What’s also … impressive isn’t the word I WANT to use, but it unfortunately fits … Is how quickly and decisively they dealt with it. So demonstrative in their response that it shut down the squakers cold. And no whining or hand wringing internally either. If there was internal dissent among faculty or women students, it was squashed.
We can only imagine and shudder about how Pitt would handle it; the wishy-washy whiny statements, the throwing ourselves upon the cross, how the rad students and faculty would react no matter what (the fires would still be burning), and the media blistering Pitt would get even for doing the RIGHT thing (because there’s no way we’d keep him of course). WVU clamped down on troublemakers within hours, strongarmed their local media into obedience, kept everyone in the fold (probably by assuring players from the get go thatthe coach would be kept). So a very wry bravo to the WVU crisis team.