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Urban in Hot Water

DRU2012

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http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ourtney-smith-people-urban-meyer-knew-15-case

Sad part the coach he fired was an coaching intern in Florida in 2009 where he was accused of spousal abuse. I want to know why Urban hired him for Ohio State after the first incident again in Florida. Urban is on paid administrative leave. Personally I hope he's fired though I doubt Urban will be.
Good q, Lf...Like to hear your larger thoughts on all this (we're STILL paying for the answer to just those kind of questions at UF)...See my latest PRE-preseason thread, "Here Early..." comments just posted here...After this sad BS (necessarily) finishes its full play-cycle, winding through (I think) to its inevitable non-conclusion (though OSU officials will HOPE it it IS a "conclusion" of sorts, at least a public one--though they are bumbling the process in their mixed-message uncertainty and unwillingness to do what on some level they must know they will HAVE to do), after the likely coming OSU-exit Urban Meyer will have few paths left towards further coaching at the level he is used to...There MIGHT be some process of expiation and long mea culpas that could someday lead to some sort of eventual symbolic salvation...his hiring in some tangential administrative capacity at one of the large Catholic universities down the road, on some distant "SOMEday". He didn't do the actual abusing, after all; he just (as usual) habitually lied and helped cover it up, in order to preserve particular portions of the foundation and support system he had in place to keep his program winning, his name and reputation widely exalted.
Such men, if they play things right and can accept a time of public obeisance, are eventually granted such "forgiveness and understanding". It is in the whole system's best interests, after all. But for now (probably for EVER as far as coaching major college football), it is over I think.
 

Escambia94

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Urban Meyer was able to hire Zack Smith because all parties involved assumed the records were sealed due to some kind of plea bargain. It would easy to pile onto Meyer now in hindsight, but there is a reason courts allow these kind of plea bargain and some kind of case sealing. Urban did what any coach would do: take advantage of a legal "loophole".
 

Escambia94

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Why bother waiting 14 days? There is no way The Friggin' Ohio State University looks good without cutting ties with Urban Meyer. The school administrators already know that they need to fire Urban. They just need time to develop a clean story.

Here are the only possible outcomes of the story from least likely to most likely:
  1. The Gainesville police department and the Columbus police department, in separate and unrelated incidents, both lose the official reports documenting the arrest of Zack Smith in 2009 and 2015. The investigation panel decrees the domestic abuse never happened. Urban Meyer is declared a hero for firing Zack this past year. The Suckeyes win the national championship. Zack gets hit by a meteorite.
  2. Urban did his due diligence to report domestic abuse on both occasions, but OSU officials are found guilty of covering up the incident to protect Zack, the grandson of a famous OSU alumnus. Urban gets fired anyway because of school policy regarding Title IX enforcement in order to avoid NCAA sanctions.
  3. Urban and Shelly are both found culpable for not reporting domestic abuse in accordance with Title IX, and OSU uses them as the fall guys in order to protect the university. They are both fired, and Courtney Smith sues the Meyers.
 

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