Re: MSU Spartan Hockey - Episode VII - A New Hope
Many of the allegations in the OTL article were not new and had been covered by the LSJ, Mlive, and the Detroit papers and when combined in a single list covering an entire decade certainly look shocking on the surface. Others, especially the one about Dantonio simply having a player call his mom, need more explanation and investigation.
Simon needed to go. Hollis needed to go, and I've wanted him gone for a couple years now for, though for unrelated reasons. How Strampel is still with the university I am completely baffled. But I'm going to reserve some judgement on an article containing mostly allegations that resulted in no charges that they've had the information on for awhile now and is published immediately as Nassar is sentenced.
I'm certainly open to further investigation of the events, but the mad rush calling for resignations and firings is premature.
I hope you are right. So many people are ready to rush anyone accused of something sexually related these days right to the gallows to be hanged, if they didn't have a stone in their hand already to stone them on the spot, and people not in the know, see the headlines and react or respond harshly almost just to cover their own arse, make themselves look sympathetic or whatever. I mean, cbb fans are for the most part calling for the Death Penalty for MSU football and basketball at least.
I really hope this doesn't get too crazy and that the hockey program isn't touched, I mean, we just got to 7 teams in the conference this year, would be horrible to go back to just 6 again, even if only for a year or two. Unless the hockey program is found to have been involved in a significant way. Doesn't seem like it was, so far. Maybe people just need to blow a lot of hot air to let it out and in time things will settle down? But I heard reports Izza and Dantonio were both going to retire? Maybe they were thinking about doing that sometime soon anyway, so why not now?
Well, just hope the best for the victims and everyone else also victimized indirectly(like fans) because of the actions of others, and hope those responsible for hurting the victims both directly and indirectly get what they deserve.
I mean, when people talk about how much energy police put into going after the perpetrators of victimless crimes like po t smokers, sh1t like this MSU mess, shows the huge difference. Someone smoking po t really is committing a victimless crime. Who gets hurt by his actions? But some star athlete or coach involved in this kind of sh1t not only hurts themselves, but the victim of the crime, of course, that victims family of course, the fans of that team, the coach who may or may not have tried to protect the player, his teammates, etc.. Well, you get my point I'm sure.
Makes me see why people take it so seriously, but also makes me feel very badly for guys like you who now become in a sense, victimized by the whole situation no matter how real it really is or not.
Sorry for all of it man.
