Whatever the reason this is a significant blow to the growth and momentum in the athletic program.
The new arena is opening next year and they do not even average 1,600 people now and need to fill (or at least fill a lot of a) a 4,000 seat arena in ten months.
It is hard to imagine whatever Fiore did was that bad since they are paying him almost 800k to go away.
The academic standards argument seems pretty suspect also since their APR scores have gone up significantly over JF's time here in almost every sport, most notably in men's basketball and football.
You would think if they did not like the route a few of the sports were taking that would be an issue with the coach and not AD.
In any case the whole situation is a mess and does not bode well for the immediate future of the athletic program/department.
I am not confident that this will turn out great. We will see.
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