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Beyond the screaming, there's a (winning) method to Mick Cronin's madness at UCLA
He looks like a madman, stomping around the sideline as if he’s smashing grapes.
Yelling at officials and his own players with equal abandon, his howls can be heard in the upper reaches of any arena.
Win or lose, the words flow freely in his public comments afterward, no one spared from biting critiques.
Some see these animated displays and wonder if Mick Cronin is being abusive.
His players have come to invite the invective, knowing where it will lead them.
“He doesn’t care about how you feel,” said Jaylen Clark, the Minnesota Timberwolves rookie who went from a lightly recruited high school player to a Final Four participant and the Naismith college defensive player of the year under the guidance of the UCLA basketball coach. “He’s going to get everything he feels like he can get out of you even if you don’t see it yourself.”
UCLA coach Mick Cronin talks with Jaylen Clark (0) during the team’s January 2023 game against Arizona State in Tempe, Ariz. UCLA won 74-62.
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It usually doesn’t take long for the Bruins to see it. Center Kenneth Nwuba, who signed up to play for the easygoing Steve Alford only to find himself sticking around for five more seasons under the demanding Cronin, once approached the latter mentor with a startling message.
“Coach,” Nwuba told him, “we play better when you yell.”
That’s not much of an ask. Type “Mick Cronin” into a YouTube search and one of the auto-populated options on a drop-down menu is “Mick Cronin mad.”
Yep, he can run hot beyond the three technical fouls he’s earned this season, the redlining going back to his days at Cincinnati.
Among the videos that pop up are “Mick Cronin very upset after Shootout brawl,” “Mick Cronin tries to fight Xavier bench” and “UCLA coach puts players on BLAST!!”
He’s freely ripped since his arrival in Westwood, calling out nearly everyone on the roster. Just listen to Cronin’s takes from earlier this season …
On freshman guard Sebastian Mack: “On a veteran team, he’d play about five minutes a game.”
On freshman guard Ilane Fibleuil committing a turnover: “First time you touch the ball, you try to be Michael Jordan and look what happens.”
On freshman forward Berke Buyuktuncel throwing a bad cross-court pass: “We invent new ways to turn it over.”
Former shooting guard David Singleton got a sense of the verbal volleys to come in his first meeting with Cronin in the spring of 2019, not long after the coach had taken the UCLA job.
“I didn’t know who he was talking to,” Singleton said, “but he looked up and said, ‘Why isn’t the video ready? If you were working for coach [Rick] Pitino, you would have been fired already.’ And I’m like, who is he talking to? Is he serious? He was talking to the video guy. So that was like, ‘Oh, OK, this guy means business.’”
UCLA coach Mick Cronin talks with Jaime Jaquez Jr., David Singleton, Prince Ali and Tyger Campbell during a 2020 game against Colorado in Los Angeles.
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Some fans have called him Cronin the Barbarian, a playful twist on the fictional warrior Conan. His influences include his father, who was a warm but no-nonsense high school coach, in addition to two former bosses who are crusty college icons — Bob Huggins is notoriously gruff, even under the best of circumstances, and Pitino openly berated his St. John’s players last weekend after they lost for the eighth time in their last 10 games, saying “about five guys are slow laterally.”
Cronin’s Bruins (14-12 overall, 9-6 Pac-12) are on a different trajectory, having won eight of their last 10 games heading into a rivalry showdown against USC (10-16, 4-11) on Saturday night at Pauley Pavilion. It’s just another late-season surge for a coach who has taken UCLA to two Sweet 16s in addition to the 2021 Final Four as part of his three NCAA tournament appearances with the team.
He’s also helped four players get selected in the NBA draft — two in the first round — while sending a handful of others to the G League and overseas professional teams. Leaning heavily on the teachings of a legendary predecessor, Cronin favors results over public opinion.
“Sometimes people think I’m testy or edgy or I don’t care,” Cronin said, “and I don’t say this as arrogance, I don’t care because coach [John] Wooden tells you not to care about praise or criticism, just do your job and be a good person and I try to get [my players] to do the same thing.”
