1) The biggest issue at Michigan State is that they were a) unbelievably slow and ineffective in looking into Nasser and b) negligent in reporting Title IX issues to the feds even when the feds were actually on campus to review such things. MSU still has not provided a complete report on Nasser to the federal government.
2) The football program had multiple incident reports; I think a total of eight in about ten years. A few of them looked like he said/she said, several others were more serious. In the two where charges were filed, the players were dismissed and expelled. In the cases where they were’t, the players weren’t dismissed. I don’t know what you do here if you’re Michigan State.
3) Izzo’s assistant coach. He had two incidents; in the first, he punched a girl at a bar and that case was ultimately, and bizarrely, pled down to a littering charge. The woman who was assaulted said that prosecutors told her not to discuss it with Michigan State, so she didn’t. That doesn’t make sense, but whatever happened, Michigan State wasn’t notified. So he wasn’t fired...until the next month when he was implicated by the parents of a girl who said that he and two players had raped their daughter. For some reason, they took their case to the athletic director instead of the police. End result....assistant coach got fired, players remained. The players are not named.
3B) Appling and Payne apparently assault a girl before the start of the semester. Payne all but admits it on camera. Somehow, someway, the two are not charged and I don’t think they were even punished by the team. Even though no charges are filed, you have one player admitting on camera that something happened.
The president had to go. The athletic director had to go. The football coach...given 85 players on a roster, I don’t think the report read like a program out of control. But Izzo...he’s skating by here. There are two serious open items there and no explanation was offered at his presser tonight.
