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The new defensive coordinator, hired by San Jose State University, was fired as head coach of the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) football team by Interim President Sue Martin when she was the President of EMU in 2013 after a locker room video of him saying a homophobic slur was released.   Ron English has already been introduced to the team as the new defensive coordinator and replaced Greg Robinson, who retired after the Spartans Bowl game on Dec.19.   “As president at Eastern Michigan University, I hired Ron English to lead the football program.” Martin said. “In November 2013, I fired him.” Martin’s decision to fire English was peculiar because, in college sports, the athletic director is responsible for hiring and firing the athletic staff. English was fired less than 24 hours before EMU’s rivalry game against Western Michigan, after The Detroit News revealed school officials had obtained a tape of English’s tirade from late October 2015. In the video, English w