Sorry, but that is way too easy of an out for ESPN considering they waited too long when this story initially broke. Jumping on follow up is not an excuse for how much they have decided not to cover about this story and other Meyer issues dating back to Florida.
Much like Pruitt at Tennessee. The crap that he did at Georgia was unreal. ESPN was beyond nervous when David Pollack made reference to it at SEC media days, in response to a tweet from Arron Murray.
I will agree that the Florida stuff gets stunningly little coverage from any media and don't have an answer for you there.
I'm just not seeing where ESPN is intentionally suppressing this Ohio St coverage. I'm not even arguing whether or not they should talk about it more. That's a legitimate debate. I'm just arguing that I don't think they're making a concerted effort to "protect" Ohio St. I have yet to see anyone lay out the specific way that covering the story more or less will impact ESPN financially in any way.
They may indeed be wrong in not talking about it even more, but I think there are legitimate explanations that can be made for that without jumping to some of the other theories that some people have put out there.
And I've been very critical of ESPN college football coverage at times in the past, particularly the 2014 playoff debacle where they trotted out 17 different former OSU players to give us their thoughts. I'm just not seeing it here.