Walton Lived with Izzo While on Staff

Submitted by HelloHeisman91 on

Izzo stood behind a mic yesterday and said he had no idea why Walton left the MSU program. Kind of hard to believe it wasn’t discussed when Walton LIVED with him.

“Walton moved into Izzo’s basement and spent the year completing his degree, learning the art of coaching and staying in shape by working out with the team. It was an easy transition for Travis. “I was always a big film guy, so spending hours watching tape came easy for me,”

 

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BigBlue02

January 29th, 2018 at 2:08 PM ^

This is my whole problem with Spartans. It was pretty easy to have fake moral outrage when it was Nassar taking the blame because that was gymnastics, but when it’s Dantonio and Izzo, then it’s everyone else’s fault. They often bring up Gibbons, but they miss the entire point. Did Gibbons do a horrible thing because he thought he could and get away with it and nothing would come of it, or did he do it because he’s a shitty person? It’s pretty clear MSU athletes did things because they thought nothing would happen to them. That’s the difference between any other institution not named Penn State or Baylor and them. I know it wasn’t sexual assault, but football players went multiple times as groups to assault fellow students. Multiple football players went to the nerd beat down in the dorms and multiple football players were at the brawl where Winston gave a hockey player brain damage. It says a lot about the the type of player on your team when you go in large groups to assault people all over campus. That’s on Dantonio. That’s on the culture at MSU. And that’s the difference between MSU and other schools.

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BigBlue02

January 29th, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^

Even if they don’t bring up Gibbons, they bring up Perry. They don’t get that the entire problem is the culture. The type of campus you are promoting. There is a reason people outside of MSU think that they have a bunch of thugs running around EL. There is a reason there is a path on campus known as the rape path. Before this ESPN story, no one cared enough about MSU outside of the state of Michigan. That’s all changed now. MSU fans are starting to sound an awful lot like PSU fans. “What was Izzo supposed to do? They weren’t charged with crimes! What was Dantonio supposed to do? They didn’t do anything legally wrong!” The amount of whataboutism is pretty damn close to JoePa apologists. What a horrible fan base. What a horrible school. Burn that fucking place to the ground.

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jmblue

January 29th, 2018 at 11:00 AM ^

I think a simpler take is that many athletic programs have been so glorified that they - from the coaches down to the players - feel that they are above the law, that what they do on the playing field is so important to so many people that there should be exceptions made for them.  Worse, many police departments themselves share this view.  "Yeah, he shouldn't have done that but gosh, the big game is coming up..."

 

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wolverinestuckinEL

January 29th, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^

+1,000,000. Real parents will defend their children despite all the evidence against them and use all of their power to keep them out of trouble. Izzo has become a surrogate to so many of his players, I actually think his affection for them made him unable to see when he crossed the line for right and wrong. I personally don't think he covered up their mistakes to win games, I think he did it because he thought he was helping people close to him. Question as a coach and parent is do you "discipline internally" when the transgressions are minor or seemingly victimless or does this open the door for moralization of larger wrongs?

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JC06Z33

January 29th, 2018 at 12:15 PM ^

"There's not a coach in football or basketball with the moral standards and sound ethics that Izzo and Dantonio have."

It's one thing to try and rationalize questionable things those two coaches have done.  It's something else to dimiss the accusations entirely.  But to go a step further and put these two on a moral pedestal?  I don't even have words for that.
 

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YoOoBoMoLloRoHo

January 29th, 2018 at 1:35 PM ^

This was discussed in a thread last night and I posted a link to the Lima article after 15 seconds of googling Travis. Hopefully the MI media do a little homework to ask about other inconsistencies with Izzo’s handling of issues (yes, I would even ask Izzo how he views “Mateen” as a given name with his assault in college and subsequent legal issues). Izzo made everything fair game on Sunday. He surely realizes now that this isn’t a 1-day story and the media need to be even more pointed.

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BlueChip27

January 29th, 2018 at 11:09 AM ^

Surviving this......

People talk optics....his body language is that of someone who knows that they have done something wrong. Whatever comes out of this investigation particularly from the whole Payne/Appling/Walton fiasco......Izzo knows that he brought it on himself.

Somehow there needs to be an intervention so that Simon, Hollis and anyone who tries to bail out and cash in gets screwed out of their compensation. If they are not going to jail, hit them in the pocket book.

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Ty Butterfield

January 29th, 2018 at 2:16 PM ^

Agree with WH. Looks bad for Izzo and Mork right now but still skeptical that either one is actually gone. I think it might depend on if any of the investigations by the AG’s office and the NCAA just focus on Nassar or actually look into football and basketball as well.

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Baughsome

January 29th, 2018 at 11:34 AM ^

You know he just asked for someone to come out with a sexual assault story against him now. He forgot the equation: Fame+Money+Penis=bad decisions in past.

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Dennis

January 29th, 2018 at 1:15 PM ^

I don't know if this take is novel, but broadly speaking, I think in the past I've contributed to issues like pervasive sexual assault because I find it appalling and literally couldn't believe that so many men could both perpetrate AND witness/know without reporting it. It's like, my moral compass couldn't comprehend how something so deplorable could actually construct a culture. Maybe I should have taken that women's studies elective.

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URNotGuilty

January 29th, 2018 at 3:24 PM ^

Hmmmmm It's like déjà vu I can't wait OTL next segment, or OTL next post game questions for Izzo IZZO Helped Get Walton NBA job AFTER gang rape allegation, and assault.

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