2023 Michigan State Season Thread

[CatsbyAZ]

"A Campus Sexual Assault Survivor Advocate? Now that's a mouthful."

"Or if you're Coach Mel, a handful!"

*sustained mutual laughter*

[ELA]

The Jacksonville State coach has them 5-1 in their first FBS season

[Mdot21]

[ELA]

I mean, the math lines up


https://twitter.com/JayCuda/status/1710380770538188968?t=E1_l2M4HsETTGv6koqZ5mg&s=19

[Mdot21]

would Urban take that job though? he seems like the type of coach who would only take a job that he'd be able to win a natty at. he passed up on his "dream job" of Notre Dame for Florida because of that precise reason.

[ELA]

Urban on the rise is different than Urban needing image rehab.  To be honest, I'm not even sure how good the hire would be, image issues aside. He probably can't treat players the way he did previously, and Tucker found out that it doesn't matter how good of a recruiter you are, when certain schools are always going to blow you away with their NIL budget

But don't get me wrong, I 100% want it, just out of curiosity

[Mdot21]

hey would be fascinating to see Urbs back in the B1G especially when he has to play vs Ohio State.

[CatsbyAZ]

...Mel is too sick to participate in his hearing with the school and Brenda Tracy....
 
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-university/spartans/2023/10/05/mel-tucker-wont-participate-in-hearing-ex-msu-coachs-lawyers-share-new-key-evidence/71068891007/

Detroit News: Tucker won't participate, nor will his legal team, which said it's "prohibited" because of Tucker's "serious medical condition," the details of which have not been disclosed.



“A serious medical condition?? What serious medical condition?!”

“Tugginnitus!”

*sustained mutual laughter*

[847badgerfan]

Michigan State HC Candidates: Hot Board 2.0 (247sports.com)

[CatsbyAZ]

Well, Clay Travis is backing Mel, so he should be toast

Still digging in his heels, from his radio show last Friday:

“This story on its face doesn’t make sense. You can’t have a 36 minute phone call, claim that you couldn’t hang up and then retroactively say you didn’t consent and demand that the head football coach get fired.”

“What really happened I think is she wanted a serious relationship…he decided to cut it off. She went Fatal Attraction and turned him in and tried to make him pay.”

“This was put out in the hearing yesterday: Brenda Tracy tried to delete all of her text messages. Her assistant died in a car accident and at the hospital she was asking whether she could get access to her assistant’s text messages and the family thought it was super weird. And now we know why.”

In texts to her assistant, Brenda Tracy “talked about how much money Mel Tucker had…She then texted ‘I’m filing a formal complaint with Michigan State. My lawyer said after that we can let him know we want to come to an agreement.’ So she’s looking for money literally in her own text message to her assistant…the only reason we have access to these messages is because her assistant who died hadn’t cleansed her devices.”

“One week before she filed her complaint against Tucker demanding money she admitted she was down to the final five dollars in her checking account.”

Reading from Mel Tucker’s letter submitted at the hearing: “In connection with realizing that she was supposed to be paying down 2018 taxes, she owed money to the IRS, and was not caught up in other years. She said to her assistant ‘having the IRS after me in a way that it’s known publicly surely won’t help my lawsuit.’ She admitted in writing that she engages in ‘professional crying when I share my story.’”

“…That is her business, she goes on and talks about her life as a sexual assault victim. She then said that she was in dire straits financially and said that her priority is a face lift and filming myself.”

From an affidavit submitted by the dead assistant’s family regarding Brenda Tracy’s behavior at the hospital: “Brenda Tracy stated…I need to call my therapist because I don’t feel supported right now.’ Can you imagine being in the hospital with someone dying? Your assistant is dying and you say in front of her family, ‘I need to call my therapist because I don’t feel supported right now.’ This chick is crazy and yet her story was accepted as 100% truth.”

“She claims she is a victim because her name came out…her own text messages show that she was regularly texting reporters at USA Today and ESPN, tipping them off and asking them to write favorable stories about her being a victim of non-consensual phone sex.”

“Mel Tucker got railroaded by what appears to be a lying woman who was seeking his money by her own words from her own text messages. How does this happen? It’s the incentive structure we have created. And some of you might be saying I don’t care about Mel Tucker. Do you care about Trevor Bauer? …Women should be furious about this and sexual assault survivors should be the most angry because when a woman lies for money, as has happened this week with Trevor Bauer and Mel Tucker. Just this week alone two different sexual assault accusers have been proven to be 100% liars…they actually make it harder for true victims to come forward.”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvSFGZz4pwQ

[847badgerfan]

What a mess of a situation.

MSU is gonna pay that buyout, it seems.

[CatsbyAZ]

https://twitter.com/CFBONFOX/status/1715050183321628946

[MikeDeTiger]

Arkansas.  I picked them over Clanga tomorrow. 

Vanerbilt is off this week.

Indiana has Rutgers.....no.
Virginia has UNC.....neaux.
UCF has Oklahoma....lolz, no.
Mich. St. has Mich.....I'll take 'no' for $500, Alex.
ASU has Washington.....hellz no. 

[ELA]

Indiana and MSU unfortunately don't play until the 2nd to last week of the season.  Guessing Gameday will be there