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I find it telling that she didn't go to the media until Zach was fired. One could postulate that it was due to the money flow being shut off that caused her to break her silence. 

I have tarred and feathered Urban over on 11 Warriors.This is one thing he didn't do wrong.Courtney is hardly a wallflower or a victim and has been caught embellishing.The kids on the other hand have my compassion.Again IMO I think Urban knew if he fired Zach he wouldn't be able to support his ex and kids in a reasonably comfortable fashion.But the two of them had 6 years to sort it out and should have nipped it in the bud then.
 Jim Tressell fell on his sword and the University looked better for it.Urban should have done the same because this debacle has his finger prints all over it

There are so many different angles and such to this mess, which is why I turned off all sports coverage during the day yesterday.  A lot different views, thoughts and woulda, shoulda, coulda's.  To me, the story is so twisted and out of scope that even sports media is not sure on how to cover this, so they just throw buckets of crap, from all angles, just to keep the story going and fill air time.  For example, every single talking head at ESPN has provided us with the opinion and holy way of how they would have handled this situation.  For the most part, they are all nailing Urban Meyer to the cross and walking away saying how dishonorable a coach, mentor, and person he is, yet, under the scathing headlines of blasting him for his lack of response to domestic violence issues, they run an updated ticker of Tiger Woods golf scores and have a nice happy birthday wish for the "mamba" Kobe Bryant.  Talk about two faced and several other words I could use!

Regarding Urban's cell phone, it is striking to me how dumb people really are in this age of tech gadgets.  We are all so attached that phone, and many of us use it for just about everything in our lives, which leaves a foot print well after the delete button is used. If they wanted to really know what he had on his phone, they would have been more than able to find out, maybe not in the two week time frame, but they could have found whatever they were looking for on his phone.

As I said before, I will be very surprised if Urban Meyer is on the sidelines in Columbus next season.  He is in control of how this situation finishes up, not the media.  Anything he says in public forum will be coach speak, or the PC way in which we expect his answer to be, not the way we would really like to hear the answer.  Just once, I would love to hear a coach say it like it really should be said.  In this case, Urban Meyer looks at the reporters sitting there and says:  Yes, I f$#ked up hiring Zach Smith again, and by not firing his ass sooner than I did.  No excuses as to why, or if I could have canned him earlier, I just did not do that.  In hind sight, I should have, moving forward, I will not make that same mistake again.  IF he were to say that (legal whatever aside), I think a lot more folks would have a lot less to say! 

So much more to say, rant, babble, etc, about this, but..........my tee time awaits, and thus the start of the weekend!  

I'm saying the net effect of Meyer's action is to cover up potential DV, because he kept it out of the eyes of people who know a lot more than him about DV. The Compliance office doesn't try to tell him how to attack a fire zone blitz on 3rd and 9. But the exchange for that is that they don't expect him to determine what things are or are not DV--he's required to report it to them.

He failed to do that, and the net effect was that this entire situation was covered up until this year.

Actually it was in the hands of people who know more about DV than Meyer. It was in the hands of the police (and I could assume but not sure the hands of the DA) whose job it is to determine if DV has occur and should be charged. And DV was not charged. All compliance is going to to do is determined if University and NCAA rules have been violated and something needs to be done. And from the reading of the parts of the contract that someone above posted, I would question whether I would need to report if an arrest wasn't made. Which is what the board said, we made it clear to both Smith and Meyer that the need to report even if there is no arrest.

There continues to be a lack of understanding on the psyche of a DV victim.

Nicole Brown Simpson called 911 more frequently than Courtney, and without pushing or getting charges each time.

When the only compensation your family has is it at stake, as well as the connectivity of the family unit itself, you don’t think clearly. Courtney may have had her issues, at least through rumors we have heard that. BUT, for some on here to say the ball was in her court and she didn’t do anything about is callous. The ball was just as much in Nicole Simpson’s court too.

That is a good point, but not really relevant to the Meyer situation, I think.

Comment directed a how abused spouses may not press charges, not the later post.

Riffraft:
(1) Urban and Gene were each and separately obligated by contract to go to compliance.
(2) the idea that the police investigating is enough to peace out and do no more is outdated and incorrect. And Mary Jo White emphasized that. That too often women are abused but charges can't come because jail time is such a tough punishment, the justice system must use the strictest standards for guilt. It would be inappropriate for employers to settle for that. Which is why the contracts are written as they are
Not being found guilty criminally is not the same as being innocent. So places like OSU are designed to try better

(1) Did you not read my post? I said by my reading of the contract, I am not sure I would have reported it to compliance, Which is what the report said about Smith and Meyer. They believed that the didn't have to report it because there was no arrest, but they monitored it to see where it went. The board made it clear that even if no arrest it has to be reported.
(2) So you, like bwarbiary, whose comment I was responding to, believe that the compliance department that is designed to determine if University and NCAA policy, is better able to determine whether DV happened than the police and/or the DA. The police and the DA do not use the strictest standard of guilt to bring charges, that is for the final arbiter, the courts. The police and the DA only determine if there is enough evidence to bring charges.

Yes, we will wait and see, and I could well be wrong here and we'll see this doesn't have legs and basically goes away amidst the real news of the season starting.

I agree.  If this was two weeks from now, it is discussed less than today.   Once the season starts, there will be comments or remarks, but not the constant coverage.
btw.. as a husker fan, I felt the Baylor coverage > OSU coverage.   It probably feels, as a fan of OSU, like a constant bombardment (and we know how that feels), but Baylor was covered outside of sports and for a lot longer.   3 months from now, perhaps I'll be incorrect, but up to this point, I think the story has mostly run it's course.