re: Mizzou. WTF....you screwed that swimmer

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Why would the school not pursue her allegations?
Why is this just now coming to light and not in 2011 when the girl died?

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Because she didn't make any allegations. She didn't tell anyone who could help here - not a coach, ad administrator, an advisor, or even her parents. Only medical personnel, who couldn't violate her privacy, and 1 friend, who said she din't want to pursue it.

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A miss swimmer accused a football player of raping her, the school did nothing/covered it up, then the girl killed herself.

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No. She didn't tell anyone in a position to help her that she had been assaulted. And she killed herself 16 months after the alleged assault, shortly after a breakup with a boyfriend.

She had borderline personality disorder. Her first suicide attempt was in high school, after a breakup with a boyfriend. The first time she told anyone she was raped, other than the 1 friend, was 10 months after the assault - a rape counselor. Mizzou didn't know anything about it until over a year after she passed away. Her parents didn't know until they read her journal after she died.

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In May 2011, she told her athletic dept academic advisor about the rape...what happened with that, where did the advisor go with that info?

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The advisor, now in charge of academics for Tennessee's team, says she was never told of an assault. The girl's journal says she told the advisor, the advisor says she didn't. IF she was told and did nothing, she should have been fired. But she claims that did not happen.

you jut dishonored that gif and used it poorly...I summarized what 3 articles reported. You're sad/angry/frustrated that this incident happened and is now coming to light at your school. I think you should just let this play out.

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you jut dishonored that gif and used it poorly...I summarized what 3 articles reported. You're sad/angry/frustrated that this incident happened and is now coming to light at your school. I think you should just let this play out.

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Not really bud. Im willing to bet you didn't read the Mizzou responses linked in those articles either.

You want to let ESPN dictate the narrative then come her without all the facts involved, knock yourself out.

Im not angry about anything. The only thing I feel is sadness that that young woman took her own life.

Not to mention she has denied ever being told. I also find it hard to believe that a women, not affiliated with the AD, would have any desire to "cover up" a rape involving some football players...makes sense

What I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around is what fricking person in their right mind receives a video of their deceased best friend getting raped, and proceeds to place it in a relatives basement where it is then thrown away. I smell bull shite and Mr. Woodland is going to have some questions to answer for that shite. The only piece of evidence of your best friend being raped and you put it in somebody's basement? And it's then thrown away? He should be locked up for that shite.

You think this is bad you oughtta take a peak at the couch burners board. Them and their beaker buddies are having a major circle jerk over this. Sad.

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To say that the university "covered something up" based on a journal entry from a mentally unstable girl is just plain stupid.

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That attitude is part of the problem. Someone who is emotional, even those with serious conditions, aren't subhuman, children, or raving lunatics who should never be believed and written off as liars. Yet a lot of people are downplaying what happened because she was 'mentally ill.' There's a lot of she can't be trusted because she mentally ill around this conversation. Ironically, that shows you the stigma she likely faced in getting help or even considering going to authorities, add in football and I'd be damned if I believed anyone would do a thing to help me either.

Further, when someone isn't well you have stronger duty to protect them. That is the issue most have with how the withdrawal took place. It's the kind of bureaucratic thinking that plagues colleges and universities and it's a systemic problem that every school needs to get a better handle on. Administrators averse to using their brains, sense of compassion and humanity, far too often. And the bureaucracies at most schools operate by two principles: 1. protect the bureaucracy at all costs 2. if someone is a problem get rid of them the quickest way possible.

As to Anderson, I want her to GTFO of UT NOW, especially if the investigation points to more knowledge on her part and I suspect she knew far more than is being said as she was basically doing the bidding of the swim coach/AD. But I suppose that's because I'm not writing this girl off as mad woman.

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Further, when someone isn't well you have stronger duty to protect them. That is the issue most have with how the withdrawal took place.

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Dude! If you've read all of the articles, read them again. MU was doing everything within their powers to help that woman. The withdrawal was done in conjunction with the parents to facilitate her transfer to a Boston hospital and to insure she could return to the swim team when she recovered.

What is this ridiculous knee-jerk need to skewer Mizzou?

Did you read Mizzou's responses? You'd see that the parents wanted to manage her treatment themselves. What option did Mizzou have but to work with them and expedite her release from the school; while, at the same time arranging for her return when she recovered.