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Convicted of assault and accused of rape, star player received raft of second chances

The president: Richard McCormick, UW president at the time, called athletic director Barbara Hedges' decision to hire Neuheisel a "stroke of genius." McCormick was pressured to leave the UW in late 2002, in part because he had an affair with a subordinate.