Mel Tucker is too ill to participate in today's hearing
Tucker won't participate, his attorneys said, because of a "serious medical condition," the details of which have not been disclosed.
Evidently, Tucker's lawyer also sent roughly 100 pages of new evidence to MSU.
The letter included an eight-page letter from one of Tucker's lawyers, Jennifer Belveal, and 98 pages of what the attorney calls previously undisclosed evidence that paints Tracy has been motivated by money. Belveal also is alleging that Tracy deleted "key" evidence.
"We want to be certain that each of you are privy to come some of the newly discovered evidence, primarily in the form of messages authored by Ms. Tracy herself, but also including witness statements, that she hoped (and obviously anticipated) you would never see," Belveal wrote.
The new evidence appears to not be public at the moment, from what I can tell.
October 5th, 2023 at 10:23 AM ^
Sprained his wrist
October 5th, 2023 at 10:50 AM ^
Well, I still jerk off manually
October 5th, 2023 at 12:24 PM ^
Of course you do.
October 5th, 2023 at 10:50 AM ^
Went blind
October 5th, 2023 at 10:53 AM ^
2nd degree burns from a brush fire?
October 5th, 2023 at 1:02 PM ^
Third degree burns from a tire fire.
October 5th, 2023 at 9:40 PM ^
Or couch fire.
October 5th, 2023 at 2:00 PM ^
A.-Señor Wences bit him?
B.-Hairy palms condition?
October 5th, 2023 at 2:07 PM ^
Who said that?
October 5th, 2023 at 11:05 AM ^
I chuckled audibly at this one.
October 5th, 2023 at 12:03 PM ^
It takes.
All the self-control I can muster
Not to post one of the 8 trillion jokes
That immediately arise….
October 5th, 2023 at 1:13 PM ^
Only need to mention the one joke that immediately arised.
October 5th, 2023 at 1:47 PM ^
I don't want to beat around the bush. Have a tissue, this one tugs at the heart strings.
They yanked his contract, now Mel's gonna cream them in court.
October 5th, 2023 at 5:58 PM ^
Master of your domain?
October 5th, 2023 at 12:05 PM ^
Circumscribed hairy dysembryoplasia of the palm
October 5th, 2023 at 12:08 PM ^
Probably best to stay home. He'd have incriminated himself just by swearing in.
October 5th, 2023 at 12:44 PM ^
He's been carrying a lot of tension in his upper thighs.
October 5th, 2023 at 1:13 PM ^
I'm not touching that thumbs up, so here's my 'manual' upvote
October 5th, 2023 at 1:39 PM ^
he's covered in a strange sticky substance
doctors are mystified
as is his wife
October 5th, 2023 at 3:14 PM ^
Bent carrot
October 5th, 2023 at 3:16 PM ^
I was thinking about the scene in the early stages of "There's Something about Mary" and was wondering if Tuck had something similar occur.
October 5th, 2023 at 6:22 PM ^
Are we still obliged to misspell "Tuck Coming!"?
October 5th, 2023 at 10:24 AM ^
"Tennis" elbow? Severe chafing?
October 5th, 2023 at 10:57 AM ^
Word is that it's an erection lasting more than 4 hours.
October 5th, 2023 at 10:25 AM ^
He offered to participate by Zoom, but the board declined.
October 5th, 2023 at 10:50 AM ^
Touche'
October 5th, 2023 at 11:09 AM ^
I did not see that anywhere. That seems possible, but just wondering where you saw or heard that.
October 5th, 2023 at 11:22 AM ^
Lol. Now I get it.
Sorry.
But his call with Tracy wasn't a zoom call, so in my defense, you know.
October 5th, 2023 at 4:08 PM ^
What’s a flying joke? I don’t get it.
October 5th, 2023 at 4:28 PM ^
Nice try. I'm the only one here dumb enough to fall for that and I'm not falling for it!
October 5th, 2023 at 12:35 PM ^
You win the internet today, sir.
October 5th, 2023 at 10:26 AM ^
If I lost $80 million just to rub one out, I'd feel sick too...
October 5th, 2023 at 10:32 AM ^
That's the crazy part - I mean, one of the crazy parts. If he was that desperately horny, he could've hired a professional to, um, do more than tug; he would've paid way less than the contract he's losing out on, and it would still have been 100x more ethical than what he actually did to boot.
October 5th, 2023 at 10:40 AM ^
Might be interesting to seem him get charged with Adultery.
October 5th, 2023 at 10:55 AM ^
I don't think Tucker was just desperately horny though. He either had some kind of genuine infatuation with Brenda Tracy that he couldn't control or else this was some messed up "raw football man asserts dominance over gender-based violence advocate" thing, or something else out of the DSM-V.
Whatever it was, it seems unlikely that anyone else would have worked for Tucker's purposes, especially if that other person was just doing it for the money. Indeed, hiring a prostitute seems like it would be a pretty big blow to the ego--quite the opposite of the dopamine hit Tucker was looking for.
October 5th, 2023 at 11:03 AM ^
Or they had a relationship.
October 5th, 2023 at 11:46 AM ^
Having read the texts that Tucker's team just released...it seems like Tuck felt like it was more of a relationship and she felt like it was a relationship with dollar signs attached. Grim
October 5th, 2023 at 12:08 PM ^
Wish I could go back and edit the OP.
They blocked out a ton of the messages and context. But they definitely paint a picture of her being interested in his money.
I'm more intrigued by her conversations with ESPN happening simultaneously with her conversations with USA Today. But they blocked out almost everything about that, except for the fact that she talked to ESPN reporters before the USA Today article came out.
October 5th, 2023 at 1:02 PM ^
Thanks for posting this link.
I scanned through about 30+ pages. From what I saw, Mel's lawyers are doing the standard argue about everything except the actual grounds for firing.
MSU says Mel had a relationship with someone he shouldn't because that person was a vendor for MSU.
Mel's lawyers are trying to prove the relationship was reciprocated and trying to discredit Brenda Tracy to do so.
It doesn't matter who Brenda Tracy is, what type of person she is, what her personal thoughts, beliefs, motives, anything....I'm sure Mel knew he shouldn't try to have a relationship with a school vendor and he did.
The only thing his lawyers are doing at this point is making Mel look even more idiotic to the public and purposely ruining Brenda Tracy's credibility in the process.
Hope you feel better when all this is done Mel. You won't be a penny richer, and any woman you try to date going forward will have a hell of a laugh at her Google search on you prior to cutting off communication.
October 5th, 2023 at 1:10 PM ^
This was submitted as evidence to be considered in the sexual harassment hearing, not the wrongful termination lawsuit.
October 5th, 2023 at 3:16 PM ^
Ultimately, Tucker's team has one goal...get that man his money. Everything they are putting out for public consumption is about getting Tucker paid.
Maybe Tucker wants vindication on the sexual harassment issue as well, but Tucker will still be fired for cause whether there officially was sexual harassment or not.
October 5th, 2023 at 3:40 PM ^
All that you say is true, TrueBlue.
October 5th, 2023 at 7:47 PM ^
Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts.
October 5th, 2023 at 2:22 PM ^
Damon Stoudamire catching strays.