Marissa

I think that if they cared about more than just their football team and winning and what the best thing was for their team, they would have seen that he was clearly not okay.

And they could have taken action on that.

And that could have probably prevented what happened to me because he would have had help that he needed earlier.

I just think that it's very negligent to ignore these signs and ignore that someone is clearly not keeping up with the standards that you've set out for them.

Then my lawyer talked with the coach about why SL was living at home.

He had told me that he was living at home because the coaches and his parents thought that that was going to be the best option for him to kind of stay accountable.

In the deposition, the coach had said that they can't force him to live at home, but they can highly recommend it.

And in my opinion, if they're going to highly recommend something, he's going to do it.

And that just shows more of the university, specifically the coaching staff, having a

power over him, even if it's off campus.

Throughout the civil process, there were text messages that came up and when they would text him, they would say, hey, what's going on with the situation?

Hey, what's going on with the thing?

They would never acknowledge it for what it was.

They wouldn't even say, hey, what's going on with the investigation?

That really just takes away from the seriousness of it.

They kind of view it as this thing like, hey, is it done yet?

Has it been swept under the rug yet?

That's my interpretation of the messages that I read.

So all this information came to light.

He was continually breaking the rules and they just let it slide.