I think they had to get out in front of it. There really is no two ways about that. If he were my client, that would be my counsel.

Where they completely shat the bed exists on two fronts:

1. Wholly and completely underestimating how big a deal this was/is (it's rape, duh), but then not even seeing how the other elements of the story (i.e., Penn State, suicide, Nat Turner) would magnify that; and,

2. Not appropriately preparing him such that he came off as the rapiest rapist that ever raped. Everything he said (save for the Ebony piece) has been so tone deaf as to double down on #1.