Just so I understand this....
-Zach Smith knocks around and strangulates pregnant wife.
-Zach smith continues to knock around wife
-Zach smith drives drunk PRIOR to publicly shaming and criticizing Nebraska coach for same issue
-Zach smith has sex with University staffer in football offices.
= Brett McMurphy is a bad guy
Makes sense
Spoken like someone who has a predetermined narrative.
Let’s say you were at least partially interested in the truth, in other words, you opened up to the possibility that not everyone is a liar that isn’t calling for Urbana scalp.
Let’s say you gave CS 100% credibility, and all others close to the situation that have spoken publicly only 25% credibility. Your above post would like more like:
-Zach smith and his wife have some kind of fight in 2009, Zach is arrested. The Meyers, attempt to help them by getting them into counseling, believing that since they are young and newlywed, it can be corrected. Meyer reports it properly to his employer, and makes the bad jusdgement of keeping him on staff.
-Zach gets hired by 2 more schools after Florida. Nobody has published anything to see how well the vetting process worked or if it was done.
- Zach and his wife are now at OSU and have a very volatile relationship. They are both seen to be drinking and losing their shit in public. She is seen at Football events drunk and belligerent. In some form or fashion, he is counseled about his performance at work and the impact of his personal life, as proven by published performance docs.
- she calls the police on him over the next few years, 8 or 9 times, with at least 2 or three of those being while she was driving erratically and he was not even around.
- the police never find a preponderance of evidence to arrest him.
- he gets an OVI, but hides it from OSU.
- this all gets blown up by McMurphy, because he didn’t like Meyer deceiving people at Big Ten Media days.
- Courtney video comes out, public outrage
- Meyer says he followed proper protocol
- the only other witnesses and relevant parties to speak indicate Courtney was the aggressor, has a drinking problem, and that Zach never hit her, only restrained her. Those three parties are her estranged mom, Zachs mom, and police reports which only indicate a complaint with no probable cause to take further action. Still, you have four sources versus one.
-now claims that Tom Hermann and his wife somehow made this go public, which is vehemently denied. However, it is not denied that the Herman’s are very close to Courtney and even loaned her $10,000, and it is reported and not disputed that Hermann and Zach, who were once pretty tight, had a falling out before Hermann left OSU, and that they had a bitter recruiting war over a Texas stud WR, which OSU won, just before this all blew up.
- lastly, information comes out, some not even substantiate, about trashy things thatSmith did relating to his sex life and doing things on campus that would clearly break all the rules.
Based on all of this, it seems more than plausible that everyone at OSU saw this relationship as extremely volatile, and anything they became aware of was reported, but they clearly talked with police and looked at whatever they could get as far as a reporting, and were in a tough spot as far as terminating him and risk of wrongful termination, until he actually WAS arrested.
The conclusion that is fair to draw now- Zach is an idiot . That was known and not disputed long ago on this board. The degree of his idiocy may be much more pronounced now.
The central question I have now, and it is really the original central issue: was it clear to Meyer that Zach hit his wife after coming on staff at OSU, and if yes did he repot it properly. If the answers are yes/ no, he should be fired. If the answer is yes/ yes, could you make the argument that he should be fired for poor judgement, and should he be fired not for cause but for poor judgement, the answer is yes, but that becomes a matter of opinion.
So it has not changed, it still comes down to what Meyer actually knew to be FACT, and what he did about it.
Is it fair to think he knew that Zach was kinky? Reasonableness says no...how could he possibly know? And in my opinion that’s what makes this latest round of McMurphy stuff trashy. It is not relevant to the Meyer investigation.
