Questions about Hartwell

this came out today...LINK

A day after resigning as Utah State University athletic director, John Hartwell apologized for a video showing him repeating part of a vulgar joke while at a school bowl game.

An anonymous group raised the video with USU administrators in August, calling Hartwell’s behavior “abhorrent” in a letter signed by “concerned Aggies.” The letter, which lists other issues with athletics and specifically within the football program, was released Wednesday in response to a public records request filed by The Salt Lake Tribune.

In a second published letter last month, Green Bay Packer Dallin Leavitt — a former USU football player — wrote to university president Noelle Cockett, citing the video as one of the reasons he is “beyond ashamed” of the school’s program “.

The shaky eight-second clip from 2019 was posted to Twitter in December 2020 — but was later removed with no explanation and no confirmation of who recorded it. It circulated on social media again last year, but its accuracy has not been confirmed until now.

The Tribune has a copy of the clip showing Hartwell seated at a table with another person across from him, not shown in full. Hartwell is talking on his phone running on speakers. He laughs as he says, “Get your d— out of the boy’s a–.”

He keeps laughing and clapping his hands before the video ends. The brief record contains nothing that was said before or after.