Bowling Green Hoops Coach Fired After Getting Caught On Video Slapping A Chick's Ass At A Bar
INDIANAPOLIS—Bowling Green State University fired coach Chris Jans on Thursday after an internal investigation revealed the first-year coach exhibited drunken and inappropriate behavior at a local bar on March 21. The school received a video and email from an eyewitness showing Jans touching a woman on the buttocks and claiming he made a crude comment to a different woman.
His behavior toward another woman that night started a confrontation at the bar, according to the termination letter the school sent Jans.
The university conducted an investigation after it received an email on March 22 entitled, “BGSU Basketball Coach Inappropriate Conduct.” It accused Jans of being “sloppy drunk” and making inappropriate advances toward “several women.” The daughter of the letter writer, who is a student-athlete at a different school, confronted Jans because she felt his behavior was so inappropriate for a coach.
Jans’s termination letter said that he admitted publicly touching two women in a “way that attracted public attention.” He also admitted “patting the second woman on the buttocks at least once,” a scene that’s captured on the video. The letter also states that Jans admitted calling a third woman “a bitch,” which started a confrontation. The university claims in the letter that that because of “breach of comportment obligations” that the university doesn’t owe him any of the remaining money on his contract.
Jans signed a six-year deal worth $325,000 annually after being hired last year, meaning he had five years and more than $1.6 million remaining on his contract. Jans is married with two children.
Patting a buttocks? Seriously? I don’t know man. I’m gonna need to hear a few more facts about this to determine if the firing is legit or not, but a buttocks tap at a bar doesn’t = loss of job in my book.
Oh, lucky for me you spelled it all out for us:
Alright well, sounds like you had yourself an evening. Hey I get it, it was the final game of a long ass season, just wanted to get out with the boys and blow off some steam. We’ve all been there, got a little too sloppy a little too early, did some things we regret. Slapping a random chick’s ass multiple times when she’s clearly not into it then calling her a bitch when she gets pissed is a little bit too far though. Looks like you tiptoed right over the line of “fun old guy at the bar” to “creepy old weirdo making all the girls uncomfortable at the bar,” and even worse, you let yourself get caught on video. And I guess even worse than that is your wife and 2 kids are reading that termination letter describing you slapping random buttockses. Brutal combination of bad luck and drunk creepiness.