Vanderbilt Football
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Terrible, this hits a little too close to home as NU was in the thick of Blasingame’s recruitment.
Yep. Three players found guilty in 2017 of a 2013 rape.
Four years to the day after prosecutors say a 21-year-old neuroscience major at Vanderbilt University was sexually assaulted by a group of college football players while she was unconscious inside a dorm room, a jury on Friday convicted the third of four defendants in the attack.
The jury, in Davidson County, Tenn., deliberated for about 16 hours over two days before finding Brandon Banks guilty of one count of aggravated rape and one count of aggravated sexual battery in a case that roiled the prestigious private school and shed more light on the problem of sexual assault on university campuses.
Mr. Banks, 23, was acquitted on five other counts, which his lawyer said essentially charged him with aiding and abetting the crimes committed by his teammates. The aggravated rape charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. Sentencing was set for Aug. 18.
Friday’s verdict came about a year after another Tennessee jury convicted one of Mr. Banks’s teammates, Brandon Vandenburg, of multiple rape charges connected with the June 2013 assault. A third teammate, Cory Batey, was convicted of similar charges in April 2016.
Mr. Vandenburg is serving 17 years in prison, and Mr. Batey is serving a 15-year term.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/us/vanderbilt-rape-brandon-banks.html
Interesting. I tend to remember the times where the players got off with little or no punishment (MSU, Baylor, Minn)
Basically coaches protecting players to keep their seven figure salaries safe
It is interesting that we seem to have the same number of NU decommits end up getting in trouble vs total actual NU players over the last several years, for much more serious offenses then our dime bag, a bb gun and fight (our outlier not included).
Maybe luck or random chance. But I got to imagine it also has to do with the culture Fitz and Co. have cultivated here at NU. Another reason to be a proud supporter of NU athletics.
Thats the weird part. To commit means they've already gotten the stamp of approval from Fitz. Think it talks more to the nature vs nuture aspect of programs.
