Athletic Directors fire coaches hundreds of times every year, all over the country. It’s not an atypical thing for universities and colleges, small to large, to have coaching turnover, but at MSU — with the mishandling of so many issues over the last several years still hanging over the university — the move of MSU Athletic Director Bill Beekman to fire MSU’s Rowing coach Matt Weise created some controversy last weekend.
A Lansing State Journal article was published Friday afternoon and included some details about a meeting that occurred approximately 18 months earlier:
Weise’s firing comes about a year and a half after dozens of varsity women rowers confronted MSU officials at the Hannah Administration Building about their handling of the Larry Nassar sexual assault scandal.