Stanford football coach Troy Taylor mistreated women employees and tried to have an NCAA compliance officer removed after she warned him of rules violations, according to documents obtained by ESPN from investigations into Taylor’s conduct.
ESPN said more than 20 current and former employees cooperated with the two investigations that included complaints against Taylor for what are described as hostile and aggressive behavior, as well as personal attacks.
Both investigations determined that Taylor’s treatment of employees, particularly of women, was inconsistent with Stanford’s standards, according to ESPN.
The second investigation concluded that Taylor retaliated against a compliance staffer who had found seven minor NCAA infractions by “seeking her removal from her assigned duties.”
The report said investigators had never encountered “this palpable level of animosity and disdain” for a university compliance office, according to ESPN.
Taylor signed a warning letter on Feb. 14, 2024, following the first investigation acknowledging he could be fired if the conduct continued, according to the documents obtained by ESPN. Additional complaints were documented in a second investigation that ended July 24, but Taylor remains on the job.
“I willingly complied with the investigations, accepted the recommendations that came out of them, and used them as a learning opportunity to grow in leadership and how I interact with others,” Taylor said in a statement released by the school. “I look forward to continuing to work collaboratively and collegially with my colleagues so that we can achieve success for our football program together.”
A statement from a university spokesperson said, “Stanford believes in upholding the highest standards of behavior in the workplace.”
“The University received complaints regarding Coach Taylor and a third party investigated the matter thoroughly. Last summer, the University took appropriate measures, Coach Taylor received coaching, and he has committed to nurturing the respectful working environment that is essential to the success of all our athletics programs.”
Taylor is entering his third year as Stanford coach after back-to-back 3-9 seasons. — By the Associated Press
STANFORD NEEDS TO GROW A PAIR AND FIRE THIS LOOSER OF A COACH AND PERSON.
Stanford is not adjusting to the new environment around the so-called revenue sports, making the job of the head football coach just about impossible. Thus, the DEI-oriented athletic director is leaving at last. Troy Taylor took the big money coming to Stanford but he didn’t demand the university change to allow him to bring in serious players, thus the frustration. Depend on the Chronicle’s Anne Killian, the worst sportswriter who ever lived, to miss the point. She’s 100% behind women’s sports, even though nobody cares, but she’s also 100% behind men participating in women”s sports.
Of course he’s going to yell at people. He’s a football coach! What do these girls want? A wimpy Mideval literature teacher to coach the football team?
I don’t know the particulars of this incident but I do know something about the Stanford athletic department administrators. The females who work there are the absolute worst. They would think nothing of destroying another man’s life for the flimsiest of reasons.
Was Coach Taylor exhibiting too much “toxic masculinity”? Did he use the wrong “pronouns”? Tsk, tsk. Perhaps Taylor isn’t a pushover like his predecessor was and is actually fighting back, holding his own against the radical feminists in the department. And we all know that Taylor being a white male at a Marxist university doesn’t help his cause.
Coach Taylor’s win-loss record, play-calling and other performance metrics are all fair game. But if the Stanford female administrators are complaining of Taylor’s “hostile” and “aggressive” behavior, to me that shows he’s at least doing something right.