University of Missouri head coach Greg Rhodenbaugh has been placed on paid administrative leave while the school investigates “team management allegations.” The school announced the move in a press release today.
The school’s release says that Rhodenbaugh is on leave “while the University investigates allegations related to team management issues within the Tiger programs.” Associate Head Coach Andrew Grevers will take over as interim head coach while Rhodenbaugh is away. The release indicates the investigation came as a result of accusations by student-athletes:
“We recently were made aware of serious team management allegations by our student-athletes, and it is appropriate that Coach Rhodenbaugh be placed on paid administrative leave while the University conducts a full investigation,” said athletics director Jim Sterk.
We’ve asked the school for further detail about the specifics of the allegations, but have not yet received a response.
Rhodenbaugh has been coaching Missouri for the past nine seasons. He’s a USA Swimming National Team coach for two athletes. Grevers has been with the Missouri program since Rhodenbaugh took over, starting as an assistant coach and being promoted to associate head coach before last season. Missouri is set to compete against Kentucky this weekend, and will host the Mizzou Invite starting on November 15.
Any news here?
It’s been almost 6 months. Now that the season is over, maybe the investigation will wrap?
Fire Him!!!
Arizona would take him back in a hot second
Arizona can have him. Just don’t let him anywhere around the women’s team!
Hahahahaaaaa!!!!!!
There’s a former Arizona athlete on the team now. Why don’t you ask them where they prefer??
You won’t like the answer.
Maybe that swimmer is a favorite! Also she liked the woman’s team…didn’t choose to swim at Mizzou because rhody was coach! He doesn’t even coach her
Every coach has their favorites. Professors have their favorite students. Students have their favorite professors. This is human nature. Curious to see the facts come out, but if it’s all about favoritism, this needs to be squashed like a bug.
Apparently its a Title IX investigation, so my guess is its not about favoritism
Even if the athlete prefer Rhode, it doesn’t mean he’s a good person/coach. Maybe her old coach was also cruel
I don’t know the facts or the situation. I do know that a person is innocent until proven otherwise with evidence rather than innuendo. I also know another negative story about swimming is not what the sport needs so for his sake as a coach and for our sake as a sport, I hope it is just a misunderstanding and can be resolved quickly and simply. The program at Missouri has done well these years and we need more of that kind of success.
As a former female athlete of Greg, I can firsthand attest to many of the comments below. There were many situations of misconduct by Male athletes, specifically towards females, that were brought to both his and the athletic departments attention. If the Male student was someone who could potentially score a lot of points for the team, issues were often overlooked and disregarded. If it was someone he didn’t like, not only did he make it painfully obvious he thought they were worthless, but he was quick to kick them off the team.
Many problems over the last several years have unfortunately been brought up to him, as well as the admin during exit interviews and it is disgusting… Read more »
I am also a former swimmer of Greg’s and I definitely did not have this experience! He is a class act and was the best coach I ever had. Sorry you had this experience, maybe you were the one who didn’t have all the facts not all of the administrators.
Just because we had different experiences with him does not mean one of us is right vs. Wrong. You are entitled to your opinion as am i
As a third former swimmer, I think we all know favoritism is a HEAVY issue on the team. If you didn’t experience anything, you were probably a favorite lol.
Third former swimmer/Third flrmwr – please make sure to stick to the same username in the thread (though, I think maybe this was just a weird autocorrect issue). Thanks!
I have a feeling you were one of the favorites of rhody.
I am also a former swimmer, and I think favoritism played a HUGE roll. Favorites were treated much better, which might explain why swimmers from the same team could have such vastly different experiences.
This isn’t about whether or not a program was successful, this is about how a coach interacts and conducts his athletes. Understand the difference, Rhodenbaugh has no doubt brought the tigers swimming success, but what’s being questioned and brought forth is the relationship between coach and athlete. How a coach interacts with parents, those in higher authority, or in public atmospheres is almost always conducted in a more professional manner compared to how a coach talks and treats his athletes when it’s behind closed doors.
If you’re not actually involved in the situation, i.e. an accuser or accused, it might be best to refrain from judgement as we don’t actually know what is going on. I imagine, though, that it was an incredibly difficult thing for those athletes to come forward, and we should remember that as we post.
Proud of the athletes who decided to stand up for themselves. It’s a hard thing to do especially with so much at steak. Don’t regret your decision to speak. You are brave.
thank you for saying this…so true! I hope they aren’t reading all these comments