Warde Manuel being sued by former U-Conn player

He also botched terribly the renewal of the ND series, said we shouldn't have night games he personally doesn't like them, and talked Red into staying another year, so he just doesn't know what he's doing, at best. At worst he'll be another Douchebag Dave, and this move against a poor 19 year old and the bad PR it brings us now doesn't bode well

To be fair, the press and the comments here are all being driven by a civil complaint.  By its very nature, it is the plaintiff's best telling of her grievances, and inherently one-sided.

We don't know the whole story - it may be that Manuel was not involved (certainly his department, but still), it may be that the woman is a total asshole and this was the last straw, it may be that the woman soccer player's coach had expressly warned all the players to represent UConn well on TV, it could be that Manuel was fully-involved and made a rash decision.  We don't know.

FWIW, I'm friends with a former UConn men's assistant soccer coach.  He had nothing but good things to say about Manuel (with whom, in fairness, he barely interacted).  The two UConn basketball coaches?  The reviews were ... disfavorable.

Schools have every right to govern what you do while flying their colors. I have no issue with her scholarship being yanked. And it doesn't even sound like Warde's the main focus of the suit anyway.

Who fucking cares? People sue for everything these days - especially hurt feelings - and the current UM AD is a footnote to the story.

I'm not as quick to jump on UConn as many on here. Story is a lawsuit brought on by the player and is very one sided. Was she told she has to act a certain way to keep her scholarship? Were there other incidents she was involved in? Sounds like her grades were bad, did this play a role? Lots of unknowns.

I mean -- Yes, of course the criminal stuff is bad and casts a negative light on you and the school.  But it's hard to deny that it's different and more direct when you give the middle finger not to an opposing player or the crowd, but directly into a television camera while wearing your school's colors on the field of play.

Cool thread title dude. Not misleading at all.

Everybody has flipped the bird at some time or another. Her's just got caught on TV......it no big deal. Certainly not big enough to be kicked off the team and lose your scholarship.

More of the wussification of America

I kind like that she is giving the bird to ESPN. 

I got a JUG once for flipping the bird to a classmate in 7th grade math. Good times.

So we've turned on Warde now? Hm.

Hey, I appreciate this thread simply as an excuse to keep the flame alive on the abject fixed screwing we got in that shit state down south.  One that could not have been more obvious and one that would make any honest, even partisan, football fan blush, if there are any to be found down there.  

And what have we heard from WM?  Crickets? At least after spartan bob, yet another case of an extra play being given to a team that had actually lost the game, changes were made as to who runs the clock.

Perhaps a statement regarding not having ass slapping fans of the home team reffing games anymore from Delaney or a request to Delaneyto that affect from WM would have been appropriate.  You know acknowledge the fuck up, and pledge to mitigate such future fuck ups.

But nope.  This shit will still keep happening, and disproportionately to M as well.

Still fucking mad.

that is very shady.

I think UConn could fight that by saying that they pushed her out not because she's female but because she's an inferior athlete.  And they might end up having to say that they've done that to male athletes too.  The problems with this are obvious, but it will be interesting if they make that argument.

Can't believe that people are assuming this complaint is all true. Americans must be the most easily manipulated group ever. Wait to hear both sides, folks. There is no evidence presented in this article at all other than the plaintiffs version of events. Yeesh.

Eh, let's see where this goes before getting crazy. These are allegations in a complaint, and an attorney holding a press conference.

No idea why, but this thread has the most garbage posts I've ever seen on this site.

Chalking this up to the troll community's passion for gawker media and women's soccer.

The fact that you can get a scholarship for playing women's soccer, a game that nearly nobody cares about, is incredible by itself. She should be thankful.

Call me a cynic, but I bet there's more to this story than just her flipping the bird one time on camera.

 

I took a quick look at the complaint, which shows up as a pdf document at the bottom of the article.  I didn't read the content, but was struck by one fact:  it was filed by the plaintiff student pro se (without a lawyer).  Again, I did not read it, but it appears to be professionally done.  More important, who files an action like this without a lawyer (and why wouldn't a lawyer be interested in a contingency fee on a case like this that might garner some media attention)?

Perhaps there is less to this lawsuit than meets the eye.

Before rushing to judgement on this one.