With regard to the Bob Birarda situation, I know it's Steve Reed, but he was also there during those periods of time. This wasn't just about sexual text messages. This was about much, much more. Sexual text messages are a form of grooming and are incredibly damaging, but this was much more that I personally reported to their independent fact-finder, Anne Chopra, back in the day. For them to continue saying that there was no cover-up and that it was handled appropriately is a major issue. To not acknowledge that, by the leadership, and by Steve Reed to the leadership beyond that and into today, is a very damaging thing. It continues to not give a voice to those people.
To say that he was just sanctioned in some of these public hearings, you ask this question: Well, he has now been banned, but what does that mean? Why did it take until these hearings for them to utter the words that he's suspended now? A police investigation and his being in jail should have been enough. It should have been enough well before that.
As far as the finances are concerned, it's concerning that there's everything about the players asking for transparency in the men's and women's programs, yet it's been unsettling that money has been reported in the past. Things needed to be looked into; that's never happened. Money was not accounted for. It just seems to get buried in the past, yet that culture continues on year after year.