re: So who are the two members of the LSU athletic department that are going to resign?

Yep they could attack Obama admin Tiltle IX rules that let schools be judge jury and executioner without giving young black males due process and say they didn’t want to do same thing here

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Verge's FIL is on the BOS, the Governor personally picked him and will override all the National bullshite. Verge isn't going any where.

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Verge deleted a text, which is against policy.
Verge didn't report a situation of abuse, which he clearly knew about.

Those 2 facts are 100% true and undisputed. The evidence is clear on this.

No way he survives these egregious mistakes, regardless of skin color, political ties, or friendship with Woodward.

Man I hate to see Verge go of True!

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Verge's FIL is on the BOS, the Governor personally picked him and will override all the National bullshite. Verge isn't going any where.

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Verge is probably the most politically connected person employed by LSU. He’s protected on multiple levels.

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Insert the word "connected" in place of "protected".

In cases like this your connection to others who have a lot to lose themselves works against you. They will go after him to appease the mob and keep it off them. At the very least that protection you mention, normally in place, will not be forthcoming.

I suspect Verge for sure. If he steered, hid, or scrubbed Title IX reports he's gone. I suspect the second MIGHT be Mickey Joseph; if there's any hint, substantiated or not, that he sat on any reports regarding Drake Davis... he gone too. I don't know that happened, for sure, but....

So it has been reported, so far without corroboration, that Verge deleted texts to him regarding Drake Davis. If those texts came from MJ there's his issue. It's even more of an issue if those texts came from a coach with an unauthorized phone, hinting at recruiting improprieties (unauthorized phone is against school, NCAA, and athletic dept policies- all three) AND sending these supposed texts on that phone in order to hide the sender and that would be why Verge deleted them. So Verge very well MAY have deleted the texts about sexual assault simply to hide the fact a coach, MJ, was using an unauthorized phone but in the process actually covered up crimes by Drake Davis. Or, he was actually trying to cover up BOTH by deleting the texts.

Either way, it doesn't matter what he was trying to hide. IF Verge indeed did delete texts regarding DD, he DID cover up those crimes no matter WHY he was doing it.

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I suspect Verge for sure. If he steered, hid, or scrubbed Title IX reports he's gone. I suspect the second MIGHT be Mickey Joseph; if there's any hint, substantiated or not, that he sat on any reports regarding Drake Davis... he gone too. I don't know that happened, for sure, but....

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And what a shitty hill to die on. Drake fricking Davis.

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And what a shitty hill to die on. Drake fricking Davis.

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Agreed. And I'll add to the chorus that Verge is a great guy.

I just can't see him intentionally trying to cover for Davis.

That's why I, opinion only, suspect Joseph might have texted him about Davis from a burner phone and Verge screwed up mightily trying to protect Joseph, not Davis, since reporting that would expose the fact MJ was using an unauthorized phone.

That fits what we know about Verge where he would try to protect a coach from recruiting violations but would never try and protect a lost cause kid who is a repeat offender of assault and violence.

It also fits that MJ would be trying to "play it safe" and use a burner phone to send a text to Verge after Davis got arrested. Such a dumbass move in other words. That fits too.

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Agreed. And I'll add to the chorus that Verge is a great guy.

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Verge is a good dude. But Verge isn't perfect. He is not the saint that people make him out to be.

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Verge deleted a text, which is against policy.
Verge didn't report a situation of abuse, which he clearly knew about.

Those 2 facts are 100% true and undisputed. The evidence is clear on this.

No way he survives these egregious mistakes, regardless of skin color, political ties, or friendship with Woodward.


I don’t know the facts of the case but if this is true then he has to be fired.

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This was published in the USA Today story. You be the judge.

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Verge allegedly deleted texts from Davis himself, admitting to punching the tennis player. They were published.

If he truly did delete them and didn’t report it, his career is done.

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According to the article, USA Today “requested copies of all text messages sent and received by Ausberry over a weeklong period at that time.” LSU replied that Verge had “checked his phone and found no messages.” Note that it doesn’t say that USA Today’s request or LSU’s response specified text messages between Ausberry and Davis.

The article also implies that Verge did not report the texts, by saying the messages weren’t found until police obtained a search warrant for Drake’s phone in August.

I’ve said this before, but to reiterate: If Verge deleted the text messages without reporting them, he should and likely will be fired. But there are potential explanations that don’t necessarily involve impropriety on his part:

- Verge might have reported the text messages immediately. As of two weeks later, a Title IX investigation was ongoing. That investigation could have already been ongoing when Verge received the texts. It could have started when he received the texts. The timeline in the article is pieced together from external sources, mostly police reports and interviews.

- If USA Today requested ALL text messages from that time frame and LSU said Verge had none, it’s possible that there all of his text messages were gone. Maybe he got a new phone. Maybe he deleted the text messages after reporting them to the LSU investigators, which satisfies the record retention requirements, and LSU is being coy in their response because they don’t want to release all of the Title IX investigative materials.

Or maybe Verge covered it up like the article implies. But there are enough errors by omission in the article that I’m inclined to wait and see how this plays out before calling for Verge’s head.