Greg Heiar was an assistant coach when Gregg Marshall was accused of punching Shaq Morris at Wichita St and didn't entertain coming forward with the truth. He apparently saw the incident but wouldn't fess up to it.
It appears as if Heiar was not capable of running a program without his players doing whatever they wanted to do. He had no control over the program. First, Mike Peake gets catfished, then ambushed by a few students from New Mexico and then kills one of those students in self defense. Then, members of the coaching staff helped hide the gun used in the shooting, and now this with the hazing. He was clearly unfit to run a D1 program and didn't have institutional control over his student athletes. Looking at his introductory presser, it appears as if he is a players' coach but at a certain point, you need to be able to set limits and guidelines because these are 18-24 yr olds. This has pre-Scott Drew Baylor vibes to it but not quite as bad but close to that.
I think their AD and chancellor should've done their due dilligence regarding the Wichita St. situation and considered that before hiring him but I can see why they hired him(disciple of Chris Jans and Gregg Marshall, won a JUCO championship in year #1, and definitely is a good talker).
I'm wondering if Xavier Pinson(Mizzou/LSU) or DaJuan Gordon(K. State) were at all involved or not. It's a shame because they had some veterans on their squad that came from good programs and you wonder how nobody didn't step up and put a stop to the hazing and why it took the athlete's father to step up and say anything?
