This all started last month when a long-time booster and alumni Ray Silva, 74, complained about a performance the dance team was doing to the tune of LL Cool J’s "Move Sometin'", a nice wholesome ode to stripping (sample lyrics "Push it out girl, arch your back/Them 17's is fittin like bubblewrap."). Silva got offended with all the bumpin and all the grinding and started shrieking "trash, that's trash. Get off the court." After the game was over, one of the members of the dance team, Tarah DiNardo decided to keep it real and confronted Silva while Silva was complaining to John Glass, Senior Associate Athletic Director/Chief Operations Officer. A shouting match broke out and at some point, and this is all captured on video, Glass grabbed DiNardo hard enough that she had bruises on her arm for the next couple of days. Even more shouting and finger pointing occurred afterwards until it finally died down. Afterwards, DiNardo's father did what any other father would do in such a situation, he sued. Because nobody keeps Tarah in the corner.
The issue has been welling for awhile as the Athletic Department, trying to make things more exciting, asked the dance team to sex it up. Says DiNardo: "they wanted more makeup, more hair and sexier uniforms." Which they did and which is why the Athletic Department now finds itself shocked- shocked!- that somebody would be offended. Thus the suspension.