(08-23-2018 08:18 AM)quo vadis Wrote: (08-23-2018 06:20 AM)bearcatfan Wrote: Did anybody really expect anything serious to come of this for Meyer/OSU?
A lot of us did. Look back two to three weeks ago and many of us said "he's gone".
We were wrong. We underestimated tOSU's desire to win football games.
Honestly I think timing saved Meyer's ass. This happened at the very end of July, give two weeks for the school to figure how bad the problem is and you are looking at mid-August with the season to start in a couple weeks. With $150M tied up in Athletics and the most important sport starting up in two weeks, they really didn't have time to make the full sweep getting rid of Meyer would entail. When you push out Meyer others will go or have to be pushed out. It would be chaos. Ten years ago when the football operation was more like a 20 people it was doable, but now that it's over 100 it's difficult.
Had this broke in November through May time frame I think they would have fired Meyer outright (if during the football season they'd have suspended him, then fired after the season). There would have been time to get a replacement staff before the next football cycle/season.
But coming at the very end of July and the decision time in August made it nearly impossible to fire Meyer without sacrificing the season. Simply too much tied up in that for tOSU to trash even one year.
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As cover ups go this is typical. It was not anything planned, just protecting an incompetent relative of a close friend. Everything was there to fall through the cracks. The picture I get is he skated on the edge of being fired for years, with bad move after bad move, but Meyer held back. There were red flags in his treatment of his wife, but what is not said by all is his wife was considered to also be unreliable also (it shows up in Shelley and Urban Meyer's minimizing or not fully believing her). Worse these things happened mostly far enough apart that he recovered his performance enough that it was forgotten. It was just enough for Meyer to use judgement on what to report when he should have reported it all. Had he done so, he probably would have terminated him back in 2015 or 2016.
But this is what conspiracy looks like. An amateur hour effort. Always believing it will clear itself up. Not fully following procedure, not recording events that should be recorded. Had the incidents been properly recorded, compliance and HR would have flagged it, 'hey this guy has too many demerits' maybe three years ago.