{"id":19189,"date":"2013-01-21T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19189"},"modified":"2013-01-21T16:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:52:53","slug":"famu-baseball-coach-fired-amid-sexual-harassment-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19189","title":{"rendered":"FAMU Baseball Coach Fired Amid Sexual Harassment Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAMU has informed baseball coach<strong> Willie Brown<\/strong> he will be fired, following allegations of sexual harassment by a walk-on infielder that he cut from the baseball team twice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brown<\/strong> was notified of the university\u2019s decision in a letter dated Monday, Jan. 14, and signed by interim president<strong> Larry Robinson<\/strong>. The letter was made public on Wednesday by <strong>Brown\u2019s<\/strong> attorney, <strong>Steven Andrews<\/strong>, who received it a day earlier. <strong>Andrews<\/strong> also released a letter he sent to FAMU on Wednesday requesting a hearing for<strong> Brown<\/strong> to state his case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrews<\/strong> said he won\u2019t attempt to have <strong>Brown<\/strong> reinstated as coach, but he wants his client\u2019s name cleared. <strong>Andrews<\/strong> said he intends to take the case to court if needed. <strong>Brown <\/strong>remains on administrative leave with pay pending a final written decision from the university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn investigation has been concluded by the office of Equal Opportunity Program pursuant to a complaint that was filed against you alleging sexual harassment,\u201d <strong>Robinson <\/strong>wrote to <strong>Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAMU has informed baseball coach Willie Brown he will be fired, following allegations of sexual harassment by a walk-on infielder that he cut from the baseball team twice. Brown was notified of the university\u2019s decision in a letter dated Monday, Jan. 14, and signed by interim president Larry Robinson. The letter was made public on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}