New Mexico
New Mexico State fires men’s basketball coach after hazing scandal
Two days after asserting it was ending its season early, New Mexico State fired males’s basketball coach Greg Heiar within the wake of hazing allegations.
Chancellor Dan Arvizu introduced the firing of Heiar on Tuesday, saying, “hazing has no place on our campus, and people discovered accountable might be held accountable for his or her actions.” Arvizu stated selections about the remainder of the teaching workers’s future might be made after additional investigation.
NEW MEXICO STATE ENDS BASKETBALL SEASON AFTER HAZING SCANDAL
Arvizu stated on Sunday the group wouldn’t play its remaining 5 video games and that the college had knowledgeable the Western Athletic Convention about its resolution. The Aggies had a 9-15 document in the course of the 2022-2023 season and had been in final place within the WAC beneath their first-year head coach.
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The scandal surfaced after a police report cited three gamers with false imprisonment, harassment, and legal sexual contact for actions in opposition to a teammate. The police report says the incidents had been occurring since July or August 2022, with the latest occasion occurring on Feb. 6. The gamers haven’t been named.
This most up-to-date incident allegedly concerned the three gamers holding down one participant and slapping his naked bottom. The participant alleges he was unable to do something as a result of it was a “3-on-1 kind of state of affairs.” He additionally informed police nobody intervened and that there was a chance different gamers had been subjected to the sort of remedy.
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The 47-year-old Heiar was beforehand an assistant for former Aggies coach Chris Jans, who left after final season to educate Mississippi State. Heiar was additionally previously an assistant coach at LSU.
Along with New Mexico State’s on-court struggles resulting in their 9-15 document, the hazing scandal isn’t the one off-the-court subject that has plagued the group. In November, beginning ahead Mike Peake was concerned in a gunfight that left one particular person lifeless. Peake was suspended from the group however has not been charged with against the law.