Those watching from afar might be surprised to learn that Cronin has a soft side, like flipping over a Brillo pad to find cashmere. After his team beat Stanford and California during a recent trip to the Bay Area, the coach visited for several minutes with a young special-needs fan who attended both games, ending each exchange with a hug.
The feel-good vibes carried over to the locker room. Addressing his team after the 61-60 victory over the Golden Bears, Cronin quipped, “It was a one-point blowout.”
Cracking up his players as much as he challenges them, Cronin loves to drop pop culture references during practices. He quotes lines from old movies — few of which his players get — and last season told star forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. after an egregious traveling violation that “Ray Charles could have called that one.”
If you hear Cronin refer to Uncle Smitty, he’s using a catch-all phrase for anyone in a player’s entourage who might have strong opinions about things that don’t matter, like failing to score 20 points in a game.
Chris Smith, a forward for the Iowa Wolves of the G League who spent his final two college seasons under Cronin, said part of the coach’s genius was connecting basketball to other things.
“You play basketball how you live life, you know?” Smith said. “If you’re half-assing it on the court, then you’re most likely half-assing in life.”
“Sometimes people think I’m testy or edgy or I don’t care and I don’t say this as arrogance, I don’t care because coach [John] Wooden tells you not to care about praise or criticism, just do your job and be a good person and I try to get [my players] to do the same thing.”
— UCLA men’s basketball coach Mike Cronin
Half measures never fly with Cronin. After watching Clark fail to box out a San Diego State player as instructed in his college debut, Cronin threatened to never play the freshman again. The next day, even as the Bruins went to triple overtime against Pepperdine and two players fouled out, Clark never got off the bench.
“They looked at me,” Clark said of assistant coaches contemplating putting him in the game, “and [Cronin] said, ‘No, somebody else.’”
Clark eventually worked his way out of the dog house via relentless defense that two seasons later won him the team’s Hungry Dog Award that goes to the player who logs the most deflections.
Perhaps the best measure of Cronin’s popularity among his players is that only four have transferred in five seasons and those who now play professionally flock back to see their former coach. Clark, Singleton, Amari Bailey and Johnny Juzang were among those in attendance Sunday when the Bruins played Utah at Pauley Pavilion.
That’s not to say they always enjoyed being the subject of a high-volume rant. Singleton recalled his coach once screaming at him to set a screen to free Juzang for a shot.
“I’m looking at him like, ‘I got it,’ and he just kept yelling at me and when it was time to inbound it and I set it and Johnny was open and he knocked it down,” Singleton said. “I looked at [Cronin] and I’m like, ‘I told you, I got it,’ and he was like, ‘All right, well, do it again.’ It was just constant, like he wanted more, he always demanded more.”
UCLA coach Mick Cronin, left, reacts as guard Tyger Campbell (10) walks by during a December 2022 road game against Washington State.
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Does all that yelling rattle the Bruins? Sometimes. In the middle of the team’s most recent Final Four season, Singleton said, players gathered to discuss the volatility.
“We said, ‘Just because he’s yelling at us, we can’t play scared,’ ” Singleton said. “So I would say after that is when we really took off as a team, to listen to what he says, not how he says it.”
Cronin, who will turn 53 this summer, likes to say he’s got a PhD in dealing with young players after spending his whole life in locker rooms beginning with his dad’s teams as an infant. He tries to tailor his delivery to each player based on their personality and experience level. That can be particularly challenging on a team with seven freshmen like this one.
“You’ve got to have some feel,” Cronin said. “You’re not always right, but you’ve got to be observant and see who responds to what through trial and error. Certain guys, the more aggressive you coach them, the better they play. Other guys may go into a shell. So you have to be observant of that.
“We’re like a starting pitcher and it’s a long season, you’ve got a lot of different battles. You can’t throw fastballs all season to every hitter, right? So you’ve got to have a changeup at times. You know, there’s times where they need a little softball, a little batting practice. Other times they need the fastball down the middle or maybe under the chin — they might need the brushback.”
If he’s particularly hard on a player, Cronin said, he tries to circle back to him later to let him know he’s trying to help him get to where he wants to go in his career. Whenever he yanks players for mistakes during games, the coach has an assistant check in with them to discuss the issue and make sure they’re staying mentally prepared to return.
