“Michigan has not changed its culture,” said former wrestler Tad Deluca, who set off the investigation that has unearthed more than 800 complaints about Anderson when he wrote a letter to the university nearly three years ago.
Spurred by Deluca’s allegation and the public reports that eventually followed, the university hired the WilmerHale law firm in March 2020 to investigate Anderson’s conduct and how others at the university handled complaints about him throughout the course of his career.
“So board of regents, so the University of Michigan — say my name,” said Jon Vaughn, a running back from 1988 to 1991.
Anderson’s abuse and we remain focused on that process,” a university spokesman said in a written statement shared with reporters Wednesday morning.
Last week, one of Schembechler’s sons and two former football players came forward to say they attempted to tell the coach about Anderson’s sexual assaults as early as 1969.
On Wednesday, a former student named Richard Goldman, who worked as a radio broadcaster covering the team’s games while he was in school, said he also told Schembechler on several occasions in the early 1980s that Anderson had molested him when he went to see the doctor for a migraine specialist referral.
Goldman said Wednesday that he believes Schembechler fulfilled his duties by sending Goldman to tell then-athletic director Don Canham about his experience with Anderson.