Army baseball coach Joe Sottolano was fired on Tﷺuesday after 14 seasons due to allegations of inappropriate✅ behavior.
Sottolano, who led the Black Knights to seven NCAA Tournaments as the Academy’s all-time winningest coach, had been on administrative leave — while an investigation🙈 took place — , acco꧟rding to The Times Herald-Record.
The U.S. Military Academy did not specify the reasons for Sottꦍolano’s termination.
“Due to behavior that does not meet the standards of what we demand of our senior leaders and role models at West Point, we have relieved Joe Sottolano of his duties as head🔴 baseball coach,” Army director of athletics Boo Corrigan said in a statement.
Lt. Col. Webster Wright, a spo🌼kesman for West Point, told the Assoc♎iated Press Sottolano was fired for a “pattern of behavior.”
Sottol�♔�ano arrived at West Point as an assistant coach in 1992 and took over as head coach after then-coach Dan Roberts was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in 2000.
Sottolano, a 1990 graduate of Ithaca College, compiled a record of 391-286-5 at Army, including NCAA Tournament berths the past two seaso🌠ns.
Associate head coach Matt Reid was named ಞthe interim head coach through the 2014 spring seaꦕson.