The passion for the program from the head coach has not seemed to drop off.
For instance, Tucker still puts a huge emphasis on the rivalry game with Michigan last week, which was kind of Dantonio’s calling card - and surprise, surprise, the Spartans got the win again this season. There are some similarities and differences with the Mel Tucker regime. TOC: Oh yes, who could forget that 2015 Big Ten Championship game under Mark Dantonio? ) Stylistically, how does Mel Tucker compare with what we grew to know as the MSU way of playing under Dantonio and how do Spartan fans feel about the hire a whole two games into his first season? Here are five questions on the Michigan State Spartans.īHGP: Iowa fans got to know and hate Mark Dantonio over the years, but now there’s a new head man in East Lansing.
We heard from Ryan earlier in the week on his preseason views for this team, now we’re circling back for his updated thoughts on the Spartans and how this matchup between Iowa and MSU might shake out. Despite what Vegas is saying, the consensus in Hawkeye Nation is this game will be a close one and not many have faith the Hawkeyes will pull it out.īut what are they thinking in East Lansing? To get some insight, we turn to Ryan O’Bleness of The Only Colors, SB Nation’s home for the Michigan State Spartans. Iowa comes into their showdown with the Michigan State Spartans favored by 9, the largest margin Vegas has given them on game week all season. All three are white.Another week, another matchup where the Hawkeyes are favored. Police did their own investigation and Simon, gymnastics coach Kathy Klages and former dean William Strampel were all criminally charged. A key sticking point? The board's refusal to waive attorney-client privilege on 6,000 documents, meaning some information could be withheld. In the summer of 2019, MSU board members agreed to hire a firm for an internal investigation, but pulled the investigation later. "If those persons were African American employees of MSU, defendants would have initiated an internal or external investigation." The suit then says no MSU employee in the Nassar case was investigated by the school because they were white. "The reason an investigation into the Larry Nassar situation wasn't initiated was because he was caucasian," the suit says. Dantonio has said Blackwell was fired because of a change in philosophies. Blackwell had taken the Fifth Amendment and declined to talk to MSU lawyers looking into the players accused of sexual assault. The suit claims Simon declined, because MSU was in the midst of the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal and needed to take some sort of action in a sexual assault investigation. The suit claims Ferguson went to then-MSU President Lou Anna Simon to ask that no action be taken against Blackwell. "Ferguson expressed to (Blackwell) that he was concerned (Blackwell) was going to be discriminated against because of his race," the lawyers wrote in the suit. More: Blackwell's attorneys want more time to question Dantonioīlackwell claims he knows this because longtime MSU Board of Trustees member Joel Ferguson, who is black, told him so. More: Dantonio accused of perjury in Blackwell's lawsuit over MSU football MSU could not be reached immediately for comment. "If plaintiff was Caucasian, rather than African American, he would not have been suspended and/or terminated and/not had his contract renewed by these defendants," Blackwell's lawyers wrote.īlackwell was replaced on the football staff by Sheldon White, who is black. While much of the new suit is a repeat from the federal lawsuit - including that Dantonio committed NCAA recruiting violations - the state suit says race was a factor. 9 that year after being arrested by MSU Police and accused of obstructing an investigation into sexual assault allegations against three then-MSU football players, but Blackwell was released and never charged in the case. He is looking for an unspecified monetary judgment.īlackwell held his position under Dantonio from 2013 until his contract was allowed to expire May 31, 2017, following two one-month extensions. He is suing for breach of contract and violations of the state's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. Head coach Mark Dantonio fired Curtis Blackwell from the Michigan State University football program not because of his performance, but because Blackwell is black, a new lawsuit alleges.īlackwell, already suing Dantonio and MSU in federal court, filed the new lawsuit in Wayne County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
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