Michigan released staffer after online video alleged underage solicitation

Unlucky, meaning they spun the new hire wheel and it landed on pedophile, manifest writing lunatic, and closet racist in a couple year period. What are the odds of that happening??

 Oh I forgot about the computer hacker under FBI investigations. 

How could they know? 

It's EASY. For every potential hire (Person #1), six months earlier hire someone else (Person #2) to befriend and maybe move in with #1. Then have #2 hack #1's accounts and surveil all of #1's friends and family. Finally have #2 administer a truth serum to #1.

Otherwise, as you point out, they're stuck for that kind of background info.

Hire Oz the Mentalist, he would know.

Cmon Wendy you know why!  It's sorta like that guy who would never leave you alone!!!  He would always say,"but why Wendy?"  Please tell me why!!!  Some people live their lives through the lenses of what the,"others" are doing!!!

Clearly Wendyk5's comments have more meaning for me rather than others on this board, but I remember a story that my now 45 year old daughter told me 23 years ago when she described one night during her first job as a line cook at an upscale restaurant.

At the end of a busy Friday night the staff had gathered on the rooftop and were drinking wine. Probably 10 people altogether. They started telling stories of when they had been arrested for various misdeeds and pretty much all had spent at least one night in the local lock-up. When it came time for her big reveal, she disappointed the gang as she had never been arrested for anything. They kept on pressing her, certain that there must have been something, so she finally, sheepishly disclosed that there was one time in 5th grade when she had been sent out to sit in the hallway.

Don't hire rich kids whose parents are funding a long and ongoing dream of running a football program.

Outside the cerebral palsy - Yood has a backstory strangely similar to Stallions.

There is either a lack of judgement on some of these hires or not enough scrutiny of background being done.

This is a stupid comment. In the case of this Yood character, if he had no criminal record or anything blatantly obvious on his social media (Shemy situation notwithstanding), there is no way to vet for this kind of thing. 

w/r/t Matt Weiss, again, there was no record of this kind of behavior that would have come up in a standard background check. 

And for Stalions? I suppose you could maybe infer based on some amateur psychological profiling that he would skirt the edges of the rules, but again, no record of this means there was nothing to discover. 

Any of us in hiring manager roles have made regrettable hires. It happens and there are just certain things you can't really screen for. 

You actually should read some of my other posts where I say we should aggressively go after the NCAA, the Big Ten, and ESPN with legal action, legislative remedies, and potentially leaving the conference and dissolving the rights deal that gives every member a huge windfall no matter how much value they drive.  However just because they are being irresponsible and pressing a vendetta does not mean that we are without blame for using some serious poor judgment in recent hires. Speaking up on behalf of our interests in light of unfair treatment doesn’t mean being intentionally blind or brainwashed that we bear zero responsibility for our own circumstances. 

Seriously.  As a quick refresher for anyone else (I looked it up to make sure I was remembering accurately the name 'Zach Smith'):

Brett McMurphy of Stadium reported in July 2018 that Smith's ex-wife, Courtney Smith, filed a domestic violence civil protection order against him. McMurphy outlined a history of domestic violence allegations against Smith, including when he was arrested for aggravated battery on a pregnant victim in June 2009—when Courtney Smith was pregnant—while a member of Florida's staff.

McMurphy also reported the Powell (Ohio) Police Department investigated Smith for felony counts of domestic violence and felonious assault in October 2015 but did not arrest him.

Meyer was suspended for the first three games of the 2018 season for mishandling the allegations against Smith, which McMurphy reported Meyer was aware of dating back to at least 2015.