The move came less than a month after the university announced it was looking into allegations that Gillispie mistreated players last fall.
SINGAPORE — The president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, said Wednesday that soccer's world governing body had opened an inquiry into allegations that North Korea might have mistreated players and coaches after the team lost all three of its World Cup matches.
He further alleged that the coaching staff had mistreated players by threatening loss of scholarships if players didn't toe the line and in one instance, abusing a player physically at practice, while demanding that players compete when injured without licensed staff support.
In 2009, Texas Tech fired Mike Leach as its football coach after Leach was accused of mistreating a player who had sustained a concussion.
Leach has denied mistreating the player, the sophomore receiver Adam James, and said he suspected an $800,000 bonus he was to have received Dec. 31 was the reason he was fired a day earlier.
"[Katims] has come up with a really great storyline that parallels what happened to Mike Leach, one of my heroes, a coach at Texas Tech, who was unjustly fired and unjustly accused of mistreating a player with a concussion, which was proven to not have been the case," Berg told MTV News.
Mangino resigned earlier this month amid allegations that he emotionally mistreated his players.
Leach was fired last month amid allegations that he mistreated a player who had sustained a concussion.
Texas Tech suspended and then fired Leach amid allegations, which he denied, that he mistreated a player with a concussion.
The university fired Leach on Dec. 30, two days after suspending him amid allegations he mistreated a player who had a concussion.
Tuberville walks into a situation a few weeks after Leach was fired amid allegations he mistreated a player who sustained a concussion.
