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Coach: Drinking played role in behavior
By TOM WITOSKY
Register Staff Writer
04/29/2003
Iowa State University men's basketball coach Larry Eustachy apologized Monday for his behavior at after-hours parties on two Big 12 Conference road trips, attributing his mistakes to alcohol.
"I am certainly aware of the role drinking has played in my behavior," Eustachy said in a written statement issued Monday evening. "I am addressing this matter.
See the photos taken by a student at the party.
"With the support of my family and friends, I will do
everything in my power to make sure my actions reflect highly upon this university and this state."
The 47-year-old coach's apology is the most recent development stemming from the disclosure by The Des Moines Register that Eustachy, the state's highest-paid employee, acknowledged to school officials that he used bad judgment and made bad decisions at a party in Columbia, Mo., during the early-morning hours of Jan. 23.
Eustachy's statement came after the Register published photographs taken at the party by a Missouri student. The photos show the coach, who is married, with beer and embracing and kissing women on the cheek or being kissed on the cheek.
Eustachy also attended a party at a fraternity house at Kansas State University in which he wound up in an argument with a student who found the coach's arm around his 19-year-old sister.
Reaction to Eustachy's behavior was widespread and wide-ranging. Gov. Tom Vilsack called the situation "disappointing," one member of the state Board of Regents said he would fire Eustachy, and the school president and athletic director would offer only hints about the coach's future.
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The coach's contract with Iowa State stipulates he must provide "positive representation of the university and the university's athletic programs in private and public."
Iowa State officials hinted in statements that Eustachy's job was safe, but didn't say so specifically.
Eustachy's activities in Columbia became public days after the January game when a picture of the coach and a group of young adults was posted on the Internet on a Missouri Tigers fan Web site.
At that time, Van De Velde verified the photograph's authenticity but suggested it showed nothing negative about Eustachy's behavior. He explained the picture as Eustachy "just pausing to have his picture taken with some fans who saw him out for dinner after a game."
In a recent interview, Van De Velde said his initial explanation was mostly speculation based on what Eustachy had told him.
But other photographs taken in an apartment in the campus town area of Columbia by Sean Devereaux, a junior English major at Missouri and resident of the apartment where the party was held, showed Eustachy partying into the early- morning hours with college-age women.
Devereaux said he took the pictures because he wanted to show Eustachy had been at a party at his apartment. He said he later decided to make the pictures public because he was bothered by Eustachy's presence at the party for more than three hours, and by Eustachy's behavior.
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Unlike most college coaches, who travel on the road with their teams, Eustachy travels separately. Last season, he used a recreational vehicle to drive to road games while assistant coaches traveled by air with Iowa State's players.
Eustachy, the Cyclones" coach for five seasons, has been successful at Iowa State. His teams won back-to-back Big 12 Conference championships in 2000 and 2001 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight in 2000, when Eustachy was named national coach of the year.
But he also has shown a fiery side. In a nationally televised tournament loss to Michigan State, he was ejected after receiving two technical fouls during a profanity-laced exchange with officials. Days later, he apologized to Iowa State's players, fans, faculty and president.
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Personally I find this very entertaining due to the overwhelming amount of bullshit I have to take each and every year from Cyclones fans who suffer from a massive inferiority complex.
