Here's the part concerning Turd Alberts. I think it's important to note that no one is alleging Turd knew about the affair or helped cover it up. All his invovlement mentioend in the suit is after the fact:
NU AND ALBERTS RATIFY WILLIAMS’ PUNISHMENT OF ASHLEY
50. ASHLEY traveled back to Lincoln with the team, though without any offers of or actualsupport. The next day, a member of the administration of the Department of Athletics told ASHLEY that she could, if she wished, talk with a “resource lady” in the “Resource Department.” ASHLEY was not informed of her rights under Title IX at that time. WILLIAMS met with ASHLEY that day, together with other members of the administration of the Department of Athletics, and confirmed to ASHLEY that she was removed from the team.
51. Nebraska sports media soon learned that WILLIAMS had removed ASHLEY from theteam and had, at the same time, suspended LOVE with pay. WILLIAMS’ decision was publishedin statewide and, eventually, national media. The humiliation and shaming for ASHLEY fromthe reporting of this non-coincidence of events has endured. At the same time, NU, WILLIAMS and ALBERTS were aware of the media attention and speculation that these events wereprecipitated by an improper sexual relationship. NU, WILLIAMS and ALBERTS were motivatedto avoid scandal and embarrassment to the Cornhusker women’s basketball program, instead ofbeing motivated to protect its student-athlete, ASHLEY. NU, WILLIAMS and ALBERTSallowed the speculation and perception to fester that ASHLEY was “equally to blame” or otherwisehad done something improper, when they should have sent a clear message that it is alwaysimproper for a professional coach to pursue a sexual relationship with a student-athlete. ASHLEY advised her parents of her removal from the team. She was still afraid andashamed to disclose LOVE’s relationship with her, but she advised her parents that her removalwas based on suspicion of a sexual relationship with LOVE. Her parents traveled from Oregon toLincoln to accompany ASHLEY to a scheduled meeting of ALBERTS, WILLIAMS, and two otheradministrators of the Department of Athletics.
53. At that meeting, ALBERTS was unfamiliar with ASHLEY’s history with the women’sbasketball team and her performance over the preceding two seasons. He endorsed WILLIAMS’claims that ASHLEY was removed for dishonesty.
54. ALBERTS did not redirect or correct WILLIAMS. He did not advise ASHLEY that if theAssociate Head Coach had pursued a sexual relationship with her, then that was an abuse of powerand ethics. ALBERTS never acknowledged that coaches must not pursue sexual relationshipswith student-athletes. There was no discussion of whether LOVE had done anything wrong suchthat ASHLEY ended up in LOVE’s hotel room. Per ALBERTS and WILLIAMS, ASHLEY was aliar who deserved to be punished.55.ASHLEY’s parents asked what rule ASHLEY had broken, to warrant her removal from theteam. WILLIAMS answered that ASHLEY lied and that is why she was removed. WILLIAMSthen began to cry.
56. By that time, ASHLEY and LOVE still had not admitted that the suspicions of a sexualrelationship were well-founded. ASHLEY was too frightened and ashamed. WILLIAMS wascorrect in assessing that ASHLEY was concealing the sexual relationship, but she chose to punishASHLEY rather than acknowledge that this could not have happened if her Associate Head Coachhad not abused his position on her coaching staff.
57. ALBERTS was polite and courteous, but he did not exercise leadership over this situation. He told ASHLEY and her parents that WILLIAMS could decide who she wanted on her team.
58. This was the equivalent of WILLIAMS giving ALBERTS a layup: by allowing WILLIAMSto punish ASHLEY for LOVE’s abuse of power, ALBERTS was able to quiet the chatter and mediacoverage of LOVE’s and ASHLEY’s removal from the team, and to refocus attention on the team’sperformance, recruiting and other Department of Athletics matters.THE DAMAGE DONE59.ALBERTS and WILLIAMS maintained LOVE on paid suspension for the remainder of thesemester.
60. There was no discipline for the practice squad member who had dishonestly posed as LOVEto illicitly obtain a key to LOVE’s room from the hotel desk clerk in State College, Pennsylvania.ALBERTS and the University of Nebraska did not investigate whether WILLIAMS knew that herplayers and a practice squad member were running a caper to confirm ASHLEY’s presence in LOVE’s hotel room, or why the players ran this caper rather than communicate with WILLIAMS about their concerns.
61. ALBERTS did not order an investigation of the situation. Until Ashley brought a Title IXcomplaint on March 11, 2022, there was no formal investigation into the events in State College.Nor was there a formal investigation of what events led up to the players confronting ASHLEY inLOVE’s hotel room. Nor was there a formal investigation of WILLIAMS’ conduct after theplayers reported to her ASHLEY’s presence in LOVE’s hotel room.
62. LOVE remained on the payroll of the University of Nebraska until May 13, 2022, when heresigned. After receipt of his resignation, the Title IX Coordinator advised ASHLEY that theyhad dismissed ASHLEY’s Title IX complaint without completing the pending investigation. TheDepartment of Athletics did not conduct its own investigation of how an Associate Head Coachwas able to initiate a sexual relationship with a student-athlete, or of how WILLIAMS addressedthe situation on and after February 17, 2022.
63. ASHLEY lost her housing, because she shared an apartment with a teammate. TheUniversity gave her options of either moving into an on-campus apartment with multipleroommates she didn’t know, or else paying on her own for a more expensive single room.64.ASHLEY asked her professors to let her complete the semester online, because she was notcomfortable attending class in person due to media coverage of her removal from the team and the prospect of encountering people associated with the team. Most professors agreed; one refused,until after ASHLEY had filed a Title IX complaint. This added to ASHLEY’s extreme stress.
65. ASHLEY also lost access to physical therapy/training assistance that she had been receivingas a member of the basketball team. When she began work on transferring to another program,she discovered that access to her game film had been disabled, and she had to ask that this accessbe restored so that other programs could review her game film.
66. Meanwhile, sports media had extensively reported ASHLEY’s removal from the team andthe not-coincidental timing of LOVE’s paid suspension. A reasonable coach at another programwould question whether to recruit ASHLEY to their team in light of this coverage.
67. While NU persuaded the last professor to allow ASHLEY to complete her semester onlineand eventually restored her access to her game film, it did not correct her removal from theCornhusker women’s basketball team, nor did it correct her punishment for concealing the sexualrelationship that grew from LOVE’s abuse of his authority. This damage is done.68.The University of Nebraska continued to identify LOVE as Associate Head Coach of thewomen’s basketball team on the website of the Department of Athletics for nearly a year thereafter. ASHLEY transferred from Nebraska.
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