Commentary: ASU’s Non-Response Is Compounding Tragedy

September 24, 2026 by Adam Wodon/Managing Editor (@chn-adam-wodon) Arizona State’s failure to release a full accounting of the August 20 incident that left one of its student-athletes, Matthew Mayich, in a coma, is just compounding the tragedy of that day. The only thing it has released so far is “initial” findings of an internal investigation, whose only conclusion was to commission a blue ribbon panel to study ways its policies can be better. That is insufficient. The fact that we’re five weeks from the incident, and eight days from the start of the team’s hockey season, makes it that much…