LOGAN — Former Deputy Athletic Director Jerry Bovee recently filed a lawsuit against Utah State University for violating state law and its own university policy when it terminated him in July of 2024. This is the second former athletic department employee to file a civil lawsuit against the university in about a month. Bovee filed the lawsuit on Dec. 27 in First District Court, claiming damages of more than $300,000 and asking for a jury trial. From August to December 2023, Bovee alleges his direct supervisor, USU Athletic Director Diana Sabau, removed a number of job duties and undermined him which led him to believe “she was trying to minimize his role and move him out of his position,” according to the suit. Bovee complained to Human Resources about his supervisor, Sabau, multiple times between December 2023 to July 2024. In one alleged instance, Sabau yelled at former Senior Woman Administrator Amy Crosbie and Bovee for hiring an assistant coach without asking for her approval, according to the complaint. “Sabau’s conduct during this meeting was so abusive that Crosbie began to cry, which Sabau mocked,” the lawsuit states. Later, Sabau threatened, ”there will be an investigation” and that “changes were