Miki Patterson

"He punched me in the chest so hard I flew across the kitchen." Matt Schembechler says he was 10 when Michigan's team doctor, Robert Anderson, molested him during a football physical. He rode his bike home and told his mother. She told him to tell his father the moment he walked in. His father was Bo Schembechler, the most powerful man in Michigan football. It should have been over right there. In the video below, Matt tells Dr. Phil what his father did. "I was only a kid. I was 10 years old." "His eyes got glassy, bulging, and he punched me in the chest so hard I flew across the kitchen." "I'm not talking about this." It got worse. His mother brought the athletic director to their house, and Matt says Anderson was fired. Then, Matt says, Bo got him reinstated because he needed his team doctor. In 10th grade Matt was sent back to Anderson for another physical. He says it happened again. Anderson stayed at Michigan until 2003. More than 1,000 people later said he abused them. In 2022 the university agreed to pay $490 million. Bo died in 2006 and was never asked about any of it. Michigan's football building still carries his name. His other son says Bo never knew. Was Bo Schembechler a legend, or the man who kept a predator on his team?