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Plenty,why not come out with this when the divorce is final?Why ask McMurphy to pay her for an interview if she's simply trying to give her side at seemingly a strange time?

It's really not a strange time.  Ex-husband fired in very high profile position.  Reporters (McMurphy) start digging, find out about the reason for the firing and then continue digging, by going to Courtney for the "dirt"
This was probably not her idea in any way shape or form.  This was triggered by the WR coach's firing.  Not by an ex-wife with her hand out for $$$ or motivated by revenge.

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"? 

My statement would have been simple:  Zach Smith is no longer with my staff, he has been released.  I am not going to take questions related to this matter, it is a private matter at this point, and I am here to discuss the upcoming football season, the players, and games.  

Would have saved a lot of trouble!

It sure would have.  PR is just not natural to most people.  

That's the kind of judgment call that seems 100% tied to how strong they see Meyer's unlawful termination suit

I was thinking the exact same thing.  

Again - the boatload of evidence between texts,pictures,sealed police reports.Why wait until 2016 to bring the hammer down.A friend of mine got cleaned out and he and his wife had 5 children.He never laid a finger on her,yet she got everything.Maybe she and Courtney should exchange numbers.If things were that bad and they very well could have been,why not remove your children 1st and foremost?Appears she had a comfortable case along time ago,that's the case your presenting,not the remote chance what so ever she could be sticking around angling for more money?Prudence demands she get the kids out of there and file charges which she didn't do for a very long time.If Smith did even half of that I honestly hope he meets frontier justice.And they can send Urban back to the booth for all I care either.Anyway maybe we should toss back some of your homebrews and hope for divine intervention

Meanwhile: For all the shade Gene and Urban are getting, I couldn't be more impressed with how the university *seems* to be handling this. They sensed a serious and uncertain situation, began immediately with administrative leave, quickly formed a credible group of investigators, half of which are true outsiders, and have promised the public its report. 

We can only throw our hands up wondering why PSU and MSU couldn't responded so sanely. These are never times for circling the wagons.