re: Colorado State backs off hiring Butch Jones due to baggage and Title IX concerns

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Jones, who college football analyst Bruce Feldman of The Athletic, FootballScoop.com and others said was nearing a deal to become CSU’s next coach, was implicated in a Title IX lawsuit against Tennessee while he was coaching there. An affidavit in the lawsuit filed in 2016 accused Jones of saying a player who helped a victim of an alleged rape “betrayed his teammates” and repeatedly allowed the accused players to physically and verbally harass the player who helped the victim.

Jones denied any wrongdoing at the time, and the university eventually settled the Title IX lawsuit out of court, paying $2.48 million to eight people who said they had been sexually or physically assaulted by Tennessee student-athletes between 2013 and 2015.

Multiple sources said the Title IX lawsuit became a stumbling block in Jones’ negotiations about becoming CSU’s coach.

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