Wasn't it the Times Picayune in New Orleans that first broke the story? Why is he not suing them?
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Wasn't it the Times Picayune in New Orleans that first broke the story? Why is he not suing them?
You knew it was a risk Glynn...Let it go! There is no violation or protection offered to you under the first amendment. Under the "freedom of the press" theory, so long as the press released factual information...there can be no judicially enforced sanction. It would be unconstitutional! Liberty of the press under the Constitution has historically favored immunity from censorship. :<--:
<b>Between April and December 2004 a lot happened. </b>
<b>April, 25th</b> <a href="https://forumeus.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4682">The 2004 Search for a Basketball Coach</a>
<b>May, 3rd</b> <a href="https://forumeus.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=16480#post16480">Cyprien New Head Coach </a>
<b>May, 3rd</b> <a href="https://forumeus.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=16503#post16503">Seeking Full Disclosure on Cyprien</a>
<b>May, 5th</b> <a href="https://forumeus.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=16620#post16620">Cyprien Hire Press Conference </a>
<b>May, 14th</b> <a href="https://forumeus.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=16873#post16873">Cyprien Regime</a>
<b>July, 16th</b> <a href="https://forumeus.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=18477#post18477">Glynn Cyprien Fired</a>
<b>Dec., 19th</b> <a href="https://forumeus.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=25652#post25652">Glynn Cyprien Sues</a><hr>
<b>Key Story </b><a href="https://forumeus.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=18523#post18523"> Over the years Cyprien's Bio cited Bogus Degree </a>
<center><img width=150 src="http://www.timesofacadiana.com/images/layout/acadiananow_logo.gif"></center><blockquote><p align=justify>Most fans who attended Glynn Cyprien's introductory press conference on May 5, 2004, the day he was named head basketball coach at the University of Louisiana, would concede that the man made a serious first impression. Standing at the Cajundome podium that Wednesday, Cyprien, 37, more resembled a political candidate than a basketball coach. Decked out in a sharply tailored gray suit with the required red necktie, he exuded energy, confidence and a promise of great things to come as he outlined his plan for the coming season. By the time he was through, there wasn't a Cajun supporter in the room who wasn't thinking about those advance reservations for next year's NCAA Tournament.
But the widest grin of all might have belonged to UL athletic director Nelson Schexnayder. He'd gone searching for a replacement for Jessie Evans, the successful Cajun coach who had jumped ship in late April for more money at the University of San Francisco, and managed to land a long-time, highly respected assistant from a school that had made it to the NCAA's Final Four the previous season.
Schexnayder had somehow overcome the bad hire, worse fire situation that was Jerry Baldwin a few years ago, when he lured former Virginia Tech football assistant Rickey Bustle to Cajun country. Although Bustle had yet to turn the won-loss record around, he'd helped increase Cajun Field attendance dramatically, a remarkable achievement in light of nine consecutive losing seasons. Now, under the hiring gun again, Schexnayder had apparently struck gold with Cyprien, another seasoned coach with a reputation for solid recruiting.
"I really feel like I'm prepared for this situation," says the former Oklahoma State assistant. "I just want to get going."
Going, going, gone.
Six weeks after being hired, Cyprien was fired under confusing circumstances. At a hastily called press conference, Schexnayder said that Cyprien had been terminated after a university investigation found incorrect degree information in his faxed resumé. Schexnayder claims he was contacted after the hiring by an anonymous caller who left a message suggesting the athletic director check out Cyprien's bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Schexnayder mentioned this to Cyprien, who had his records faxed from LaCrosse University, an online institution that UL doesn't recognize as being accredited. Shortly thereafter, on July 15, Schexnayder heard from a reporter at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, who said he'd discovered that Cyprien didn't have the degree and would be running that story. This time Schexnayder took the hint, confirmed the lack of a UTSA degree and fired Cyprien the next day.
"We were told that another resumé was later sent that did not list that (UTSA) degree," Schexnayder says. "But we have no record of that, and we relied on the (faxed) first resumé when we hired him."
On July 16, at the very moment Cyprien claims he was scheduled to meet with Schexnayder to discuss the situation, he was being fired before coaching even a single game. Robert Lee, an assistant under Evans, was quickly named head coach replacing Cyprien, who just as quickly faded from sight.
But on Aug. 12, Cyprien resurfaced with a lawsuit in New Orleans civil district court against Schexnayder and the Board of Supervisors of the University of Louisiana System for breach of contract and defamation of character. He amended the suit two months later to include Elwood Broussard, UL's director of purchasing and personnel services. The suit accuses both Schexnayder and Broussard of "making libelous statements with malice" in an attempt to save themselves embarrassment and minimize personal ramifications and contends the Board of Supervisors is liable for those actions. The lawsuit also claims that because of the firing, Cyprien has been humiliated, embarrassed, suffered lost earnings, lost his contract with Nike and lost future contract and business opportunities.
