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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 1825134, member: 285"]
In some ways it doesn't matter.    You don't have to fire him because he was bullying the players or using inappropriate language, although that might help with the buy-out.     You fire him because he seems to have lost his locker room to a degree and there appears to be quite a bit of discord between Lonergan and Athletic Department Senior Staff.

GW doesn't have football, so this is their primary most high profile sport in terms of trying to rally alumni support etc..    I think they have to be careful not to allow a cancer to fester within the athletic department and not abide any sort of public embarrassment that is clearly going to come out of airing lots of dirty laundry.  GW basketball has been a fair to middlin performer.  Every now and then they make the NCAA tournament, last year they won the NIT, they haven't won an A-10 championship in 10 years.    If you want alumni to rally behind that kind of program it isn't successful enough to tolerate off the court embarrassments.

One of the coach's jobs is to be in control of his roster.   If he is recruiting lots of guys he can't control either because they don't go to classes, are out running amok and getting arrested or just taking ugly allegations public (as is minimally the case here) he's not doing his job as effectively as he needs to be.    Head coaches get paid lots of money, sometimes the job comes with high and maybe even unfair performance expectations...but that is why the compensation is as high as it is.
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