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Topic: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Topic: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

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ytownbobcat
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OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/22/2018 9:18:50 PM

pretty much what was expected. Severe enough to satisfy most detractors and not severe enough to negatively effect their football season.

Maddog13
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/22/2018 9:52:14 PM

ytownbobcat wrote:

pretty much what was expected. Severe enough to satisfy most detractors and not severe enough to negatively effect their football season.

Thank, God, the integrity of the OSU Football program has been redeemed!!!

C Money
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/22/2018 9:59:53 PM

What I want to know is the dirt Gene Smith has on the osu Board of Trustees. There is no excuse for his continued employment.

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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/22/2018 10:28:05 PM

Maddog13 wrote:

ytownbobcat wrote:

pretty much what was expected. Severe enough to satisfy most detractors and not severe enough to negatively effect their football season.

Thank, God, the integrity of the OSU Football program has been redeemed!!!

If they win the first three games and make the playoffs this will be long forgotten by year�s end.

BillyTheCat
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/22/2018 10:34:51 PM

I�m just glad our coaches have never been in any trouble.

Buckeye to Bobcat
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 12:47:16 AM

BillyTheCat wrote:

I�m just glad our coaches have never been in any trouble.

My how short memories are.....

http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=2240823

bobcatsquared
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 5:34:48 AM

I'm amazed posters still don't pick up on BTC's sarcasm.

mf279801
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 7:59:02 AM

Buckeye to Bobcat wrote:

BillyTheCat wrote:

I�m just glad our coaches have never been in any trouble.

My how short memories are.....

http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=2240823

https://goo.gl/images/X8Woqz

Buckeye to Bobcat
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 9:27:41 AM

mf279801 wrote:

Buckeye to Bobcat wrote:

BillyTheCat wrote:

I�m just glad our coaches have never been in any trouble.

My how short memories are.....

http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=2240823

https://goo.gl/images/X8Woqz

God dangit.....(facepalms self)

I apologize to all of BA for my lack of sarcasm reading. I volunteer to go for a swim in Siberia and when I am done taking laps with my pet tigers in Siberia I will return to the land of the living.

cc-cat
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 9:46:05 AM

Just another example of how our society has jumped the shark. we now have alternative facts. the truth isn�t the truth. and I didn�t knowingly lie. absurd. Would any of you except that from your 10-year-old? yet we except it from adults.

SBH
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 10:11:10 AM

I had predicted a 3-game suspension, so yea for me.

Having just read the report, I strongly believe Meyer should have been fired. I'm guessing Drake and a few board members wanted to do just that, but were ultimately outnumbered by sycophants.

Maddog13
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 10:45:51 AM

Some well deserved backlash coming out of twitter and the media over Ohio State's cowardly handling of all of this. If I was Mr. Meyer, I would start winning back to back National Championships and in a hurry.

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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 11:01:29 AM

I'm still having a hard time understanding a logical reason for firing. Can someone advocating for that provide their thoughts on why they feel so strongly about it?

SBH
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 11:13:36 AM

Read the report. One biggie is fact that when story came out, his first act was to kill old text messages. Surely they were from his wife, who had photos of the wounds.

Deciduous Forest Cat
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 3:08:38 PM

I am searching high and low, but I'm having a hard time finding the f***s I give about this story.

J.B.Hoy
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 4:37:16 PM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

I am searching high and low, but I'm having a hard time finding the f***s I give about this story.

While I agree with you DFC, I think Canzano puts this into perspective for College football as a whole (mostly):
https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/...

Deciduous Forest Cat
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 5:07:04 PM

J.B.Hoy wrote:

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

I am searching high and low, but I'm having a hard time finding the f***s I give about this story.

While I agree with you DFC, I think Canzano puts this into perspective for College football as a whole (mostly):
https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/...

And that's exactly why. osu loves the attention regardless of the reason. They're like trump. it's just another reason to get their blind supporters to dig in deeper. They don't actually care how it looks, they just feed on the attention.

rpbobcat
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 6:55:46 PM

Mike Francessa summed up the OSU investigation pretty well this afternoon.

All it needed to say was 73 - 8

colobobcat66
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 7:27:53 PM

Well, the new defense in all cases will be-�I didn�t deliberately lie�. Well done,The Ohio State.

Bobcat1996
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 9:21:51 PM

Please move on as this is a Bobcat website, not a Buckeye website. Go OHIO!

Pataskala
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 9:57:04 PM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

I am searching high and low, but I'm having a hard time finding the f***s I give about this story.

How about that this whole matter involves employees of a state university and that some of the more disgusting things occurred at the state university? Using state property for lewd pictures and to receive sex toys implicates state ethics laws and may be a criminal violation.

How about the fact that between July 24 and Aug 2 Meyer deleted text messages that were more than a year old, even though he likely knew that they could be relevant to any investigation regarding Zach Smith's firing? There was already a news story about why Zach Smith was fired, so there would likely be more internal or external interest. It at least looks like a cover-up and could be a violation of state ethics laws.

How about the fact that Zach Smith apparently had behavior issues dating back to 2009 but Meyer and Gene Smith didn't put anything in writing or follow reporting protocols until a month ago? Here's a guy who had daily contact with the kids they were responsible for, and the only thing they did was advise him to get some help. Granted, his worst behavior allegedly was targeted toward his ex-wife. But he displayed some pretty erratic behavior in other areas. They should have done more to address his issues and protect the players.

And of course this incident raises the question: what else may be going on that's been successfully pushed under the rug so far?

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

cc-cat
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/23/2018 9:57:30 PM

OhioStunter wrote:

I'm still having a hard time understanding a logical reason for firing. Can someone advocating for that provide their thoughts on why they feel so strongly about it?

this gives a great overview regarding why his actions were fireable but why OSU held the trigger.

https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/08/23/ohio-state...

rpbobcat
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/24/2018 6:34:02 AM

Pataskala wrote:

How about the fact that between July 24 and Aug 2 Meyer deleted text messages that were more than a year old, even though he likely knew that they could be relevant to any investigation regarding Zach Smith's firing?

Just because you delete a text doesn't mean it can't be recovered.

I took a class on cyber security last year.

The instructor asked for someone in the room to give him an email address.

Within a few minutes he had 5 years of deleted emails and texts.

There are ways to make recovery harder.

But I don't know if Meyer is savvy enough to use them.

bobcatsquared
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/24/2018 10:16:38 AM

rpbobcat wrote:

But I don't know if Meyer is savvy enough to use them.

If not, he had help, possibly from an associate AD at osu.

Maddog13
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RE: OSU RULING AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Posted: 8/24/2018 10:55:22 AM

Come on. Nobody was seriously looking to uncover any real truth here. This was a dog and pony show with the emphasis on putting a media savvy spin on everything, so that the Buckeye Football program could get back to pursuing victories. Personally, I don't think this is over yet, and I think that some determined reporters combined with some who have been thrown to the side of the road over the years by the clearly self-serving Meyer are going to uncover even bigger problems before the season is over.

Ohio State had a chance to cut their losses and move on, but I think that there are deeper/darker secrets in the Meyer camp to be exposed. I see some of the same sort of institutional arrogance here that was present before the NCAA came down hard on USC after the Pete Carroll years. Is Ohio State sure that all of the skeletons in the closet have, indeed, been discovered?

Last Edited: 8/24/2018 10:56:11 AM by Maddog13

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