re: AU Softball ex player speaks about the charges (video & story)

The Auburn fans are starting to sound a lot like the Ole Miss fans.

It's not just one player saying these things...

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Greenberg's letter alleges that on March 30, 2017, "several players approached Head Coach Myers with proof in the form of text messages from a student-athlete's cell phone that Coach Corey was having an inappropriate relationship with one of the student-athletes." According to the letter and several players, the team was then "quarantined" for several hours prior to a trip to Georgia. Five players told ESPN that, at that meeting, Auburn executive associate athletic director Meredith Jenkins told the players they were risking arrest for taking the text messages from their teammate's phone and ordered them to delete the messages.

Auburn officials and Clint Myers have been aware of the allegations for months. Over the past five months, an ESPN reporter has spent several days with the Auburn team and coaching staff and conducted dozens of interviews.

Recently, players associated with the program began discussing with ESPN a culture of routine manipulation, isolation and exploitation. Three former players spoke on the record about a program that, according to Nemeth, was "toxic" and "lacked any kind of institutional control." One former player, when asked if any of the coaches ever commented on her looks, said, "That's how it was determined if you were liked or not."

According to Fagan and others, the rift that opened between Auburn players and coaches on the subject of Corey Myers turned explosive on a March 27 bus trip to play the Florida Gators. Several former Auburn players said in interviews that an Auburn player took a photo of texts, described as intimate in nature, exchanged between Corey Myers and a teammate.

It was an act that set the stage for all that was to follow: an emotionally charged postgame confrontation between Fagan and Florida coach Tim Walton, who unwittingly stepped into the Auburn storm; the three-hour March 30 "quarantine" described in Greenberg's letter; the resignation of Corey Myers; and, perhaps most remarkably, the refusal of several members of the team, including Fagan and 2016 All-American Kasey Cooper, to board the bus to Athens in the company of the player who allegedly exchanged text messages with Corey Myers.

"We said that if she gets on, we're staying off," Fagan said. "It was a team decision."

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Former Auburn softball player alleges abuse, sexual harassment in 14-page complaint

Former players Blaire Bass, Whitney Jordan, and Haley Fagan are all quoted in the ESPN article.