End Michigan State University. $500,000,000 is just the START. -- and why it needs to be just the start.

To state that a $500 million acceptance of a settlement is an idea of how bad this USA Gymnastics/Dr. Nassar incident actually is is an understatement.

Sacred cows are going to have to go.  It's that simple.  There are entire institutions, central to the American experience, that are so tied up in sexual assault and #MeToo and all this stuff that they are going to have to be taken down.

More and more, it appears that the US Olympic Committee, part and parcel, is one of them.

Shut the University down (because we all know the athletic programs won't get touched -- that $500M will either be tuition or education cuts...)

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If you want to see how bad things are getting...

The child molester pitcher who was exposed at Oregon State just before the College World Series?

Sports Illustrated is trying to rehab the fucker now, and Deadspin caught them at it.

That, and the Detroit Lions hiring Matt Patricia as head coach after his problems left Diana Moskovitz with one comment:  "It Sure Seems Like Nobody Running Any Sports Team Knows How To Run A Basic Background Check".

To which I say:  DUH...

I would express serious doubts that you could create a championship team in either major sport in this country (football or basketball) with a strict no-criminals policy.

The reason nobody running any sports team knows how to run a basic background check is that check would screen out enough of the top-flight athletes that what you would have left over would not be of sufficient quality.

And I do believe this is intentional, especially as it relates to sexual assault, rape, sodomy, and the use of those and similar in hazing rituals:  It is meant to remove humanity and create a machine-like atmosphere which will spur them on to greatness.

Basic background checks would remove so many of these athletes from the fore that you would not be able to make a proper team or league with what's left.  (This is why everyone's laughing at Vince McMahon's "no criminals" edict for the new XFL/No Blacks League.)

When is someone going to have the bravery to question the entire legitimacy of the sports machine in this country vis-a-vis what is allowed to be done by these athletes to their "lessers" and make it stick where it counts???