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Hits just keep on coming.According to 11 Warriors Zack Smith is saying he spent the night at the Strip Club in 2014 with Tom Herman using the Company Card.I just wish Meyer had stepped down his protege Smith is leaving steaming piles everywhere

Hits just keep on coming.According to 11 Warriors Zack Smith is saying he spent the night at the Strip Club in 2014 with Tom Herman using the Company Card.I just wish Meyer had stepped down his protege Smith is leaving steaming piles everywhere

Pretty sure it was at his own expense.   

so, if you spend your own money that came from a university issued paycheck it makes everything OK????

heck, you can't even spend money the guy next to you earned from his paycheck if that guy is deemed a "booster"

5 games off for tatoos or 4 games for autographs is worse than 3 games for whatever Meyer did, except for the fact Meyer loses a chunk of cash.  

The NCAA looks at "impermissible benefits" rather sternly of course, it seems to be a main part of their enforcement ourside Oxford, MS.

Many here have commented that the game itself has a sickness that may over time alter it to an extent we won't recognize or kill it entirely.

These things don't help obviously.

None of this makes any sense to me...

Urban [in contravention to what he said] didn't report the 2015 incident to compliance. But clearly it was MORE than on his radar, as he and Gene monitored it for "a series of months". Did nothing.

Urban was aware of at least some of his lewd behavior and other transgressions outside of that incident. Did nothing.

Urban was aware of truancy, drug abuse [and non-completion of rehab], dishonesty, financial irresponsibility, and possible NCAA infractions. Did nothing.

Gene Smith, Urban's boss, recommended getting rid of him. Did nothing.

This makes no sense.

A 3 week suspension is what you give someone who did the bare minimum in his job but perhaps could have done more. It appears Urban was well aware of many of the transgressions, mostly kept them swept under the rug, was even recommended by his boss to cut the guy loose, and continued to protect him at EVERY turn. 

That shows he lacks the decision-making skills necessary to actually lead a complete college football program. 

I think the only hanging chad is that female subordinate of Zach's who (1) he had a sexual relationship with and who (2) was then switched to another department. Without more info, it doesn't make sense to speculate on specific outcomes, but there are several ways for that to become a bad story.

Many, MANY ways for that to become a bad story.
I don't think there's any issue with the tawdry portion of having his sex toys shipped to his office, as long as he didn't use them in his office. I don't think there's necessarily any issue with going to a strip club, whether it was with Tom Herman or not, as long as it was on his own dime. [There could be NCAA issues if he took an HS coach, but I don't really know on that.]
But if he was screwing a staffer, possibly one with which he enjoyed some sort of power imbalance as a member of the coaching staff, and they transferred her while keeping him on staff? That could get ugly. Especially if they transferred her to protect her from his aggressive, jealous, or potentially violent behavior... But if that were the case, then this could become a nuclear story.

And I don't get Gene Smith... Do you have control of your athletic department, or not?

After 2015, after truancy, after [failed] rehab, you tell Urban "Fire Zack Smith, or I will do it for you." 

You don't "recommend" he get rid of him, and when Urban continues to protect him, let it slide.