Duke coach excoriates school in book

Newsday reports:

In an insiders account of the Duke rape scandal, former lacrosse coach Mike Pressler blasts senior university officials for fumbling the case.

In "It's Not About the Truth," at book stores June 12, Mike Pressler, and co-author Don Yaeger, say Duke officials failed to publicly support the players and were more concerned about the university's image. He also hints at an attempted coverup.

"The thing that might be most disheartening to me is that ... the only people that have stood up and apologized ... were the players," Pressler says in the book. "The adults in this picture -- the faculty, the administration -- they haven't apologized for anything."

Last January, an investigation by the North Carolina Attorney General declared all three indicted players "innocent." Pressler is now coaching in Rhode Island.

Duke president Richard Brodhead and Athletic Director Joe Alleva both were criticized, and the authors describe Duke spokesman John Burness as "a master of off-the-record trashing" of players.

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