Nikki Moody sues Bill Fennelly over Racial Discrimination...
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This plus getting her degree and being drafted I guess makes it hard to understand her damages.
That was my first thought as well. But I'll wait and see what comes out regarding the complaints and administrations response.
I'd say every coach is "kind of" a ****. Interested to hear her claims...
Not guessing this gets much traction legally since other then maybe one other player I don't think she will get much support. Guy is tough on everyone. You can even argue he is an ***-hole but I don't think you can make a case that it is about race. Even if this is resolved with ISU/Bill 100% innocent it can maybe get Bill's fired (Connie Yori) or destroy the program (Illinois).
Priceless that this coming from a gal who, with the help for some of her buddies, ran off a freshman gal (who just also happened to be black ). Bill should have tossed her off the team back then but he sold out because she gave him the best chance to win. Apparently she wasn't content to be a cancer on the team while she was here she is intent on continuing to try and destroy the program. She is arguably the worst thing that ever happened to ISU WBB.
Priceless that this coming from a gal who, with the help for some of her buddies, ran off a freshman gal (who just also happened to be black ). Bill should have tossed her off the team back then but he sold out because she gave him the best chance to win. Apparently she wasn't content to be a cancer on the team while she was here she is intent on continuing to try and destroy the program. She is arguably the worst thing that ever happened to ISU WBB.
I am guessing she has been following the Illinois case and maybe sees a chance to cash in since the Illini settled out of court.
http://www.thechampaignroom.com/201...tball-lawsuit-settlement-fighting-illini-news
Even if the lawsuit doesn't hold up (which I don't think it will), this won't be good for the program. That type of accusation doesn't wash off easily.
Probably not the most bulletproof logic, considering how long the issues at Penn State carried on before being leaked out, the current prep school scandals on the East coast (just now letting go faculty members who committed sexual assault and molestation of students in the 70s, 80s, 90s), and NCAA investigations like the UNC Academics issue which goes all the way back to 2002.
That said, Fennelly has a reputation of being a hard-*** on the court and great to players off the court. He's not going to jive with everyone all the time or even a majority of the time. His job is to put the best players on the court that he can in order to win games, and help develop young women into successful adults on and off the court. But the young women have to play along as well and do their part to heed advice, listen to criticism, etc.
I'm good friends with a few of his early tenure players and the things they say about him are really really bad. One messaged me today saying 'finally someone is calling him out on this...been happening since 1995'.
The question has to be, did he treat Moody and other black players differently than he treated the other players. It's not a question of if he was a jerk or not, its whether that attitude was applied equally across the board. It'll be a very difficult thing to prove I'd think, especially with the nature of coaching and being tough on kids.
No matter what happens, this isn't good. I've heard how much of an ******* he can be on the court numerous times, but I've never heard that it was different for any group of players. I'm also one that wouldn't argue with the idea that maybe Fennelly's time has come and gone but this isn't coming from someone I'm going to jump to believe right away, especially with some of the things she's done to other players.
