Mel Tucker target of sexual harassment case.
September 10th, 2023 at 1:21 AM ^
They've got coach Louis C.K.
September 10th, 2023 at 9:22 AM ^
Coach Jeffrey Toobin.
September 10th, 2023 at 1:21 AM ^
I knew he was a horse shit football coach. I didn’t know he was a horse shit human being. What a piece of shit. He even admitted to the masturbating, so at the very least he cheated on his wife even if it was consensual. Apparently there were rumors of what a dickbag this guy was back in Colorado. For a school trying to distance itself from a large rape case, hiring this asshole was a very poor choice
September 10th, 2023 at 4:25 AM ^
MSU imports horseshit culture and pays dearly due to their previous horrific sexual crimes/cover ups. Colorado clears out a terrible coach and in turn gets coach Prime. What a terrible job by MSU and their HR/background search contractor/board for ignoring all the whispers.
I hate MSU, but it's a state funded school that my sister, mother and blue blooded Michigan alumni father all attended. I wish it weren't such a despicable place.
September 10th, 2023 at 1:22 AM ^
Obviously he has got to go (if allegations are true). My mind is already dreading them getting a better coach who can recruit well
September 10th, 2023 at 8:45 AM ^
What coach would possibly want to follow that act?
September 10th, 2023 at 9:09 AM ^
LMAO!!! Have you seen that AD and Board of Regents in action? I don't fear any decision they make these days...
September 10th, 2023 at 1:56 AM ^
From USA Today:
In his statements to the Title IX investigator, Tucker acknowledged masturbating on the call but said Tracy grossly mischaracterized the episode. According to him, they had consensual “phone sex.”
Umm... bro.
September 10th, 2023 at 9:15 AM ^
Right. Brenda Tracy - the sole woman responsible for college athletic programs around the country acknowledging that sexual assault is a thing - is going to agree to phone sex so a man she's only met in business circumstances can jack off to her voice.
This is as unbelievable as the entire Nassar coverup at MSU.
September 10th, 2023 at 2:07 AM ^
No matter what Mel did, he can find comfort that he will always be welcome to live in Tom Izzo's basement.
September 10th, 2023 at 2:07 AM ^
Tuck coming?
Call security. He’s in violation of his restraining order.
September 10th, 2023 at 2:41 AM ^
Well, there's always Fox Sports for Mel. Big Noon already employs Urban "The Shocker" Meyer, may as well hire Mel "The Stroker" Tucker to go along with him.
Fox could rename the pregame show to... Shock and awwwwwe.
September 10th, 2023 at 2:56 AM ^
How many "Tuck comin'" jokes can there be? We're about to find out.
September 10th, 2023 at 2:22 PM ^
Mel Tugger.
September 10th, 2023 at 3:14 AM ^
Just... wow. Only skimmed the article, but Mel Tucker's boxer shorts are the least messy part of this whole saga, and that's saying something.
September 10th, 2023 at 4:26 AM ^
It sounds like State is taking this very seriously, which is good. Tucker's allegations against her make no sense - borderline absurd. She's really busy with her program across the country and it brings in a lot of funding. She was even in Ann Arbor giving her talk to the Michigan players a few years back.
I know he deserves to have his hearing, but I just don't believe him. I think the conduct of his players during and after games speaks to this credibility. There's been a top-down failure with that program. I think the university wants to change that culture. At least I hope so.
September 10th, 2023 at 4:46 AM ^
I guess you would have to provide a definition of 'seriously.' MSU has known about the allegations since 2022 and the final report was delivered in July. Reading what there is in the article, if MSU was taking this seriously, then Tucker should have been suspended in July when the report was delivered. I wonder now that it is in the public if Tucker will be suspended now? I credit MSU for not taking Tucker's stance that he was off duty and those actions shouldn't be governed by Title IX but it does seem like MSU was trying to keep this under wraps.
September 10th, 2023 at 8:04 AM ^
I think he means taking it seriously now since it got leaked last night, which is better than just literally never taking it seriously at all 😬
September 10th, 2023 at 10:32 AM ^
Are we talking institutional control here? Death penalty? The ncaa may hammer Muskegon College!
September 10th, 2023 at 9:21 AM ^
The correlation here is Mel Pearson - why the hell did/would Warde sit on that and try to keep him? Different situation - Mel did not sexually assault a sexual assault victim, but he did create the wrong atmosphere in the hockey building. I have to wonder what goes through their heads?
September 10th, 2023 at 4:54 AM ^
I mean being a married man and having “consensual” phone sex with somebody who you’re not married to is risky enough, but doing it with a woman who speaks on a weekly basis about sexual harassment is just the cherry on top. Galaxy-sized dumbassery.
September 10th, 2023 at 5:02 AM ^
Psychotic narcissism. Something was always off about that guy with all the selfies and always posting pictures of himself versus the team. He even kept his assistants’ bonuses.
He also played a guy right after a concussion last week. Maybe this was on his mind.
Now I’m not surprised he has fired any assistants. Probably scared of them talking.
