Friday, December 3, 2010
Education City Paper: Belmont Players Say Lisa Howe Didn't Resign
Posted by Jim Ridley on Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Did she jump or was she pushed? The answer isn't at all clear, as the CP's Jerome Boettcher is reporting that Belmont soccer players say they don't believe their coach Lisa Howe offered her resignation, as the university claimed last night in a press release:
“She was fired. She was let go,” junior captain Sari Lin said Friday. “We are all under the impression that she was asked to resign and she told them she would think about it. When she didn’t [resign], they basically decided to let her go, and they were going to originally do that without any sort of severance or package. Then they actually did decide to give her some sort of settlement to basically keep her quiet.”
Lin went on to tell Boettcher that a meeting between Belmont athletic director Michael Strickland and the Belmont soccer team (minus its seniors) didn't exactly put out the brushfire:
“[Strickland] came in extremely defensive, told us right off the bat that he couldn’t answer any questions pertaining to Lisa and the situation,” Lin said. “Even when I asked him about the statement that Belmont released [Thursday] night, he still said that he could not answer these questions due to the fairness and respect for Lisa. We all just started kind of laughing, like ‘Are you seriously going to choose those words?’ Out of the fairness and respect for our coach that you fired for wanting to start a family?”
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