Football coach Ed Orgeron, Athletic Director Scott Woodward, and other LSU officials will not appear at tomorrow’s Senate Select Committee on Women and Children to discuss the mishandling of previous sexual misconduct cases. Senator Regina Barrow says Woodward told her he could not testify because an LSU employee filed a lawsuit against the school.
“I told him that I was not happy with that response, but I did understand.”
LSU’s associate athletic director of football recruiting, Sharon Lewis, has filed a 50-million dollar lawsuit against the school claiming she faced retaliation for trying to report cases of sexual misconduct by former football coach Les Miles.
Woodward and Orgeron have supplied written statements to the legislative committee, but Barrow believes they should still appear before lawmakers.
“Honestly, I’m not an attorney but if you don’t have anything to hide when you tell the truth, you can say it twice.”
Barrow says Orgeron’s decision not to appear before the committee is troubling. She says they want to ask Orgeron about the accusations made by Gloria Scott that she was sexually harassed by former star running back Derius Guice in 2017.
“I was hoping he would come and help to shine light and help to answer a lot of unanswered questions for us.”
Barrow made the comments as a guest on Talk Louisiana with Jim Engster.
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