looked at closely.

and I think all sports involving children should be looked at closely. Not necessarily because I think there are more monsters like Larry Nasser, but because I am not sure that children are really capable of understanding the risks they are taking.

Plenty more. They're everywhere. Most of them will not have had that much access to that many young girls, but -- they're out there. Think about P.E. in schools all over the country, dance, beauty pageants, sports of all kinds, physicians and dentists, on and on and on.

"women's" gymnastics has always struck me as creepy. just prurient.
this animal cant be the only one.

Many of these girls are separate from their families so they can train with elite coaches, which is in and of itself suspicious.

They need to be held accountable.

Fire the President of MSU. USA Gymnastics and MSU enabled this monster

as an attorney I know there are some really undeniably good reasons why the NCAA should not get involved in criminal matters such as at Penn St, Baylor and Michigan St but they rarely satisfy those not versed in the law. We have a criminal justice system which overrides civil and administrative matters in most situations. BTW I'm a huge fan of the SMU Mustangs which was the only Division 1A Football program to be given the Death Penalty in the late 1980--but the NCAA is not going to make judgments about criminal matters-at least until all matters including appeals are completed. They stepped into that mess during the Penn St. scandal and they are backing off from that intrusion into criminal proceedings in the future.

I absolutely don't think she's taking enough responsibility, but the Board of Regents is currently staffed with some ex MSU athletes and it seems to me that they're protecting the athletic department.

Yes, the buck stops with the president, but it seems that there was a culture of insensitivity and neglect in the athletic department itself (which has also rather blithely ignored some serious issues with the football program and its thuggy coach).

There was additional crossover with this doctor and the US Olympic Team, which muddies the water still further. There were a lot of people looking the other way and it also seems that there were a lot of ways for him to hide his tracks.

Anyway, I say start with the AD.

There is ONE ex athlete on the Board of Trustees. Former football player by the name of Mitch Lyons who called for Pres. Simon's firing a couple days ago. The main problem is the old guard led by Joel Ferguson. Been there forever and he's a big part of the problem IMO. Simon was a model President until this incident, but her handling of it has been brutal. AD Mark Hollis is the one that should go first. But they'll both go and rightfully so. Unlike Penn State, MSU will step to the plate and be accountable.

Brian Breslin - former MSU basketball player

Brian Mosallam - former MSU football player

Mitch Lyons - former MSU football player

George Perles - former MSU coach and AD


Their Trustees have very close ties to the athletic department. I don't trust them to do the right thing at all.

I'm sure we'll get some outstanding leadership from the White House regarding this matter (OK, yeah, we know he's writing down names now and googling them to see pics).

This is a major crime and shame, just as is the person living in our White House.

These enablers need to pay BIG time - like jail time.

I assumed it didn't, or it would be shouted from the rooftops, right?

This is horrible that this pervert was ALLOWED to abuse young girls...innocent, naive, passive, raised to do what those in authority tell them on their way to Olympic medaling.

Heads should roll. A LOT of them. But they won't.

More controversial, I suspect that I would find some of the parents complicit, as well. If I had a young girl who practiced in gymnastics, where she wore skimpy, second skins and did suggestive poses and moves all day long in front of men....if I had such a girl, I would definitely have been a super-watchdog over her safety & security, and would definitely have instructed her about certain things.

I read something that gave me the impression that the parents even KNEW that this pervert was inserting his fingers INSIDE their daughter's vagina repeatedly, to "adjust" something. Seriously? I would've marched down there and had a personal visit with the dr. and everyone else in charge. Others may disagree. It is after the fact. But I know without a doubt that I would never have allowed such a thing without a second opinion and some medical printouts discussing such an "adjustment." No way.

It's so simple. You have a young girl, wearing a skin tight leotard, doing the spread eagle sometimes, right in the face of a grown man. Hello!!!! I'm not stupid. Yes, he's a coach. But he's human and male. A system of ensuring the girl's safety and privacy is called for.

Eastern European sports programs were all notorious once upon a time. East German swimmers were made to take hormones to improve their performance (and a big reason they were so unexpectedly dominant in the 1970s). Those women suffered for years. Now that kind of doping seems to be a thing of the past.

Coaches can have a ridiculous amount of authority. I suppose complaining about things would have resulted in them being kicked off the team. No medal is worth that kind of abuse though.

here's a little more of it..

only to have them all rescinded a short time after? Probably not, because MSU doesn't make the NCAA near as much money as PSU does. They are a cult of personality. Still are, and a scary majority of them is squarely in the late Joe Paterno's corner. He knew and they won't admit it. Hell, most of them still want to bring back his idiotic statue.

MSU students are marching on the President's home on Friday. She'll be gone by then. So will the AD. MSU isn't PSU in any way, shape or form and will prove it.

Many of the young ladies complained and were rebuffed. Football scholarships vs gymnastic scholarships.