Todd Graham Is Facing Serious Allegations As The Team Prepares For A Newly Awarded Bowl Game.

If you're a fan of the New England Patriots you've probably heard people like Lane Johnson talk about how the New England Patriots don't have fun. His comments came out after playing with several former Patriots and beating the Patriots in the superbowl. You've probably heard Cassius Marsh talk about how strict the Patriots work regiment is. And you've heard the fanbase call out nepotism because Steve Belichick was promoted after four years of being an assistant coach, to the safeties coach, then defensive backs, and finally linebackers coach, and Brian Belichick was promoted to safeties coach after a few seasons as an assistant coach as well.

What you haven't seen is the team go onto social media to publicly acknowledge any problems and call out Belichick and the organization. Nor have you seen multiple ex players come out and say there's serious internal issues and start offering solutions to fixing the problems. If that sort of thing were to happen, there would be quick action from Robert Kraft.

Now the NFL is a different beast than division one college football but everyone has probably heard of some of the rumors listed above and the defense of the franchise from current and former players but I doubt many have heard about the current problem at the University Of Hawaii causing several players to leave the program or the football team to take to twitter.

Scott at the MWWire wrote, "The news of Cordeiro entering the transfer portal sparked a Twitter live space (I believe that is what you call it) hosted by RJ Hollis, a former Warrior player and now a member of the local media, and another former player Darryl McBride. There were over 300 listeners that stayed on for about three hours as some current and former players spoke about the issues within the program. It was an honest and eye-opening forum for many fans to listen in on."

The players are alleging: verbal abuse, favoritism, refusal to communicate with non starters, doing favors for some members of the staff by employing unqualified people, players being forced to take part in religious activities, players not having fun, players not knowing each other, and there being an unhealthy locker room to name a few things. These are serious allegations.

Head Coach Todd Graham was asked about the players complaints and the public live stream where the locker room brought to light these allegations against him. Graham basically played it off as players not accepting change and work ethic.

Here is some of what coach Graham had to say, “I don’t read Twitter, I don’t do those things. I can tell you my deal is focusing on being positive. We have enough negative things. … At the end of the day, those things are what they are. We talk every day about the commitment, what that commitment is, and working hard. We’re going to work hard. We’re going to be demanding. And when you’re doing things the right way, you have things like that. … Not always going to make everybody happy. We’ve got a great belief in what we’re doing. We know we’re doing things the right way, and we’re making progress.”

Now this isn't the first time Graham has had issues within a program. In 2017 Arizona State paid through the nose to get Todd Graham to step down as head coach. And once again if asked to step down, due to his contract Graham is set to make a boatload from Hawaii. Hawaii cannot really afford for the program to have to buy out his contract.

Some of the Allegations are pretty serious. The NCAA should poke their nose in to the happenings of the university but they shouldn't be the only ones. The university itself needs to conduct an investigation into the allegations. If Graham is found in the wrong, the university needs to do what it needs to do to hold Todd Graham accountable. Fore if things are as bad as said, it could chase away talent and hurt the ability to make future bowl games.