and is a man of great integrity. He came to EWU and started finding NCAA violation in the department and was trying to clean it up. Well, needless to say, the violators didn't like the thought of a house cleaning so they started discrediting him. People affiliated with a couple of our sports programs filed two unfounded sexual harassment claims against him, others went to members of the Board of Trustees and complained that D-Ham was a bully as a manager, didn't listen and was a poor comunicator. None of this was true, he just held people accountable (which previous administrations failed to do), told them they were breaking rules, didn't listen to their excuses and made it clear that failure to comply would result in termination. D-Ham tried to bring his vast experience to a little school where most of the coaches and staff had little to no other college athletic experience and show them how to be a legit mid-major program. They feared for their comfortable, high-paying jobs (and the easy work schedule compared to other D-I college coaches) and lashed out at him like a bunch of wounded animals. Our spineless president caved into the pressure and let him go with no previous warning. I am amazingly disappointed and can't stand to even look at some of the people that I have to work with...

I've worked at two other D-I schools and know how athletics is suppose to work - if you get a new boss and you don't like his management style, YOU find a new job, you don't ruin a mans reputation and damage his livelyhood because you're a p*ssy who doesn't want to leave his cushy job. To top it off, the local newspaper wrote a one-sided negative hatchet job on the firing - but that should be expected from a hack (I can't even call him a journalist) that's buddy-buddy with one of the coaches that discredited D-Ham and doesn't understand investigation journalism.

I know that karma will even the score but still, I'm completely disgusted.