UM Settles with Anderson Survivors for 490 Million.
January 19th, 2022 at 3:43 PM ^
sorry that dad was harsh and critical, but glad you seem to have adapted exceptionally well.
and i wasn't so much referring to you in particular though, as to your observations and discussions with your friends who were girls - much more likely to share what was really going on in their lives with you. and i guess my 'wild' would be hard-partying, lots of boyfriends, that kind of stuff. not needing the details of 'wild', only curious if you noted a general corelation.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:41 PM ^
I don't think it's a father thing. I think parents who are super strict are more apt to have daughters -- and sons -- who rebel against the rules. The desire to get out from under your parents' oppressive rules and exercise some independence is a great motivator in that respect and pretty normal. Not sure what this has to do with my original post, though.
January 19th, 2022 at 8:28 PM ^
the crazy dad/coach guy was what caused me to ask. i think that is a bad combo and can cause way more trouble than simply an unpleasant day on the baseball diamond or a hoops court.
January 19th, 2022 at 11:28 AM ^
Yikes, that is pretty awful. From our experience (currently have a 14 and 9 y/o) youth softball brings out the absolute crazy town side of parents. The girls are almost exclusively fun and easy to deal with, but the parents are just nuts. One of the primary reasons I coach is to try to keep my girls away from some of these people who are unhinged.
For what it's worth, we have to do a background check as well, but that doesn't help with someone who has yet to be caught.
January 19th, 2022 at 11:58 AM ^
I also have a 12 y/o in softball and agree you see some crazy shit from parents. I have noticed that crazy parents and crazy coach seem to go together. If you see a good coach who is encouraging his players, very engaged, etc. you tend to see the parents are also well behaved. If the coach is a nut job the parents tend to be the same. I personally don’t get having your kid play for the nut job coach.
Last year I saw a coach at first scream at a 12-year-old across the field for not running on a dropped third strike. She yelled that she was sick of her shit and she better run her ass back to the dugout. If that’s my kid I would have walked on the team right then. I get that sometimes a coach has get on a kid to make them better, but screaming at them in front of big crowd is not the way to do it. Note the parents on that team were generally a bunch of jerks.
January 19th, 2022 at 12:02 PM ^
While some people may seek out positions of trust in order to commit sexual assaults, like your childhood acquaintance, I think many people become corrupted simply because they find themselves in a position of power. Something along the lines of, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
January 19th, 2022 at 9:50 AM ^
It's a near certainty that a majority of the $490M will come from UM's insurance policies, not its endowment, tuition or any other source.
I would not be surprised if the vast majority of the settlement is funded with insurance money. Because the abuse spanned decades, the abuse would trigger coverage under numerous policies. And presumably UM had at least $5M (and likely > $20M) in excess insurance sitting above its primary policy for every year at issue.
January 19th, 2022 at 10:03 AM ^
This is one thing people do not understand about why these things take so long. Some people expect the university to be more remorseful and pay up right away.
The University cannot just say "We are so sorry, here is every penny we have". They have legal obligations to a ton of 3rd parties.
January 19th, 2022 at 10:01 AM ^
It's something at least. I wonder what Jon Vaughn thinks.
January 19th, 2022 at 10:01 AM ^
It is unfathomable and sad the utter destruction that one human being can cause. And I am not even talking about the money here.
January 19th, 2022 at 10:40 AM ^
I graduated from the University of Michigan in 1986. About three years ago, I received an email from Mark Schlissel asking me to report any sexual misconduct I ever encountered at the University. I’m sure this was a mass email to all the students during a certain extended timeframe. I had been to the University health system on occasion. Fortunately, I never encountered or was aware of anything. I wrote a long email response explaining that I was proud of the University for taking this problem head-on and hopefully setting a good example for other institutions on how to handle these types of things in the future. I received I boilerplate one sentence response from an administrative person thanking me for my response. I suppose it was unrealistic to think he had time to respond to these types of emails, particularly because I am just an average fan. Strange times.
January 19th, 2022 at 12:04 PM ^
Proud of the University for taking it head-on? This was covered up for what, 40-50 years?
