1. Plenty,why not come out with this when the divorce is final?
2. Why ask McMurphy to pay her for an interview if she's simply trying to give her side at seemingly a strange time?
3. Perhaps greasing the skids for a payday against The University or it's arrogant coach?
4. There's a big assumption that Zach Smith is 100% of the marital problem,even if he's 70% of the problem that other 30% coming from a "victim" can be preemptive and provocative.
1. If she's dependent on his child support, coming out with this when the divorce is finalized not only punishes him [loses his job] but that lost job punishes her and her kids.
1a. There's also a well-known psychological issue that happens in a lot of abuse cases, where the victim has internalized that it's their own fault, or is ashamed of it, etc. Maybe she was just so relieved that the marriage was over that she wanted to put it behind her--until he continued abusing her.
2. Maybe she's scared of where her income is going to come from now that he's been fired?
3. On what grounds? Because she's neither an employee or student it sounds like she can't sue them for anything related to Title IX. She's going to sue them for protecting him and keeping him employed, but only decides to sue after they fired him? I realize you're not a lawyer; neither am I. But if you can't articulate any legal grounds for a lawsuit, I find this hard to entertain. It sounds like wild speculation on your part.
4. Nobody has assumed that, that I'm aware of. I believe based on what we've seen, most people in this thread believe that he was physically abusive to her. That doesn't mean that she's a saint. In fact, she might be more than 50% of the problem. She might be terribly emotionally abusive, "pressing his buttons" until he gets physical in rage. I'm not going to make an assumption either way on any of that. My gut tells me that if she eventually filed for divorce, she might not be the "make him mad until he hits me and then he'll treat me nice because he's sorry" type, but that's not really material to this situation right now, is it? Not sure why that makes a difference here or leads to your "skepticism"?