NMSU President addresses departure of former AD Mario Moccia [Video]

First of all, thank you for being here today. uh I understand that my announcement yesterday has generated *** lot of interest and desire for additional information, so I’m here to honor that desire even as I’m not at liberty to share confidential information regarding employees. Let me first say that when one decides to let go with cause of *** long term employee it is never *** decision that one makes as *** single factor on *** single factor. Certainly the Department of Justice reports cause me paused and it made me look holistically at many documents and at what our priorities are with regards to student and student athletes in particular. As *** former athlete and coach and as *** parent and grandparent, I also had to consider my experiences in the context highlighted by the document. My assessment was that an MSU needed *** change because it …