SIAP: Dantonio Finally Makes a Statement on Investigation
I am shocked this has not already been posted here, and sorry if it has and I missed, but Dantonio has finally made a statement on the turmoil inside the program:
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/02/28/mark-dantonio-makes-statement-on…
General negative and "I hate MSU" comment aside, this statement is way too little, too late, in my opinion. First, it's clearly "boilerplate PR" statement material here, saying virtually nothing. Second, to wait this long to say something given everything that's going, and then to say so little when doing so, is probably going to make folks madder than they already are (FYI: there are apparently a sizeable group of pissed parents and boosters attached to the program who thinks Dantonio should have said something long before this to "clear the air").
Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe he has been forbidden from saying anything by MSU higher-ups until now, but this looks to me to be patching holes in the Titanic with a tube of caulk...
February 28th, 2017 at 3:44 PM ^
Incredibly vanilla statement where much more was needed to save face.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
is the the head coach of the Houston Rockets commenting on this?
February 28th, 2017 at 5:41 PM ^
There is no way be wrote that himself. Far too tactful and, as stated before, "boilerplate".
February 28th, 2017 at 6:25 PM ^
If I've ever seen a statement that's gone through Legal several times, that's a statement that's gone through Legal several times...
February 28th, 2017 at 8:40 PM ^
His first draft has, in fact, been leaked onto the internet:
11 YEERS IVE BEEN COACHINGG AND NOBODY HAS NEVER SHOWN SUCH DISRESPEKT TO ME LIKE THEY R SHOHING NOW, DONT THEY NO IVE ALWAYZ TRYED TO BE RESPEKTFULL IN MY COACHING AND UPHOWLD GOOD STANDARDZ BUT THIS IS HOW THEY DISRESPEKT ME AND MY STAF AND I WILL NEVER TOLURATE THIS BECAUZE MIKE HART IS BEHYND THIS I NO FOR SURE AND SOMEONE IS QWESTIONING WHAT A LEEDER CONNOR COOK IS AND THATZ JUST DISRESPEKT AND OH YAH WE DID NOT COMIT ANY CRYMES U R ALL LYING U LYING LYERS WHO LYE TWO MUCH, MAKE SURE TO COME TO OUR SPRING PRACTYSE ITS GOINGG TO BE FUn
February 28th, 2017 at 3:48 PM ^
BiSB pointed this out on Twitter, but it's interesting how Dantonio starts off using "I" and "my," but when he starts talking about the trouble it turns to "we" and "our."
February 28th, 2017 at 3:48 PM ^
I can't imagine a group of people I would less like to hang out with than MSU football player parents.
February 28th, 2017 at 3:50 PM ^
I don't know, Connor Cook's dad seems pretty cool....
/s
February 28th, 2017 at 3:57 PM ^
ugh...just imagine the Bullough family reunions
February 28th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
I'm imagining lots of backne and jorts.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^
and needles.
There's the mental picture I'm not getting out of my head for the rest of the day.
Don't forget the "Muck Fishigan" t-shirts to go along with those jorts. Clever, fashionable lot, those Bulloughs.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
the parents are pretty cool., however, i think they run a bit of a loose ship in that household (being diplomatic here) and that may have had a signif impact on the boys.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:01 PM ^
Never met them, but they live down the street from my parents. Their house is gaudy, but pretty damn cool. Google Earth Gray Rd. and Peninsula Dr. Traverse City.
Oh and being rich certainly helps to cover up obvious steroid use.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:06 PM ^
Plus finance it.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:02 PM ^
I wonder if they measure each other's head to see whose has grown the most over the year. You know - like you do with your kids to see how much taller they are but in their case it would be hat sizes.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:54 PM ^
former staff?
February 28th, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
Dantonio is probably not the one calling the shots here. I hate him, too, but I'm sure there are other forces at work here.
