"Bruce Pearl is still not talking to the University's Attorneys." I would fire him right there on the spot for that. If ultimately you are trying to run a University, you have to trust your employees. The Attorneys are on Auburn's side, not the FBIs side. That isn't to say they're going to lie or hide the truth, but if you won't even communicate with your own team members, that's a bad show.
It's a mess, for sure. Could his attorneys be telling him to stay silent since the FBI has all his computers and such and there's probably a coupla needles in that haystack that, if he speaks, he'll likely be leading them to find? Most likely scenario.
If that's the case, AUB and their attorneys are putting him between a rock and a wood chipper.
I agree with you though, we (AUB) are in this situation because of you (Bruce P) regardless of the details. Thus I can't see how he can remain employed there.
If I'm his attorneys, I start to paint (leak) the picture that all these AUB "alums" are the ones cheating and I didn't want them on staff in the first place. Seems, as soon as this FBI train clears the intersection, the AUB wagon is about to make a wide right turn towards a messy divorce.