UCLA coach Mick Cronin and some of his players watch the final moments of the Bruins’ win over Abilene Christian March 22, 2021, in Indianapolis.
(Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)
Mack has found Cronin’s messages increasingly resonating the deeper he goes into his first college season based on their prognostic prowess.
“I wouldn’t want to call him a wizard,” Mack said, unintentionally referencing Wooden’s nickname, “but, I mean, the stuff he does say usually ends up happening.”
What about Cronin’s tendency to share his unvarnished thoughts with the media? Myles Johnson, the former UCLA center once described by Cronin as “too nice” to be as dominant as he should be, said it just comes with playing for the steward of one of the best brands in college basketball.
“It’s UCLA, you’ve got to hold yourself to a higher standard playing for UCLA and we all knew that,” Johnson said, “and even if it does come out in the media and he was tough on you in the media, most of the time what he’s saying is factual, it’s not like he’s just making it up out of thin air.”
It would be easy for Cronin to say he’s mellowed since suffering a brain abnormality called arterial dissection nearly a decade ago that forced him to miss the final 25 games of the 2014-15 season at Cincinnati, but the coach conceded that’s not the case.
“It’d be a lie,” Cronin said. “You get older, you know, all of us, theoretically you’re a little smarter. So you take better care of yourself, get more rest, you know, things of that nature.”
You just don’t necessarily take it easier on your players. They don’t seem to mind given the results.
UCLA’s Kenneth Nwuba (14), Sebastian Mack (12), Lazar Stefanovic, rear, head coach Mick Cronin, second from front right, and Dylan Andrews (2) wait for a call from the referees during the second half of a road game against Arizona on Jan. 20.
(Darryl Webb / Associated Press)
“He’s someone that tries to push you to your limits and get the best out of you every single day,” said guard Lazar Stefanovic, who was lured from Utah to UCLA before this season mostly because he figured Cronin could help him improve. The junior is now averaging career highs in points (11.1) and rebounds (6.1). “I think that’s what every young player needs.”
Maybe it’s why the quiet moments tend to stand out most for those who have played for the man some fans see as a screaming meanie. Among his favorite memories of playing for Cronin, Singleton mentioned pouring a Gatorade container full of confetti over his coach to celebrate their making the Final Four.
It was a gentle swishing that said it all.
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Donovan Mitchell signs massive $273M Cavaliers extension as LeBron James return speculation grows
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Donovan Mitchell got quite a payday from the Cleveland Cavaliers Tuesday, agreeing to a four-year, $273 million maximum extension, which includes a full trade kicker and player option for the 2030-31 season.
While Mitchell could’ve waited one more year to get a potential five-year, $353 million deal, the 29-year-old wasted no time signing an extension on the first day he was eligible to do so this summer.
It’s hard for Cleveland not to want to build its team around Mitchell now and for the foreseeable future. He has been an All-Star seven straight seasons, which includes three with the Utah Jazz before he was traded to Cleveland during the 2022 offseason.
Donovan Mitchell (45) of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks to pass the ball during a game against the Memphis Grizzlies Feb. 2, 2023, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland. (David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images)
He has averaged 26.7 points in four seasons with the Cavaliers, including 27.9 last season, and has made an All-NBA team in three of his four years.
Mitchell also noted having “unfinished business” after the team got swept by the eventual NBA champion New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference finals.
Mitchell was heading into the 2026-27 season on the last guaranteed season of his previous contract before a 2027 player option kicked in.
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Now, the bigger question for the Cavaliers: Does Mitchell’s contract extension hurt or help their chances of yet another reunion with LeBron James?
The 41-year-old has made it clear he will be playing elsewhere for the 2026-27 NBA season, marking the end of his eight years with the Los Angeles Lakers.
James, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, hasn’t indicated where he might be heading, but reports have indicated his agent, Rich Paul, is actively looking at specific teams.
LeBron James (6) of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts to a foul call during the second half of a game against Dallas Mavericks at Crypto.com Arena Jan. 12, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Among them is the Cavaliers, as the man from Akron, Ohio, has played a significant role in the franchise’s history, including an NBA title in 2016. If this is James’ final NBA run, why not do it where it all began, where he returned after his successful stint with the Miami Heat and where he can close the book on a one-of-a-kind career?
