Missouri curators deny role in RB Washington's ouster after sex assault arrest
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Two members of the University of Missouri' s governing board say they did not order football Coach Gary Pinkel to dismiss a star running back after the player's 2010 arrest on sexual assault charges.
Derrick Washington was Missouri's leading rusher as a sophomore and junior until he was kicked off the team before his senior year after the accusations by a Tiger tutor. He was convicted in in 2011 of deviate sexual assault and served four months in prison.
Washington's mother told the authors of "The System," a book released Tuesday, that Pinkel wanted to keep her son on the team but was overruled by Missouri's Board of Curators.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Board chairman Wayne Goode and another curator told The Associated Press they never met with Pinkel nor discussed Washington.