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
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