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Well, if there was a policy for his job against that than he was rightfully fired but I think he should still be considered as a coaching candidate down the road! It sounds (from reading online) that he is a great coach and I think a mistake like that - provided it was consensual and not with a minor - is more a lapse of judgment than a career ending mistake. Quite frankly, the person who was most negatively affected was his wife if the relationship with the player was consensual. I'm sad for her.

Not to sound dickish, but how can you be so firm in calling for someone to be fired and lose their livelihood, their reputation, their career etc when you also say you know "virtually no details". The details always matter. That's a pretty serious call to make against someone without knowing anything about the case.

What if it wasn't against school policy to date students? It isn't a blanket rule at every school, and even those where it is, there are often carve outs (ie, you can have relationship but another professor would have to grade the students paper, or be involved where a grade is assigned). What if she is underage? What if he is married and it's a religious school that has a more stringent "morality code"? What would the punishment normally be for code violations? Are there other ethically troubling facts - did he influence other teachers to improve her grades based on their relationship, etc. did he abuse the position of power he had?

I'm hesitant to call for people to be fired (and a firing like that is likely career ruining, at least for the short term) unless the facts support it.

Full disclosure, I'm married to a former professor of mine. We started dating after I had graduated, but our school has no policy barring current student-teacher relationships.

Without more details I can't say whether he should be fired or not.

Did this make local news at least? Name + school would go along a way in a Google search.

http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/15163404/tyler-summitt-fall-crushing-louisiana-tech-lady-techsters-tennessee-lady-vols

IMO it's being made a bigger deal because his mom is famous. If there is something in his contract that says he can't have a relationship with players then he should be fired. I don't see why he shouldn't be able to coach again. His is in his 20s just like the players. They aren't children.

@Mrs. Pickle: thanks for posting the link

The coach was in his early 20s and wasn't married. This seems more like a workplace romance. Unless against the rules I don't see why he would be fired. He resigned already.

My bro's Godfather married his HS sweetheart- she was a student teacher when they met his junior or senior year. It happens. They've been married over 35 years.

@ShootingStar: really? I went back to it & still don't see it. Cheating on your spouse is not cool, but that isn't automatic grounds for dismissal.

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: agree with your assessment - sounds like they are both in twenties, and if he wasn't married - it's just something that is bound to happen occasionally when you have students and coaches so close in age. Of course if it's against school policy, that's something he should have taken more seriously.

Depends. If it was an undergrad student, then no, I don't think he should coach again. Or rather, I think the NCAA should put a show-cause order against him (ie, the school that wants to hire him will have to show why it must be him, and not another coach). If it were a grad student, I think he should be fired, but maybe not a show-cause. It's gross, it's irresponsible, it takes advantage of an unequal power dynamic, and it should go against school policy.

(This is the first I've heard of it, btw, but I work on a college campus. If a professor were to sleep with an undergrad, that's a bigger deal than with a grad student, in my experience. Though I do know of a prof who was denied tenure for sleeping with a grad student, soooo....)

It's unethical. It was right for him to resign. The link posted said he was married.