An assistant coach (Nina Pham) on the girl's wrestling team allegedly "massaged the buttocks" of one of the girl's on the team under guise of treatment during a one-one training session back in February. A couple of wrestlers on the boys team walked in and Pham allegedly stopped immediately. Pham was criminally charged in June. Sem started posting on job boards looking for a new boy's and new girl's HC in early April (Fry took the job as Women's HC at Kings in April and looks like Robinson served as HC until the end of April).
A lot of the turnover this summer seems to stem from this incident. Robinson, and all the coaches, are mandatory reporters. If the alleged incident with Pham was brought to Robinson's attention and he delayed at all in forwarding that information to the proper channels, the school's hands may have been tied and they probably felt they had to place the blame somewhere. Seems like some combination of the coaches and the school mishandling the situation.
It certainly gives off weird optics firing Weber and then hiring him back as the HC within the same offseason.
The kids jumping ship is not unexpected - these are the best of the best, and they do not want to hang around while drama and coaching staff turnover detracts from their wrestling. I wonder how open Sem was with some of these elite women's transfer recruits (B Henry, J Johnson, etc.) about the going on while the recruitment process played out.
