Lansing City Pulse "Izzo Fully Informed"

None of this surprises me.  I will give him a small bit of doubt in that he seems to not be able to talk about sexual assault eloquently, but I honestly don't believe he is quite as neanderthalic (sp?) as he comes across.  It just reads like someone who lacks the vocabulary to process these types of issues, which is itself depressing but not all that surprising for a 63-year-old rich guy from a tiny-ass town in the UP.

He probably has an account on RCMB.

Yeah, I read about a quarter of that "article" and good lord is it the usual bullshit.  They cite the Jones Day report as if it is gospel but seemingly get the dates all wrong; that report was only focused on the handling of the sexual assaults a year ago; the claims against Dantonio (e.g. him having a player accused of sexual assault to talk to his mom) were from instances 7 years ago.  

Also, and you'd think we'd have learned this by now, but "independent reports" that took place over only a couple of months and paid by the school are not always the most objective analysis of a situation.  But I'll concede this report is arguing that, yes, Dantonio told people about the King, etc. assault.  It also showed that Blackwell didn't comply with his duties, which creates that grey area of "senior leaders" vs. director of whatever Curtis Blackwell was in terms of who responded properly.

And don't get me started about their OCR "findings", which they claim Lavigne ignored.  If they had actually read the report, it said: 

OCR determined that a sexually hostile environment existed for and affected numerous students and staff on campus at the University during the time period covered by OCR’s investigation; and that the University’s failure to address complaints of sexual harassment, including sexual violence, in a prompt and equitable manner caused and may have contributed to a continuation of this sexually hostile environment

And as for the sexual assault by Payne/Appling, the report only concluded that despite MSU's ongoing failure to support sexual assault victims, they hadn't failed in their support/created a hostile environment for the victims in this instance.  The OCR is not equipped to perform a criminal adjudication of the actual claims, and they didn't here.   The "preponderance of evidence" claims relate to the standard MSU's student legal system should apply to its handling of these assaults, which the report seemingly makes a lot of effort in pointing out MSU did a bad job at.  They didn't rule on whether or not Appling and Payne assaulted her, only that MSU didn't follow their own standards in adjudicating it.

It's just...it's a shitty post from a message board that some MSU goobers in the media latched on to because reading some legal briefs is beyond the pale for people in the position of reporting on pressing matters, but apparently is well within the ability of a guy sitting on his couch trying to get a NodeJS API to run properly and hasn't practiced as an attorney for about a decade.

The litter will make its way to the stadium for the next trash tornado.

That's like asking "What did Nixon do wrong?"

He knew that two of his most promising players had been accused of rape, that the "investigation" and dismissal and cover-up (players moved off campus) were all hastily performed in house, and then allowed both players to have a four year career without any punishment. Because Izzo benefitted from the institutional insulation does not exempt him from the fact that the insulation was FOR HIM. 

I've said it since day one of the Nassar hearings: they will give up Lou Simmons, they will give up Hollis, they will give up all the trustees. But don't let anyone lay a hand on the Precious. You have fucked up priorities first, and all the crooks fill in the blanks in support of it.