re: If Bobby Petrino isnt fired ...

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You may wanna check the Arky handbook. Any supervisor that has consensual sex with another employee is sexual harassment.

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Wrong.

University faculty, administrators, and other supervisory staff should be aware that any sexual involvement with their students or employees could subject them to formal action if a sexual harassment complaint is subsequently made and substantiated, and that they bear the greater burden of responsibility should it be proven that the power differential between them made the relationship other than fully consensual. Even when both parties have consented to a relationship, it is the faculty member, administrator, or supervisor who may be held accountable for unprofessional behavior. Other students or employees may allege that the relationship creates a hostile or abusive environment affecting them. Graduate assistants, residence hall staff, tutors, and undergraduate course assistants who are professionally responsible for students will be held to the same standards of accountability as faculty in their relationships with students whom they instruct or evaluate.

Having sex with a subordinate does not instantly equal sexual harassment. It has to be proven that this played a part in her getting the job. This may be easily proven when they look at who else applied for the job...but I have a feeling if it can be shown that she had the credentials by her own merit, that they may find a way to wiggle out of having to fire him or her.