New Lawsuit in Robert Anderson case alleges that Bo knew about abuse

Define proven, I guess? I think interviews with people who were in the department at the time and memos and other documents (depending on how M retains that stuff) could provide a useful picture, along with some reasonable thinking about what those facts suggest. Will you get to 100% certainty? Nah. Is it possible that you can get enough to feel comfortable with whether it happened? I think so, absolutely.

But, I mean, step back for a second. It more broadly fits, no? It is impossible for me to imagine that Bo was not broadly aware that something fucked up was going with Anderson given the sheer number of victims; the fact that nothing changed when Bo could've gotten him out effortlessly is revealing to me. 

So in your opinion, Schembechler was told and all he did was pass it on to Canham. If so, Schembechler's just as bad as Canham. You don't just pass something like this off and wash your hands of it.

He was literally the most powerful man in the AD at the time, if not the university.  The notion that he can just pass it along and wash his hands of it is absurd and flies in the face of everything he preached over the years.  If someone comes to you and says, "The team doctor sexually assaulted me," you don't get to just pass it up the chain and move on, especially not as the most powerful man in the university.  I doubt this is the first or only person that complained to Bo about this.   

This is also why I teach my kids to not idolized any one - sports figures, politicians, etc.  Principles, sure.  Try to live by them.  

This is no excuse. If he did this, it’s very JoPa in its pass-the-buck-ness. A good coach doesn’t just do the bare minimum and wash his hands of it, and any reasonable person knows this. I don’t know if it’s true. We’ll see. What I do know is that Bo had many deep flaws, among them the contempt women who pushed for equal treatment under T9. So let’s just see how it plays out. 

Isn't that exactly the JoePa situation? Paterno was rightfully raked over the coals for only reporting it to the AD and doing nothing more, not reporting it to police or anyone else when it was clear the AD wasn't acting on it.

Seems like that's exactly what's being alleged here. If true, I think it's good that it's coming to light and his name has to come off of everything as an example, and I hope we can do it without the mouthbreathers protesting a statue of a man who "should have done more"  coming down.

It's basically a carbon copy of what Paterno did, if true. Let's not be Penn State, or MSU, okay? 

It is exactly the same thing as JoePa.  Maybe worse.  JoePa told the AD himself, without requiring anyone else (first hand relevance) to report.  Allegedly, Bo told the kid to go report Canham directly - but did he go with the victim to report this to Canham?  It is entirely unreasonable to expect a victim to continue navigating up the ladder of senior leadership without support.  Giving a worker-bee permission to speak directly to the CEO, without being present, is not 'support' in any sense of the term.

Perhaps Bo did march into Canham's office with the victim to ensure an audience?  I would respect that - and it's very much what should have been done on Bo's part.  I sincerely hope it was.

The question I have is whether Bo continued to follow up with, and protect, his player?  If he did, I would find it hard to not defend him.  If he just let it go and moved on to something else, I'm going to have a hard time with that.

But there's one very big difference between Bo and Joe - Bo wasn't dealing with minor's - straight up children - like Joe was.  An 18 yr old football player can turn around and punch someone that's assaulting him if he recognizes it as such.  If he even recognizes that he has that capability, and legal protection, and moral protection.  A 12 year old child has neither the physical strength to react, nor any knowledge whatsoever about legal or moral protections.  IMO, I can hold Joe in far less regard for his lack of followup than I can Bo.  But I can still excoriate Bo for not following up.

That's a lot of words, and I'm still not even sure what I'm trying to say.  Or even why I'm trying to say it...

#1 - The right response in ANY situation such as this is to go physically and take the player with you as the leader to report the situation - you DO NOT tell a young kid to go report it to someone else.  That is complete lack of leadership, accountability and care for those placed under your watch.

Anything else is a failure of leadership.

Given the serious nature of the allegation and his position within the department, follow up?

I agree with you here. I think the best thing he could have done was maybe check in, or follow up? Especially if it happened twice. As an employee, you are trained to report up if anything comes to you. By those standards, he did what was right.

If you want to say those standards need to be improved I think we could have a good discussion about that.

Ah the Joe pa defense. Sure Bo absolved himself of criminal liability, but that isn't nearly enough to be absolved of personal moral responsibility.

The lesson as always here is to stop lionizing individuals. No matter statues, no more naming things after people, no more putting any individual in a position where they are above the health and well being of others due to their success.

Before today I wouldn't have said it was a given Bo knew, while Bo was probably the most powerful person in Ann Arbor, I wouldn't expect him to know about everything in the AD to the point that he per se knew about Anderson when the public didn't become aware of it till 2019. Now given today's information, it sure seems like he knew and decided to forget about it