Michigan States problems go well beyond what happens to a couple of their current coaches. Their real issue should be their overall survival. This article talks to a potential loss of federal funding ($445MM in 2017) if Title IX violations are found to be so severe in the Nasser case.
The civil costs could also be a nail in that coffin. In the Penn State Sandusky case, the University has paid $93MM to 33 victims. At $2.8MM per, for MSU, the 160 Nasser victims could represent $451MM. Of the $93MM PSU has paid to victims, to date insurance companies have covered $30MM of it - addiitonal claims are being considered and under review. PSU has also paid an additional $144MM in fines/costs. Add them together and it's almost a quarter billion. Holy crap!
Over on the Red Cedar board there is whole lot of deflecting going on with numerous posts about Grant Perry and Brendan Gibbons and how those cases were handled. They're so worried about the Athletic Department, they aren't seeing the forest for the trees with this one. In my opinion, the fate of Izzo and D'Antonio doesn't matter one little bit in this case.
PSU's total expenses to date are nearing 250M so MSU could be in the 1B range. The question I have is, can MSU claim sovereign immunity as a public university? And if not, how much of the tab will the taxpayers have to pick up? (if any).
people didn't really think something would come of this for izzo and mork, did they? The NCAA is a joke. Nothing really happened to Baylor over their indescretions. It took forever for something to happen to Pitino. mork and izzo will be around for awhile
Looks like the NCAA has told Sparty they're in the clear, from a violations-perspective anyway. Not sure how that is possible, but I don't work for the NCAA.
GRAND RAPIDS - A woman says in a recently filed lawsuit that Larry Nassar drugged and raped her during a medical appointment in 1992, when she was a Michigan State University field hockey player.
Erika Davis told her coach what happened, including that the assault was videotaped, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Grand Rapids and includes her name. Her coach, Martha Ludwig, confronted Nassar about what happened and demanded and received a copy of the recording, according to the lawsuit.
George Perles, who resigned as athletic director in 1992 and is a current Michigan State University trustee, later intervened and the complaint was dropped, according to the lawsuit. Perles forced Ludwig to return the video, resign and sign a non-disclosure agreement, according to the lawsuit.
“Current MSU Police Chief Jim Dunlap, who said he didn't know about the lawsuit or whether the department ever received a report, said it was "nonsense" that the department would have declined to investigate because Perles or the athletic department was involved.
"It just doesn’t happen," he said. "We just don't do things that way."
Dunlap worked for the department in 1992, but he was not the police chief then.
The MSU Police Department led the criminal investigation of Nassar in 2014 and 2016. The 2014 investigation ended when Ingham County prosecutors declined to issue charges. The 2016 investigation ended with state and federal convictions and hundreds of women and girls reporting that Nassar had abused them.
While Davis' lawsuit is the most recent to say that MSU officials were told of Nassar's sexual abuse prior to 2016, it isn't the only to make that claim.”
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GRAND RAPIDS - A woman says in a recently filed lawsuit that Larry Nassar drugged and raped her during a medical appointment in 1992, when she was a Michigan State University field hockey player.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/2018/09/11/lawsuit-nassar-raped-msu-athlete-1992-george-perles-intervened/1264735002/
"It just doesn’t happen," he said. "We just don't do things that way."
Dunlap worked for the department in 1992, but he was not the police chief then.
The MSU Police Department led the criminal investigation of Nassar in 2014 and 2016. The 2014 investigation ended when Ingham County prosecutors declined to issue charges. The 2016 investigation ended with state and federal convictions and hundreds of women and girls reporting that Nassar had abused them.
While Davis' lawsuit is the most recent to say that MSU officials were told of Nassar's sexual abuse prior to 2016, it isn't the only to make that claim.”