EAST LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Less than 12 hours after Michigan State University released a report saying fired football coach Mel Tucker sexually harassed a rape survivor hired by the school, he released his own statement through his attorney.

Tucker has 10 days to respond to the report which says he sexually harassed and exploited Brenda Tracy. She runs “Set the Expectation,” which works to curb sexual assault. She’d been hired to help change the culture at MSU following the Larry Nassar scandal.

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Attorney Neil M. Cornrich released this statement:

“The school’s decision following a hearing that Coach Mel Tucker was medically unable to attend – and which his lawyers were likewise precluded from attending in his absence – accordingly comes as absolutely no surprise.

The decision is fraught with countless factual and legal errors, all of which will be the subject of an immediate appeal and subsequent lawsuit if necessary. The appeal will include evidence recently discovered and previously suppressed by Ms. Tracy.

The Hearing and Decision are purely academic, as the purpose of the Hearing was ostensibly to determine what if any punishment (reprimand, suspension, fine, or termination) would be imposed if the Coach were found responsible. Since the school chose to issue a termination PRIOR to the Hearing, the Decision is of zero practical import and merely reflects the biased and completely dysfunctional administration of the school’s OIE office. The notion that the Hearing would overturn the school’s PRIOR termination, given the documented procedural and substantive error, omissions, and misfeasance, is beyond the realm of reasonable possibility.

It is worth noting that while Ms. Tracy has attempted to suppress her OWN prior statements on privacy grounds, she provided USA Today the Hearing Officer’s entire 70-page report within minutes of its intended confidential issuance, knowing that the Appeal Process had not yet even begun. This of course speaks to Ms. Tracy’s professed intention to abide by the very Administrative process she invoked.”

MSU suspended Tucker without pay on September 10 after USA Today published Tracy’s allegations. They set an October hearing but officially fired him before then, and dismissed the remainder of Tucker’s 10-year, $95 million contract.