Seattle basketball coach Jim Hayford resigns after school investigates alleged use of racial slur
Seattle b-ball mentor Jim Hayford, who was set on semi-voluntary vacation last week while the school examined claims he utilized a racial slur, left his post Thursday. Seattle athletic chief Shaney Fink reported the news Thursday evening.
"It is obvious to me that Coach Hayford is as of now not ready to viably lead the group," Fink said in an assertion. "We additionally perceive and like the players' craving to pull together on the season and each game before them."
Rat said the school is directing an examination of the environment inside the program and Seattle intends to find alternate ways to guarantee all worries are tended to. The news comes one day after Seattle opened its season with a 69-66 success over Alcorn State.
Hayford is asserted by one of his players to have utilized the racial slur on various events during a scrimmage last week, as per a report from Stadium's Jeff Goodman. He was put on semi-voluntary vacation two days after the fact.
"I have consistently believed that the utilization of racial slurs is not welcome in the public eye, notwithstanding their starting point," Hayford said in an assertion to Stadium Thursday reporting his renunciation. "Notwithstanding, my new efforts to abridge the utilization of a hostile word inside my own program was off track and made division among our understudy competitors to whom I have apologized."
Hayford was recruited via Seattle in 2017 after an effective run at Eastern Washington where he went 106-91 and won the two an ordinary season and post-season gathering title. The school additionally showed up in 2015. At Seattle he completes his residency 65-55 out of four seasons (and one game), however he always lost in excess of 20 games in a season after his first mission with the school.
