In an interview with the Dallas Morning News, SMU President R. Gerald Turner supported athletic director Rick Hart’s decision to stand behind women’s basketball head coach Travis Mays.
Mays has been accused of fostering a traumatic culture on the team during the 2017-18 season, at one point saying that players should commit suicide if they were not going to compete to his standards.
Since the news regarding Mays broke last week, many former SMU women’s basketball players have commented, standing firm in their allegations and questioning the decisions of Hart and Turner to back Mays.