Ok how's this...
ESPN is now taking the tract "we have to let the story unfold." Which is fine. But where was such level-headed reporting back in 2011 - 2012? Moreover, the silence is deafening coming out of Columbus. I smell a cover-up in the making. As an tOSU employee Shelley Meyer is a mandatory reporter. That means she needn't tell her husband directly but she had best run it up her chain of command or that constitutes 'lack of institutional control'. The question at bar is as follows: is the act of battery on a woman any less egregious than child abuse?
IMO these words speak volumes as to what the priority is over there at the Ohio State...
"(Courtney) Smith also said that Hiram de Fries, who has the title of special assistant to the head coach at Ohio State and has been a confidant of Urban Meyer for years, told her in 2009 not to pursue charges against Zach Smith after an incident in Florida. Meyer was the Gators' head coach at the time; Smith was an intern on his staff.
'[De Fries] said, 'If you don't drop the charges, Zach will never coach again,' Courtney Smith told McMurphy. 'He's never hit you before. He was drinking. He'll probably never do it again. You should think about giving him a second chance.'
Courtney Smith said she felt the Meyers should have done more to help her. 'When somebody is crying out for help, I believe the coach, along with the coach's wife, have a duty,' Courtney Smith said in the Stadium video. 'They have a duty to do something to help, instead of worrying about winning games, or instead of worrying about who his mentor is and who his family is and trying to protect that, somebody's safety and the safety of their children and the environment they're in needs to be more important.'"
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24255877/people-meyer-knew-15-case