Keep It 100: Coaches Caught in Lies

These sideline bosses learned didn't come clean.

Lying Coaches - Manhattan basketball coach Steve Masiello’s recent resume falsity serves as another case of a high-profile coach getting caught in scandalous lies. Here, BET.com takes a look back at several coaches, across a number of sports, who were caught lying. Liar, liar, your a-- is fired! (Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

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Lying Coaches - Manhattan basketball coach Steve Masiello’s recent resume falsity serves as another case of a high-profile coach getting caught in scandalous lies. Here, BET.com takes a look back at several coaches, across a number of sports, who were caught lying. Liar, liar, your a-- is fired! (Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Bill Belichick -  Is there a more frustrating coach for reporters to talk to in all of sports than Bill Belichick? The longtime New England Patriots head coach is the master of brevity, taking creative, thought-provoking questions and shredding them with one-word answers. He has also been known to load up injury reports with players' names for as long as he could into the week before Pats' games to throw the competition off...not to mention, the media. (Photo: Justin Edmonds/Getty Images) 

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Bill Belichick: Spygate - He called it a mistake, but nationally it became known as “Spygate” when the NFL fined New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and the Pats $250,000 for spying on the New York Jets’ defensive signals in 2007.(Photo: Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)

O'Lying - Just days after being named the head football coach for the University of Notre Dame in 2001, George O’Leary was forced to resign when he lied about padding his resume. O'Leary wasn't honest about the level of football participation he had at his alma mater, the University of New Hampshire, and a master’s degree he earned at “NYU-Stony Brook University.” New York University and Stony Brook University are two different colleges.(Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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O'Lying - Just days after being named the head football coach for the University of Notre Dame in 2001, George O’Leary was forced to resign when he lied about padding his resume. O'Leary wasn't honest about the level of football participation he had at his alma mater, the University of New Hampshire, and a master’s degree he earned at “NYU-Stony Brook University.” New York University and Stony Brook University are two different colleges.(Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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New Orleans Saints: Bountygate - The NFL dropped the hammer on the New Orleans Saints organization for their 2009-11 involvement in a bounty scandal, in which Saints players earned bonuses for big hits, injuring players and knocking them out of games altogether. Defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was suspended indefinitely and head coach Sean Peyton, who tried to cover up the greasy scheme, was suspended for the entire 2012 season, with the Sains forced to pay an additional $500,000 fine and forfeit their second-round draft picks in 2012 and 2013.(Photo: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Me and My Girlfriend - The famed Hoover (Alabama) High School coach was married with three children while having an extramarital affair with a woman who he eventually married and had four children with. He lied about his two families for years.(Photo: AL.COM /Landov)

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Me and My Girlfriend - The famed Hoover (Alabama) High School coach was married with three children while having an extramarital affair with a woman who he eventually married and had four children with. He lied about his two families for years.(Photo: AL.COM /Landov)

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Wrong Lane - As USC’s head football coach in 2012, Lane Kiffin said he wouldn’t vote his own team as No. 1 in the USA Today Sports’ Coaching Poll. But USA Today confirmed that he did just that. Liar Lane.(Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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Wrong Lane - As USC’s head football coach in 2012, Lane Kiffin said he wouldn’t vote his own team as No. 1 in the USA Today Sports’ Coaching Poll. But USA Today confirmed that he did just that. Liar Lane.(Photo: Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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UCLies - UCLA fired basketball coach Jim Harrick in 1996 for lying about items charged on his expense account, including meals. Was it worth it?(Photo: Jeff Golden/Getty Images)

Alabama's Saban to Make $6.9 Million Per Year - Alabama’s Nick Saban was already the highest-paid football coach at a public university, and now will receive $6.9 million per year — up from the $5.5 million per season he was getting — via a new contract extension through January 31, 2022. (Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

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Can't Trust 'Em - In 2006, then-Miami Dolphins coach Nick Saban was rumored to be leaning toward the vacant Alabama football coach job. He shot down the rumors in late 2006 only to take the Alabama job in early 2007.(Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Nittany Lying King - Longtime assistant Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky denied any sexual abuse of players. The 45 sexual abuse charges that he was found guilty of in 2012 and the 30-60 years he was sentenced to prison for the crimes tell another story.(Photo: Rob Carr/Getty Images)

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Nittany Lying King - Longtime assistant Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky denied any sexual abuse of players. The 45 sexual abuse charges that he was found guilty of in 2012 and the 30-60 years he was sentenced to prison for the crimes tell another story.(Photo: Rob Carr/Getty Images)

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Too Hands On - In December 2012, Rutgers head basketball coach Mike Rice was suspended without pay for three games for abusive behavior toward his players. Rice denied being abusive, but a released videotape of Rice during practice showed him pushing, kicking and berating his own players.  (Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images)