IF LARRY NASSAR WAS SELLING UNLICENSED SPARTY T-SHIRTS INSTEAD OF MOLESTING HUNDREDS OF GIRLS, MICHIGAN STATE WOULD HAVE STOPPED HIM IMMEDIATELY

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Larry Nassar was never in contention to win a Heisman Trophy. He did not coordinate a national title-winning defense or work alongside a revered Hall of Fame coach for decades, either.

So if you paid any attention to the Nassar story many months and years ago when it began to surface through traditional newsroom investigative reporting you had to be told to care. Anyone who shared the story usually accompanied it with a comment like that. You know, we should be making a bigger deal about this. It was a B-movie with no star power.

The short version of the script - and most people didn’t read any of it - was that Nassar had used his reputation (Associate Professor of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State University) vocation (MSU Sports Medicine clinician and lead doctor for numerous organizations, including USA Gymnastics) and location (unfettered access to the bodies of female gymnasts, most of whom were children) to pleasure himself.

A bad doctor had been molesting his patients for years. As often as he could, as often as possible. 

Whether it was basic alignment, hamstring issue, knee or ankle pain, Nassar’s treatments invariably included jamming his ungloved fingers into his patients’ vaginas and anuses for upwards of 45 minutes. Hundreds of girls went through this for years, all of whom either trusted his reputation/vocation or were too young and/or embarrassed to intervene.

The vocal ones who told their parents weren’t believed, because - and this is an asset child molesters use to their advantage - it was all too unreal. Many of his assaults took place with parents in the room. Nassar would just obstruct any view of the molestation with exam room furniture or his own body.

A child predator used both a reputable university and national sports program as a sanctuary to commit crimes for a long, long, long time. The last time this exact thing made national headlines, the former coordinator of a national-title winning defense who had worked alongside a revered Hall of Fame coach for decades was the criminal.

Since both of them have ducked out of the room, the glare has shifted toward MSU’s revenue sports bosses Tom Izzo and Mark Dantonio, both of whom run programs where sexual assaultshave quietly been disposed of over the years through means that in light of the revelations around Nassar appear to be institutionalized.

What is institutionalized are the priorities for what is policed by large cash machines like Michigan State.

Eleven Warriors interacts with every Big Ten school regularly for media credentialing purposes. We also have had an extensive, ongoing dialogue and mutual understanding with Ohio State’s athletic department and lawyers as to what our role in their universe is and should be, an experience which allows me to make the following statement without flinching or blinking.

If Nassar had been unlawfully exploiting Michigan State trademarks for, say, an unlicensed t-shirt business the university would have hammered him within hours of its discovery. It wouldn't have even mattered if it was successful or not - if Nassar had used green and white, printed GO GREEN GO WHITE or SPARTANS WILL or any of the numerous, often dubious marks MSU holds to promote his own interests away from the clinic he would have immediately received a cease and desist order from university lawyers.


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