Ex-Coach Admits Sexual Relationship with Player

0:00On April 30th, former Nebraska women's basketball assistant coach Chuck Love just admitted in a court deposition to having a sexual relationship with ex-player Ashley Scoggan before she got kicked off the team back in 2022. This comes from documents in a civil lawsuit. Scoggan filed last year against Love and some university bigwigs claiming her civil rights got trampled, leading up to her dismissal. Scoggan's suit hits hard on violations during her time with the corn huskers, and she's pushing for a jury trial in Lincoln, plus whatever damages. Stick. Love flat out denied any hookup at first in his response, but his lawyers recent filing flips the script after that February 5th deposition. Teammates caught Scoggan in Love's room, fully clothed on a road trip, which sparked her boo from the squad the same day Love got suspended with. He bounced three months later, and Scoggan transferred to UNLV. She's from Dallas, Oregon, and says the relationship made her fear payback if she said no. The suit also calls out head coach Amy Williams, ex-athletic director Trev Albert, now a Texas A&M, and the University's Board of Regents for Skipping.

1:08Rules or training to stop staff from messing with players. They all back Love's early denial at first. University folks say Scoggan's ouster made sense over dishonesty and bad vibes with teammates, but this emission shakes things up as the case rolls, on toward trial. That's the story for today, Global News Today, driven by AI, I'm Cory with the story.