Exclusive | Treasure hunter sues USC, Trojans mens basketball coach Eric Musselman over beach altercation

The treasure hunter involved in a heated dispute with USC men’s basketball head coach Eric Musselman on the beach has filed a lawsuit over the altercation, claiming the incident left him in a world of pain.Gary Gosnell says that after Musselman verbally berated him on the sand in Manhattan Beach on Sept.13, he’s suffered from “severe emotional and psychological distress” as well as “a significant deterioration of his health,” according to the lawsuit filed in LA Monday and obtained by the California Post.The altercation happened at around 10:30 a.m., after Gosnell sifted through sand near a Trojans men’s basketball team photoshoot while live on his “Gary’s Metal Detecting” YouTube channel, according to the lawsuit.“A USC assistant coach, who on information and belief is [Will] Conroy, approached Mr.

Gosnell and demanded that he move out of the area so that the team could take its photographs,” Gosnell’s lawsuit stated.“Mr.

Gosnell explained that he was simply passing through and would move on once he finished what he was doing, noting that it was a public beach and that he could be wherever he wanted to be.”Gosnell alleged Conroy then threatened him, before Musselman stepped in.The Trojans head coach “advanced approximately sixty feet across the sand toward Mr.Gosnell while screaming profanities and came right up to Mr.

Gosnell’s face,” Gosnell’s lawsuit alleged.“Musselman shouted at Mr.

Gosnell to ‘[s]hut the f—k up,’ called him a ‘f—king d—head,’ and threatened that ‘[s]omebody should f—king drop you ass is what should happen.’”Gosnell claimed in his suit that the USC coaches only backed away after he told them he was filming the encounter.Gosnell added that he was afraid throughout the incident because he “was in no position to defend himself against, or to escape from, the coaches and the athletes under their command.”Gosnell is “a 57-year-old man who has undergone three spine surgeries, a k...