HWTB, you're funny! (being serious) “Three women Nick has slept with claiming that two other women Nick has slept with are lying about the details of the sleeping. How would they even know? Doubt they would be there when it happened.” My only objection is that I think it is 3 women vs 1, though, and the 5th “just” endured longer awkward hugs along with the injections. You raise a central point, though.. who knows for sure about any of this. Is one accusation of rape against a person (who absolutely undeniably has jacked up issues) enough? To be sure, It’s a clusterf.
Thank you for asking about my statements (that you bolded). When Shakespeare wrote, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” I doubt he thought he would be taken quite so literally in Huntington. Going by the police report, Dirr was in the middle of everything. Needless to say, if others came forward, that would make a big difference on how things would go, but I felt it was very odd that Woods did not mention Dirr at all. Of course, it could have been that she was traumatized, etc. and didn’t want to come out (which would be totally understandable). But, now that she has, and it is clear that she has a different take / experience (and I believe it’s likely she told Woods as much, or he knew better than to ask at the direction of the plaintiffs), then I find Wood’s investigation and expose to be on about the same level as the latest news report investigation and interviews. Another unfortunate aspect to all this, imo.
You would be correct in saying that I really don’t know (especially given the latest turn of events) who’s friends with who. I imagine it’s evolving. As others have already mentioned above, some of what I asserted was in the police report. Victim1 (I think we can be pretty confident who victim1 is) at the time of the police interviews did not feel great about Dirr. Said she “hated” her one time, and then on another occasion said that she really disliked Dirr, and that Dirr was mean to her. Victim1 said that Stoffel was nicer to her, but in a pity-ing kind of way.
Dirr, Stoffel, and Wilson were all multi National Champions and All-Americans for the team. I believe it likely that they shared many of the same goals and training runs, but I have no video or documented proof of this. Dirr and Stoffel were both part of the 2020 National Meet winning DMR squad and between the 2 of them scored like 60-something of the team’s 80-ish points to win the team indoor championship (this can be found in a Huntington County Tab news article). Also, Dirr not only ran with Wilson, but they were also roommates for Dirr’s last semester, and there is a picture where they look like close friends (from a facebook article). So, I can’t say that they are bff’s, but I don’t believe it’s a stretch to say that they were friends. Going back to the police report, at some point Victim1 expressed concern about being on the team with Dirr and Stoffel, and NJ said to not worry and that they would “make room”. As for Dirr’s engagement, there is an easy-to-find engagement/registry site. They were engaged in 2019, all this went down, and then they did not get married. In short, I can not provide a single news article where Dirr responds to questions saying, “Yeah, me and Hannah-bo-bannah Stoffel-waffle are besties fo life!” and “Yeah, my fiance wasn’t the most stoked I've seen him when he found out that coach and I “bumped uglies” on the regular.” But, I think it is very reasonable to draw these conclusions. You may certainly hold a different opinion (of course), and that’s ok!