For some reason, the media has totally overlooked this huge part of the Ohio State situation. If the national media reported this story, it very well could mean Gene Smith's ouster and be Urban's saving grace.
I originally thought the Tom Herman/Brett McMurphy link was absurd. At this point, I question it. McMurphy has all of this information. When he read it, his response was "Wow, I will look into this." A week later, he claimed that it didn't have any relevance to the current situation. How does it not have immense relevance to it? The situation revolves around three people and their potential employment status after the investigation: Zach Smith, Urban, Gene Smith. If there is a strong, repeated pattern of Gene Smith knowing about his football coaches doing this stuff, having been told about it, yet not taking any action, it supports Urban's claim that he did tell Gene Smith about at least some of Zach's incidents and Gene, like usual, did nothing significant about it.
The only reason you would claim it has no relevance is if you wanted Urban to pay the price for it, which is what the tweet conspiracy said about Herman and McMurphy:
Gene Smith, Ohio State's AD, was formerly the AD at Iowa State. While at Iowa State, Gene hired Dan McCarney to be the head football coach (McCarney also coached at Florida under Urban). Gene hired McCarney in December of 2005. In March of 2005, just nine months earlier, McCarney's estranged wife was given a court order protecting her from Dan after she claimed he abused her. The police who responded to the call recommended charges against McCarney. Though McCarney and his estranged wife disagreed about specifics of the abuse, they did agree that he spat on her and pushed her. According to the report, the wife said this was just one of 20 to 30 instances of abuse by McCarney. Other situations included him slapping her while she was holding their five day old child, giving her a black eye after she accosted his mistress, pushing her down, pulling her hair, and spitting on her. The evidence was so damning that she was given a two year protective order, which is quite lengthy.
Even though the police recommended charges, McCarney was never charged. Why? Because, like Zach Smith's wife, McCarney's estranged wife knew it would end up hurting her children. Dan would have lost his job, and the income used to support the children would have disappeared. It’s a catch-22 for these women.
Even though the protection order was still intact, and still recent, Gene Smith hired McCarney as the head coach. When the story broke about the abuse and protective order, Gene is quoted as saying that he wasn't aware of the incident, the police report, or the protective order when he hired McCarney. Gene also was quoted as saying he was "embarrassed" upon finding it out.
At this point, it shows a consistent pattern of Gene Smith not doing his due diligence on hires and/or his pattern of not taking abuse allegations seriously. And even after finding out about the protective order which was still in effect, Gene decided to retain McCarney as his head coach.
If you can access The Des Moines Register on March 15, 1995 (free trial on newspapers.com), you can read a scathing editorial supporting the firing of McCarney. Then, on March 19th, you can read letters to the editor both supporting and against his firing. Those articles give a little more insight into the incident, but I am sure the actual police report is better.
But, regarding Gene, it doesn’t stop there. Gene then moved on to Arizona State. Four months into his tenure there, he hired Dirk Koetter to be the head football coach. How did Gene’s coach there handle sexual assaults, sexual harassment, and threats of violence against females? Well, this story breaks it down, including a murder resulting from inaction of assaulting females:
https://www.bucsnation.com/2016/1/1...-fostered-an-environment-of-sexual-harassment
There is a repeated pattern of Gene Smith not holding his head football coaches accountable for violence against females regardless if the assaults are committed by the head coaches, assistant coaches, or student-athletes.
I originally thought the Tom Herman/Brett McMurphy link was absurd. At this point, I question it. McMurphy has all of this information. When he read it, his response was "Wow, I will look into this." A week later, he claimed that it didn't have any relevance to the current situation. How does it not have immense relevance to it? The situation revolves around three people and their potential employment status after the investigation: Zach Smith, Urban, Gene Smith. If there is a strong, repeated pattern of Gene Smith knowing about his football coaches doing this stuff, having been told about it, yet not taking any action, it supports Urban's claim that he did tell Gene Smith about at least some of Zach's incidents and Gene, like usual, did nothing significant about it.
The only reason you would claim it has no relevance is if you wanted Urban to pay the price for it, which is what the tweet conspiracy said about Herman and McMurphy:
Gene Smith, Ohio State's AD, was formerly the AD at Iowa State. While at Iowa State, Gene hired Dan McCarney to be the head football coach (McCarney also coached at Florida under Urban). Gene hired McCarney in December of 2005. In March of 2005, just nine months earlier, McCarney's estranged wife was given a court order protecting her from Dan after she claimed he abused her. The police who responded to the call recommended charges against McCarney. Though McCarney and his estranged wife disagreed about specifics of the abuse, they did agree that he spat on her and pushed her. According to the report, the wife said this was just one of 20 to 30 instances of abuse by McCarney. Other situations included him slapping her while she was holding their five day old child, giving her a black eye after she accosted his mistress, pushing her down, pulling her hair, and spitting on her. The evidence was so damning that she was given a two year protective order, which is quite lengthy.
Even though the police recommended charges, McCarney was never charged. Why? Because, like Zach Smith's wife, McCarney's estranged wife knew it would end up hurting her children. Dan would have lost his job, and the income used to support the children would have disappeared. It’s a catch-22 for these women.
Even though the protection order was still intact, and still recent, Gene Smith hired McCarney as the head coach. When the story broke about the abuse and protective order, Gene is quoted as saying that he wasn't aware of the incident, the police report, or the protective order when he hired McCarney. Gene also was quoted as saying he was "embarrassed" upon finding it out.
At this point, it shows a consistent pattern of Gene Smith not doing his due diligence on hires and/or his pattern of not taking abuse allegations seriously. And even after finding out about the protective order which was still in effect, Gene decided to retain McCarney as his head coach.
If you can access The Des Moines Register on March 15, 1995 (free trial on newspapers.com), you can read a scathing editorial supporting the firing of McCarney. Then, on March 19th, you can read letters to the editor both supporting and against his firing. Those articles give a little more insight into the incident, but I am sure the actual police report is better.
But, regarding Gene, it doesn’t stop there. Gene then moved on to Arizona State. Four months into his tenure there, he hired Dirk Koetter to be the head football coach. How did Gene’s coach there handle sexual assaults, sexual harassment, and threats of violence against females? Well, this story breaks it down, including a murder resulting from inaction of assaulting females:
https://www.bucsnation.com/2016/1/1...-fostered-an-environment-of-sexual-harassment
There is a repeated pattern of Gene Smith not holding his head football coaches accountable for violence against females regardless if the assaults are committed by the head coaches, assistant coaches, or student-athletes.
