In 1998, Brenda Tracy was gang-raped by four men. Two of those men played football for Mike Riley at Oregon State, and in the aftermath of the attack (at the time Tracy remained anonymous to the public) Riley suspended the men one game apiece. He said that they were “really good guys who made a bad choice.”
The story sounds all too familiar, right? A powerful man in a position of authority excuses horrifying behavior, all in the name of sports, while a victim gets told that the life of the promising athlete is worth more than her own.