Michigan State's Mel Tucker accused of sexually harassing rape survivor: report

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Michigan State head football coach Mel Tucker is facing accusations of sexually harassing a woman who is a rape survivor and an activist, and he is under investigation by the school, according to multiple reports.

Brenda Tracy, a sexual assault-prevention advocate who was gang raped by four college football players in 1998, filed the complaint against Tucker and alleged that the coach had asked whether she would date him if he weren’t already married, and masturbated without her consent during a phone call, according to USA Today.

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Head coach Mel Tucker of the Michigan State Spartans speaks at Big Ten football media days at Lucas Oil Stadium on July 26, 2023, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

Tracy talked to the Michigan State football team in August 2021 and April 2022 about preventing sexual violence and misconduct and was named an honorary captain for the team’s spring football game that April. Shesaid afterward that Tucker had called her multiple times after the visit and even brought up meeting him alone, according to USA Today.

Tracy said she filed a complaint with the university’s Title IX office in December after a phone call in which Tucker allegedly made sexual comments and masturbated, according to the report. Tucker reportedly provided a conflicting statement to the Title IX investigator. He claimed they had had consensual "phone sex."

"Ms. Tracy’s distortion of our mutually consensual and intimate relationship into allegations of sexual exploitation has really affected me," Tucker wrote to the Title IX investigator in March, according to USA