Mustapha Muhammad accused of sexual assault

Unless it’s the 11th Doctor

That goes double for Shriners

Yeah, that struck me as weird, though again I'd have to see what the pledge said.  I know sometimes people won't sign things because they feel it could be used against them in some unintended situation (the callous, cynical view would be that sexual assaults will still occur even having signed the pledge and the lawsuits that follow might reference it as a way to negatively reflect upon the school and coaches), but you'd think a team would want to look like it stood against sexual assault.

I wouldnt sign anything i dont need to sign. If im a good person i wouldnt be doing those things anyway, some pledge doesnt do anything for me or anyone else.

All it does it provide cover for the university at some later date to say "LOOK we did all we could, the kids even signed a PLEDGE". 

And refusal isnt proof of anything, it just means the kids see through what this is, pointless theater designed to protect the administration.

That was the most important detail in the story for me, too... 

Stockwell and Alice Lloyd are the only on-campus housing sites available during the summer, which is the time period cited in the allegation.

Additional detail:   

The Daily "respected" Jane's anonymity but immediately wrote "Jane first met Muhammad during the summer term. She lived near him in Alice Lloyd Residence Hall — her room was across the hall from Walker’s. 

Linking.....so easy a caveman can do it.

The unfortunate reality is that men do get away with it all of the time. 

Your retelling of the 1st encounter and the victim's is very different. And its not just 1 claim but 4. hard to give benefit of the doubt in that scenario.

Sounds like he kept pushing after being told “no” many times. The only appropriate response to that is to back off and break contact or to talk with the woman, respectfully, about her concerns and boundaries. I just can’t fathom continuing to try sexual contact after the woman is clearly telling you she doesn’t want to. 

These are four different women who claimed he made actions toward them that made them uncomfortable and at least two that were explicitly sexual in nature (and two others were formally made, which is a pretty significant step for someone to take).  Also, you are playing a bit fast-and-loose with timing if you think this all happened instantly.

“He got on top of me and got really aggressive,” Walker said. “ … And I said no many times. ‘No, no, no, stop. No, no.’ And he would not stop.”

Walker remembers Muhammad bringing up his status as a football player in response to her repeatedly saying “no.”

“Really, you don’t want to do it with a U of M football player?” she recalls him saying. 

Also, the second woman claimed he grabbed her hand and put it on his penis.  And remember, he's 6'4", 245lbs.  I'm not going to give a guy that big too much credit for not restraining a woman after touching her repeatedly when she made it clear she didn't like it and then forcing her to touch his dick.  

Also, you don't "have to be that guy" in situations like this.  I am not a blind advocate for immediately assuming every accusation is 100% true, but these are single, isolated incidents over a year.

+1 for having the balls, and also for agreeing to a degree. I see what you are trying to point out, that without actually being there and seeing it happen, it’s hard to determine if this was gross behavior or if he was just being overly aggressive (not condoning one over the other).

I have to admit, since all of these different assault allegations come up more and more, situations as you have described here, or especially in the case of Jane where he was touching, maybe trying to feel her out with how comfortable she was, freak me out. I’m glad I’m married, because I used to think I had game and was able to move things along with girls a lot, and, though I don’t ever recall being aggressive to the point I upset anyone, this fucks with my head enough to make me curious if anyone would ever have been able to say something like this about me. 

Agree, he's a time bomb to rape on the wrong rejection...  Thus far it seems he has pushed as far as he absolutely can without rape, that we know of.  He seriously needs help. 

If true, not a good look.  Brendon Gibbons 2.0.

Oh boy...username checks out, or something along those lines

Aside from the main point of the article, I found this interesting as well. Especially as you would think Harbaugh, of all coaches, would be most likely to push for the signatures of his team. As mentioned above, I would have to/like to see the document to get a better idea, and maybe the grey area of sharing photos is a problem? Like, legally, could you send a buddy a nude of one of the BIG Ten calendar girls? Sending the video of violence; could snaps of someone messing around, or perhaps getting pics or videos of the sorority mud bowl fall under this? I can maybe see why it would be concerning to sign if some of this stuff were the case

You want we should Munson them?