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Briggs: After abuse claims against soccer coach, did UT fulfill its moral responsibility?

He was supposed to be a protector, but to the end, he looked out only for himself.

When former University of Toledo women’s soccer coach Brad Evans resigned in 2015, he cast the circumstances as something of a workplace misunderstanding — inappropriate “relationships with past co-workers,” he told The Blade — and spun the departure as his decision.

UT didn’t push back, either.

In its official statement, the university said Evans “appreciated the opportunity” to lead the Rockets for 14 seasons and was abruptly stepping down to “begin a new career outside the coaching profession.”

And that was that.