LINCOLN, Neb. — Mickey Joseph, Nebraska‘s interim soccer coach for 9 video games this season who was charged with felony assault, is not a part of the Cornhuskers’ program, the athletic division introduced Friday.
The division stated in an announcement it will don’t have any further remark.
Joseph is accused of placing his fingers round a lady’s throat, pulling her hair and punching her throughout a home dispute Nov. 30, in keeping with a police affidavit. He was charged Dec. 1 with assault by strangulation or suffocation.
He was positioned on administrative go away after his arrest. He denied to police that he assaulted the girl, and his subsequent courtroom look is Jan. 30.
Joseph’s arrest got here two days after Matt Rhule was launched because the staff’s new head coach.
It was unclear whether or not Joseph obtained severance pay. He was below contract by means of Dec. 31, 2023, and his annual wage was listed at $600,000.
Beneath phrases of the contract, he might be fired for trigger if convicted of a misdemeanor or felony that impaired his means to carry out duties on behalf of the college. If a firing for trigger is upheld, the college wouldn’t need to pay the remaining cash owed on the contract.
