Background
Bozeman, Todd was born on December 5, 1963 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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Bozeman, Todd was born on December 5, 1963 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Bachelor, University Rhode Island, Kingston, 1986.
He previously served as head coach at University of California, from 1993 to 1996. He took over as interim coach in February 1993 when Lou Campanelli was fired with 10 games to go in the season. Following the season, Bozeman was given the coaching job on a permanent basis.
He led the Golden Bears to two more National Collegiate Athletic Association tournaments.
He was forced to resign in the fall of 1996. He admitted paying $30,000 over two years to the parents of Golden Bears recruit Jelani Gardner so they could drive from their home in Mendocino to see him play.
He had also been the subject of a sexual harassment complaint. Just before the announcement he had been ordered to stay away from a former Cal student who had accused him of making lewd phone calls and threatening her.
As a result of a subsequent investigation, Cal had to forfeit the entire 1994-1995 season and all but two games of the 1995-1996 season.
The school also vacated its appearance in the 1996 National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament. The National Collegiate Athletic Association also imposed an eight-year "show-cause" order on Bozeman. The show-cause order meant that until 2005, no National Collegiate Athletic Association member school could hire Bozeman unless it either agreed to impose sanctions on him or convinced the National Collegiate Athletic Association that he had served his punishment.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association came down particularly hard on Bozeman because he"d lied to school and National Collegiate Athletic Association officials about his role in making the payments and admitted it only a week before the National Collegiate Athletic Association hearing.
Since most schools will not even consider hiring a coach with an outstanding "show-cause" on his record, Bozeman was effectively blackballed from the college ranks for eight years. He was also hampered by rumors that he had deliberately undermined Campanelli, even though the National Association of Basketball Coaches cleared him of any wrongdoing in the events that led to Campanelli"s ouster.
Bozeman spent the next ten years working as an National Basketball Association assistant and scout before landing the Morgan State job in 2006. He was the first coach to land a job at another school after being slapped with a "show-cause," but on January 9, 2012 he was suspended indefinitely from the head coaching position at Morgan State for allegedly striking a Morgan State player during a timeout at a game at South Carolina State, only to be reinstated ten days later, on January 19.