After the lawyered-up statement portion of Ohio State’s press conference concluded Wednesday night, Ohio State president Michael Drake uttered the most honest sentences of the entire proceedings in response to a question as to why it took 10 hours of deliberation for Drake and Ohio State’s Board of Trustees to decide to suspend football coach Urban Meyer and athletic director Gene Smith.
“This is one of those circumstances where there is no right answer. It’s very difficult to—it’s not possible—to do something that makes everyone happy,” Drake said. “So in that circumstance, we’re trying not to seek the sole perfect answer for everyone, but to be fair, to be just, to be equitable, to be appropriate and to do what we can to make our program stronger.