The Spartans' coach is the subject of a sexual harassment complaint.
The detailed allegations included Tucker reportedly admitting to a Title IX investigator that he masturbated during a phone call with Tracy,reported. The allegations were released hours after the Spartans beat Richmond 45-14 on Saturday, according to the news outlet.
In his statement to the investigator, Tucker acknowledged his actions during the call but said that Tracy had “grossly mischaracterized” the incident, adding that they had consensual “phone sex,”“Ms. Tracy’s distortion of our mutually consensual and intimate relationship into allegations of sexual exploitation has really affected me,” Tucker wrote in a March 22 letter to the investigator.
Tracy, who was raped 25 years ago by four men -- two Oregon State University football players, a junior college player and a high school recruit -- said that the phone call opened old wounds. “The idea that someone could know me and say they understand my trauma but then re-inflict that trauma on me is so disgusting to me, it’s hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” Tracy previously toldMichigan State interim president Theresa Woodruff also spoke during the news conference and said a fair and thorough process was the university’s priority,
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