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"It's one thing to terminate somebody, and it's one thing to lose a job," says Scott Yount, Cyprien's New Orleans-based attorney. "But it's completely something else to have your reputation attacked and tarnished, particularly when you didn't do anything wrong. What Glynn is looking to gain (in the suit) is justice and his reputation."
Cyprien also was looking to gain unemployment benefits from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission until Broussard wrote a letter to the commission on Sept. 12, appealing the ruling to the OESC's appeals tribunal. Combined with Schexnayder's testimony on behalf of the school, the letter led to a reversal of the original decision which granted Cyprien benefits. According to the tribunal, Cyprien "was terminated for falsifications of his credentials," and under Oklahoma law, where Cyprien filed for unemployment, that's proper cause for dismissal. Cyprien, who didn't testify at the hearing, appealed that decision to the OESC Board of Review in October and was again denied.
Lafayette attorney Steve Oats, legal counsel for the university, says that both Schexnayder and Broussard were protected by law in the civil proceedings. Because they were granted immunity from civil suits or damages for defamation during their testimony, Oats argues, that part of Cyprien's suit should be dismissed. Despite the Oklahoma ruling, Yount says his client still has a case.
"Immediately after they received a report about Cyprien not having a degree," says Yount, "ULL immediately went on the attack and accused Cyprien of resumé fraud. The fact of the matter is that Cyprien provided the university with completely accurate information. There was no fraud. There was an erroneous resumé that was faxed. And then when Mr. Cyprien went to his interview, he hand-delivered them a corrected resumé before he was even hired. More important than that is ULL's own documentation, which was filled out by Cyprien, nowhere states anything about a UTSA degree."
But if there was a second resumé, as Cyprien claims, what happened to it?
"Neither prior to nor subsequent to Glynn Cyprien's termination, did (he) provide me with a resumé that indicates he did not receive a B.S. in Health and Physical Education from the University of Texas at San Antonio," Schexnayder said in a Dec. 15 deposition. Anthony Daniel, a member of the search committee, made a similar statement and Schexnayder insists the only Cyprien resumé the university has on file is the one that includes the degree from UTSA.
"It will matter for the defamation claim," admits Yount.
One of the hurdles facing Cyprien's argument of breach of contract is that biographies from the other universities at which he served as an assistant coach - Lamar, Jacksonville, Western Kentucky, University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) and Oklahoma State - also list the mystery bachelor's degree from Texas-San Antonio in his educational background. His bio from the 1995 UNLV media guide also claims he played collegially at UTSA, but the south Texas school has no records listing him as a player.
Perhaps more curious than the resumé flack was the timing of Cyprien's dismissal, especially in light of the sexual harassment charges that surfaced in early August when The Daily Advertiser reported that an anonymous athletic department female employee had filed a complaint. According to a source within the department, the complaint was made just days before the anonymous call that alerted The Times-Picayune. Within a week of the harassment accusation, Cyprien was history.
Schexnayder claimed the firing had nothing to do with the harassment charge but not everyone was convinced.
"I'm satisfied with the way ... the university handled the investigation," the unidentified female says. "But another part of me still felt violated because it was not brought to light. I think they took the easy way out though. I'll never believe it was a coincidence."
Neither the university nor its athletic director are strangers to lawsuits from terminated coaches. When UL football coach Jerry Baldwin was fired in November 2001 after winning just six games in three years, he, too, filed suit against Schexnayder and the school for breach of contract and violations of the Civil Rights Act and Louisiana Employment Discrimination laws. Originally filed at both the federal and state level, the suit was eventually dismissed by federal court. Baldwin's suit has been in the legal system for more than two years. It is unclear how long Cyprien's grievances may have to wait their judicial turn.
If Cyprien didn't have enough problems, now come relevations of child support payments. Elizabeth Arnold, 34, claims that Cyprien hasn't met his child support obligations since being fired in July. Arnold says she began a relationship with Cyprien in 1997 while he was an assistant at UNLV and had a child with him the following year. In 1999, a Nevada court ordered him to pay $459 in monthly child support, including $4,170 in back support and in January, 2002, Oklahoma's Dept. of Human Services raised the amount to $1,064.54 per month. Arnold says the payments stopped when Cyprien left no forwarding address after being fired from UL last summer.
"I just want Glynn to obey the court order and do what's right in general," says Arnold, an assistant athletic director at Tulane University when she first met Cyprien at a basketball tournament in Las Vegas.
Cyprien married Monique Bouldin of Las Vegas in June, 2001. The support payments to Arnold have cost him approximately $44,183.66 since September 1999 and Arnold, now living in the Northeast with her son, says she went to the judicial system only as a last resort.
