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

I’m not concerned about Davis being innocent or guilt. He got arrested. He plead guilty.

I am Concerns about who at LSU knew what when.

He was suspended from the team and arrested.

The question is how long LSU and LSU football knew before he was suspended.

Ok just remove the tennis program as our punishment and some administration people. Everybody can move along now.

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Ok just remove the tennis program as our punishment and some administration people. Everybody can move along now.

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Does it qualify as ironic that a program that only exists to satisfy Title IX requirements is the biggest failure in satisfying Title IX requirements?

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What part of Drake Davis pleads guilty are you retards not getting?

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He was charged with felonies and pled guilty to multiple misdemeanors. His 18 month sentence was suspended for timed served after days in jail. If the young women had no culpability, where is the outrage over the deal the DA and Judge cut for Davis.

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The question is how long LSU and LSU football knew before he was suspended.

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And that's where that text comes in:

- indicates Verge knew about by admission of guilt by Davis
- shows a delay in action; text was 4/14, Davis removed 8/26
- shows negligence because an admission of guilt by Davis was not acted on and there was second, at least, incident for which Davis was arrested for (failure to take action resulted in her being put in harms way)
- shows that it was an Admin official, not just coach (it was to Verge)
- indicates that she wants to complain to Title IX and the police, which appears not to have happened implying LSU deterred her from both.

Like I said in other posts, that one text (or series of texts) is every institutional accusation wrapped into a couple of sentences that can't be found on Verge's phone, therefore the author assumes it was deleted. We don't even know that LSU is allowing access to the full texts so it might be there, might not. But him deleting it, adding to the fuel that it is an institutional issue is an assumption and hasn't been corroborated by BRPD (at least the best I can find) whom supposedly found it on Davis' phone after the arrest in August and then provided it to USA Today. It is well known, Davis plead guilty; there was no trial for that text to enter the public domain. It very well could have come from a FOIA request.

If that text is real:
- Verge had an admission of assault directly from Davis, he should have been suspended immediately at least IN APRIL.
- Verge should have informed Title IX, immediately and provided them with text. He should have initiated the suspension himself or Alleva should have and informed Orgeron of the action and why.
- Verge should have, at a minimum, contacted law enforcement to see if a report had been made.
- Title IX should have taken from there, regardless if tennis player wanted to file a complaint. That would have led the Title IX investigation to Sell.

So yes, if that text is real LSU athletic admin, not coaches, ignored, sat on, delayed, and other adjectives regarding assault by a football player on a fellow student because Davis was not suspended until following an arrest in August after which they acted swiftly.

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Who thought Women’s Tennis coaches would be the lynchpin that brought the whole thing down

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Is there any indication of why the tennis coaches would have sat on this information? That’s the one thing that makes no sense to me. What coach doesn’t stick up for her players? I don’t care if football was involved. It’s bizarre.

As we all go through life, it's essential to use common sense - this holds true for ALL of us, but especially student athletes.

If my house is on fire: I call the fire department
If I get in a car accident: I call the police
If I'm sick and unable to work: I call my office
If I'm sexually assaulted: I call the police

I'm struggling to understand the mindset of a person that wouldn't do this for a felony crime, as in sexual assault.

Here's another one involving Drake Davis and his girlfriend on the tennis team. It's blatantly obvious of the vindictiveness intent of victim was only to seek revenge.

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“She's trying to go to compliance for me hitting her, she's trying to get me kick (sic) off the team,” Davis texted Ausberry on April 14, 2018, according to the police report. “I went over there to get my stuff. She got mad that I wouldn't talk to her. She started to hit me. And I hit her In the stomach. (which is not good) and I walked out.””

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You never hit a female. Period.

But, when the victim calls a coach, administrator, or anyone other than the police, then it is impossible for me to not question their motives.

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- indicates Verge knew about by admission of guilt by Davis
- shows a delay in action; text was 4/14, Davis removed 8/26

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The article also shows that a Title IX investigation was ongoing at the end of April. We don’t know exactly when that investigation started.

Davis was banned from summer workouts with the team, but somehow wound up being allowed to attend fall practice when it started. At a minimum, it’s clear that there was more going on internally between April-August than what’s publicly known.

We don’t actually know whether Verge reported the text messages internally or not, and LSU doesn’t reveal these details of Title IX investigations as a matter of policy. It strikes me as a little irresponsible to assume that Verge immediately deleted the text messages and covered it up when Davis told him in the texts that the girl was reporting him to the Title IX department.

If he DID delete the texts without telling anyone then there’s really no excuse. I’m just not ready to jump to that conclusion based on anecdotal evidence when LSU’s policies prevent Verge from defending himself.

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Ok just remove the tennis program as our punishment and some administration people. Everybody can move along now.

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lol, then you run into ANOTHER Title IX problem completely seperate from this/these.

If you remove tennis, you remove female scholarships... so you will then have to remove a men's sport to maintain the proper Female to Male scholarship requirements under Title IX.

By the way, that's the #1 reason there will not be an expansion of the 85 limit to accommodate the "free year" atheletes get this year. You'll have to add women's scholarships if you do that; the NCAA decisions are independent of federal Title IX requirements. It would instantaneously put every school with a football program in Title IX violation.