February 28th, 2017 at 3:54 PM ^
Rivalry aside, I think the guy is a son of a bitch. I think he's a hateful, shitty human and he's demonstrated over and over again that he's very willing to get guys back out on the field as soon as he can. He does just enough to give the media the impression that he's about the discipline, but he's obvioulsy not.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:00 PM ^
Son of Tressel learned well from the master.
February 28th, 2017 at 8:29 PM ^
Well spoken grasshopper.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
"Other forces at work here"? Like what, dark matter, weakly interaction molecular particles, the cosmological constant, or...ALIENS?!?!?!
February 28th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
Similar to Aliens: Lawyers.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:34 PM ^
As a lawyer, I weirdly find this to be complimentary.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
Similar to Aliens: Lawyers.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:56 PM ^
when spring practice begins Dantonio can defer any questions about it since a statement has already been released. It protects him from adlibbing a response.
February 28th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
Dude, I can think of one group...the football team!
February 28th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
ha no way he wrote that
February 28th, 2017 at 4:52 PM ^
Yeah no way he wrote that. This was his submission when the school president asked for him to submit a comment:
February 28th, 2017 at 7:37 PM ^
Can we start a gofundme to get this on a billboard in EL?
February 28th, 2017 at 10:17 PM ^
I'd rather fund that than even the MGoServers.
February 28th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
ha no way he wrote that
February 28th, 2017 at 3:54 PM ^
we still don't even know what happened yet or who was involved.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
To be honest, it's really starting to piss me off just how little traction this is getting in the media. There's zero chance that if this was happening at Michigan things would be this hushed.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:45 PM ^
That's what happens when you're a nobody
February 28th, 2017 at 5:42 PM ^
Exactly, pete finebaum just doesn't care.
I'm sure Jemele Hill will have a searing, in-depth expose any day now.
/s
February 28th, 2017 at 4:48 PM ^
To be honest, I don't recall a huge thing coming out of the Gibbons incident. I feel like both were underreported.
February 28th, 2017 at 6:12 PM ^
That is fair. I apologize. I am just getting frustrated with the lack of conversation. Valenti and the 97.1 crew aren't saying a damn thing (shocking, I know), and the rest of the local media aren't doing a damn thing. You've got the freep writers going after Michigan for what amounted to a little too much stretching, but this type of shit (criminal shit) gets under reported there all the time. I'm getting pretty tired of it. From even before Payne and Appling! Any movement on the Mateen Cleeves rape case? Thought not.. that's the type of shit I'm talking about, but you are correct about the Gibbons case.
February 28th, 2017 at 7:41 PM ^
Honestly there's not much to be said right now. Media can't speculate about what happened or who was involved.
Is Rape 101 a core class at msu. How many times has this shit not been reported. Of course there are bad seeds at all university's, but for the sake of the student athlete who is a good person please don't reward the bad. ie Joe Mixon.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:53 PM ^
.... or do you....
February 28th, 2017 at 3:59 PM ^
With the way MSU has handled this whole situation. But they've handled it fine. It's best to keep it in house when you are still trying to figure out what's going on and protect your players instead of just jumping out day 1 and saying "X, Y, Z are suspended, you won't see them for awhile."
Everyone is always in such a rush for answers. I despise MSU and Dantonio for a lot, but the handling of this issue isn't one of them.
And I'm not sure what face needs to be saved. It's the fans and the media who are burning for answers because they want stuff to write about. They'll be plenty to discuss when the investigation is over.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:07 PM ^
They've kept a lot of this in-house over the years.
Let me clarify, news of events (rapes, pummeled engineering student etc) will leak, but their local media and the Detroit papers provide very little follow-up.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^
Need to answer questions that are created from the media and the fan backlash? This stuff is all handled when everything is resolved and the person/university can come forward with the information.
It wouldn't be fair to ANYONE to pre-emtively go to the podium to talk about those players and what the investigation is about when the people doing the investigating still don't have the answers.
February 28th, 2017 at 4:15 PM ^
I rarely agree with you Leo but in this case I do.