Boston University is reeling in the wake of allegations of misbehavior on the hockey team that until Friday were unknown to nearly everyone at the school, including most of its board of trustees.
The allegations surfaced in appendices to a public report on BU’s hockey culture, released by an internal task force Wednesday. The additional seamy details, describing rampant disrespect of women by some team members and a secret nude party at Agganis Arena in 2009, were not released to anyone beyond the task force members, a few administrators, and the board’s 16-member executive committee.
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Seems like another out of touch old guy living in the past while covering up a sex scandal and trying to be #1 in wins. Being in one place as a "living legend" for too long never seems to be a good thing in coaching. Not quite as bad as Paterno but close enough to make us queasy. He should have left not all that long after Lenny Ceglarski.
I would love to see Boston College or any other major division one college program open themseves up to the same kind of task force.
Shocking as it may seem college students drink and they do have sex. There is a clear and unambiguous douible standard at work here. BC and Harvard would not allow their football or basketball programs to have the same kind of scrutiny. If they did they would find many stories that would trouble most parents.
A common defense (when there is no other defense) is that others do it too. Oh really? Maybe that statement is a total fabrication. I seriously doubt that most hockey teams behave in a similar fashion, especially since hockey is a minor sport (or non-existent) at most major universities.
Of course, you making charges against BC and Harvard, when you have NO information to support them. You are a piece of work.
"Boston University..allegations of misbehavior on the hockey team that until Friday were unknown to nearly everyone at the school, including most of its board of trustees."
Oh please! I knew that BU's hockey team was full of Bad Boys and that any girl who wanted to stay safe stayed far away from their alcohol soaked parties, and I have nothing to do with BU and am not a college aged person. That BU's Leadership claims it had no idea is ridiculous.
the reaction comments in the article are priceless: Jack is a great guy who needs our compassion; BU administrators not to blame, neither are hockey players because it is the women who get raped; no one knew nothing. BU sounds like a marvelous place to send your graduating senior, female or male. just dont expect they'll be safe from a campus of creeps, including some of the young women who will blame other young women for male sexual "misdeeds" ...
While no one truly likes a separate culture for hockey players or for any college athlete or club member, I have to ask: What is the Globe really after? The two hockey players who were brought up on BU charges related to sexual misconduct in the 2011-12 hockey season, were immediately suspended from the team and then were removed from BU. So, what else is there? I believe, as the Globe finally admitted, most male college hockey players are roughly two years older than the average student. Therefore many hockey Freshmen will turn 21 during that year. Thus most of the men's hockey team is old enough to drink. Therefore, nothing illegal there. and maybe the bar across the street knows that as well. Please, Boston Globe, when is consensual sex illegal? I have read of No charges that were filed by female students saying they were sexually assaulted at the after national championship party in 2009. Does the Globe have other information to the contrary? Are there any instances where BU hockey players committed Crimes and they were Not punished. I seem to believe that coach Parker does punish many of the hockey players for all sorts of things. Indeed the Globe mentioned that the Rate of punishment of hockey players is the same as for the average student at BU. Did BU violate any NCAA rules in admitting hockey players? I seem to remember a Globe story about ten years ago that Stated that the average athlete in the D-3 NESCAC (Bates, Bowdoin, Amherst, Williams, etc.) had a combined SAT score that was 200 points (out of then 1600) than the average non-athlete at those same colleges. Yet I know many athletes from those colleges that graduated. So, BU hockey players don't have the same SAT scores as the average BU student. So what? They do have higher than the NCAA requirement? . I think that the Globe is conducting a witch hunt. Please, Boston Globe, explain your hidden agenda for this witch hunt!! I wonder if it is that most Globe writers are BC and Harvard graduates and you don't like BU hockey players........ Indeed, have you conducted a review of the actions of the men's hockey players at BC or Harvard? I am sure there are true stories of non-crimes committed by those players that won't sound too nice either.....
A witch hunt? The Globe was quoting reports created by BU itself. Is BU conducting a witch hunt?
You sound like a pathetic apologist trying to defend the indefensible by bringing up numerous things that aren't included in the article. Maybe if you say this didn't happen and that didn't happen, you think you can distract attention from the things that *are* mentioned in BU's reports.
The whole situation is a disgrace.....and the consipiracy of silence around this from upper administration....says much about the priorities of this institution......I wouldn't go into debt sending my kid there...