Yeah the lawsuit by a former staffer was frivolous. Guys name was Curtis Blackwell. I’ll try to make this short…
Curtis is from Detroit and founded a football camp called sound mind sound body. Dantonio hired him as a recruiting coordinator. In 2016 several MSU players were accused of sexual assault. A couple of them were from Detroit and knew Blackwell their entire lives. The players I assume in a panic called Blackwell.
This is where it gets murky. I’ll fast forward…MSU hires outside law firm to review their conduct over handling this. Everyone was in the clear…except Curtis Blackwell. The law firm concluded he failed in his mandatory reporting duties. He gets placed on leave and subsequently terminated.
He then lawyers up and claims he was scapegoated by MSU and that Dantonio was the culprit. The problem was he was arguing against the law firms conclusion, not the university. Judge ends up dismissing his lawsuit for wrongful termination and whatever lawsuit he had against Dantonio.
During all of this, Dantonio was advised to not make public comments while litigation was ongoing.
Hope this helps give context.
Thanks for the context. Never understood Dantonio's abrupt resignation. I looked around a bit and saw Blackwell had filed three(?) lawsuits against MSU, but it appears they were all dismissed/terminated. Shame of it is, some people will latch onto the lawsuits and think MSU or Dantonio did something wrong in that instance, when it was the plaintiff probably trying to cover himself or get something for himself. Also dislike when some will take "sworn" testimony in a case like this and then use it against another party because the testimony was under oath. Big deal-newsflash- lying scumbags lie under oath frequently.
Will be interesting to see how the team does under Dantonio. He was a solid coach. Just hope the Spartans do poorly at the Rutgers homecoming game.
Not to cast aspersions on MSU, but our local press loves to make mountains out of molehills whenever there is a small misdeed at Rutgers. The worst thing that happened was the Mike Rice incident, which was bad. Thankfully, we have stayed out of the bad press column for quite a while.