On December 29, Jay Sanderson announced on Twitter that he was resigning from his job with Learfield as the play-by-play broadcaster of the Montana State Bobcats thanks to members of his family facing “devastating health issues” in Kansas, and that he and his wife and kids were moving back home to help. But it turns out that as per reporting from Victor Flores and Jeff Welsch of the Billings Gazette and associated site 406mtsports.com, Sanderson’s resignation also came in the middle of an investigation from the university’s Office of Institutional Equity into allegations he committed sexual misconduct and sexual harassment against a female reporter.

That reporter is Amie Just, who was with the Missoulian at the time of the allegations (which cover separate incidents in February and July). Just (who now works for the New Orleans Times-Picayune) filed a formal complaint in September that triggered this investigation, and asked to be identified in the Gazette piece. That piece details that the “final draft” report (after an investigation in September and October that included interviews with 15 witnesses, the report was submitted to MSU Title IX coordinator Emily Stark on Nov. 27; Sanderson submitted his response to it Wednesday, and a final findings of fact report may be issued as early as next week) determined that it was “more likely than not” that Sanderson engaged in “unwanted conduct of a sexual nature which was sufficiently severe enough to limit Ms. Just’s participation (in) university programs, services, opportunities, activities and unreasonably interfered with her employment.'” The report also concluded that Sanderson sent multiple sexually harassing texts to Just, “made sexually explicit statements that cause concerns for the safety of others,” and “engaged in unwanted sexual contact with Just.”