Winds from the hurricane that swept Tim Beckman out of town at Illinois have blown onto campus at Iowa State.
Former Illini assistant coach and current Iowa State tight ends coach Alex Golesh has been accused of forcing former offensive lineman Anthony Durkin to play through a known shoulder injury, eventually leading to a dislocated shoulder in August of 2014, and eventually forcing Durkin to sign a waiver releasing himself from his scholarship -- which would absolve Illinois from paying for Durkin’s ensuing shoulder surgery.
Durkin has filed a lawsuit stating Beckman and Golesh were negligent in knowingly forcing him to play injured, which will lead to shoulder issues that will “occur for the rest of his life.”
Golesh’s current boss says he knows all about the supposed issues at his former employer and says there’s nothing to them.
“Any of that information is not new information to my knowledge,” Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell told the Iowa State Daily. “All I mean by that is when we hired coach Golesh, all of those situations had been vetted the University of Illinois — the entire staff, all the team doctors, everybody had been vetted in a thorough investigation.
“We had detailed everything before we hired coach Golesh to make sure we were doing the right thing there. Our information back from the University of Illinois is they never would’ve kept him on staff and he would not have been retain had he been involved with any investigation or any issues there.”
Beckman was fired shortly before the 2015 season. Golesh worked at Illinois from 2012-15 before reuniting with Campbell in Ames, for whom he worked under at Toledo from 2009-11.