**Update: Golden cleared!** [UF basketball coach accused of sexual harassment and stalking thread]

Yesterday from the Frank Frangie show in Jax:

The Title IX complaint was filed in September. The first step is for whomever to determine if there is enough evidence to open an official investigation. If there is not, it is dropped. If it is, the accused is immediately suspended with pay pending an official investigation. There apparently was not enough evidence to proceed, so it was dropped.

Frangie's take on it is that the accusers did not like that response and then went to The Alligator. Golden thought it was over--not sufficient evidence. So that is why the defamation allegation against The Alligator.

Makes sense to me.

 

It was working for me.

 

Sounds right. Especially with the over the top quotes in the story. We can all hope they piled a bunch of BS on top of BS. Seems like the university and Golden would want to get their side out through unofficial channels if they can't legally do it. Maybe that's what Frangie got.

 

You seemed to pass over when I said "if true" I would suggest you practice on reading comprehension in the future. And I certainly know what I'm talking about when it comes to addiction.

 

yes it won't be pretty, but let's use that as fuel and give them a proper beatdown

 

It's logical. Let's hope it's true.

 

That makes a ton of sense and, if true, would be a huge relief.

 

Just throwing that stuff out there was totally inappropriate because you don't know Todd Golden or anything about his personal character. To just suggest even the possibility of him being a sex addict was stupid and immoral on your part. To take your addictions or personal knowledge of addiction and throw them on somebody else, even under the guide of "if true" was wrong. So just take lay off the insinuations, huh?

Besides, the mods have deleted your original post because it was beyond the pale. That should tell you something.

 

Oh, no. I'd be most distressed to learn that UF's bastion of integrity and fair-mindedness had fallen short of its journalistic obligations, and that its staff might be confronted with the consequences of that. That would be sad.

 

Does this Frangie person have actual inside knowledge in the matter?

 

That is incorrect.

 

Coach's statement indicates there is an investigation.

 

I just re-read the org alligator story. What’s inappropriate about it?

 

Andy Staples:

 

The INDEPENDENT Florida Alligator has nothing to do with UF.

 

Splitting hairs, aren't you? I've read it beginning in 1978. It's always had "independent" in the name as long as I've been aware but its primary beat/focus/etc is UF, is it not? So my original point stands. IMHO, The Alligator is a second-rate rag with a bias wide enough to drive a truck through it. Crap-stirring has been their game for as long as I've known them, and always from a "certain point of view", as Obi Wan might say. So, yes, I have priors.

 

Yeah, conflicting info everywhere.
One side says you can’t suspend someone, the other says he would have been suspended immediately.
One group says there wasn’t enough to proceed, Golden himself says he’s participated for the last month.
We hear it’s BS, then we hear Staples saying it’s complicated and there will be more to come.
We hear there is digital evidence, then we hear if there was the case would be over already.

bottom line is that some people are talking out their back side, some people have agendas, and some people are only hearing one side. We will know when we know. All we know for sure now is that there was an accusation by several women, and we don’t know the resolution. Everything else is speculation.

 

Didn’t click. Guessing he told you he knows a lot about the situation, but didn’t actually tell you anything. He’s usually super informative like that.

 

I think Staples tipped his hand about the preliminary findings when he said, “it says a lot that Florida said he could keep coaching.” He’s not ready to say if it’s positive or negative about the coach, because there are more clicks to gain for ad revenue.

MY OPINION ONLY: Staples says it will get messy, so I do suspect Coach may have had some inappropriate, yet legal relationship with an accuser who is possibly angry at the split.

 

Yeah, pretty much.