January 19th, 2022 at 12:12 PM ^
disgree. we can probably all agree it was not reported back then and that is/was horrible, but there was no continuing cover-up once it was brought out. compare with, for instance, PSU and sparty, fighting tooth and nail to admit nothing, deny everything, tone deaf response to the victims, etc. i mean, who can forget former gov engler's continued idiocy every time he opened his mouth on the issue for sparty, and sparty fighting the AG's office to not turn over documents.
michigan had a much different response. i'd say radically different.
January 19th, 2022 at 12:17 PM ^
I disagree, but there's no point in debating it.
January 19th, 2022 at 3:44 PM ^
no worries, just a discussion. i do note that brian's take is like mine per the unverified voracity just put up on the front page.
January 19th, 2022 at 10:19 PM ^
What a bunch of b.s. How can we all "agree" that it was not reported. Back in 1997 there was a lawsuit that no one is talking about. Yes Engler was a moron and so were many at MSU but these survivors do claim they told others. No one did anything, just like PSU, MSU, OSU, USC the Catholic Church and almost every other major institution.
January 19th, 2022 at 10:41 AM ^
Did Bo's stepson get paid from this? I hope not. Not sure how the class was defined or if he made it in, but that guy is a grifter and an opportunist.
January 19th, 2022 at 12:06 PM ^
First of all, he's Bo's son, not step-son. Denigrating adoption is disgusting. Secondly, are you choosing to believe that everyone claiming they told Bo is lying, or just his son?
Terrible comment.
January 20th, 2022 at 2:06 PM ^
Bo is not Matt Schembechler’s biological father. Matt Schembechler was Bo’s stepson. What are you talking about? Calling someone a stepson does not denigrate adoption. It’s just accurate language.
January 19th, 2022 at 2:48 PM ^
What a stupid thing to say
January 19th, 2022 at 10:44 AM ^
First, I hope this gives some solace to the victims. I cannot get over that 1050 number. That is insane.
Second, tear down the Bo statute. Statutes of flawed men and women are just...I dunno...bad ideas in this day and age, especially to lionize people in sports, a comparatively trivial thing IMHO. Take the copper/metal scrap and refurbish it into a marker in tribute of the front line medical professionals lost during Covid.
Third, a muted shout out to the people in Michigan's administration that had to wrap up this incredibly complex settlement AND deal with the Schissel crap during the last month. When your over-paid leaders and predecessors are complete failures, it's not fun to clean up the mess, especially during the holidays.
Never again.
January 19th, 2022 at 10:57 AM ^
By that standard there would be no statues of anyone. We're all flawed.
January 19th, 2022 at 11:07 AM ^
i'm okay with this.
January 19th, 2022 at 1:29 PM ^
Good god you people are so liberal it’s a shame you root for Michigan
January 19th, 2022 at 2:02 PM ^
We feel the same about you.
January 19th, 2022 at 2:25 PM ^
Good counterpoint.
January 19th, 2022 at 2:42 PM ^
No one cares what you think, man.
January 19th, 2022 at 6:31 PM ^
It’s a shame you were too dumb to get into Michigan - maybe you would’ve been exposed to different viewpoints and could’ve learned to think for yourself
January 19th, 2022 at 4:13 PM ^
Interesting that I hadn't even heard of the USC campus gyneclogist scandal until reading this article. I'm not a power reader of news, but the PSU/MSU/UM and even the Ohio State doctor thing have gotten a lot more publicity.
January 19th, 2022 at 6:20 PM ^
The USC scandal has gotten alot of coverage, particularly in LA. The Michigan scandal coverage has been principally local as well. The Pac12 doesn't get much coverage here for football or anything else.
January 19th, 2022 at 10:13 PM ^
Now how about the Michigan legislature grow a pair and change the statute of limitations for ALL survivors regardless of who abused them. After Nassar, those survivors fought for ALL of us but were stymied by Michigan Rethuglians who were being lobbied by the Catholic Church. They made an absolutely outrageous change to the law for ONLY survivors abused by doctors. It makes zero sense. How is abuse by a teacher, police officer, judge, priest, etc differ from abuse committed by a doctor? All the Legislators ran towards Nassar and Anderson survivors because those were easy laws to change. They need to change it for all of us.I wish I could have been there when the Anderson survivors testified.