By Emily Geiger

Sally Mason is facing the Regents (in closed session, despite the protestations of the Register) today at 9 a.m.

A lot of people are calling for Mason’s head. Sally took drastic measures this week in an attempt to bolster her own credibility by firing General Counsel Marcus Mills and Dean of Students Phillip Jones earlier this week.

In attempting to look decisive, Sally may have just sealed her own fate. Now, she has two very motivated enemies out to take her down with them.

Yesterday, Mills was already making statements to the press that Mason knew a lot more about what was going on in the rape investigation than she is letting on.

Today, Jones has notified the Regents that he is viewing this as a wrongful termination and had his attorneys (yes, that’s plural) send the Regents a letter filling them in on his side of the story.

Which leads me to my next point. Jones getting fired is the worst thing that could have happened for the Athletic Department, because that is who Jones is very clearly blaming for the debacle that was the rape investigation and the way the victim and her family were treated.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Jones did a lot wrong, too (i.e. failing to stick it to the victim’s harassers via the anti-retaliation policy and feigning total ignorance when the victim’s mother called him), but Jones makes some pretty damning allegations against the Athletic Department, who he says strong-armed this into an “informal” investigation and didn’t want him involved because of his history of actually disciplining student-athletes.

The soap-opera continues… stay tuned.