Ohio State suspends coach Urban Meyer, AD Gene Smith

[atlantacowboy]

You can use all the hyperbole you want. The law doesn't give a rats azz about your opinion. When he signed that contract, it became a binding legal agreement and he was required to perform according to its terms. Period.

My friends, and even my family, should know if they beat their wife, I'm not covering for them. They can, and should, go to jail. If I got wind that someone working for me was beating their wife, there'd be one, count 'em, one discussion. Next time I hear about it and its proven - they're done. Adios.

There are things that are right, and there are things that are wrong. Beating your wife is pretty black and white to me. I come from a family where my father got out of his car at an intersection, opened the door to a stranger's car, pulled the woman being beaten from the car, reached across and punched the man in the drivers' seat in the face. He then drove her home. We have absolutely no, and I mean no, tolerance for that crap.

They cannot retroactively enforce the contract he signed earlier this year. Sorry but that is just not how " the law" you keep citing works. Urban did not beat his wife or anyone else's wife. So, you can drop that strawman argument, but thats a very brave and passionate stance you have taken on violence against women. Really stuck your neck out there. lol

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

One problem with that statement

The basic constitutional right is that you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

A public university is not a court of law, and does not have to give you the presumption of innocence before doling out punishment under its own rules of conduct.

There is a lot wrong here. Universities do have to abide by the Law, especially publicly funded Universities.

 

[dargonking999]

There is a lot wrong here. Universities do have to abide by the Law, especially publicly funded Universities.

I’m thinking you misunderstood

if a faculty members conduct violates university policy then they are subject to punishment by that university, regardless of whether or not said conduct is proven illegal in a court of law. Public university or not, they are not putting someone in jail, hence they have no reason to prove guilt, or obligation to assume innocence. Only that there was a violation of policy.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I’m thinking you misunderstood

if a faculty members conduct violates university policy then they are subject to punishment by that university, regardless of whether or not said conduct is proven illegal in a court of law. Public university or not, they are not putting someone in jail, hence they have no reason to prove guilt, or obligation to assume innocence. Only that there was a violation of policy.

I'm thinking it was stated poorly in the other post but I'm easy, we can go with I misunderstood.

Either way, it doesn't matter if it's a rule the faculty has or not. They are still subject to laws and even more so if they are publicly funded, as Ohio State University is. You can't punish anybody in such a way as to go against established rule of law.