Michigan State Spartans (official thread)

[Greyshirt]

I solid hire and I like his style

Let’s see how he can recruit and develop

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

I solid hire and I like his style

Let’s see how he can recruit and develop

From what I’ve seen at ore st, he can definitely develop.

Questions remain about how well he can recruit, or at least recruit at B1G program.

 

[Thump]

From what I’ve seen at ore st, he can definitely develop.

Questions remain about how well he can recruit, or at least recruit at B1G program.

This has a very, Gary Anderson at Wisconsin, feel to it.

Hope not for MSU.

Solid hire.

 

[OHSportsFan]

Does his middle name start with an L?

 

[ScriptOhio]

According to a USA TODAY coaches salary database from October, Smith was the 37th-best compensated coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision at $4.85 million in 2023 after agreeing to a six-year, $30.6 million deal through 2028 on Dec. 11, 2022. He added an additional rollover year into 2029 when the Beavers won their seventh game of the season on Nov. 4 by beating Colorado.

You wonder how much Sparty is paying Smith (and if Smith gets a "morals clause" in his contract.....).

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

 

[ScriptOhio]

Larry Nassar survivors seeking over $1 billion from FBI for not intervening in abuse

Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and dozens of other women who say they were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking more than $1 billion from the FBI for failing to stop the convicted sports doctor when the agency first received allegations against him, lawyers said Wednesday.

There is no dispute that FBI agents in 2015 knew that Nassar was accused of assaulting gymnasts, but they failed to act, leaving him free to continue to target young women and girls for more than a year. He pleaded guilty in 2017 and is serving decades in prison.

"It is time for the FBI to be held accountable," said Maggie Nichols, a national champion gymnast at Oklahoma from 2017 to 2019.

Under federal law, a government agency has six months to respond to the tort claims filed Wednesday. Lawsuits could follow, depending on the FBI's response.

The approximately 90 claimants include Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists, according to Manly, Stewart & Finaldi, a California law firm.

"If the FBI had simply done its job, Nassar would have been stopped before he ever had the chance to abuse hundreds of girls, including me," said former University of Michigan gymnast Samantha Roy.

Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics told local FBI agents in 2015 that three gymnasts said they were assaulted by Nassar, a team doctor. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, according to the Justice Department's inspector general, an internal watchdog.

Los Angeles FBI agents in 2016 began a sexual tourism investigation against Nassar and interviewed several survivors but also didn't alert Michigan authorities, the inspector general said.

Nassar wasn't arrested until fall 2016 during an investigation by Michigan State University police. He was a doctor at the school.

The Michigan attorney general's office ultimately handled the assault charges against Nassar, while federal prosecutors in Grand Rapids, Michigan, filed a child pornography case. He is serving decades in prison.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/olympics/story...s-seeking-1-billion-fbi-not-intervening-abuse

Report: Nassar victims get $100M for FBI failure

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay around 100 victims of Larry Nassar approximately $100 million for the FBI's failures to properly investigate reports of Nassar's sexual assaults against America's top gymnasts, according to a report.

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Report: Larry Nassar victims to get $100M from Justice Dept.​

The United States Justice Department has agreed to pay around 100 victims of disgraced former Team USA doctor Larry Nassar approximately $100 million for the FBI's failures to properly investigate reports of Nassar's sexual assaults against America's top gymnasts and others, according to a report Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.

If the agreement becomes final, it would push the total amount of settlements in the sprawling legal cases against Nassar to nearly $1 billion. Two attorneys, who between them represent more than 300 of Nassar's victims, would not confirm details of the proposed settlement when reached Wednesday by ESPN.

The FBI's failures in the Nassar case are well documented. At a 2021 Senate hearing, FBI director Christopher Wray apologized to survivors of Nassar's abuse, saying it was "inexcusable" that agents "had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed."
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If finalized, the $100 million paid by the Justice Department to dozens of Nassar survivors would follow a $380 million settlement in 2021 with USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and a $500 million settlement in 2018 with Michigan State University.