McMurphy: Text messages show Urban Meyer knew in 2015 of domestic abuse allegations
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So he now states he knew and escalated the Zach Smith domestic violence in 2015. Imagine keeping a guy on your staff for 3 years after that when knowing...
There will be some backlash, but I bet he only said this with OSU backing him up with plausible deniability and his wife being willing to back it up.
If he says he elevated it to proper channels, I don’t see how he has any plausible deniability left
Why the hell would the school let him put out a press release before they did? This doesn't make sense, unless he knows he is about to be canned and is trying to set the fan base against the school and/or start framing his lawsuit against the school.
If he elevated it, the people he told should have told him Smith had to be removed from his position if he was unwilling to do it himself.
I would assume this is with the school’s approval, but who knows?
If Urban and "proper channels" knew of Zach Smith beating his wife in 2015, whose decision was it to let Smith stay on staff until 2018, and only to be fired once became public?
If he sent it up the proper channels, why is he on leave?
It's possible they have someone else willing to jump on the grenade rather than lose Urban.
If beating his wife was cause for Smith to lose his job, why did it only happen after it became publicly known?
I suspect that is the best possible path in the hopes that the press dies down. He'll have to show documentation that he sent it through the "proper channels". If so, he's OK. If not....well....
Probably the best there is in sports law:
Michael McCannVerified account@McCannSportsLaw 29m29 minutes ago
Michael McCann Retweeted SI College Football
Urban Meyer's statement seems written with contract law in mind. It denies any grounds that Ohio State could use to fire him with cause. At the same time, it acknowledges his answers to journalists' questions were inadequate--a personal failing that doesn't violate his contract.
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Michael McCannVerified account@McCannSportsLaw 29m29 minutes agoMichael McCann Retweeted SI College Football
Urban Meyer's statement seems written with contract law in mind. It denies any grounds that Ohio State could use to fire him with cause. At the same time, it acknowledges his answers to journalists' questions were inadequate--a personal failing that doesn't violate his contract.
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So, basically, this is exactly like JoPa, except Joe had less information about the incident, Sandusky was no longer on the coaching staff, and Joe didn't lie on Big 10 media day. Got it.
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anon_xdc8rmuek44eq
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Smith says he denies 2015 allegations and discussed with Meyer (per ESPN). So, wife is lying (here we go...).
Regardless of how he handled it then, the question remains: If what he did in 2015 was worthy of firing why didn’t it happen until 2018?
She also claims Urbans attorney pressured her into dropping charges in 2009? If OSU keeps him it’s just going to be stuff coming out of the woodwork forever.
For what? She didn't press charges to ensure continued access to Smith's $340k salary (which I'm not saying is wrong since she had a kid to care for). Had Meyer acted sooner, she'd have been hard up for money sooner.
None of what you said is wrong, but I still would bet this will be the outcome.
I suspect someone is going to be fired, but not UM. Might be the AD if things were reported through “proper channels” since the AD is UM’s immediate superior, just like Curley was JoePa’s when Joe correctly reported things to Curley as per University procedure and current NCAA protocol.
bwifan
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Absolutely firing coming and Urbs put it right on Gene Smiths shoulder saying he reported through proper channels upstream ... Meaning to the AD Gene Smith ... Personally I would shed crocodile tears if OSU cleaned houseand fired Urbs and Smith
This personal attorney, Hiram deFries is Urban's life coach and worked for him at Utah, UF and appears to be an employee at OSU and functions as some type of admin person.
https://start.att.net/news/read/cat...r_situation_the_role_of_the_confidan-rgannett
Ultimate defensive scheme for Meyer. He is playing SKY coverage....will eventually workout a partial payout from OSU on his way out.
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