Ernst, the longtime Husky crew coach, was fired on the day before Thanksgiving. No matter how confrontational he got at the end, UW administration should have found a way to give him a face-saving way out.
This whole unseemly Bob Ernst situation at the University of Washington gives me a headache, and a heartache. I can only imagine how those intimately involved must feel.
The headache comes from trying to figure out the culprits, and assign culpability, in the he-said, she-said drama that led Ernst, the longtime Husky crew coach, to get the unceremonious boot on the day before Thanksgiving.