The Illinois State Redbirds will be looking for a new athletics director after Kyle Brennan resigned. WGLT reported the news after questions arose regarding a trip to the Big Ten championship game in 2021.
According to the report, Brennan spent over $23,000 while attending the game where the Michigan Wolverines advanced to the College Football Playoff semifinals. The trip included a stop at a local strip club in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Brennan attended the event using a private plane belonging to Aaron Rossi, who had pledged over $3 million to the school.
“ISU won’t say if that money ever materialized”, Ryan Denham writes. “Rossi was indicted on federal tax fraud charges weeks after the pledge, and a judge restricted his ability to spend money. Rossi and his company, Reditus, remain under federal investigation.”
According to the itinerary, the spending included $18,754 for nine tickets to the game. The report also indicates a Lyft ride to a local strip club in Indianapolis and back to the hotel in Avon, a suburb of Indianapolis.