Lawyer up, Sparty

[njhoya78]

www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/ncaa-investigate-michigan-state-handling-larry-nassar-article-1.3775332

[DanMcQ]

First the school president, and now:

www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf/2018/01/michigan_state_athletic_direct_12.html

The next crew that needs to go:

www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/01/25/usoc-gives-usa-gymnastics-board-six-days-resign-federation-decertified/1068099001/

[njhoya78]

Wait, Dan (as well as the rest of HoyaTalk), there's more.

www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/22214566/pattern-denial-inaction-information-suppression-michigan-state-goes-larry-nassar-case-espn

[ColumbiaHeightsHoya]

I've always liked Izzo and assumed they he ran a clean program. Not a good look.

[SSHoya]

[njhoya78]

Not seeing this reported anywhere else yet. That would be stunning, and almost an implicit admission of misconduct by Tom Izzo. Who ever thought that Bruce Pearl would survive at Auburn amid all of the allegations, and yet Tom Izzo would fall?

[hoyarooter]

The situation with Nassar is an absolute nightmare, and it's now looking like there are serious problems with other sports. I've felt for years that there were few better coaches in college basketball than Tom Izzo, and I'd never heard a bad word about his program. This would be stunning, and sad.

[SSHoya]

Jan 26, 2018 19:48:25 GMT -5 hoyarooter said:

The situation with Nassar is an absolute nightmare, and it's now looking like there are serious problems with other sports. I've felt for years that there were few better coaches in college basketball than Tom Izzo, and I'd never heard a bad word about his program. This would be stunning, and sad.

Watching Wisconsin v. Michigan State. Announcers said Izzo denies report that he is retiring at the end of the year.

[hoya95]

That Woj tweet is from a fake account. Not sure if anyone else reported that Izzo was going to retire, but that one isn't legit.

[RusskyHoya]

Honestly, at this point, I could give a flying frick what Tom Izzo does. As dirty as the game is at the highest levels, all in all, there are still some basic lines you get to draw if you have any sense of ethics left inside you. Tom, for all his power and prestige and institutional backing, chose not to draw those lines when he had the opportunity. He will have to live with that: theathletic.com/223555/2018/01/26/ncaa-president-mark-emmert-was-alerted-to-michigan-state-sexual-assault-reports-in-2010/

At the meeting, Redmond said she specifically mentioned concerns about Michigan State president Lou Anna K. Simon — at the time a member of the Division I Board of Governors — and her university’s handling of the police report a woman filed accusing the two basketball players — Keith Appling and Adreian Payne — of sexual assault.

Ingham County prosecutors declined to press charges, though the victim said she was told by campus police at the time that it seemed like a strong case to pursue because of Payne’s interview with the police, which included Payne saying he could “understand how she would feel that she was not free to leave.” There were on-campus protests when it became clear that both athletes would remain in school and on the basketball team with no punishment from the school or athletic department.

...

Amid increasing calls for her firing, Simon resigned Wednesday night. Michigan State athletics director Mark Hollis resigned Friday morning, hours before ESPN’s Outside the Lines published an investigative report Friday outlining more than a dozen sexual assault cases involving members of the football and men’s basketball teams, including the Appling-Payne case, that went unpunished.

"The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching." - John Wooden

[DanMcQ]

[RusskyHoya]

Meanwhile, the NCAA is worse than useless in this regard: deadspin.com/report-ncaa-president-mark-emmert-was-personally-infor-1822470340

Our friends at Fox Sports are also not coming off looking too good: deadspin.com/fox-sports-has-completely-ignored-the-larry-nassar-sex-1822415652

[TC]

Bet Mex Carey didn't expect this when he signed up.

[tashoya]

It's a huge problem when the NCAA is so feckless that we're expecting college coaches getting paid millions to win to regulate themselves and to reel in players that put that money in their pockets in the first place. We're all aware that, at the highest levels, it's become about money and winning and not anything more or less. Education doesn't really matter. UNC proved that. Ethics don't really matter. See: Pitino, Rick. Student conduct doesn't matter. Take your pick of examples. Hell, it's practically Syracuse's most storied recent history.

When our previous coach had a few bad years in the W/L columns but, by all accounts, ran a clean program, nearly everyone wanted him fired. Not coincidentally, we didn't exactly have the most talented roster going. We can't be both disgusted and surprised. If we claim to be, we're lying to ourselves. This, apparently, is the cost of being consistently successful in HM college athletics now. And the NCAA condones it without even attempting to act like they don't.

[prhoya]

Jan 28, 2018 1:56:40 GMT -5 tashoya said:

When our previous coach had a few bad years in the W/L columns but, by all accounts, ran a clean program, nearly everyone wanted him fired. Not coincidentally, we didn't exactly have the most talented roster going. We can't be both disgusted and surprised. If we claim to be, we're lying to ourselves. This, apparently, is the cost of being consistently successful in HM college athletics now. And the NCAA condones it without even attempting to act like they don't.

If Jay Wright can do it cleanly and successfully for so long now, then we know it's possible for GU and others. No excuses. Good overall program strategy, recruit to it, teach and develop your players (use red-shirting if necessary), and be a good in-game coach. That's the Wright way.