I have a little different take on things. Yep, the program is in distress. It is disturbing that we don't know much. But Joe C said that they were investigating the matter. It appears that enough smoke was around an assistant coach that he was forced out. But they are not going to tell us anything about the Tiny thing until they get to the bottom. The NCAA has not announced an investigation. Given the Bomar thing they are probably waiting for OU to self-report since Joe C has proven himself to be pretty good at self reporting. So we are not going to be told anything more than the NCAA will find out and most likely won't find out much less than that.
As far as Jeff goes, this assistant thing hit him right in the crunch time of recruiting. I am sure that he is spending every waking and some sleeping hour trying to salvage something of a recruiting class. This is the critical path for salvaging the program. Holding fans hands can wait until he has done the best he can with recruiting.
Also, most of the world does not live and die by message board or sports gossip or information. While the delay is causing us pain, we are not very big in the grand scheme of things. Jeff and Joe will get around to us. In the meantime, Jeff and the basketball staff should be spending all of their time trying to get us viable basketball players. All of the rumors coming out is making it easy for negative recruitment of potential players by our competition. He can't attack those rumors in public. He has to attack them directly with the recruits.
It has been said that you can't judge the purpose or outcome of a trial by its beginning or its middle. You can only judge a trial after it has run its course. But I would bet that next year is not going to be nearly as bad as we think it will be. Just like last year was no where as good as some imagined it would be.
