I don’t really get why the evidence is specious, other than us Illinois fans wanting it to be. Not a lawyer, not an expert. I’ve read a fair amount but not all of the public facts that have come out on Twitter and elsewhere surrounding the case. The amount of people on Illini message boards pointing to things like lack of video evidence or witnesses like that’s a common thing for sexual assault cases is confusing. Also a lot of “he seems like such a nice guy in interviews,” stuff like we haven’t been through this with celebrities with previously clean images before.
I hope it’s not true, because that would mean the accuser was subjected to something awful and traumatic. But, given what we know about how infrequent false accusations of sexual assault are, the rush to poke holes in the case feels very uncomfortable.