Former Michigan State football recruiting director Curtis Blackwell filed a lawsuit this week against former Spartans head coach Mark Dantonio, alleging, among other things, that he was fired because he is black and that Dantonio illegally and secretly taped practices of an opposing team.
Blackwell, who is already suing Dantonio and other school officials in federal court, filed the new lawsuit in Wayne County Circuit Court on Monday night.
"If plaintiff was Caucasian, rather than African American, he would not have been suspended and/or terminated and/not had his contract renewed by these defendants," Blackwell's lawyers wrote, according to the Detroit Free Press.