steve19981 wrote:
TheFace wrote:
Well serves him right for downplaying the severity of this.

I think it serves him right for his reversal. If it was wrong enough to fire Rice after ESPN says it was, then it was bad enough to fire instead of suspending him. Personally, I think he should have stuck to his guns and said "we addressed this in a manner we deem to be appropriate during the season, time to move on," he'd still might have his job.
So sticking to a decision, even when it is incorrect, is preferable to making the correct decision eventually? 

There was no way he was going to keep his job once those tapes leaked. His initial attempts at "trying to control the narrative" were naked attempts to protect himself at the expense of the university. All that reaching out to the media in an attempt to sell the "we've addressed this already" story to them has done for him is to make finding his next job in an athletic department that much more difficult.