Allswede (Former MSU Sexual Assault Counselor) Fires New Shots at Dantonio

And the MSU community has gone the full PSU.  

 

The dismissal of King, Corley & Vance the right way at the time. But what nobody else but MSU, Dantonio & Hollis knew was that ESPN was about 2 years into digging into their sordid history of sweeping these incidents under the rug. Otherwise they may still be on their team. And the details released here are worse than the 1 hour OTL on air report. http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/22214566/pattern-denial-inaction-in…

Although he does not realize it yet, there is no way out of this for Dantoni.  Being chippy is the only way he knows how to respond.  It is obviously not going to work here, and Allswede just demonstrated why.

Alldanish.

Isn’t that kind of an open secret in the industry? Plenty of anecdotes going around on that with *every* university. And it generally checks out given how invested many people around a university are in athletic success - whether that’s just a fan’s emotional investment or a personal professional interest. You don’t have to look very far to see what a difference it makes whether an allegation concerns a player for your *own* team vs a player for another team and especially a player on a *rival* team. I view that particular issue as somewhat separate from the Nassar case, and I can kinda see why Dantonio and Izzo are irritated with the connection that is now being made. They likely feel they’re being singled out for a practice that they’re convinced exists everywhere and that they probably don’t think they’re any worse at than most of the teams they play against. Of course, it’s impossible to tell whether that is true or not from the outside looking in, but it’s how they would feel about it. I fully buy that athletics staff would try to handle as much with regard to athletes as they can get away with. See there’s two spins on that. If you like the team/school concerned you can say they’re trying to offer particular guidance and care to students who face unique challenges compared to the rest of the student body, but of course cynically you could also say that the whole organization is an eligibility machine. Athletes - and by that I primarily mean revenue athletes - are ‘their’ kids and they want to control all the aspects that could possibly affect how those athletes do on the court or field. In the book “Meat Market” about Ole Miss under Coach O, there’s a situation where they try to get an illiterate kid enrolled and eligible..going through all sorts of administrative efforts in doing so. It was dressed up in terms of care - caring about the student, very nice and warm rhetoric. Now is attending a university as a football player in the best interest for a kid with significant developmental and intellectual deficits? You don’t have to be especially cynical to connect the dots here in whose best interest that actually might be. Now let’s also not be naive enough to think that a kid like that is gonna act exactly the way your average student acts. They’ll be in a totally warped social scene as high profile athletes and they’ll often enough have very different life experiences from the non-athletes they encounter at college. I am sure it is a minefield of temptation that some are very ill-equipped to handle. It’s easy to see why coaches and university staff would feel it’s best to bubblewrap these kids - but of course you can’t control them all the time and then if something goes wrong..well then that’s again a situation where it’s easy to think of that kid’s ‘best interest’ in the way it aligns with your own best interest i.e. the outcome where he gets to still be on the team and contribute to your success is the best one. All of that can be rationalized and explained away by people with vested interests. People don’t pull the rug away from under their own feet voluntarily. I think a lot of people in these contexts are so deeply familiarized with this approach and so used to it not being scrutinized that it’s a huge shock when there suddenly is public focus on it. And look at the industry and the scandals around this sort of thing in the past few years. For the most part, those people work again. In the case of Art Briles it’s only a matter of time (if it was up to ‘football people’ only, he’d already have another HC job I’m sure).

Pretty damning article in The New York Times about Patrick Fitzgerald, who was apparently simultaneously investigating and defending MSU. Talk about a conflict. 

 

From the article

 

“Michigan State led the public to believe that there had been an independent investigation,” Tom Leonard, the Republican speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, said on Friday in an interview. “And then as we continued to dig into this, we found out it was not an independent investigation. It was an internal investigation to shield them from liability.”

 

More here.

 

 

 

is not uncommon, but still not permittable these days.That it once was permitted there is no doubt. But no longer. Dantonio doesn't seem to understand that. That it came to light during the Nasser mass rape tragedy means this context is swept away.(rightfully so)

 

 

Watching this ESPN E:60 story this morning.  This is so awful. And it seems clear that Dantonio has been lying and is part of an institutional coverup. He knew full well he had a bunch of rapists on his team, so to say "it's new ground" for them is a blatant lie. Some massive lawsuits and settlements are coming. 

None of it surprises me in the least. I'd say that most big time athletic departments have nightmares about OTL doing a colonoscopy on them next.

Is now seeing the light of day. Victims are finally being believed, and consequences are starting to affect the perpetrators and enablers. Neither Dantonio nor Izzo will last long.