I think what's saddest to me is that I see a lot of "internet comments" that talk about the wife-in-question: she was crazy, she wasn't credible, etc. This is pretty standard for any case of abuse, and it sucks. It sucks even more in this case because this investigation wasn't even about that. It was about whether or not Urban Meyer followed protocol, which he did not. They gave four different excuses as to why he said he didn't know when he did. None of them explain clearly why protocol was abandoned.
It doesn't really matter if the wife's claims were false (even though we know, without a doubt, abuse happened... Meyer even reported on it at UF) People have to believe women and follow protocol. I'm still genuinely surprised that most of this country fails to understand that.
I think that makes all of this even worse is that, by giving him a suspension, it's them admitting guilt while also showing that they don't actually give a shit about protocol when dealing with abuse.