(03-23-2025, 08:50 AM)branner Wrote: (03-23-2025, 07:45 AM)needle Wrote: (03-23-2025, 06:57 AM)branner Wrote: People who are unwilling to put their names to accusations for fear of losing their jobs are cowards and unprincipled.
The first person to file a complaint did so after going to Tara VanDerveer to ask for advice on what to do, and it was Coach VanDerveer who then brought forward concerns to the athletic department administration, per this reporting (about the 2:55 mark in the video):
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/sports/u...n/3825246/
Thank you for posting that NBC Bay Area report, which includes—at roughly the 1:00 mark—images of the purported O'Brien report. To the extent the O'Brien report is real, it appears that source of the original complaint is a male who identifies as a female and that the department employs multiple such individuals. <SNIP>
To start, I was taught early on in my professional career to avoid including"...it appears..." in any written communiction like the plague. I slo-mo'ed the clip at about that point and NBC Bay Area made a MAJOR mistake by failing to fully redact the complainant's (last) name from the shot of the report they included at the ~1:00 mark.
My question is, is this name the basis on your assertion that the the complainant is a transgender (male) staff member, or is there other information you have to back up your assertion - if the former, I think you should retract your post unless you have evidence to the contrary, in which case, I'll accept the facts/circumstances as they actually occured - but not condone the bullying - and move on.
Don't get me wrong - to reiterate, I'm more interested in just the facts of the situation, and not speculation/suspicions, which as we all know can easily send us off on tangents &/or down really ugly rabbit holes.
Last, what I <really> friggin want is for the football ship to right itself and start an unprecedented chain of post-season bowl appearances, though this may have to wait until the 2026 season.