Marissa
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I think that that really affected me for a long time.
It's not that I needed the money or that I was sad that I didn't
I was really shocked that this happened in this situation because it makes me wonder how many more of these situations are going on at the university and how many more athletes are being enabled in this way and that's just a dangerous game and it's dangerous for people to be on campus and there to be no oversight in that way.
My lawyers worked so hard.
They contacted so many other lawyers who had won cases in different ways.
And we really tried to figure out a way to beat this.
And it just unfortunately wasn't the case for me.
I definitely could feel that they were supporting their student.
When I had mentioned Jay's name, I could tell she got a little bit uncomfortable because he was a player that played more.
And once I confirmed that it wasn't him, you could see her notably relax.
She did say that they were a neutral office, but...
In the same breath, she said that their responsibility is to their student.
That's how the follow-up was.
At the time, I didn't understand what Title IX was there for, and so I thought that the way that she was acting was normal.
And now I know better to know that she was able to offer me resources and she was able to offer me different forms of help and that she should have been inquiring more about their student and about the safety of their campus.
We're two years down the road now.
I got a phone call in August about how he was trying to get off of probation two years early.
He had already served two years.