Coach Suspended for Outburst

          In the article “Wyoming suspends football coach, fines him $50K for outburst” Ben Frederickson talks about the action the athletic director at Wyoming has to take for his football coaches outburst. The football coach at Wyoming lost a game against Air Force on October 14 and after the game he went up to the Air Force coach and used profanity and acted out of line towards him. This was caught on video tape then was eventually uploaded to the internet in the next couple of days. This put the athletic director in a bad situation. So the first steps he had to make were looking up the contract the coach had with him. While looking this up he looked at the code of conduct that was put on paper. He then saw that these rules were broken. After this he then had to make a decision on what kind of punishment he was going to give the coach. He then did research and found out a usually punishment for this was some type of fine between 40k and 100k, with some type of suspension. So he gave his coach a 50k fine and suspended him for 2 games. The coach was informed by the athletic director 2 days after the incident and was fine with the punishment he got and apologized to everyone he needed to.

            This is a situation that happens a lot in athletics. I think the athletic director handled this very well and settled everything in the right way. He brought up a contract that the coach signed so there would be no reason why the coach could be mad about his fine and suspension. This is a situation that ended up being taking care of very well and smoothly. I think the Wyoming athletic department did a good job on this and should be applauded the way they handled this situation.

Frederickson, Ben. "Wyoming suspends football coach, fines him $50K for outburst." 22 October 2012. Trib Sports. 3 December 2012 <http://trib.com/sports/college/wyoming/wyoming-suspends-football-coach-fines-him-k-for-outburst/article_76c79275-339e-55f8-b335-29b4d0f4e7fe.html>.