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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2468442, member: 2932"]
I wrote a longer version of my opinion on this in an earlier post, which is that izzo is no better or worse than I suspect most similarly situated coaches would be, but is still very much worthy of blame.

But I agree that I’m not taking the high road here and I will try to be clear why that is. The tendency to give those in positions of power the benefit of the doubt is exactly what leads to these things being hidden, often in plain sight, for years. Izzos statements are not themselves the cause of anything, but they very much are a symptom of it. We, as a culture, give people like Izzo immense amounts of social and economic power. That becomes a self-perpetuating system, where those in power maintain each other. That maintenance - that tendency to protect your colleagues and friends first and foremost - has often disasterous effects and should be condemned when it does.

So I object to the idea that anyone should be compelled to take a “high road” with respect to Izzo. Izzo will be fine. Neither I nor anyone want him jailed. I’m not even sure I want him fired. But his approach here is wrong, and what that approach reflects about his view of the purpose of the university is disturbing and wrong.
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