Engstrom and his fellow pirates feel little compassion for this line of argument.
"That's the way life is when you're running a business, " Engstrom told CNN.
"In the last year-and-a-half, President Engstrom has made several bold and difficult decisions, " said Mike Cotter, the U.S. attorney for Montana.
Both were immediately relieved of their duties, without an explanation from Engstrom.
In December, Mr. Engstrom commissioned former Montana Supreme Court Justice Diane Barz to perform an independent investigation into various sexual-assault charges involving students.
On March 22, Mr. Engstrom released his report on the investigation, which addressed nine separate allegations of sexual assault at the university, without citing names.
There are winners and losers in this game, Engstrom writes.
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Concerns about the handling of sexual assault cases peaked in December 2011, when UM President Royce Engstrom ordered an outside investigation after two students reported being drugged and raped.
Three days after coach Robin Pflugrad welcomed Johnson back, and touted his "character and tremendous moral fiber, " Engstrom announced he was not renewing the contracts of the coach and athletic director Jim O'Day.
"Things have been going in the wrong direction -- more surveillance, more control of everything we do on the net and also stricter copyright laws -- that's the wrong course for Europe, " Engstrom told CNN.
Mr. Engstrom didn't provide a reason for the dismissals, which come as the football program deals with multiple sexual-assault allegations against players on the team, including one involving an alleged gang rape of a drugged victim.
Wildseed was the creation of Eric Engstrom , a former Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) executive who was one of the principals behind DirectX, a series of programming interfaces widely used to create computer games.
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