However, other teams, including the Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat and Golden State Warriors have been rumored and debated about.
Of course, the salary cap and staying within its parameters is a big deal for NBA teams. While a Cavaliers fan could view Mitchell’s max extension as a bad thing for James to land back in Cleveland, it is not believed it will affect their chances at signing him.
As for James’ NBA title chances, the Cavaliers did reach the Eastern Conference finals, and the 41-year-old wouldn’t have to be the center of attention in terms of offensive playmaking. Mitchell and Evan Mobley can lead the way there, while Jarrett Allen protects the rim down low.
The Cavaliers and James Harden, whom they acquired before the trade deadline last season, are reportedly negotiating a team-friendly deal as well to keep their salary cap at bay.
Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers reacts during the fourth quarter against the Detroit Pistons in Game 7 of the second round of the NBA Eastern Conference Playoffs at Little Caesars Arena on May 17, 2026 in Detroit. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
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Whether the big fish will be landed, bringing “The Chosen One” back to his roots one last time remains to be seen.
Mitchell has left no doubt, though, where his future lies in the NBA, and he will look to get that unfinished business squared away in Cleveland.
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Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland had early-stage chronic traumatic encephalopathy when he died by suicide at age 24 in November, according to test results released by his family Tuesday through the Concussion & CTE Foundation.
“While this diagnosis does not change the tragedy of his passing, it provides important context about some of the struggles he may have been facing,” Kneeland’s family, including girlfriend Catalina Mancera, said in a statement.
CTE is a degenerative brain disease that has been found in people who experience repetitive head trauma and can be diagnosed only after death.
“We share this information to help people understand what NFL and other high contact sport athletes might be struggling with,” the family said. “Raising awareness is important to us. We continue to remember Marshawn with compassion for the person he was, rather than defining him by the final moments of his life. One Love.”
Frisco, Texas, police said Kneeland didn’t stop when state Department of Public Safety troopers tried to pull him over on Nov. 5 for a traffic violation. The 2024 second-round draft pick was pursued by authorities in his vehicle and then on foot before being found “deceased with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Frisco police said in a statement at the time.
Police-dispatch audio from the incident revealed that Kneeland had sent out a group text to say goodbye to his family.
Researchers at the Boston University CTE Center analyzed Kneeland’s brain tissue and determined that the athlete, who started playing tackle football at age 7, was in stage one of four of CTE.
“Unfortunately, I was not surprised to find CTE in the brain of Mr. Kneeland, because we have found this progressive brain disease in nearly half of the athletes we’ve studied who have died before the age of 30,” Dr. Ann McKee, the center’s director, said in a statement.
“Thanks to the generosity of our brain donor families, we now better understand the earliest stages of CTE, and it is bringing us closer than ever to diagnosing it during life. My team and I are fully dedicated to finding effective treatments and a cure for CTE.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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SJSU was told of decades-old allegations against volleyball coach during controversial 2024 season
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During the San Jose State University (SJSU) volleyball team’s scandal-ridden 2024 season, the athletic department received a letter from one of head coach Todd Kress’ former players.
The letter included allegations that Kress attacked her in a hotel room in 1998.
Emails show that SJSU officials acknowledged the receipt of the allegations, thanked the former player for coming forward and apologized for her experiences. Despite this, Kress was never suspended and has continued to serve as the head coach of the women’s volleyball team.
Head coach Todd Kress of the San Jose State Spartans looks on during the third set against the Air Force Falcons at Falcon Court at East Gym on Oct. 19, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital was given copies of the emails exchanged between SJSU and the former Fairfield player, from an independently verified source. Fox News Digital has independently verified she played at Fairfield under Kress in the 1998 season, but is not disclosing her name.
Fox News Digital submitted a public records request seeking copies of documents with criteria that match the emails exchanged between SJSU and Kress’ former player, but the university formally declined the request, stating “the requested communications implicate substantial privacy interests.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Kress, SJSU officials and the university’s legal counsel that handled the 2024 exchange with a series of questions, but did not receive a response from any of the parties.
