Michigan State's first chance to publicly address the investigation of its head football coach was missing a key detail on Sunday.
It is proper Title IX protocol to keep a complaint’s details confidential, and that fact was extremely relevant to and important for the message MSU wanted to send. Yet MSU didn’t address that aspect of the situation until pressed to do so. The news was apparently enough to take action Sunday but not enough to say why until late at night when reporters asked again.
So MSU called a news conference Sunday and said it was doing all the right things, without really explaining how. Reporters got less than two hours of notice about the news conference, vague statements about confidentiality and new information, and then the event didn’t clear up why Tucker was suspended on Sunday and not earlier, which was the entire point.
Haller did confirm he was made aware of the complaint in December 2022, the month it was filed. The report from an outside investigation was completed in July 2023, recommending a hearing as the next step of the investigation, which will take place the week of Oct. 5. Haller also said “interim measures” were in place regarding Tucker and the program following the complaint, such as no contact with the complainant, and that those measures have been updated.
This isn’t an adjudication of whose side is right or what the disputed facts are. The situation is clearly complicated. The initial investigation reported in USA Today’s story and the upcoming hearing will make a better judgment of that.
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