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No disrespect intended but your statement “icing her out” would be considered retaliation. The University has decided to mitigate this issue by placing the team directly under Athletics starting next season. No one will be “icing” anyone if the incoming coach understands the terms of employment. Additionally, all members of the student body have protection under Title IX whether a student-athlete or in a sorority as an example. Coaches, faculty, and all employees are trained in knowing and recognizing Title IX violations and institutional rules. They are expected as part of their employment to comply. Hazing is taken very seriously. Even if it happened ONCE and it remained unreported it would be a retention issue.It looks as if Kentucky has made the added decision to have this team follow NCAA rules. As far as kids being kids... the University probably looked at this through a liability lens. Naked basket tosses? Skinny dipping while intoxicated? And throwing baskets (whether drunk or not off a boat or wet dock)... Pretend for one moment a team was to do this at a hotel pool when competing...would a staff employee stop it? Someone gets seriously hurt and cameras pick that up from someone’s watch and there is an issue at hand. Pretend that pool or docked boat was in the middle of campus... would team kids think they could put on that show and it would be allowed to continue with administration watching? So being at a secluded camp/retreat doesn’t alter the fact that it happened.
That’s the beauty of it: if literally no one speaks to you or associates with you, there is no wrongdoing. You can’t punish people for literally not doing anything to you.
Yeah it would obviously be retaliation, but if mom/daughter try and bring such an accusation to the school, the admin’s first question is going to be, “Ok so what did they do that was retaliative?”
And they’re going to look really stupid if their only answer is, “Well, nothing.“ It’s going to be very hard to prove and punish.