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Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker accused of sexually harassing rape survivor
Michigan State is investigating claim that the Spartans coach harassed Brenda Tracy, an anti-gender-based violence activist and trainer.
www.usatoday.com
The accused is Mel Tucker, the head football coach at Michigan State University and one of the highest paid coaches in all of sports. Accusing him is Brenda Tracy, a rape survivor who has made educating athletes about sexual violence her life’s work.
Over eight months, they developed a professional relationship centered on her advocacy work. Tucker invited Tracy to campus three times – twice to speak to his players and staff and once to be recognized as an honorary captain at the team's spring football game.
But their relationship was upended during a phone call on April 28, 2022, Tracy says in a complaint she filed with the university’s Title IX office in December that remains under investigation.
According to her complaint, Tracy sat frozen for several minutes while Tucker made sexual comments about her and masturbated. His violation, she said, reopened 25-year-old wounds from her rape by four men – two Oregon State University football players, a junior college player and a high school recruit.
I'm hearing on the radio a lot of sympathy for the coach and a lot of scorn for the woman who claims that, "it didn’t occur to her to hang up," when the coach talked about her buttocks and said he was touching himself. Here is where the Coach actually screwed up:
At first, Tracy tried to pretend to herself that nothing had happened. Her partnership with the school was paramount and she focused on that.
Tucker, however, was not responding to her text messages. And he abruptly canceled her in-person training, planned for July 25, three days before it was supposed to take place. A team staffer told her they had double-booked, but Tracy believed she knew the real reason.
The woman is a professional victim, giving speeches about how powerful men take advantage of helpless women at $10K a pop. Of course she is going to act when the Coach cuts off one of her income streams after "having sex" with her. He should never have been sexual in any way with a woman whose life is re-living sexual abuse for money. I don't care if the "sex" was by Morse Code from the dark side of the Moon. Don't hire a woman like that in the first place and you won't have a messy and expensive parting of the ways.
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