ABSTRACT
This chapter details reports of football team affiliates hiring escorts and exotic dancers, providing alcohol to minors, and condoning the use of drugs – all in an effort to entice high-profile football recruits to attend the university – are at the heart of the University of Colorado (CU) football scandal. Having discussed the CU football scandal in detail and explored its sociocultural undercurrents, the chapter offers an alternative ending to the scandal. While Katie's case is perhaps the most widely known in the CU football scandal, other women were also victimized amid the sexually violent culture that the football program had created. At the outset, Katie encountered a climate of harassment and hostility. Gary Barnett's indifference to the way Katie was abused by men in his program perhaps reflects a larger perspective he held about the place and appropriateness of women in college sports: that they do not belong.
