A week following the Arizona football team’s loss in the Foster Farms Bowl, coach Rich Rodriguez was fired Tuesday night as a sexual harassment allegation was made by a former school employee.
Rodriguez denied the claims in a statement Tuesday night, but admitted to an extramarital affair with someone outside the university. He also noted the former school employee threatened a $7.5 million lawsuit against him. The school said in a statement there was reason “both before and during the investigation, which caused it to be concerned with the direction and climate of the football program.