Penn State scorn versus Michigan State scorn

Roy claims he has matured this year. No longer 80 percent fecal matter, he assures us.

 

In a video interview obtained by Outside the Lines, Payne told detectives that Schaner had indicated she wanted to leave.

According to a police report, Payne told officers that he could "understand how she would feel that she was not free to leave." Payne was concerned about her reaction to the circumstances and had even asked Appling to apologize to her, the report stated. Payne told officers that he had apologized to Schaner because "it seemed she felt that they 'disrespected' her."

Good God, they even had one of these idiots dumb enough to talk to the police and they did nothing.

I'd say at the very least, every coach in the athletic program should be put under review, and if there's any connection to a cover-up, that coach is gone. Otherwise they're going to be living under this what-if cloud for the next 20 years.

Football and men's basketball need a total housecleaning.

 

Dantonio finally gave a statement of support to the survivors so he could deny he covered up rape by his players. Until he says it under oath, such self serving statements are not believable.

 

Just wait until they trace something back to the Saban era.

 

Local MSU columnist penned this on Dantonio/Izzo:

Couch: If needed change at MSU includes Dantonio, Izzo, so be it – but let's slow down

The ongoing ESPN story on MSU — on several platforms — speaks to a larger cultural issue on campus. As do parts of the Nassar case. They are intertwined in that regard. But they are two separate stories.

One is of unimaginable scope, backed by 16 months of reporting, with a conviction and overwhelming evidence of negligence. The other is a troubling report involving several incidents with MSU’s football and men’s basketball players — some already known — all of which were dealt with by the university, police and the court system or are in that process. Whether they were dealt with appropriately is the question, one that needs to be revisited. If there were serious missteps or any sort of cover-up, the culpability of Dantonio and Izzo should be examined.

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It’s easier for most people to get rid of a school president, the board of trustees or an athletic director than it is a coach whose program so often has your heart in its hand. Hypocrisy, though, must be kept in check.

It’s just as important to resist becoming a reasonless mob that let’s momentum carry the day. We’re prone to that more than ever these days. This is too important. There’s no harm in a pause while we figure out what’s what. Let the attorney general’s office, the NCAA and state legislature do their investigations. Let media outlets continue to probe. Given the microscope, what needs to come out, will.

More than 150 courageous women and girls, victims and survivors, made that happen.

It took seven days of their faces, names and stories on a live feed in court for most of the world to take notice. Even ESPN, which is behaving as if it’s unearthed the Pentagon Papers, was slow on MSU with Nassar — the findings of its own 14-month investigation revealed essentially only what had already been reported over the previous 14 months.

 

"This is too important."

Oy.

 

Them crackers be shakin' yet?

 

Sounds like every NRA press release and a Sarah Huckster screech after a mass murder. Thoughts and prayers. Too soon for politics.

 

Yeah, I didn’t read that and think “NRA.”

 

Or,” we know we have coaches that are excellent at their craft,by whatever means necessary. And we’ve warned them that no more rapes or assaults by their players until this thing or investigation blows over. But no one in the media or public opinion is going to force our hand, especially where the Big10is having a weak basketball season and Ole Sparty is playing well”

Too soon?

 

I think you’re just getting worked up.

They really are two separate stories, and let me say this: ESPN shifting the discussion so quickly to Izzo/Dantonio from the Nassar victims is an interesting choice editorially.

 

But I think getting the coach on the record with a yes, no or "um" - puts them on the spot, and the university.
I think all employees at universities (esp. the public ones) need a better understanding of "protecting the university."