Athletic Director John David Wicker reverses field Monday after initially refusing to answer questions
How can San Diego State students, parents, alumni and others find faith in the university’s handling of an alleged gang rape involving former Aztecs football players when no one seems willing to answer basic questions?
The first lap was a public-relations catastrophe, to be clear. Reading statements without fielding questions constituted eyewash, the word those in baseball clubhouses use to describe fake hustle and effort. Give the impression something is being done to illustrate transparency, without saying anything of substance at all.
The community, stretching well beyond San Diego State’s campus, deserves facts displayed in the light of day, not PR-washed, lawyered-up language carefully crafted around non-answers. “There’s no … code of silence. We won’t compromise on that. We hold will hold ourselves and our community and our players to the highest standard.”
“… As I read more and more of the details of this case, it is becoming obvious SDSU did not do the right thing. Institutions should not defer to police investigations. Title IX and criminal cases can run concurrently. They are separate processes and the school’s obligation is to prioritize student safety.”
There’s not knowing. And there’s not wanting to know. If the latter proves true, the gymnastics to achieve plausible deniability would be sickening.included the punter among three players named in the alleged rape of a minor?In one important sense, Wicker and Hoke were placed in a no-win situation. It’s impossible to believe the playbook on how to handle all of this lacked the sign-off of every key office on campus — all the way to the desk of President Adela de la Torre.
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