university fired him after 36 years of service when the scandal first broke, the team's legendary head coach jim bay heim said in a statement bernie has my full support but then he released another statement saying i believe the university took the ahope i can't tell step tonight and now an audio recording has surfaced which appears to suggest that bernie fine's wife knew about something. you will decide. espn's program outside the lines aired portion of a 2002 phone call that one of the alleged victims reportedly recorded while speaking with fine's wife. here listen.