The school has cut ties with Leavitt as a result of the ongoing controversy surrounding the coach allegedly striking a player.
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- University of South Florida football coach Jim Leavitt will not coach the Bulls next season.
The school has cut ties with Leavitt as a result of the ongoing controversy surrounding the coach allegedly striking a player, according to an online report.
Sophomore Joel Miller, who played high school football at Wharton high school, said he was grabbed by the throat in the locker room at halftime of the Bulls' game with Louisville in November.
Witnesses have said that Leavitt, the only coach the Bulls have had in their 13-year history of football, hit the student twice in the head with his hand.
The Bulls went 8-5 this season, capping off the year with a win in the International Bowl last week, the program's second straight bowl win.
In 13 seasons at USF, Leavitt went 95-57, led USF to a total of five bowls appearances and three bowl wins.
USF under Jim Leavitt
Season Won Lost Notes
1997 5 6 1st season of football
1998 8 3 Finished 17th nationally
1999 7 4 Finished 23rd nationally
2000 7 4 Division I Transition Year
2001 8 3 Division I status
2002 9 2 18th nationally
2003 7 4 Moved to Conference USA
2004 4 7
2005 6 6 Lost Meineke Car Care Bowl
2006 9 4 Won Papajohn's.com Bowl
2007 9 4 Lost Brut Sun Bowl
2008 8 5 Won St. Petersburg Bowl
2009 8 5 Won International Bowl
Missing lotto winner's friend a 'person of interest'
(Bay News 9) -- The Polk County Sheriff's Office is considering a friend of a missing lottery winner a 'person of interest' in the case.
Abraham Shakespeare won $30 million in the Florida lottery in 2006.
His mother, Elizabeth Walker, hasn't seen him in nearly a year.
"Abraham is my son," she said. "I love him and I got to be concerned and think about him everyday."
The sheriff's office originally thought he ran off with his money. Sheriff Grady Judd says investigators now think the worst.
"We're leaning to the fact that he met an untimely death and the motives and circumstances surrounding it seem sinister," Judd said.
The sheriff's office is now calling one of Shakespeare's friends a "person of interest" in the case.
Gates, holdover from Bush team, to stay at Defense
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the most prominent Republican in President Barack Obama's inner circle plans to remain in his Cabinet post for at least another year.
Gates told Obama in December that he would stay on at least through the end of 2010, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Thursday. The White House had no immediate comment.
Fla. police: Man threatening Jews taken off flight
An airline passenger who yelled “I want to kill all the Jews” on a Detroit-bound plane was arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges, but authorities said Thursday the incident didn’t appear terrorism-related.
Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday night after a taxiing Northwest Airlines flight returned to a gate at Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade police said. After a confrontation with officers, Asad was charged with threats against a public servant, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.
Fla. police: Man threatening Jews taken off flight
An airline passenger who yelled “I want to kill all the Jews” on a Detroit-bound plane was arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges, but authorities said Thursday the incident didn’t appear terrorism-related.
Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday night after a taxiing Northwest Airlines flight returned to a gate at Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade police said. After a confrontation with officers, Asad was charged with threats against a public servant, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.
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