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Golf Head Coach Jay Donovan was recently forced to resign after the athletics department learned he took the team to a strip club while in Florida last March for a tournament, according to Donovan. The resignation comes in the midst of controversy between Donovan and several of the team’s players.
Both the athletic department and the players who were on last year’s team repeatedly refused to comment for this article.
The incident occurred during the week of March 15, when the golf team participated in the Johnson & Wales University CAT Classic in Weston, Fla. One night, the team got lost driving in the Ft. Lauderdale area, Donovan said. The team came across a strip club and one player jokingly suggested they go in. Donovan laughed off the proposal and continued to drive.
Still lost, the team came across the same strip club and, again, members of the team asked to go in.
Donovan agreed in an effort to appease a team with which he had tension since he became coach last fall. Six of the eight players on the team accompanied Donovan into the club. Team Captain John “Pepper” Pharr, a senior, and junior Andrew Gihm did not go in.
Donovan, who doesn’t drink, said he had a cigar at the club. Members of the team drank alcoholic beverages, including junior Adam Krainson, who was 20 at the time, Donovan said.
Donovan maintains, however, that neither he nor the athletic department paid for anything the players purchased while in the club and that they were there for less than an hour.
The decision to go into the club was regrettable, Donovan said.
“I made a very spontaneous decision that night,” he said. “I didn’t suggest we go, but I was responsible for my actions and I have no problem being held accountable. I did pull the van into the parking lot of that club and never should have.”
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