Few people know where Glynn Cyprien is today, and those who do know aren't talking. All legal correspondence is handled by his New Orleans attorney. Last week, an employee of the sports information department at Texas-San Antonio stated that Cyprien, who was unavailable for comment on this story, was not enrolled at the school nor has he earned a degree. The Cajun basketball team Cyprien never had the chance to coach has been beset by injuries and poor shooting and is struggling to win more than it loses. Elizabeth Arnold is still raising her 6-year-old son as a single mother and has filed again for child support. The woman who claimed she was sexually harassed by Cyprien has been transfered back to the athletic department. Jerry Baldwin remains out of coaching and ministers to his church in Lincoln Parish. Nelson Schexnayder continues as UL athletic director and says he will never hire another coach without thoroughly checking his resumé.
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Another well thought out and written article by Don! Miss his show and especially his voice on the radio with Jay!
Never really heard what happened!! Anyone know and care to comment!!
DaddyCajun!!!!
keep it nice please!!!;) :confused:
<blockquote><p align=justify>He is a longtime friend. </p><p>A good guy with a deep sense of loyalty. </p><p>So when the news broke last July that Glynn "Cyp" Cyprien was being fired at Louisiana-Lafayette, there was some shock and concern. </p><p>It was big news across the country because Cyprien, who had not coached a game, did not have a college degree. </p><p>At least not one from an accredited institution. </p><p>He had a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Lacrosse University, an Internet college that at one time had accreditation from two agencies. </p><p>Yes, Cyprien admitted the first resume he sent Louisiana-Lafayette officials said he had a degree from Texas-San Antonio, but it went out in haste and he later sent the updated one that did not include Texas-San Antonio. </p><p>Exactly how Louisiana-Lafayette found out Cyprien did not have a degree from an accredited college was rumored to have come from someone who did not get the job. </p><p>Regardless, in the aftershock, it forced Cyprien to do something he would have done long ago if he had known then what he knows now. </p><p>When Cyprien left Texas-San Antonio to work full time for Mike Newell at Lamar, he needed six hours to graduate, which he intended to take by correspondence. </p><p>Instead, he got busy with his career. </p><p>From Lamar he went to Jacksonville University in Florida, Western Kentucky, UNLV and Oklahoma State. </p><p>In the mid-1990s he called Texas-San Antonio and inquired about getting those six hours he needed to graduate. </p><p>He was told, too late, the curriculum has changed and he would need 36 hours. </p><p>Cyprien turned to Lacrosse, where he actually did the work for both degrees and received diplomas. </p><p>Last spring he got what he thought was his big break, being named the head coach at Louisiana-Lafayette, but less than two months later, on his way to a meeting with his bosses, he heard on the radio he was fired. </p><p>Now, before going any further, here’s what happened after the firing. </p><p>Cyprien called Texas-San Antonio and for the first time was told he could petition to finish the work under the old guidelines.
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<p>He did that and last month, a couple of weeks before Christmas, got his degree from Texas-San Antonio. </p><p>Cyprien has moved back to his home city of New Orleans, about two hours from Lafayette and this afternoon is headed to court in his lawsuit against Louisiana-Lafayette for breach of contract. </p><p>Yes, breach of contract. </p><p>It seems, according to official paperwork, Cyprien was hired in mid-May to an "Unclassified position," and that official form was filled out by an official in the personnel office. </p><p>In addition to that was "Appointment Form For Unclassified Personnel" that listed all the pertinent information such as salary, experience but it did have a place for educational degrees. </p><p>According to the official Louisiana-Lafayette staff handbook, a degree is not required to be an unclassified staff employee unless teaching will be part of their assigned duties. </p><p>The only teaching Cyprien was going to do was how to win basketball games. </p><p>Employment for an unclassified position has one requirement, approval by the board of supervisors, which Cyprien got. </p><p>This will all be worked out in the Louisiana legal system so there is no telling what will happen. </p><p>Louisiana-Lafayette has asked for a change of venue to Lafayette, but as of this morning nothing had been granted. </p><p>For now, Cyprien’s career is in limbo. For which he accepts responsibility. </p><p>In his 13 years as an assistant coach he earned a reputation as a tireless worker who had a great eye for talent and for being able to sign top recruits. </p><p>That, someday, should give him a new life in college basketball. </p><p>It won’t be as a head coach and for now it may not be at a major college, but Cyprien now has all the qualifications to be a coach. </p><p>Glynn Cyprien will be back. </p></div>
Jay Walker on the Bird's Eye View reported that NMSU had hired Reggie Thevis as Men's BB Coach and hired an assistant named Glynn Cyprien.
Good thing NMSU is leaving the belt.
I agree.Quote:
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Not that he had one to begin with, but with this new job goes a good portion of the damages part of his alleged court case.
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An already small pool of candidates for the Arkansas basketball assistant’s opening has shrunk, with New Mexico State assistant Glynn Cyprien likely to be named. Louisiana-Lafayette hired Cyprien as head coach in 2004 but fired him four months later for what the school said was a false claim on his resume
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"what the school said" What a bunch of Cr@p! ::x:: Like Cyp had the proper credentials all along and WE didn't know about it!Quote:
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