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Fascinating idea, @SYRCHAZ. Would love, love, love to see some proposals. I believe we have a Penn State grad who sits on the board of the New York Times...Perhaps its time we fund full page adds in various national newspapers (e.g. NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, LA times etc...) documenting the egregious abuses at Michigan, Michigan State and OSU while also highlighting the facts exonerating Joe and PSU.
Also demanding that The Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren take appropriate action against the guilty schools, less the Big Ten lose any semblance of credibility due to their apparent lack of concern for the victims and be left to wallow in hypocrisy. Whose in?
By the way, a hearty thanks once again to ChiTownLion for his tireless efforts and skill in exposing the hypocrisy of the Big Ten, Michigan, Michigan State, OSU and media...
The football building in her mind which she envisions constituting her lack knowledge which is even WORSE than a lack of intelligence. It's not great to be feeble minded, but its far worse to be capable and unknowledgeable. It's almost the epitome of ignorance. Sadly, this is HER shtick, its how she makes HER money. Don't tell HER this, but I wouldn't be surprised or shocked if many of her Northwestern colleagues see her as a sham to the profession. Lets be frank, she writes for USA Today. Monkeys at the zoo cannot read, but that's the ONLY paper they subscribe to. Maybe its partially a shot at her and maybe sadly so a larger shot at the masses in our country who read this as gospel.What football building is she referring to?
I'll put $500 in and more if we are being serious.Perhaps its time we fund full page adds in various national newspapers (e.g. NY Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, LA times etc...) documenting the egregious abuses at Michigan, Michigan State and OSU while also highlighting the facts exonerating Joe and PSU.
Also demanding that The Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren take appropriate action against the guilty schools, less the Big Ten lose any semblance of credibility due to their apparent lack of concern for the victims and be left to wallow in hypocrisy. Whose in?
By the way, a hearty thanks once again to ChiTownLion for his tireless efforts and skill in exposing the hypocrisy of the Big Ten, Michigan, Michigan State, OSU and media...
What an idiot…still repeating scurrilous lies about Joe.Opinion: If allegations are true, Michigan must do to Bo Schembechler what Penn State did to Joe Paterno
Christine Brennan, USA TODAY
Thu, June 10, 2021, 7:00 PM
There wasn’t a kid in America in the 1970s who loved Bo Schembechler more than I did.
Growing up in nearby Toledo, we had season tickets for University of Michigan football games, so I lived and died with Bo and his team. I shed many a tear when Michigan lost, which happened far too often against Ohio State in the regular-season finale and Pac-8 teams in the Rose Bowl.
Later, when I became a journalist and interviewed Bo on occasion, something whimsical always popped into my head: What would that young girl sitting with her father and siblings in Michigan Stadium have thought of this?
Which brings us to Thursday and the absolutely horrible allegation made by Schembechler’s son Matt that when he told his father he had been sexually assaulted as a 10-year-old boy by Michigan football team doctor Robert Anderson during a 1969 physical, Bo flew into a rage — not against the doctor, but against the boy, punching his son with a closed fist to the chest, knocking him across the kitchen.
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Bo Schembechler was Michigan's head football coach from 1969-89.
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“I don’t want to hear this,” Matt Schembechler quoted his father as saying, according to the Detroit Free Press. “Never talk to me about this again.”
Matt Schembechler said Anderson fondled his genitals and digitally penetrated him. “I tried to tell him repeatedly,” Matt said of Bo, “but my efforts earned me a punch in the chest. It was the beginning of the end for our relationship.”
Hundreds of Michigan athletes have accused Anderson of sexually assaulting them, including fondling them and giving them rectal exams even though they came to him complaining of a sore throat, bad elbow or other ailment. Other Michigan students have accused Anderson of giving out draft deferrals from the Vietnam War in exchange for sex acts. Hundreds of men have sued the university for not stopping Anderson. More than 800 cases in all are currently in mediation in federal court.
Only one of those people, though, is Bo’s son. If what he said Thursday is true, it would mean his father not only allowed Anderson to continue sexually assaulting and abusing young people for potentially another 34 years until he retired in 2003, he also perpetrated domestic violence against his young son in his own home. Schembechler died in 2006. Anderson died in 2008.
If it’s true, the University of Michigan must do to Schembechler what Penn State did to Joe Paterno after he ignored Jerry Sandusky’s sexual assaults of young boys. The statue must come down. The football building needs to be renamed. All reverence for the man must cease, replaced by revulsion.
Cancel culture? You bet. If this is true, Bo Schembechler isn’t a legend, he’s a monster.
There has already been one investigation of Anderson’s alleged abuse, but it sounds like another is in order now that Matt Schembechler has told his story to the news media. The default position of Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh so far has been to defend Bo and stick his head in the sand.
That’s not going to work anymore. It’s not just Matt Schembechler; he was joined at the news conference by two former Michigan players, Daniel Kwiatkowski, an offensive lineman from 1977-79, and Gilvanni Johnson, a wide receiver from 1982-86. Kwiatkowski said he was assaulted by Anderson four times. Johnson said he was assaulted 15 times.
“Before my freshman physical, you would hear players joking about having to see ‘Dr. Anal,’” Johnson said. “The exam was very painful. I felt humiliated and confused. I’d never had a physical like that. I told Bo that Dr. Anderson played with my genitals and he put his finger in my anus. Bo said he would check on that with the medical staff. I never heard back from Bo.”
Attorney Mick Grewal, who represents Matt Schembechler and dozens of others in the case, said it bluntly: “Bo knew. If Bo listened to his son, these two gentlemen (Kwiatkowski and Johnson) would not be sitting up here today.”
