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This is a fascinating part of this because I'd argue, in our hearts, we really usually don't want to know the truth.
In a post farther back, you lashed out at an "unbalanced" report, the balance of which can be discussed within the confines of journalistic balance and what balance means when someone's not talking at a later point. But we know the truth isn't balanced. If a pregnant woman got bounced off a wall, that it was charged or not has only a slight bearing on if it happened. Truth is something that did or didn't happen. They're both crazy and tie goes to this is overblown isn't a question of truth.
In the end, there are many truths we don't and won't know. So we fill in, often with our own biases or what we'd like it to be.
And in a larger sense, we really don't want truth. The truth is, large portions of the coaches and players we root for are truly unpleasant people. They are powerful, ultracompetitive and often came up in situations of being emotionally coddled and allow to get away with things. I doubt Zach Smith's boorish and fireable behavior is deeply rare (maybe rare to that complete degree). But we whitewash it because we like liking this sport, and thinking too hard about it can make that hard. The man who built my team to prominence was an enormous egomaniacal jerk, and his replacement was petulant, sometimes immature and always rumored to be making s drunken mess of himself. They made the team do the things I wanted and it was never so egregious, so I made peace with it. To a degree, lord knows we did with Urbs, we all do.

I can only speak for myself, not the “we” you frequently throw out there.
I DO want to know what Meyer’s role in this was, very specifically.  I KNOW what I would do in certain situations, but not all. If he had certain, irrefutable information and did not do the right things about it, I would feel strongly he should be held accountable.
As others have said, if he is hypocritical on this topic of hitting women- again assuming there was certainty about that.....bye bye.
As for balanced reporting - I copied this from another article:
I'll refer to Society of Professional Journalism's Code of Ethics: 1) Balance the public’s need for information against potential harm or discomfort. Pursuit of the news is not a license for arrogance or undue intrusiveness. 2) Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity, even if others do.

If you think the crap McMurphy is spewing is even remotely relevant to this investigation of Meyer and OSU, than we just flat out are in opposite worlds. 

By the end of the day, 2015 became more widely circulated news. And OSU quickly fired Smith within 60 minutes of McMurphy's second report that day (still before Urban ever took the podium).

It was my understanding from everything read,what % is accurate is yet to be determined,that Admn(Gene Smith?) knew about 2015 & '18.Zach's firing skids could have already been greased and happen to coincide with Media Days,press releases.I don't know how Urban couldn't know about it unless because charges previously hadn't been filed & police reports sealed they felt no need to tell him.I'm thinking Gene and Urban get shown the door.I pisses me off that URBZ could walk away with a healthy payday.Again though this is about Urbz/Ath.Dept's inaction more than Courtney playing victim.She has been proven a liar(abou Earle Bruce) and did indeed play the system for more coin.Screaming wolf only when the well run dry

I could have done without the $2,000 in adult toys being delivered to the football offices. He’s a creepy dude, that needs to be removed from society, but we knew that before this.

However, if evidence or a video comes available of an assistant football coach, already embroiled in a major scandal btw, sleeping with a subordinate admin assistant in the football offices, that’s a reportable story 100x out of 100.

It also sounds like this was another individual that shared this info, not Courtney Smith. Zach Smith ripped through Columbus like an F5 tornado for a decade. Now that the doors have blown open, people are lining up to share what they have.

Who knew what when is for the investigative body to figure out, but for the time being Zach Smith is public enemy #1, not McMurphy. 

Screaming fake news, calling McMurphy a “POS”, and mocking Michigan for whatever they finished last year in the West is the wrong place to direct your anger on here

(1) It's not reasonable to believe that Urban's responsibilities here shouldn't activate unless the info he received was exactly "irrefutable." That burden of proof is far higher than "beyond a reasonable doubt." Zeroing in on that word, saying he's off if the evidence wasn't purely irrefutable, insulates you, no matter what we realistically learn this week, from ever having to change your mind.

(2) Some people are defending Smith and some don't think he should have been fired. Reporting about his sleeping with staff, photoing his genitalia, etc. is directly relevant to each of those items.

(2a) It continues to go to character (he is alleged to have very *frequently* engaged creepy and trashy behaviors).
(2b) It also strengthens the case that he stopped deserving his job years ago.

So, see Nubzz post above about the very different versions.  You have multiple people saying Courtney spoke often of brining Meyer down, and being very violent herself. It appears, and I acknowledge this is not fact, the police were not inclined to press charges.
Now I agree with you about the “black and white” of irrefutable being a high standard.
But if OSU investigated the 15 incident and got wildly varying versions of what if anything happened, and the police would only tell them the evidence does not support her claims, I am not sure you could ask OSU to do much, and certainly not Meyer.

This was only my second post in this thread. I knew what it would be, and stayed out of it. I'm just laughing at how you were whining and crying about not being able to post here anymore because of all the subtle jabs that the big mean OSU posters were taking at Michigan during the Hoke and Rich Rod years, and how you would never conduct your behavior in such a manner.
Enjoy your annual third place finish in the B1G East, assuming you can even pull that off (fourth place last year).

Actually, i have posted considerably less because I had two beautiful children and started a business. I found my time spent with my family and my career much more precious. When I began posting on CFN nearly 18 years ago, the forum was filled with class acts that loved the game. Gator, Badge, BbTZ and others had differing opinions but great respect. When I see someone like you posting like you are, it’s a quick reminder why my time is well spent on family and business.

I can only speak for myself, not the “we” you frequently throw out there.
I DO want to know what Meyer’s role in this was, very specifically.  I KNOW what I would do in certain situations, but not all. If he had certain, irrefutable information and did not do the right things about it, I would feel strongly he should be held accountable.
As others have said, if he is hypocritical on this topic of hitting women- again assuming there was certainty about that.....bye bye.
As for balanced reporting - I copied this from another article:
I'll refer to Society of Professional Journalism's Code of Ethics: 1) Balance the public’s need for information against potential harm or discomfort. Pursuit of the news is not a license for arrogance or undue intrusiveness. 2) Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity, even if others do.

If you think the crap McMurphy is spewing is even remotely relevant to this investigation of Meyer and OSU, than we just flat out are in opposite worlds.

I say we because by and large most people prefer to see their coaches and players as good people. If you'd always thought Urban was to a degree a bad dude, I happily retract the "we"
Your use of "balanced" was not what I was expecting. Usually in this context, it's about feeling a story was less down the middle. I didn't expect it to go toward the balance of privacy vs. right to know. 
I could probably make an argument both ways. It doesn't go toward the narrow story of did Urbs send spousal abuse allegations up the chain. It speaks to a superior deciding to employ someone who seems like a mess at a job that pays $400,000 of semi-public monies. The amazon thing is lurid. The White House thing shows unreal poor judgement. The sex acts in the office with a subordinate is the kind of thing that can get a lot of folks fired. 
I can agree the sex toy thing is undue intrusiveness, and about 78 percent agree the White House thing sort of is. 

It's true. The timing with the McMurphy piece could have been a coincidence. Or, even if the OSU brass already knew, the McMurphy report could merely have been the thing that brought enough negative PR to force them to act (fire Zach).

No such thing as coincidences like this.