Mark Emmert Was Warned About Sexual Assault at MSU in 2010
https://theathletic.com/223555/2018/01/26/ncaa-president-mark-emmert-wa…
Nicole Auerbach reporting. This is focused on assault by athletes, so the Dantonio/Izzo half of the equation, not Nassar. Especially Izzo, the Appling/Payne case is featured.
The rot spreads far and wide.
January 26th, 2018 at 8:18 PM ^
Another bombshell. Dissolve the NCAA
January 26th, 2018 at 10:35 PM ^
I can now add this to the long list of reasons I abhor Mark Emmert.
January 26th, 2018 at 8:19 PM ^
Claire McCaskill to Mark Emmert in 2014 on the NCAA's failures in handling sexual assault: "I can’t even tell whether you’re in charge or whether you’re a minion. If you’re merely a monetary pass-through, why should you even exist?” Rings true again. https://t.co/YhBmnbtNhv
— Kevin Trahan (@k_trahan) January 27, 2018
January 26th, 2018 at 8:45 PM ^
The little shoulder shimmy after is priceless
January 26th, 2018 at 8:50 PM ^
I don't have many bucket list items but one of them is to learn the backstory behind this scenario. The dude clearly put a ton of planning into this. His friend with the basketball net. The entire class behind him. Hell, he had somebody recording it. I just need to know the events leading up to it.
January 26th, 2018 at 9:01 PM ^
Guy getting dunked on really looks like Paul George.
January 26th, 2018 at 9:36 PM ^
January 26th, 2018 at 9:05 PM ^
They should make it an ESPN 30 for 30.
January 26th, 2018 at 9:17 PM ^
There was a social media fad called "posterizing" or "dunk cam" a few years ago where an unsuspecting person would get dunked on out of the blue while being filmed. This particular one happened at the U of Houston, where supposively the guy was always late for class so his peers all decided to posterize him, however evidence strongly suggests that it was staged and he was in on it, like many other social media prank vids aiming to go viral.
Here are some more "dunk cams" if thats your thing (some NSFW language):
January 26th, 2018 at 9:44 PM ^
January 27th, 2018 at 12:14 AM ^
uh, its been a long week...
January 27th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
I've actually never seen "Supposively" before. I've seen "Supposably"
January 27th, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^
I think it's adorable.
January 26th, 2018 at 8:20 PM ^
In the past two years alone, 37 reports of sexual assault by MSU athletes have been reported, but not one disciplinary sanction was imposed by school officials against any of the men involved.
Holy shit
January 26th, 2018 at 8:30 PM ^
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January 26th, 2018 at 9:33 PM ^
But I wouldn't be surprised or upset if DeVos consulted with Simon thinking she would be a non-biased person on the Title IX issue.
January 26th, 2018 at 11:53 PM ^
January 26th, 2018 at 11:26 PM ^
What is the other side of the argument supporting removing protections for sexual assault victims? Real question.
January 26th, 2018 at 11:50 PM ^
January 26th, 2018 at 11:52 PM ^
Ones people usually make around here is that the universities are not equipped for these kinds of investigations and inevitably fuck it up and that the lowered standard of evidence is unfair to the accused.
January 27th, 2018 at 8:50 AM ^
January 26th, 2018 at 8:25 PM ^
Not to pat myself on the back TOO hard, but I said a few days ago that this "could end very badly for MSU," that once "these things start to get rolling, all sorts of information related and not tends to come out." Welp, it's happening. I was right.
The Lotto numbers tomorrow are 3-7-12-22-68-69!
January 26th, 2018 at 8:31 PM ^
Big scandals never come out because some private organization or league look into them. The big scandals are almost invariably the result of serious lawbreaking that causes widespread investigations, revealing far more than just the original offense.
Some of us speculated weeks ago that perhaps the Nassar scandal would cause a deeper investigation of MSU and the local authorities, the stuff many on here felt was being serially ignored. And here we are: Hollis gone, Izzo and Dantonio in the crosshairs and permanently affected, even the NCAA getting burns.
This is becoming the biggest scandal in NCAA history.
January 26th, 2018 at 8:44 PM ^
Yup. It's not the scandal. It's ALWAYS the cover-up. We are at that point now, where the cover-up is becoming the story
January 26th, 2018 at 8:57 PM ^
Well, not just that. The volume of wrongdoing that is only revealed as a result of the legal action. Stuff that was never even part of this (37 cases BEFORE he was told in 2010, that's astonishing, and except as a vague culture issue has nothing to do with Nassar at all) comes to light because people have found dirt and figure it's time to start cleaning.
At any rate the common thread is that legal investigations with subpoena power are what actually ferret out this stuff. Wrongdoing that does not rise to the level of felony makes it either undetected or with a wrist-slap. Remember, the Ed Martin scandal required the Feds to compel the revelation of evidence. The Reggie Bush issue came to light due to a lawsuit. BALCO and Lance Armstrong were Federal investigations; ARod was also exposed by law enforcement rather than his own league.
MSU's case is slightly different in that the legal stuff that has now come out, prompting the media reports, was in itself prompted by one article in the Indy Star. But the law still was the driving force to bring this all to light.
January 26th, 2018 at 9:35 PM ^
January 26th, 2018 at 10:40 PM ^
Mark "I am not a crook" Dantonio.
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January 26th, 2018 at 10:42 PM ^
The spotlight also needs to shine on Michigan States police, EL police and the Ingham County prosecutors office.
January 26th, 2018 at 10:50 PM ^
the Dunnings case from Ingham County is a significant tie in to how MSU athletic cases always seemed to get dropped going back decades.
Funny how once Dunnings was off the job MSU and Dantonio had his first sexual assault case. The EL Police and Michigan State Univ police are also pretty pathetic organizations when it comes to student crimes. No more than Parking meter maids and MIP fine producers
January 26th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
January 27th, 2018 at 12:39 AM ^
It's incredibly sad.
January 26th, 2018 at 8:35 PM ^
January 26th, 2018 at 9:43 PM ^
I've got the same combination on my luggage.
January 26th, 2018 at 8:25 PM ^
January 26th, 2018 at 8:26 PM ^
It would be amazing if the NCAA was found to be legally irresponsible here. I'm not sure if they are, but this appears to be a huuuuuuuuuge black eye.
January 26th, 2018 at 8:29 PM ^
and that was over a 2 year period. Geez. That tells me that there's a lot we don't know about. If the victims speak up, like the Nassar situation, the school may go bankrupt.
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January 26th, 2018 at 8:49 PM ^
I don't know how many more layers this story could possibly have. It's darkly like that Stalin quote about death - I was pretty outraged after a few of these stories. Now I'm having trouble comprehending it all; it's become a statistic.
January 26th, 2018 at 8:54 PM ^
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