By the way-To be clear-I’m not condoning anyone’s behavior in the past.I’m suggesting moving on from the
sturm and drang that this issue seems to elicit.Shit happens guys.Mayhem I’m not criticizing the Hatchet 
for the story-it’s the reaction to the story that’s predictable by some of you.I’m probably in the minority here.
I just don’t care enough about Nero or ML.-and how their tenure may have effected our present day 
situation.Time to move on.
 

Keith as someone who is in the know with both that era of GW basketball and the PN/ML saga itself, and who has proven to have insider info during that time on multiple occasions, I can say WHOLEHEARTEDLY that ML did not do anything wrong. He saw that PN was acting inappropriately with the players, having private unsanctioned meet ups and meetings with them, and was openly breaking rules by giving them money, inviting them to his home for dinner, etc. He decided to go to the President about it. They REMOVED Nero from team activities that same season (look it up!) and that is when accusations started popping up against ML. MULTIPLE players have taken to social media or made statements to the effect that absolutely none of that was true by the way. The TITLE IX investigation CLEARED ML of any wrongdoing earlier that year. Forest refused to release that paperwork (I believe deadspin article mentioned this). Then "anonymous" players and staff went to the post immediately following this. I would name these players (one of whom never set foot on the GW hardwood) but I don't want to get banned. ML is not this abusive monster you are lead to believe he is. He is not homophobic, racist, abusive, any of that. Nero played all of his hands after realizing that the next president wouldn't be the bag of useless dust the sitting one was at the time. I wish I could give you more. I unfortunately have to be vague cause I don't want to out the athletic department employees (at the time) and players I knew when this was going on. But yes I can say ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG cause I know it to be true. Per multiple sources, multiple times, without any wavering. 

Skittles wrote:

Keith as someone who is in the know with both that era of GW basketball and the PN/ML saga itself, and who has proven to have insider info during that time on multiple occasions, I can say WHOLEHEARTEDLY that ML did not do anything wrong. He saw that PN was acting inappropriately with the players, having private unsanctioned meet ups and meetings with them, and was openly breaking rules by giving them money, inviting them to his home for dinner, etc. He decided to go to the President about it. They REMOVED Nero from team activities that same season (look it up!) and that is when accusations started popping up against ML. MULTIPLE players have taken to social media or made statements to the effect that absolutely none of that was true by the way. The TITLE IX investigation CLEARED ML of any wrongdoing earlier that year. Forest refused to release that paperwork (I believe deadspin article mentioned this). Then "anonymous" players and staff went to the post immediately following this. I would name these players (one of whom never set foot on the GW hardwood) but I don't want to get banned. ML is not this abusive monster you are lead to believe he is. He is not homophobic, racist, abusive, any of that. Nero played all of his hands after realizing that the next president wouldn't be the bag of useless dust the sitting one was at the time. I wish I could give you more. I unfortunately have to be vague cause I don't want to out the athletic department employees (at the time) and players I knew when this was going on. But yes I can say ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG cause I know it to be true. Per multiple sources, multiple times, without any wavering. 

i back this post 100%

signed,
used to be on the inside

Interesting. After we won the NIT I thought we had a stable ship here at GW. Then this mess started. Being so far away I only get info about the situation from y'all. From my perspective ML was a an 'Old School' coach who didn't change fast enough to meet the new challenges of being a 'Modern Era" coach. This new way of coaching has driven many old time coaches away from the profession. Like Mik K at Duke.  ML was good at CU and Vermont, and GW. But trying to coach a team and trying to deal with an incompetent administration can cause anyone to have a nervous breakdown. This Colonials is evil shit is a case in point.
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One day we all need to sit down over drinks and hash through this.  The author of the Deadspin article is a friend of mine and we have had SEVERAL discussions about the article itself, not the facts or circumstances. I find it incredulous that Mike Lonergan brought NOTHING on himself through his behaviors and his ideologies.

I loved him as a coach.  

Keith, appreciate you modulating your stance.
If the author of the article is a friend of yours and you trust him, find it hard to understand that
you don't see the things that happened, that GW paid for, in addition to literally a video that people
knew about even before it was published by Deadspin. If the publishers of Deadspin did not believe that your friend's account been true, both he and the author would have faced extreme liability.
   Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but the situation points to the extreme goading and set-up of ML.
The article yells you well-documented things, insiders are telling you things, the huge,roughly $3 million
settlement tells you things, the court papers right now tell you things.
     Those insiders would also point you toward things that look even worse that haven't come out.
  Today, as this is right now in the news, and the full story has yet to emerge, we are still paying the price as
GW fans.
 

keithgreene wrote:

One day we all need to sit down over drinks and hash through this.  The author of the Deadspin article is a friend of mine and we have had SEVERAL discussions about the article itself, not the facts or circumstances. I find it incredulous that Mike Lonergan brought NOTHING on himself through his behaviors and his ideologies.

I loved him as a coach.  

I don't think ML himself would say he is perfect or that he never said anything he didn't regret. But that's an impossible standard Keith. The idea that he suddenly became this homophobic abusive coach is coincidentally correlated with corroborated reports about PN's own egregious behavior. You mean ML suddenly only became that way when PN's behavior came to light? Recall that he had coached here and elsewhere for years without such allegations. Also, how did this get fed to the Washington Post? You know, the paper who covers GW basketball in-depth daily? In my opinion, this was a set-up from the beginning designed to deflect.

What better way than to take the spotlight off your own actions than to make your accuser look like a bigot? It's a tried and true strategy done all the time in this town to discredit the accuser. Probably would have completely succeeded at least to the general public until the Deadspin article put things in a different realm.


 

I have never heard of this whether in person (spoken to the guy dozens of times) or from other peoples' encounters. This sounds like projecting. Also none of the accusations had a damn thing to do about religion. Just admit you don't know what you are talking about and like you said "move on", making stuff up isn't gonna back you out of this corner you put yourself in man...

Keith Greene now brings religion into the discussion. Give me a break. 

Greene, this thread is about 1 person - Nero, and his wrongdoing over the Williams case. Leave ML and his religion out of it.

Not sure what religion Nero is (Jewish, Protestant?) but nobody gives a shit. His pecker does all the thinking and that's what keeps getting him in trouble - lap dances with young male co-eds, paying a young inexperienced male twice the salary of an experienced deartment veteran, etc, etc, etc.

Just like we called your BS last year when you claimed to have been corresponding to ML directly, now you want us to believe how tight the 2 of you are. 

Time for you to move on and stop obsessing about ML. He is enjoying his comfortable retirement thanks to GW and busy running around the country supporting the activities of his kids too numerous to count!
You should follow his lead.

jf wrote:

As remembered anyway from years ago, those said to be the names, let's generously say, won't wind up in the Hall of Fame.
Would like to hear the tablet story. Don't remember it in the tidal wave of bizarre things, if 
heard before.

Check DM