debate follow-up

http://chronicle.com/free/2008/08/4336n.htm

Well, Fort Hays State University fired the debate coach and communications professor shown dropping trow in the previous post. I'm amazed by two things that show up in the follow-up articles.

The first is that the university official said that they heard nothing about this whole incident until it showed up on YouTube. I would have thought the debate league's judges might have had a word or two in the ears of Fort Hays reps. If I was throwing a debate and one team's coach showed up acting the fool like this, I'd certainly ask for some sort of explanation/banning from the participating school.

Second, the school's debate team - apparently a pretty good one - got suspended thanks to their coach's antics. The president of FHSU said this was to give them time to look at debate as a whole and to make sure the FHSU team wasn't disadvantaged in coming debates. I figure not being in a debate greatly disadvantages you, but there you go.