NCAA Clears MSU re: Nassar & OTL

It doesn't matter what this says.  We know.  They know.  Everybody who cares knows.  The Michigan State Athletic Department is a very sick place.

ESPN says otherwise and we hate ESPN except when they say bad things about MSU/OSU. I’m confused 

Come on, man.  NCAA doesn't punish minor shit like sexual assault, domestic assault, lying/obfuscation, academic fraud, cash payments, student deaths, etc.  They only have time for big stuff, like cream cheese, giving kids car rides, and stretching.

So what in the actual fuck constitutes an NCAA violation, then?

Yay! Mork gets away with another one!!

Seriously, this bullshit has to catch up with him sooner or later, doesn't it?

Umbig11, any update on the msu stuff that's supposed to be coming out? Thanks.

After the last couple of weeks, if I’m Penn State I’m wondering WTF.  MSU and OSU had similar facts and circumstances and an egregiously difference result.

Doesn't change what happened there, and what has been enabled to happen there. Like what happened at Penn State, that is a stain that MSU will never be able to wash off. 

And then the NCAA raised their epic double birds to all of the victims and their families and said "Fuck you too!".

Fuck that

Because, of fucking course they did.  End of story.

I knew they would do this and yet I'm somehow still surprised and angry.  Weird.

I ate a bagel with cream cheese literally seconds before seeing this post.  Had I instead simply molested someone, that would've garnered me less scrutiny from the NCAA.

This sounds like something they would do. 

The NCAA is such a joke. Money and winning is apparently more important than rapes, women beating, and lies.

This is Penn State's fault.  They fought the punishment for Sandusky, got the NCAA to cave, and now that is the binding precedent.

Burn everything down.

Meyer is not going away.  Dantonio is not going away.

If we hoped these scandals would make that happen, we were wrong.

The only way to make them go away is beat them on the field a few times in a row.

So do it for justice, Michigan.

The Onion couldn't have written it better.

Unpopular opinion alert: I don't necessarily think this is a wrong decision.  I think Nassar, Appling, Payne, and the dozens of rapists and criminals who played for Dantonio should be in jail forever.  I think Klages, Simon, Izzo, Dantonio, the BOT, Engler, Nassar's boss, and the old AD whose name I forget should be tried and convicted as accessories and accomplices.  But I don't think the NCAA should be involved.  Admittedly, I don't know every single NCAA rule, but I'm pretty sure there's not an express "don't rape anybody" or even general "don't commit crimes" regulation (whether there should be or not is a whole other conversation). 

As it stands, the NCAA is an administrative body without any subpoena power or real investigative arm, and I think inserting them into legal issues, that aren't directly tied to "sports activities" isn't a good choice.  A, they lack the means to actually do anything; B, punishing teams for this kind of thing just, to me, cheapens what the victims have gone through; and C, something feels wrong about punishing players who had nothing to do with the crimes via postseason bans, vacated wins, etc.  Why should some random MSU gymnast be banned from that national tournament because Nassar is one of  the worst humans ever born?  I felt the same way about PSU, this is bigger than what the NCAA can and should be about, and it always felt like the NCAA came down on PSU because of public pressure and the desire to be clear how they were opposed to rape; pretty much everyone acknowledges they basically made up violations to justify punishment.  

I realize I'm in the great minority on this opinion (and I'm prepared for the negbombing I'll receive).  But I think situations like this, where abominable acts occurred by people in the athletic department that aren't "sports related", should be dealt with by the police, by the FBI, by the State, and/or by Title IX investigators.  To me, it's just beyond the NCAA's job, and their hamhandedness and inconsistency dealing with these issues just shows it.  

So my guess is that Mark Hollis is the "Fall guy" in this situation.  If nothing was wrong in the athletic department, then why in the hell did he "retire?"

I heard that ESPN was supposed to be coming out with a follow up from their spring's "Crisis at Michigan State" expose. 

now would be a perfect time for the Outside the Lines people to chime in