Oh yeah, like I said where there's smoke there's fire and if multiple people are making allegations, at best Starocci is probably a bully and an asshole. But I'm just pointing out that so far it's just allegations and there doesn't appear to be any pending criminal charges. And the one "formal" charge was an investigation by campus police into locker theft and that investigation closed with no finding.
Obviously if he raped anyone, he's a criminal and should be charged but I understand why a woman wouldn't come forward initially and these things are hard to prove after the fact. As it stands, it sounds like the rape allegations are she said he said with no charges. Underage thing is a can of worms. If a 17 yo is a freshman in college, that's very different than this dude chasing underage girls in HS parking lots or trolling online
forums. And if it wasn't plausibly consensual (I'm not saying it was, I don't know) what were those women doing alone with him in his house?
And the fratboy stuff. Bartlett says Carter was grabbing other dudes' junk, sticking fingers up their asses and taking naked pics of them in the locker room and posting them online. Hmmkay. Depending how that went down, I could see those being criminal offenses (why weren't they reported and charged earlier?) or possibly just dude hitting aggressive spiral rides and butt drags in drilling.
It's just ironic that of the three recent scandals, Starocci is arguably the worst off even with no formal criminal or regulatory violations. Snyder was criminally charged but pled guilty to a lesser offense and going forward just needs to stop soliciting prostitutes and embarrassing his wife and kids. He still won at Final X and will be competing at worlds. Brooks' USADA case is pending but it sounds like he'll be in the clear for 2028 Olympics if he learns to stop prescribing himself random shit at Wegmans LMAO.
Unless he comes out with some brilliant PR, Starocci has been found guilty by the court of public opinion. Who even wants to train with this dude now, let alone hire him as a coach? And PSU/NLWC really comes off looking like shit. Barring evidence to the contrary, it sounds like they looked the other way and gave favored son treatment to a gigantic asshole and accused rapist, so they could milk him as a 5 x D1 champ, then kicked him to the curb once they got what they wanted out of him.
