You know what should have happened on Tuesday, when Scott Stricklin spoke to media members for the first time since The Independent Florida Alligator reported on Monday that former Florida Gators women’s basketball head coach Cam Newbauer, according to several ex-players and multiple parents of those players, was abusive throughout his tenure in Gainesville?
We should have been able to watch it.
That was not what happened when Stricklin spoke with four selected media members to answer questions about Newbauer’s four years helming Florida’s program.
And that is a shame, because even if what Stricklin told writers in that session was a first step toward the sort of full transparency and accountability that is now necessary in part because of decisions made by him and Florida’s University Athletic Association, it also shows that the UAA’s current priority remains providing protection for itself — something it failed to adequately do for the athletes in its women’s basketball program.