Utah State University fires athletics director less than a week after terminating head football coach

The Utah State Aggies person laid disconnected their athletics head aft parting ways pinch their caput shot coach successful nan aftermath of alleged Title IX noncompliance of assemblage policies.

On Monday, Amy Crosbie, who served arsenic nan 'Executive Associate Athletics Director for Internal Affairs/Senior Woman Administrator' for nan past 5 years astatine nan school, was terminated, according to The Cache Valey Daily. 

She was fto spell aft a bid of dismissals involving nan program's caput shot coach, Blake Anderson, 'Associate Vice President & Deputy Athletic Director of External Affairs' Jerry Bovee, and 'Director of Player Development and Community' Austin Albrecht.

The assemblage stated that its determination came aft a 'thorough outer reappraisal of alleged noncompliance pinch assemblage policies that instrumentality Title IX, which require afloat and timely reporting of disclosure of intersexual misconduct - including domestic violence - and prohibit labor from investigating disclosures of intersexual misconduct themselves.'

In December 2021, Anderson apologized for telling players connected nan shot squad that it 'has ne'er been much glamorized to beryllium nan unfortunate of intersexual assault.' 

Footage of Anderson’s squad talk surfaced that twelvemonth earlier Utah State played Oregon State successful nan Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl. 

The viral clip was besides mentioned successful a suit revenge by Kaytriauna Flint - a student who alleges that nan assemblage mishandled her intersexual battle study involving 1 of its shot players successful 2019. Flint yet settled pinch nan schoolhouse successful tribunal for $500,000.

On Tuesday, Utah State declined to remark connected whether Crosbie's termination was related to firings tied to alleged Title IX noncompliance of assemblage policies, per The Cache Valey Daily.

Bovee, however, claimed that he didn't neglect to study immoderate misconduct from nan past, including Anderson's comments.

Referring to Crosbie, he posted connected X connected Monday: 'Just learned that 1 of nan champion group I've worked pinch was dismissed precocious coming from her (sic) domiciled arsenic SWA pinch Utah State Athletics. 

'The student-athlete acquisition for conscionable complete 400 young group conscionable slipped a notch backward. Amy Crosbie will beryllium missed.'  

At Utah State, Crosbie was tasked pinch overseeing compliance, academics, spot and conditioning, and Title IX compliance among different duties for illustration athletics supervision for gymnastics, women's soccer, men's and women's way & field/cross country, and volleyball. 

She was besides responsible for promoting women's practice successful assemblage sports activity and management. 

Crosbie was successful her 2nd stint astatine USU athletics, having antecedently spent 7 years arsenic an administrator pinch nan Aggies earlier moving arsenic 'Senior Associate Athletics Director' and 'Senior Woman Administrator' astatine Weber State University from 2010 to 2019. 

In July 2019, Crosbie returned to Utah State.

Utah State was antecedently progressive successful a ungraded regarding Torrey Green, who was convicted successful 2019 for sexually assaulting six women betwixt 2013 and 2015 erstwhile he was connected nan assemblage shot team. 

Four women reported to constabulary being assaulted by Green, but nary charges were revenge until after The Salt Lake Tribune published a communicative astir nan case.