September 10th, 2023 at 4:56 AM ^
Can’t believe state beat writers weren’t all over this story. Fitting that Charbeneau leaves the green on the day he misses another huge one.
September 10th, 2023 at 9:57 AM ^
Graham Couch is saying Tucker has likely coached his last game at MSU. When you’ve lost Graham Couch…
September 10th, 2023 at 10:33 AM ^
Beat writers....hahahahaha
September 10th, 2023 at 5:23 AM ^
Gross on so many levels Mel, Just flat out nasty.
He admitted to jerking it on the phone with a lady who he was only in contact with him to speak to the team about rape.
But MSU fans want to crap on JJ for wearing a free Harbaugh shirt.
September 10th, 2023 at 6:32 AM ^
MSU is such trash. The guy admits to masturbating while on the phone with a rape survivor, and you don’t even put him on leave? Insane.
September 10th, 2023 at 6:36 AM ^
Some of the details about what happened after the masturbation call and his seemingly obvious lies during the investigation (e.g., said he made the call from his home but was really in FL on MSU travel) point strongly to him covering it up, because he knows it’s fireable.
September 10th, 2023 at 6:48 AM ^
Harbaugh is serving a 3 game suspension for buying a kid hamburger and UM voluntarily suspends him. Here is MSU investigating a rich coach for disgusting behavior with a confession and they didn't bother suspending him until the investigation is done? If what the article says is true, they already have proof to at least suspend him. SMH.
September 10th, 2023 at 7:28 AM ^
Don’t forget this is MSU. This is the same university that produced John Engler, a “let’s circle the wagons and blame the victims” kind of guy.
September 10th, 2023 at 7:15 AM ^
MSU spent the last year trying to figure out how to get of that big fat contract.
They might have it now.
September 10th, 2023 at 8:00 AM ^
How do you prove this?
Horrific act by Tucker, but without a phone taping how do you prove this happened?
September 10th, 2023 at 8:08 AM ^
He admitted it happened.
September 10th, 2023 at 8:12 AM ^
Mel Tugger admits it happened but said it was consensual. He also lied to investigators about where he was when he made the phone call, telling investigators he was at home when in fact he was in a hotel in Florida, acting in his capacity as coach. His lawyers tried to get the investigation stopped, claiming it was a personal matter unrelated to his job .
September 10th, 2023 at 10:02 AM ^
His lawyers also said the title ix investigator’s report should be rejected because she didn’t ask Tracy her opinion about sexual harassment claims against Izzo, Dantonio and Engler. And Tucker seemingly invented, out of whole cloth, an accusation that ESPN was investigating Tracy’s original story about being raped (which the ESPN reporter in question denied in its entirety). Just crazy stuff.
September 10th, 2023 at 3:22 PM ^
He also lied about why he canceled her July 25 visit. He claimed that his mental conditioning coach needed to implement a new program but it had been implemented nearly two months earlier and he had no sessions scheduled during the preriod around July 25.
September 10th, 2023 at 7:54 AM ^
Bad bad bad by tuck
I'm afraid they'll hire coach prime, he'd be a perfect fit
September 10th, 2023 at 8:05 AM ^
If he is successful this year, he is not coming to MSU. I am sure RCMB will suggest that. MSU will always be fourth or now fifth or sixth or seventh best team in B1G with the new additions.
September 10th, 2023 at 10:10 AM ^
That’s generous. M, OSU, PSU, USC, UCLA, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin are all clearly better jobs. Arguably Iowa’s a better job. MSU is probably better than the rest, but it’s closer to Illinois, Minnesota, Maryland than it is to the top 8.
September 10th, 2023 at 10:07 AM ^
He can get a much better job than MSU at this point. It’s at best the 9th best job in the expanded big ten. He’ll be a top candidate at whatever high end job comes up the next couple years.
September 10th, 2023 at 10:36 AM ^
I heard he may be interested in the Raiders!
September 10th, 2023 at 10:11 AM ^
Not going to happen, MSU always has been and always be a second rate job. Sanders if continues to do well will have far better jobs available to him.
September 10th, 2023 at 8:03 AM ^
I always knew Tuck was a wanker!
September 10th, 2023 at 8:04 AM ^
This is all just really gross and the fact it's Tucker and MSU doesn't take away from the fact someone received unwanted sexual advances from a coach.
That said, MSU's AD is absolutely going to use this to get out of paying any more guaranteed money.
September 10th, 2023 at 8:05 AM ^
Way to go msu. Pay the guy so much that even if he does something slimy no one will believe it because you're looking to fire for cause.
September 10th, 2023 at 8:19 AM ^
“But, but… COVID coaching contacts and cheeseburgers!”
-RCMB, probably
September 10th, 2023 at 8:32 AM ^
Did he blame the tunnel?
September 10th, 2023 at 8:36 AM ^
These accusations are one thing. But did Tucker buy her a cheeseburger? Because there's no surviving that.
September 10th, 2023 at 8:45 AM ^
Aaaaand the real question now -
Who is going to want to shake his hand after a game now??
September 10th, 2023 at 8:51 AM ^
So what kind of a parent would want to trust their kid to this kind of a creep for 4 plus years? Wow.