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More generally, if an institution doesn't want its coaches to be jerks and damage kids who aren't helping them win, they should make clear that they don't tolerate that behavior from coaches, rather than tolerating it for many years and then firing the coach for what they've done all along.

Well, this is really the issue, isn’t it. We hear so often in these cases how often student-athletes tried to raise concerns and got belittled, cut, threatened, isolated, or gaslit. Happened to me in college with a swim coach. That was a life changing bad experience. And there were no law firm investigations back in the day.

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More generally, if an institution doesn't want its coaches to be jerks and damage kids who aren't helping them win, they should make clear that they don't tolerate that behavior from coaches, rather than tolerating it for many years and then firing the coach for what they've done all along.

Well, this is really the issue, isn’t it. We hear so often in these cases how often student-athletes tried to raise concerns and got belittled, cut, threatened, isolated, or gaslit. Happened to me in college with a swim coach. That was a life changing bad experience. And there were no law firm investigations back in the day.