Heat cranked up in Colorado football scandal.(Newswatch)

The continuing scandal of the University of Colorado at Boulder using sex and alcohol to recruit football players has had these new developments since last month's report:

* Katie Hnida, a former kicker on the football team, charged that one of her teammates raped her in 2000. The second woman in history to play for a Division 1-A football team, she told reporters that her teammates had taunted, harassed and groped her after she joined the team in 1999.

* University of Colorado system President Elizabeth Hoffman put football coach Gary Barnett on paid administrative leave after he commented, "It was obvious that Katie was not very good. She was awful."

* "He got suspended over these comments, but when you look at the entire scope of the problem, he should have been fired a long time ago," commented an incredulous Katherine Redmond, founder of the Denver-based National Coalition Against Violent Athletes. "It gives a very good glimpse into the kind of program he's running."

Redmond, who was raped by a University of Nebraska football player as an undergrad there, said, "Coaches run these towns." Besides controlling the athletics departments, "... it's the DA's office, the police department, the academic side of the university." The Boulder police department has a special unit to liaison with the school's athletics department.

* Boulder police reported in a 16-page account that Barnett told a woman who was considering charging a football player with rape in 2001 that he "would back his player 100% if she took this forward in the criminal process." She said Barnett promised he would take care of the problem and make sure she got treatment, the police report said.

* Joyce Lawrence, a former Colorado lawmaker who co-chairs the panel investigating recruiting practices, was asked to resign after telling a news reporter: "The question I have for these ladies in this, is why they are going to parties ...