Wichita State basketball coach Greg Marshall has resigned following an internal investigation into allegations of physical and verbal abuse, the school announced Tuesday.
The school and Marshall agreed to pay કર 7.75 million over the next six years.
“It was a difficult decision, but I felt the need for my family, the university and most importantly the student-athletes,” Marshall said. “I am grateful for the years I have spent in Wichita State. I thank the coaches, the student-athletes, the university, the community and the Shkar Nation for their endless dedication, support and loyalty. I am extremely proud of these men Achieved in 14 years and is confident of its continued success. “
Assistant coach Isaac Brown will be the team’s interim head coach.
Before announcing his resignation, Marshall met with the team and staff and told them to move forward under Brown and “shock the world,” a source in the program told ESPN’s Myron Medcalf. While the allegations against Marshall were serious, “no one took it [the announcement] Easy “because many of the players on the current team rallied behind Marshall amidst the commotion,” the source said.
“Our student-athletes are our primary concern,” said Athletic Director Darron Botteret. “While the University acknowledges the success of the Basketball Program under Coach Marshall, this decision is in the best interests of the University, its student athletes and the WSU community.
In early October, Wichita State confirmed that it had hired St. Louis-based law firm Tueth Keane to conduct an internal investigation into Marshall’s behavior following numerous allegations by former players at the stadium and athletics.
At the time, Marshall said he had “fully cooperated” in the investigation.
Athletic initially filed a number of allegations against Marshall from the 2015-16 season, including pushing Marshall and later punishing former player Shakville Morris; Marshall is putting one of his hands around the staff member’s neck; And Marshall is trying to give the student-athlete down and punch in another game parked in his parking lot.
Morris told the stadium that Marshall punched him during practice. After an accident, Morris said he went to help teammate Zach Brown and was then punched by Marshall. According to Morris, the incident happened the same day he told Marshall that his mother had cancer.
The stadium also reported that the staff member trying to suffocate Marshall was former assistant coach Kyle Lindstad, who is now in Minnesota. Lindsay declined to comment when Medcalf arrived after the stadium report.
Other allegations reported by the stadium, which spoke to more than 30 current and former members of the program, include a martial arts bodybuilder who now deals with anxiety and frustration; Marshall made a “voice of Indian doom” and told Isaiah Poor Bear-Ch Chand Ndler, of Native American descent, to “get back on his horse”; Marshall telling Colombian center Jaime Echenik he would be “a great coffee bean picker”; And Marshall told Eric Stevenson that he was “afraid of the brothers, their grandparents raised PB and JS Khai.”
Wichita State saw a mass departure from its basketball program last spring, with eight players initially entering the transfer portal. Morris Udez eventually returned to the Shockers, but Asbjorn Midtguard (Grand Canyon), Grant Sherfield (Nevada), Diantoni Gordon (Northwest Mississippi Community College Lodge), Noah Fernandez (UMS), Stevenson (Tenson) and Washington The walk-out bus all went out.
Marchel Wichita is the winning coach of state history, having led the Shockers to eight NCAA tournaments since taking office in 2007. He led them to the Final Four in 2013 after winning 9-seeded in the NCAA Tournament, and then came in second with him. 35-1 record and 1-seed in the 2014 NCAA Tournament. Wichita State started 35-0 before losing to Kentucky in the second round.
Marshall also guided the Shockers from their Missouri Valley Conference to the transition to the American Athletic Conference in 2017. After joining the AAC, Wichita State went to the NCAA Tournament in 2018 and was in the mix for a second bid in the second season before the tournament was canceled due to a coronavirus epidemic.
Before reaching Wichita State, Marshall was the head coach of Winthrop for nine seasons. The South Carolina native led the Eagles in seven NCAA tournaments, including an upset win over Notre Dame in the 2007 NCAA Tournament.
Marshall, 57, was previously assistant coach at Marshall, Charleston, Belmont Abbey and Randolph-M Mac Kahn, where he played from 1981 to 1985.
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