Some folks are held to higher standards. Coaches are among those folks, especially those making $6 million a year at one of the biggest institutions and entities in the nation.

The university relies on attendance (students), donors and attempts to mitigate or control damaging issues. This is one of them. LIke any big entity, universities also have their own rules and policies.


When Mike Price was fired at Alabama for his club-stripper-whatever shenanigans, the Board of Trustees was split about it. Several of them did not want to cut him loose, essentially saying he didn't do anything they could prove and it would all blow over since They Were Alabama. That was the gist: we're bigger than this and it'll all blow over and we'll control this. Fortunately, the sane people overruled them and they fired Price, weathered the 3-4 years and came out far better.

Keeping Price would've been disastrous for multiple reasons: loss of trust, fans being unrelenting, media, parents of players and recruiting, donations, overall the donations as UA was trying to build its finances and campus renovations then and future, and at the least having a coach who publicly sullied the name and reputation. So you pay the guy (or don't pay him, depending on the contract language) and move on.

OSU's in that same boat looking at recruiting, donations, constant public ridicule - far worse than a coach with a stripper or whore, like Ol' Goob at Ole Sis - and other considerations. If they fire him they'll move on and be fine. If they keep him, IMO they're asking for a lot of trouble and it won't end well.