The San Francisco Chronicle’s story on Cal strength and conditioning coach Damon Harrington has led to another investigation of the program. At the behest of UC faculty, UC Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced on Friday there will be an investigation commissioned into the state of Cal football’s strength and conditioning program.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks ordered a new investigation Friday into Cal football’s strength and conditioning program in light of a Chronicle report showing that football staff had personal ties to previous investigators and helped select athletes to be interviewed.
Dirks announced his decision Friday in response to a request from the Berkeley Faculty Association a day earlier that he not renew the $150,000 annual contract of Cal’s popular football strength and conditioning coach Damon Harrington until a new investigation could resolve whether the coach’s actions contributed to the death of one player in 2014 and the hospitalization of another in 2013.