We read every month or so about student-athletes that have broken NCAA rules. The media mostly portrays them as selfish, arrogant, spoiled brats or sometimes as thugs. Lately, the trend has not been so much the “troubled student-athlete goes wrong”, but the “high profiled athletic administrator is so sorry.” The list of collegiate athletic directors and coaches that have committed immoral and detestable acts on and off the job are increasing and becoming to look like it is the norm of the athletic administration culture. Pitino, Sandusky, Petrino, and Rice are some of the most notable coaches and situations that have happened over the past couple of years, but there have been many other improprieties by athletic administrators that have flown under the radar.
One such moment or moments of shame have resulted into the recent resignations of Keri Gaither, ex-AD of Detroit Mercy and Derek Thomas, ex-assistant men’s Detroit Mercy basketball coach. Allegedly, the two University of Detroit employees decided to have an affair with each other behind their spouse’s backs, but not so much on the down low from others. It was reported by several players that they witnessed Gaither and Thomas go into each other hotel rooms during road trips and they could hear them having sex. I guess with this type of Intel the media can stop saying allegedly and be straight forward with their reporting. This was an act of infidelity at the highest level, point blank. To top off this act of immorality the assistant coach, Carlos Briggs, was terminated for telling the truth about his knowledge of the affair.
How is it that people that tell the truth get fired or ostracized from people in their profession? What example are the ones in power, who commit these immoral acts, demonstrating to those aspiring to be in their position one day? That it is right to use ones power to exercise ones hedonistic desires. It is time that the media starts exploiting the unethical acts of the athletic administrators in charge as much or even more so as they do the young student-athletes; not to mention those who cooperated with the investigation should be promoted not demoted or fired. Let’s start holding the leaders of the athletic departments to the same standards and moral codes that they hold the student-athletes to.
One such moment or moments of shame have resulted into the recent resignations of Keri Gaither, ex-AD of Detroit Mercy and Derek Thomas, ex-assistant men’s Detroit Mercy basketball coach. Allegedly, the two University of Detroit employees decided to have an affair with each other behind their spouse’s backs, but not so much on the down low from others. It was reported by several players that they witnessed Gaither and Thomas go into each other hotel rooms during road trips and they could hear them having sex. I guess with this type of Intel the media can stop saying allegedly and be straight forward with their reporting. This was an act of infidelity at the highest level, point blank. To top off this act of immorality the assistant coach, Carlos Briggs, was terminated for telling the truth about his knowledge of the affair.
How is it that people that tell the truth get fired or ostracized from people in their profession? What example are the ones in power, who commit these immoral acts, demonstrating to those aspiring to be in their position one day? That it is right to use ones power to exercise ones hedonistic desires. It is time that the media starts exploiting the unethical acts of the athletic administrators in charge as much or even more so as they do the young student-athletes; not to mention those who cooperated with the investigation should be promoted not demoted or fired. Let’s start holding the leaders of the athletic departments to the same standards and moral codes that they hold the student-athletes to.
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