I am waiting for the first coach to stand up and say "Yes, I know exactly what he did, and I still wanted him on my team." 'Cause the entire world knows that's exactly what happened. I'd just love to see one admit it.
My dream situation is that it happens someplace in the south, and they basically just say "so what, more wins."
The thinking is that these coaches don't want to "ruin a guys life for a mistake." The mistake is that they don't consider that the victim's life is already ruined because we as a society don't place equal value on women. Yes, it's also pretty easy to see what Izzo did wrong and point fingers and castigate. The situation is more like a kid rough ridin' up and a parent knowing about it before anyone else does, of course the right thing for the parent to do is to turn their kid in, will it happen, who knows?
Izzo screwed up, big time, there's no getting around it. Izzo has a boss, the police and the district attorney also knew about this crap, it's their job to handle this. Izzo should have gotten rid of Appling, Walton, and Payne; but there were so many more significant people who failed the women of Michigan State and East Lansing.