How many of those were the texts that he conspired with his Director of Football Operations to delete?
When one's first compulsion at the beginning of an investigation is to destroy evidence ... it's forever fair to speculate about their lying.
Not sure your context at this juncture? If a debate is like a chess game, your working on the Knight you took at the beginning.
The texts are reason enough to terminate, but I add the general concept of inaction versus just warning, on terminating ZS.
The texts bother me the most. What or why are you hiding? Not reporting to compliance, bothers me only from the Gene Smith angle, now that the report shows that Title IV person knew, and HR WAS informed. If there was not clarity around compliance needing in, which is understandable for a criminal case, I hold Gene sole responsible for that. For god sakes your the AD!
To me, the situation is intuitively easy to see here. He probably deleted them because he knew his wife had sent him some texts some time ago, probably knew they were going to not help. But, the thing that nobody, besides the committee- who danced around it mostly- is not talking about is that Meyer, his wife, Gene Smith, and many others- simply had enough of their own evidence to question CS credibility.
They simply didn’t want to fire ZS based on the evidence they had ( police reports, etc)
Didn’t the incident in09 happen at Meyers house, after a dinner party? And were there witnesses? I think this only contributed.
If you want to blast any man for not taking a DV claim as gospel, just because it is made, then yes, blast away. My gut tells me many and possibly most of the people criticizing Urban would have struggled with that part of this....the claims of DV. It’s just political suicide to admit it. Again, you don’t hear the talking heads screaming for Gene’s scalp.. why is that?...