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If people who get arrested never get to be coaches, Michigan would have a different coach.

And a different Asst.Athletic Director 

How old are Courtney & Zach Smith's children.I can't imagine if they are school age they won't get this skeleton dragged out in front of them.I really.really hope/pray not - no kid should put up with that

They are 8 and 6. It is too easy to find that. 

Nice read Nubbzzzzzzz

So here’s a question. Let’s assume this goes the way we think. Within a few days, Urban is back coaching OSU. Will we feel the system worked?

Urban will have lost time with the team, but the actual punishment will be minimal. The university will have taken its time, made its judgement. Maybe there’s a great dunping of positive OSU evidence, though it’ll probably take some good questions to media to bring that out. Maybe not.

I guess at the end, will those inside the OSU camp see it as a virulent question coming up and being dealt with, or as an injustice of sorts that it happened at all? And those more prone to be skeptical of OSU, will there be a sense of closure in the right process having been completed?

I'm expecting some type of fine that becomes a donation.  I think there will be some promises going forward and new "policies".   I'm not sure what would be justice here as I don't see a clear answer. 

If people who get arrested never get to be coaches, Michigan would have a different coach.

Sure, if, then that. But that wasn't my if. Tolerating a serial abuser was my if.

Courtney’s mom,s current and up to date take do NOT corroborate Courtney’s take.   The texts from back then do, but how do we know those were not just spur of the moment emotional reactions- changed now that her mom has witnessed real situations ( as she says) were Zach was more trying to escape when she was drunk, and was the aggressor.
Lastly- nobody is claiming Zack is not a bad character.  Tim May went on Finebaum yesterday and clearly stated OSU was in the process of terminating Zach before McMurphy’s report came out, and also that the investigation already knew about the sex toys and affair with an OSU employee before McMurphy put that out.
https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2018/08/95485/columbus-dispatchs-tim-may-tells-paul-finebaum-he-wouldnt-be-surprised-if-urban-meyer-was-back-with-the-team-by  

All I said was that the texts corroborate the events. The ones from Courtney's mom establish that the mom believed Zach was a serial abuser. Full stop. The ones from Courtney are consistent with both she believing Zach is a serial abuser and he is essentially agreeing (certainly not denying). Full stop. Of course, none of these parties knew their texts would later become evidence. But I didn't call them proof. I called them corroborative. 
They are a piece of documentation consistent with all the most negative narratives about Zach.
You are trying surprisingly hard to make it seem Zach Smith was not a good guy and not an awful guy but a juuuuust good enough guy to definitely deserve his job. When talking with people outside of Ohio (and, for obvious reasons, let's exclude Michigan), that's going to be lonely for you.

So here’s a question. Let’s assume this goes the way we think. Within a few days, Urban is back coaching OSU. Will we feel the system worked?

Urban will have lost time with the team, but the actual punishment will be minimal. The university will have taken its time, made its judgement. Maybe there’s a great dunping of positive OSU evidence, though it’ll probably take some good questions to media to bring that out. Maybe not.

I guess at the end, will those inside the OSU camp see it as a virulent question coming up and being dealt with, or as an injustice of sorts that it happened at all? And those more prone to be skeptical of OSU, will there be a sense of closure in the right process having been completed?

It's, capital T, The question. I have to imagine it all depends on the report we see. Was the investigation exhaustive and logical? And what did it turn up that we don't already know?