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The original letter was written by a woman that played for Kress at Fairfield University in the late ’90s, and sent to SJSU on Oct. 24, 2024.
That first email she sent to SJSU contained the letter with the written allegations against Kress, that was originally sent to Fairfield University. The alleged incident occurred in a hotel after Fairfield’s loss to Clemson in the first round of the 1998 NCAA Tournament in December of that year. She wrote that a teammate asked her to bring her a shirt to Kress’ room.
“I told her I wanted no part of his insanity. I was distraught about the loss and wasn’t interested in his drunken insanity, which was commonplace on trips.”
The former player added that her teammate “promised Todd would not throw water at me or do something juvenile so I reluctantly agreed to bring her the shirt.”
“I knocked on the door and Todd answered. He immediately took caramel from a plastic container and smeared it all over my face and hair. He then forcibly threw me on the bed and held me down. I was in shock. He let go of me and then pulled his pants down and put his back side in my face.
“Astonished… that is the only word I can think of to describe how I felt in that moment… Todd was drunk. I got up and went for the door.
“Todd again grabbed me, picked me up, and threw me into the bathtub where he held me down and threatened to turn on the shower with me laying there to ‘clean the caramel off of my face.’ At this point I was fighting back to get away from him.
“Todd let me get out of the tub, laughing, and then he stood in front of the door blocking my exit. Todd told me he would only let me leave if I took a shot of liquor, which I did only to get him to move away from the door. Once he did, I ran for it. He chased me. I got into my room and although he seemed to be in a rage, he turned and calmly walked out,” the letter alleges.
The former player goes on to allege her teammates “had been drinking with Todd underage.” She also claimed she did not report the incident at the time because she “was scared of losing my scholarship and being the reason my teammates lost theirs.”
Then she revealed why she was coming forward more than two decades later.
“But what is happening now at SJSU is egregious and he only continues to get more bold with each new school, and the complete improper balance of power seems to drive him. He knows very well that young impressionable female athletes are not in a balanced position,” she wrote.
The “egregious” conduct she referred to was regarding Kress’ handling of the trans athlete on SJSU’s volleyball team.
When that letter was sent to SJSU, Kress was in the middle of leading a Spartans team that was near the top of the Mountain West Conference standings. They got there through a few wins and a lot of forfeits from other teams, as SJSU was at the center of a national media controversy over a transgender player. A female teammate had joined a lawsuit claiming she hadn’t been told of that player’s birth sex before joining the team and living together.
Later that day on Oct. 24, 2024, SJSU Athletic Director Jeff Konya responded to the former Fairfield player in an email.
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“I want to acknowledge that I am in receipt of your correspondence and will share it with the proper authorities on the SJSU campus for additional review,” Konya wrote.
More than a week later, on Nov. 4, former SJSU interim Title IX and Gender Equity Officer Peter Lim reached out to set up a meeting with the former player and her attorney.
“Thank you for sharing your concerns about Coach Todd Kress. I am sorry to hear about your experiences. I have reviewed your letter and would like to meet with you to better understand your experiences with Coach Kress. The purpose of the meeting would be to help me assess potential next steps, which may or may not include an investigation into the reported conduct,” Lim wrote.
Three days after that, on Nov. 7, Lim sent another email to the former Fairfield player, thanking her and her attorney for meeting with them.
“I am so sorry about your prior experiences with Todd Kress at Fairfield University. I appreciate the time you took to describe those experiences, the impact those experiences continue to have on you, and the safety threat that you believe he presents to SJSU’s volleyball team,” Lim wrote.
“We are evaluating the information you provided and determining appropriate next steps. If it is okay with the two of you, I would appreciate staying in touch.”
There was no further correspondence between the two parties after that exchange, Fox News Digital has learned.
A split image of San Jose Spartans’ Blaire Fleming and Todd Kress. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images and Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
Kress continued to coach and travel with SJSU’s volleyball team, all the way to the final game of the Mountain West Tournament in Las Vegas that year, where their season ended to Colorado State.
Kress coached the team again in 2025. They fell short of the conference tournament with a losing record in 2025.
Kress continues to be the head coach of the women’s volleyball team at SJSU.