The horrifying stories these men told strike at the heart of everything Michigan is and has been over the past 50 years: its legacy, its identity, its good name. Bo wasn’t just Michigan football. He was Michigan.
For years, he also was the Big Ten — he and Woody Hayes. Ah, the Big Ten. Look at the massive sexual abuse and sexual assault scandals the conference has given us: Penn State, Michigan State, Ohio State and Michigan. My God, it’s staggering.
What was said by Bo’s son and two of Bo’s players Thursday cannot be ignored. This is not just about Anderson. It’s about Bo. What did he know? When did he know it? How many times was he told?
So many questions, including one more: What would that young girl sitting with her father and siblings in Michigan Stadium have thought of this?
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Michigan can't ignore Bo Schembechler's silence if allegations true
Invited Nebraska fans to unite with us in holding @DesmondHoward accountable.
Has @DesmondHoward tweeted his thoughts about Bo Schembechler?
Boy, @DesmondHoward sure had a lot to say about your Cornhuskers for wanting to play football last year. And he's had a whole lot to say about our program, as well. Would be a shame if both programs tag-teamed him on twitter. Hit him up here: www.twitter.com/desmondhoward #BoKnew...nebraska.forums.rivals.com
When I meet a creepy person, as I emerged from childhood, my family taught me to take responsibility for myself. It is my body. There sure all kinds of threats: molesters, hoods, thugs, rapists, drugs, sugar, booze, tv, video games, women…..
i was tasty to never be a victim, to never consider yourself a survivor. At age 30 you can no longer blame your parents for anything.
i agree with Bo. Dad isn’t going to be there all the time to protect you. I agree with Joe too. Toughen up, take responsibility for your life and your choices. Of course someone should have called the police. But victim blame several decades later on a person that can’t defend himself is off putting
Watched Outside the Lines this AM, one whole minute segment on UM and Bo, pathetic.Yeah, but burn bo and michigan down to the ground just the same.
So, the “football building” to which she refers doesn’t exist.The football building in her mind which she envisions constituting her lack knowledge which is even WORSE than a lack of intelligence. It's not great to be feeble minded, but its far worse to be capable and unknowledgeable. It's almost the epitome of ignorance. Sadly, this is HER shtick, its how she makes HER money. Don't tell HER this, but I wouldn't be surprised or shocked if many of her Northwestern colleagues see her as a sham to the profession. Lets be frank, she writes for USA Today. Monkeys at the zoo cannot read, but that's the ONLY paper they subscribe to. Maybe its partially a shot at her and maybe sadly so a larger shot at the masses in our country who read this as gospel.
Watched Outside the Lines this AM, one whole minute segment on UM and Bo, pathetic.
Now that michigan obviously has no football program, who will take their place on our schedule?
So, the “football building” to which she refers doesn’t exist.
I believe she is referring to Schembechler Hall.So, the “football building” to which she refers doesn’t exist.
Oh yeah, I see that now. Not very well written.I believe she is referring to Schembechler Hall.
When I meet a creepy person, as I emerged from childhood, my family taught me to take responsibility for myself. It is my body. There sure all kinds of threats: molesters, hoods, thugs, rapists, drugs, sugar, booze, tv, video games, women…..
i was taught to never be a victim, to never consider yourself a survivor. At age 30 you can no longer blame your parents for anything.
i agree with Bo. Dad isn’t going to be there all the time to protect you. I agree with Joe too. Toughen up, take responsibility for your life and your choices. Of course someone should have called the police. But victim blame several decades later on a person that can’t defend himself is off putting
It is true that a parent isn’t always going to be there for a child, and so the child should be taught to be wary of potential threats and look out for themself. But my agreement with you ends there.
How does “take responsibility for your life and your choices” apply at all to this situation? It wasn’t as if frivolous behavior or poor decisions by these players were a factor in the molestation that allegedly happened to them.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and figure the term “victim blame” was a typo — because it seems you’re using that with regard to Bo, who wasn’t the victim.
And if it’s true that the coaching staff not only ignored the alleged abuse, and protected Anderson’s job, but actually used threats of sending players back for another physical as a motivational/intimidation tactic — well, that just takes this situation all that much farther from a “these players should have looked out more for themselves” type of scenario that you seem to be casting it as. Unless I’ve somehow totally misinterpreted what you’re trying to say.
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When does kevin warren yell, “All aboard!”, for the b1g moral superiority train to signal the start of deliberations to remove michigan from the b1g?
Except this wasn’t a stranger — the team doctor is supposed to be an authority figure entrusted with the best interest of the players. They weren’t about to confront him themselves in the moment, and were probably initially shocked and confused as to what the hell they had just experienced.
Fair enoughIt is true that a parent isn’t always going to be there for a child, and so the child should be taught to be wary of potential threats and look out for themself. But my agreement with you ends there.
How does “take responsibility for your life and your choices” apply at all to this situation? It wasn’t as if frivolous behavior or poor decisions by these players were a factor in the molestation that allegedly happened to them.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and figure the term “victim blame” was a typo — because it seems you’re using that with regard to Bo, who wasn’t the victim.
And if it’s true that the coaching staff not only ignored the alleged abuse, and protected Anderson’s job, but actually used threats of sending players back for another physical as a motivational/intimidation tactic — well, that just takes this situation all that much farther from a “these players should have looked out more for themselves” type of scenario that you seem to be casting it as. Unless I’ve somehow totally misinterpreted what you’re trying to say.
@lubrano wouldn't it be fun to fly a banner around the big house a few Saturday's this fall?
We should start a go fund me campaign.
"Michigan abuse scandal, like Penn State... only real."
jim can f*ck himself.
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Jim Brandstatter is as dumb as he looks - and that’s saying something because he looks like a reddish warthog