USU responds to Department of Justice’s ‘notice of noncompliance’

LOGAN — Utah State University filed a lengthy response to last month’s notice of noncompliance from the U.S. Department of Justice stemming from “persistent climate concerns in the USU football program,” as noted Tuesday by the university when the school noted it would take “additional actions” to address those concerns.

The Justice Department sent a letter to the university Aug. 21 — the same day former head coach Blake Anderson declared his intentions to sue the school over his termination — that informed the university it was “not compliant” with certain requirements agreed between the school and department in a resolution agreement filed in February 2020.

Anderson was fired a few weeks before the start of preseason training camp for violating Title IX policies regarding timely reporting of domestic and sexual abuse, as KSL.com reported at the time.

Former Utah State deputy athletic director Jerry Bovee, football director of player development Austin Albrecht and senior athletic director Amy Crosbie were also terminated at the time.

Both Bovee and Crosbie have filed a grievance against Utah State since their terminations. Anderson’s intent of the legal action is “to clear his name,” he said in a statement through his attorneys, Bearnson and Caldwell, based in Logan.

Read the full story and more from Sean Walker on ksl.com.

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