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    Urban Meyer stays as Ohio State football coach, but he is diminished after investigation
    Christine Brennan, USA TODAY Published 9:43 p.m. ET Aug. 22, 2018 | Updated 11:34 p.m. ET Aug. 22, 2018

    SportsPulse: While Urban Meyer’s suspension can be debated, one thing cannot: OSU and Meyer botched their reaction and explanation of the decision. USA TODAY


    Shock of all shocks, Urban Meyer has survived to coach another day. Of course he has. Ohio State’s board of trustees never was going to have the courage to fire him for keeping on his staff a longtime assistant coach who was arrested for beating his pregnant wife in 2009 and was visited by the police twice more in 2015 — both of which Meyer was aware of, the latter of which he belligerently lied about to millions of fans at Big Ten Media Days last month.

    Football is way too important at Ohio State to get rid of a liar who fails to do everything in his power to stop another man from beating his wife, if that liar can win you another national championship. So the Ohio State president and the trustees suspended Meyer for the first three games of the season — Oregon State, Rutgers and TCU — but will have him back in plenty of time for the bulk of the Big Ten season.

    Call the painting crew to the football practice complex, Ohio State. There’s a slogan on the wall that needs to be painted over.

    It reads:

    HONESTY

    TREAT WOMEN WITH RESPECT

    NO DRUGS NO STEALING NO WEAPONS

    The Buckeyes can keep the part about no drugs, no stealing and no weapons if they want, but as of today, they need to paint over the rest. Honesty and treating women with respect just went out the window in the Ohio State football program.

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    Meyer apologists, and there are many, will lean on the fact that an independent investigation concluded that their man neither "condoned or covered up" the domestic abuse by Zach Smith.

    Nice try, but no. A man like Meyer, so comfortable in his own greatness that he wrote a book titled “Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Program,” had to do better. After all, he always has portrayed himself as the righteous guy who would do so much more than everyone else.

    He has happily spoken out about the transgressions of other coaches, saying nearly a year ago, when the latest men’s college basketball scandal surfaced, that, “if you willfully and intentionally broke the rule or you lie to the NCAA, you can never coach again. … I’m not talking about mistakes made when you have a rulebook like this (thick). But if you intentionally pay a guy money or willfully have a second cell phone to make illegal phone calls, you’re done. You can never coach again.”

    What would that man, so concerned about the use of a second cell phone, have to say about a head coach harboring a man on his staff who was the subject of nine different police reports, as Smith was, or lying boldly to Ohio State fans and alumni, and to the taxpayers of Ohio, as Meyer did last month?

    This being the United States in 2018, many had no trouble shrugging off Meyer’s industrial-strength fibbing at the Big Ten Media Days July 24. If they think the news media are the “enemy of the people,” as one prominent fellow says, they probably loved Meyer even more for it.

    But Meyer wasn’t just lying to the news media. He was lying to you, Ohio State fans. He made a mockery of his biggest preseason opportunity to speak to his fan base, and every Ohioan who pays the freight at Ohio State through their taxes. Even worse, he knew he was doing it as he did it.

    Asked specifically about what happened with Smith in 2015, when police twice went to Courtney Smith’s home to investigate reports of domestic violence, felonious assault and stalking, Meyer said:

    "I got a text late last night something happened in 2015. And there was nothing. Once again, there's nothing. Once again, I don't know who creates a story like that."

    He soon was caught in his lies, and, while apologizing to “Buckeye Nation” in a statement August 3, Meyer said he “was not adequately prepared to discuss these sensitive personnel issues with the media,” which is either another falsehood, completely ridiculous, or both. Meyer had finally fired Smith the previous day, and savvy guy that he is, he knew the subject would have to come up in his news conference.

    So Meyer survives, but as a diminished version of his once mighty self. He is a weakened, lesser man. The moral high ground he so loved is no longer his to claim. He probably will try, but it will be laughable when he does.

    Meyer goes down in U.S. cultural history as a leader who didn’t do all that he could to stop another man from repeatedly beating his wife, and then easily, willfully lying about it. He can win dozens of football games from now on, but it doesn’t matter. We know exactly who he is.
    "Hey Giants, who's your Daddy?"

  • #2
    Disgusting. Hearing the contradictions by the Board, Meyer and the investigative committee it is a wonder any of them have any integrity left. What a bunch of whores.

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    • #3
      Anyone who follows sports recognizes that Meyer is a very successful football coach too a large extent because he is an unprincipled, amoral swine for whom winning on the field is the only thing that really matters.

      The "leaders" at Ohio State have shown themselves to be no better than him...winning is what counts.

      Gutter scum, all of them.

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      • #4
        So Meyers has memory issues and deleted all texts more than a year old. And the board says sure lets slap him on the wrist and get back to beating Michigan. What a failure of leadership.

        https://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/...rban_meye.html

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        • #5
          Minor stuff. After all he let Hernandez murder a couple of guys. What a POS of shit this millionaire is.
          "Hey Giants, who's your Daddy?"

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Vet Turf View Post
            Disgusting. Hearing the contradictions by the Board, Meyer and the investigative committee it is a wonder any of them have any integrity left. What a bunch of whores.
            Whores is the perfect description of the Ohio State football and school administrators.

            Wife beaters are ok if they can help to convert a third and long.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Eagle60 View Post
              Minor stuff. After all he let Hernandez murder a couple of guys. What a POS of shit this millionaire is.

              From a Website entitled AboveTheLaw:
              https://abovethelaw.com/2018/08/mary...equences/?rf=1


              "Back (at the Univ of Florida), with absolutely no fanfare, Urban Meyer was reigning over a criminal operation that would make the Corleone family blush. Aaron Hernandez literally killed people. But Urban recruited Jesus’s hero Tim Tebow so no one seemed to care.
              Some of Florida’s arrests were trumped up, but taken as a whole, the entire Florida affair highlighted Meyer’s superhuman ability to look away as people who helped him win games got pinched again and again and faced absolutely no consequences over it. That streak of skating by as everyone around him fell on the wrong side of the law appeared to have finally reached its end recently. After Meyer lied about his knowledge of a longtime assistant’s domestic abuse and everyone saw the messages to prove he’d been covering for his assistant for years, the school hired former SEC chief to lead the 'thorough investigation' (the emoticon is my editorial addition) into the Meyer matter."

              The former SEC Chief is a munchkin-like attorney named Mary Jo White who has a history of producing investigations 'sure to please' those who hire her. She determined that Meyer's blatant lies were likely the result of innocent confusion resulting from possible memory loss associated with medication. My question is, WTF medication was Meyer on...mainlining heroin? A pox on all their houses!




              So instead of Urb being summarily fired, as was clearly warranted and expected by most of the conscious world, he will be suspended for...wait for it...The Ohio State University's first 3 games.

              How will the program possibly survive this draconian punishment that will no doubt be rubber stamped by the NCAA?

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