Curtis Blackwell Jr., former director of college advancement and performance/camp director for Michigan State football has said that Mark Dantonio ignored warnings about recruit Auston Robertson, who was later arrested with sexual assault while at Michigan State. Blackwell also claims that Dantonio tried to deflect the news and pin it on Blackwell.
In the case, filed by Blackwell back in November, he claims that he and other aides tried to warn Dantonio, and then after the news came out about the sexual assault, they tried to blame it on Blackwell.
“I think they wanted to pin that on me in the recruiting department,” Blackwell said. “So if I was cast out, scapegoated and when everything came out with Auston Robertson in the investigation, that it would be a part of the Curtis Blackwell era of recruiting and it wouldn’t reflect poorly on Mark Dantonio, Mark Hollis, Lou Ann Simon as Larry Nassar did. So at that point, I felt like they kind of just let me go on, so that way they can kind of sweep it all out the front door.”
Dantonio has not commented on the lawsuit yet.
