Mel Tucker is under investigation

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This was probably on a government phone too.
Starting to think back to Freeze's government phone/escort situation at Ole Miss.
 
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Regardless of whether the relationship was consensual, if the coach is a married man who admitted to bopping his baloney during a phone conversation with the sexual harassment prevention speaker, couldn't that be a clear case of the moral turpitude clause in his contract which brings embarrassment to his university?
I don’t think that would hold up personally and I also don’t think that should qualify. The sexual harassment and towards this individual specifically is the problem.
 
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Michigan State is going to have to hire a monk next time they hire just to change the perception of that university. They will need to hire a Paul Rhoads type guy who maybe is not the best coach but has a squeaky reputation.
 
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The ability of organizations and universities to slow play these investigations is incredible. If they were made aware last December, wouldn’t you want to find out and put to rest an incident like this before you let the second-most important face of the university go out and coach this fall? Who in the crisis management world would say “yeah, best thing would be to let this come out during the football season”
 

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Michigan State is going to have to hire a monk next time they hire just to change the perception of that university. They will need to hire a Paul Rhoads type guy who maybe is not the best coach but has a squeaky reputation.
If I were the AD I'd look hard at Liepold/Kliemann.
 

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Michigan State is going to have to hire a monk next time they hire just to change the perception of that university. They will need to hire a Paul Rhoads type guy who maybe is not the best coach but has a squeaky reputation.
Two pretty different scenarios. The Nassar thing was insanely complicated and the university ****** up badly. This one seems to be handled ok at this point but the press conference today will clarify that. Two completely different AD’s, presidents, etc so not sure if this goes past Tucker.

Let’s just have Izzo coach both teams
 
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Two pretty different scenarios. The Nassar thing was insanely complicated and the university ****** up badly. This one seems to be handled ok at this point but the press conference today will clarify that. Two completely different AD’s, presidents, etc so not sure if this goes past Tucker.

Let’s just have Izzo coach both teams

It don’t matter if it’s new President and different situations. Everyone will See Michigan state and sex abuse again. Really close to the last one
 

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Big Ten teams basically have unlimited money to fire and hire coaches now. FFS they have 10 million more a year than even SEC teams to endlessly hunt for the ideal coach.

They all have amazing facilities already except for maybe Northwestern so it's not like there's some burning need to spend it all on facilities every year. My guess is at some point it won't just be Nebraska paying a stable of fired coaches simultaneously, it'll be a quite a few of the bottom half programs rolling the dice hoping they can capture some lightning in a bottle with a good hire.

That new Northwestern facility on lake Michigan is really nice I thought it was finished and not a proposal. Apologies if I'm wrong.
 
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It don’t matter if it’s new President and different situations. Everyone will See Michigan state and sex abuse again. Really close to the last one
Not to nitpick but I think this falls under harassment then abuse, fine line but an important one. Doesn’t excuse or dismiss it at all but this is a touch different. Granted to your point I don’t think many will draw that line but to me it’s extremely different.