Report: Kent State fired their head football coach for borrowing 100k dollars from a booster
The story from the Akron-Beacon Journal on recently fired Kenni Burns is wild. According to the report, the former football coach was fired for borrowing more than 100,000 dollars from Michael Awad, a semi-retired restauranteur who is both a KSU vendor and a school booster.
A memo was released as public record after Akron-Beacon Journal put in a records request.
The 13-page memo stated the lawyers who investigated concluded Ohio’s Ethics Commission would find “that receipt of over $100,000 in personal loans from a University vendor — loans paid off in a series of post-dated checks while the recipient is simultaneously being sued for defaulting on a personal credit card debt — violates the applicable ethics laws,”.
There were many rumors that Burns had a gambling problem, drank on the job, and mistreated staff, but that is not why he was fired. He was fired because he borrowed money from a donor. Burns was making 500,000 dollars a year as the head coach.
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