According to ESPN, Manhattan Coach Steve Masiello has been eliminated from the South Florida coaching job due to falsifying his resume. Masiello claimed to have graduated with a degree in communications from UK in 2000.
However, Masiello did not graduate from Kentucky, UK spokeswoman Ashley Caressen told ESPN. Masiello attended UK from the fall of 1996 to the summer of 2000 but never earned his degree, Caressen said.
Tuesday morning, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reported Masiello had been offered and verbally accepted a five-year deal worth more than $1 million a year to become USF’s coach. However, late Tuesday night, The Tampa Tribune reported USF was forced to kill the deal with Masiello because of a previously undetected background check.
Here’s Steve Masiello’s old UofL bio, which lists a bachelor’s degree from UK in 2000 in communications http://t.co/kZmHqHTcCx
— Steve Jones (@SteveJones_CJ) March 26, 2014
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