re: Former tennis player goes public on Davis.*Interesting Updates*

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the attacks on the victim or the white knighting for her.

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Really? You are struggling with this?

Wrong. And there was another girl who went public just to cancel ZVR on Twitter a couple of days ago. She was that traumatized by Zack's statement of facts that she had to break her silence! Please don't put two and two together folks !!
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I’m not sure which is worse, the attacks on the victim or the white knighting for her.

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Imagine having a hard time deciding which of these is worse. On one hand you have people attacking a known, confirmed abuse victim because she spoke out against the tennis coach and disgraced former football player, neither of which this board gave a flying frick about 72 hours ago. On the other you have people defending her and saying abuse isn’t okay.

Gee, very tough choice.

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I don’t know how anyone in the LSU admin survives this

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The people who are directly linked and have evidence against them are going to get fired. It may not happen tomorrow, but it’s going to happen. It could even go worse for them than just being fired since Title IX is federal law. However, right now it’s the Tennis coaches, the trainer and Verge Ausberry. I’m sure others across the University will be implicated, but who knows how many and what departments they will be in.

If Alleva and Alexander were still here, I don’t think they could skate on this. However, I don’t think there is any way Woodward takes any kind of fall for this. He’s actually set up to be the hero if he handles the investigation and aftermath right. And the President is interim, so who knows with him. He may not be retained, but he isn’t to blame for any of this.

Unless ironclad evidence comes out against Orgeron, he’s not getting fired. He would sue over anything short of that and the school would still have to pay a big settlement in place of a buyout. The only way to fire him with cause and avoid a suit is to have irrefutable evidence. Im not saying that can’t happen, but you would think USA Today would have hammered that for more attention after a year of digging if they had any direct links. They trashed a few players who were cleared of their issues, but they clearly danced around pointing any direct allegations at Orgeron.

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My question is, does the 'protocols' require the abused/victim to reach out to the LSU official personally or does any form of allegations by close family and friends sufficient enough to start the Title IX process? The same question could be said for Verge. Protocol.

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my understanding (may not be correct) is that once a University official become aware of an allegation, they must report it to Title IX.
i don’t think it specifies that the victim themselves have to make the accusation.

This is more of an indictment of coach Sell than LSU in general. The athletic director also gets lumped in since this seems to be systemic in the athletetic department.

Inn not aware of any NON athletic sexual assaults that have been ignored


What will happen here is that the atheistic dept likely gets a heavy weeding if not a gut job.

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Edited: I answered my question. Verge and the Sells should have contacted LSU official and proceeded with Title IX.

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Yep. Considering that there are already multiple witnesses lined up against the Sells, I don’t see how they survive. Ausberry is in the same boat since his has now gone on record about his involvement. It will be interesting to see how many more people school-wide this thing will eventually connect to.

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If you're talking about victims who are minors, it's not the same thing.

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Why?

A large fact is missing. The Tennis player was not a student at LSU when the incident occurred. Drake told Verge she was lying in the phone conversation. Verge told Drake to cooperate with the police and to report the incident. Verge took all necessary steps.

A title IX report would not pertain to non LSU students. Drake was punished by LSU and prosecuted by the 19th JDC DA.

I've been wondering if there is some reason for this title IX case to shake out like it has. Up until this report it seems that LSU had been overzealously safe when handling serious issues. We will see.