'What did (Hocutt) do at that crucial moment in his career? He did absolutely nothing, that’s what he did. He allowed those young athletes to twist in the wind. He failed them all, miserably,' writes cbrennansports for usatodaysports.
. In his news conference, Hocutt offered a whole bunch of jibberish about what he did when, trying to explain away his inaction, but the bottom line is he did nothing to help his women’s basketball players until journalists told the sports world how bad things were at his school.Why does Hocutt still have his job?University leaders probably won’t do a thing, but they sure should. Over the past few days, we have learned a lot about Hocutt, a rising star in college sports whose $1.
Hocutt now has a record on this topic, and it’s one of inaction and neglect when student-athletes needed him most. “It was just the feeling of fear, anxiety, depression,” Mia Castaneda, who transferred away from Texas Tech last year, told USA TODAY Sports. “And it wasn’t just a few people – it was our entire team. They were breaking not just athletes, they were breaking people.”
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