On the coaches supposedly trying to make this case go away. I really, really hope that's not true. I will say though, where there is smoke, there is fire. How many times has something been posted here, people freak out about it and cry false rumor - only for it later to happen exactly how the original poster portrayed it?
Many, many times.
I don't think it's "many, many", and I don't think it's more than when something gets posted here, people call it a false rumor, and it later turns out to be really nothing but a false rumor. See the recent ISU coaching searches...I'd have to use my fingers and toes to count up all the different names that were flung around as ISU's next head FB coach.