What Would You Do If There Were a Scandal at Michigan?

Submitted by mvp on July 30th, 2019 at 12:47 PM

Slow day for content on the main page and reading through the "More Bad News for Ohio State..." thread got me thinking:

What would you do if there were a major scandal, especially as it relates to sexual assault/abuse at Michigan?

Like I suspect many of you feel, I'm outraged by what happened at PSU and MSU.  As was noted in the discussion on the OSU article today, it sounds like OSU ultimately worked to address the problems at the SCE.  But PSU and MSU seem to be different based on what I understand.  The institutions not only didn't stop the atrocities, in many ways they assisted in enabling and later covering them up.  Yet the fan bases for those schools still support the schools, often citing the fact that "the current players and coaches didn't commit the crimes" or something like that.

So what would cause you to break your allegiance to the school?  What would you do?  Stop donating?  Stop attending games?  Stop buying tickets?  Tear up your diploma?  I have a hard time believing I could support MSU after what happened, but I know plenty of good people who still do -- tribal loyalty and all that...

I'm also interested in this topic (specifically the OSU story) because of the Title IX elements and implications.  As the father of a rising Senior daughter at Northwestern and a rising Freshman daughter at U of M, I'm *terrified* of what can happen to a young woman as she's on her own effectively for the first time.  As the father of a 14 year old son, I'm also terrified about an environment that judges the accused before all the facts are understood (think Duke Lacrosse...).

I'm really not sure what the universities should be doing to make college a safe place for personal, athletic, and academic growth.

Very interested to hear others' views on these topics.

InterlopingYooper

July 31st, 2019 at 10:30 AM ^

I pine for the day when our football team has won so many championships in such a short time that our fanbase - stuffed to the gills with victory, sauntering bare-chested around a barren landscape decorated only with the bones of our vanquished rivals - hungers for a post like this for no other reason than to break up the numbing monotony of triumph that seems to have no end. But alas...