A U.S. Department of Education (ED) Title IX investigation into SJSU over the transgender scandal determined that the university allegedly made the decision to not suspend or relieve its head volleyball coach during the team’s 2024 transgender scandal, despite Title IX-related complaints against the coach. The investigation’s findings made no mention of the former Fairfield player and her letter.
However, the investigation did not disclose what those complaints were, and SJSU and the California State University System (CSU) are suing the department to challenge those findings.
ED’s findings, which were provided by SJSU to Fox News Digital in response to a public records request, suggest the school allegedly considered potential media attention that would arise from taking any action against the coach, and the affect it would have on the team.
The findings do not mention the coach by name, but Fox News Digital reasonably believes the figure titled “Coach 2” in the findings to be current SJSU volleyball head coach Todd Kress. The findings specify Coach 2 as the current head coach of the SJSU volleyball team who began his tenure in the 2023, which was the year Kress took over his current position.
“Additional notes indicate the decision to not suspend Coach 2 also included the improper consideration: ‘If we relieve him… [w]e could also spark more media attention…. ‘ University records indicate University officials, including the President of the University, agreed to not suspend Coach 2 because they felt his suspension would unduly disrupt the team,” the findings state.
Kress continues to be the coach at SJSU. He is one of the more accomplished volleyball coaches in NCAA history, currently ranking 21st all-time in NCAA history in wins with 550. But he has only led one winning season for SJSU since arriving in 2023, that being the controversial 2024 campaign with a trans player.
SJSU has faced federal sanctions for an unrelated Title IX violations since 2021. That year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) found that the university ignored more than a decade of sexual assault and harassment complaints made by female student-athletes against a former director of sports medicine/head athletic trainer.
Beginning in 2009, an athletic trainer subjected female student-athletes to repeated, unwelcome sexual touching under the guise of medical treatment.
The DOJ found that SJSU repeatedly mishandled, downplayed or failed to properly investigate these reports, which ultimately exposed additional student-athletes to harm.
To remedy these violations, SJSU agreed to pay a $1.6 million financial settlement to the affected victims and implement sweeping corrective measures.
SJSU has withheld relevant records and not responded to request for comment
On June 9, 2026, Fox News Digital submitted a formal public records request to San Jose State University seeking copies of the Oct. 24, 2024, complaint letter sent to Athletic Director Konya, the Nov. 1 follow-up email, and the subsequent Nov. 7 correspondence from the university’s Title IX office.
On June 22, 2026, SJSU’s public records office formally denied the request. In a response issued by university legal counsel J. Leah Castella, the school acknowledged the existence of the records but determined they were not disclosable under the California Public Records Act.
“The requested communications implicate substantial privacy interests,” the university’s response stated.
“Disclosure of these records would therefore constitute an invasion of privacy that outweighs the public interest in disclosure. Specifically, these records are being withheld subject to the following exemptions: Personnel Records/Privacy… General Privacy Rights… [and the] Balancing Test. Here, the public interest served by disclosure is minimal and is outweighed by the public interest served against disclosure in protecting substantial and significant privacy rights.”
Following the records denial, Fox News Digital sent a detailed press inquiry to Kress, Konya, Lim and Castella. The inquiry summarized the exact dates, timestamps and contents of the internal records obtained independently by Fox News Digital, and posed a series of explicit questions to the parties, including requests for Kress’ response to the 1998 allegations, details on what specific next steps the Title IX office took following their November 2024 meetings, and whether athletic department officials interviewed current volleyball players regarding their safety.
The inquiry also questioned university legal counsel regarding the decision to classify the public interest in these safety warnings as “minimal” while the university is actively engaged in a federal lawsuit defending its Title IX compliance within the volleyball program. Fox News Digital has not sought judicial relief on SJSU’s claim.
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Head coach Todd Kress of the San Jose State Spartans looks on during the second set against the Air Force Falcons at Falcon Court at East Gym on Oct. 19, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
As of publication time, neither Kress, Konya, nor any legal or communications representatives for San Jose State University have responded to the requests for comment.
Fox News Digital also reached out to Fairfield University for request for a response to the former player’s letter, but a spokesperson responded, writing, “The university does not comment on former or current personnel matters.”
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