Coach denies relationship with player
OMAHA, Neb. — Former Nebraska women’s basketball assistant coach Chuck Love denied ever having a sexual relationship with former Cornhuskers player Ashley Scoggin but acknowledged in a court document that he did meet with her late at night in a Lincoln parking lot.
Scoggin, who played this past season as a graduate student at UNLV, filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in February describing how Love allegedly took a special interest in her and saying the relationship turned sexual and caused Scoggin to fear retaliation if she refused to engage in it.
The lawsuit named Love, the university’s Board of Regents, women’s basketball coach Amy Williams and former athletic director Trev Alberts as defendants. Scoggin seeks a jury trial in Lincoln and unspecified damages for the alleged violation of her civil rights.
Williams and Alberts, now the athletic director at Texas A&M, are accused of not setting rules, training or policies prohibiting staff members from having sexual relationships with athletes.
Scoggin played two seasons for the Huskers. She was dismissed from the team on the same day Love was suspended with pay in February 2022.
Love resigned three months later. Scoggin transferred to UNLV.
Love’s response, filed Friday, disputed most of the allegations by Scoggin.
The regents, Williams and Alberts said in their joint response to the civil lawsuit that they didn’t have “sufficient information and belief to either admit or deny the allegations” of a sexual relationship between Scoggin and Love.