What Jimbo Fisher said about Karlos Williams during Friday press conference

A lot of people who don't cover Florida State on a daily basis are running with comments from Jimbo Fisher's Friday press conference after news broke Monday that Karlos Williams is being investigated for an alleged domestic battery incident. Williams' status with the team is "under review," according to an FSU statement.

Fisher was not asked about any such alleged incident, and there had been no report of any alleged incident at the time of the Friday press conference, which began at 1:30.

Fisher was asked about a report that Karlos Williams will be suspended, which was floated by Rick Ballou of Jacksonville's 1010XL radio. Ballou has broken news about Florida State in the past, and has also had some incorrect reports.

In fact, Ballou specified that it was a violation of team rules (as opposed to a crime).

Here is the entire exchange.

The question and the entire quote

Question:

"Jimbo, there was a report that Karlos was getting suspended, do you have any --"

Answer:

"No. There’s another false report, and that’s amazing how things happen," Fisher said Friday. "Whoever's got sources sources, whoever got rumors, needs to check who they are talking to – because that is about as far from truth as there is."

Nothing here concerns anything about domestic violence, Fisher was not asked about domestic violence, and did not comment on domestic violence.

To impute knowledge of any alleged incident, of which the Tallahassee Police Department did not beg investigating until 24 hours after the Friday press conference, is wrong absent evidence that Fisher knew of the alleged incident.

The report was about an unrelated matter, as the original tweets said, and Brendan Sonnone of the Orlando Sentinel confirms here.

Again, to be clear, learned through FSU that rumor of Williams suspension and alleged domestic battery were unrelated.

— Brendan Sonnone (@osfsu) October 27, 2014

And also by Corey Clark of the Tallahassee Democrat.

It doesn't speak well for Williams, obviously, but the rumors Jimbo addressed on Friday had nothing to do with domestic violence.

— Corey Clark/TDO.com (@Corey_Clark) October 27, 2014

So far, no media outlet has produced such evidence.