By Trying to Protect the Football Program, the Ohio State Sports Beat Actually Harmed It
Now that the saga over Urban Meyer’s handling of Zach Smith is over (for now), it’s clear that the Ohio State beat writers, local and statewide journalists, have been a tremendous failure for several years, and had they been more responsible in their reporting from the get-go, they may have even helped OSU avoid the fallout of the last few days and weeks.
Let’s recap the information that is available in public records about Zach Smith.
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2009 incident in Florida throwing a pregnant wife against the wall.
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2013 OVI (DUI) arrest, field sobriety test failure, plea bargain conviction
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Constant 911 calls
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2015 domestic violence incident and arrest or maybe not arrest
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2015 and 2016 traffic incidents that Zach failed to show up in court for
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Bench warrant issued for his arrest after he failed to appear
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And the kicker, a protection order filed against Smith on July 23 - reported not by the locals, but by Brett McMurphy!
This is only the public record - available to anyone who can do a simple internet search or public records request! It doesn’t include all the salacious details we now know about his messy divorce, the photos of Courtney’s bruises and cuts, the ongoing menacing and stalking, the office affair and sex addiction, strip club trip, and who knows what else. Much of this was surely known to the OSU insiders and they willingly covered it up or feigned ignorance to cover for King Urban and his Merry Men.
When Zach Smith joined OSU’s staff, he already had baggage from his days working for Meyer in Florida. He had a rap sheet, allegedly throwing a pregnant Courtney against a wall in an argument that came from him bringing a female coworker home from a party!
With this history, the OSU media should have been watching this guy like a hawk. The media should have made Meyer answer for choosing to hire him in the first place. They should have uncovered the fact that Meyer’s henchmen Hiram and Earle pressured Courtney to drop charges. Zach Smith at OSU should have never happened and the OSU sports media should have demanded answers from the beginning.
Because they should have been monitoring Zach’s every move, they should have been immediately aware of the repeated 911 calls, the OVI arrest and conviction, the ongoing domestic violence incidents and the bench warrant for Smith’s arrest. They should have known that he blew their new house’s down payment on hookers and booze. If Smith couldn’t rent a car on a recruiting trip, they should have known. This guy was a ticking time bomb, and my guess is that some of the insiders were aware of his issues - Ramzy Nassrallah at 11w even says, "Literally everybody knew." Their choice to keep it quiet is a failure that contributed to this embarrassing circus of an investigation and Meyer’s suspension.
Let’s go a step further. Not only should the beat have been monitoring public records, but don’t tell me a neighbor, coworker, chatty police officer, bartender, or Smith’s kid’s classmate didn’t know about his habits and tell someone. The OSU beat should have had a microphone permanently set up outside his home, a GPS tracker on his car, and slipped a Benjamin to any bartender willing to dish on his antics.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting that the local media should be checking up on every coach, every day, in every program. The point is that Zach Smith came to OSU with a record and this should have prompted the media to monitor him very closely in Columbus, and the focus should have become even sharper when word started to get around that he was still a scumbag.
Following the Michigan sports beat, I can assure you, if a Michigan football coach so much as jaywalked in Ann Arbor, some beat writer, blog poster, or radio host would speak up or put it on the Internet. Ann Arbor’s a little smaller than Columbus, but I’m sure there are ears on the ground in Ohio too.
The ultimate irony here is that OSU media probably could have saved Meyer from suspension and saved the university's tarnished reputation by just doing their jobs as journalists. By covering this walking disaster of a coach from the beginning, they could have outed him years ago, given Meyer the air cover to get rid of him and look like the hero they want him to be. Instead, they kept this hushed up in deference to King Meyer; and their beloved coach got a suspension, the entire administration is a national disgrace, and Meyer’s legacy has a new permanent stain. And the local beat could have stopped it. See something, say something! For God's sake it's literally your job to say things.
Zach Smith’s attorney Brad Koffel recently subtweeted Stadium’s Brett McMurphy by posting the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, suggesting McMurphy’s reporting on the situation at OSU was untruthful, biased, or not independent. The OSU sports media would do well to review at least two of the Code’s requirements: “Act Independently” and “Seek Truth and Report It.” By trying to protect the program, the OSU sports media actually harmed it.
Let's close with some real talk. Just to be clear, I'm looking at you - at Eleven Warriors, Land Grant Holy Land, Bucknuts, Jeff Snook, Tim May, Bill Rabinowitz, and anyone I’m missing. You failed in a big way, a man that you cover was abusing a woman, breaking all sorts of laws, and misusing his public post, and you said nothing. Be better next time.
And a note to Brian and the team here at MGoBlog and all other Michigan insiders - you're on notice. Never forget you have a part to play if anything at Michigan starts to go off the rails and you hear about it. One of your greatest moments was THIS IS NOT MICHIGAN and you should see this as a reminder that you can and must use your platform to hold the U of M to a high ethical standard.
August 24th, 2018 at 12:52 PM ^
And I expect all sorts of self-inspection and soul-searching on the part of the OSU press because of this. Because the media love being criticized and they are honest about their failings.
August 24th, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^
You expect a lot....
August 24th, 2018 at 12:54 PM ^
This is precisely the reason that the freep should permanently assign Baumgardner to shadow McElwain, keeping a weather eye for shark-related activity.
August 24th, 2018 at 2:50 PM ^
One of your greatest moments was THIS IS NOT MICHIGAN and you should see this as a reminder that you can and must use your platform to hold the U of M to a high ethical standard.
The one key difference...Urban is winning games & Hoke was not. We also have to consider if we would react the same way if Hoke won a NC, a bunch of conference championships, & averaged 12 wins every year. I think we would, but it wasn't the same as with Hoke. We've never had anyone as successful as Meyer in the modern era.
August 24th, 2018 at 5:05 PM ^
What did the record and Trophy case look like under Moeller?
August 24th, 2018 at 7:26 PM ^
What did the record and Trophy case look like under Moeller?
I'm glad you asked because that thought was my initial instinct as well, but although Moeller won more conference championships, Meyer had a way higher winning percentage.
Moeller:
1990: 9-3 (B1G)
1991: 10-2 (B1G)
1992: 9-3 (B1G)
1993: 8-4
1994: 8-4
Total: 44-13 (.772)
Meyer:
2012: 12-0 (Division)
2013: 12-2 (Division)
2014: 14-1 (National)
2015: 12-1 (Division)
2016: 11-2 (Division)
2017: 12-2 (B1G)
Total: 73-8 (.901)
So, Moeller won more conference championships, but keep in mind there was no divisions or conference championship game and Urban's first year they were on probation. Urban won a national title and never lost more than 2 games in a year. Moeller only lost 2 or fewer games once and doubled that number 2 out of 5 years. So, in general, Meyer's winning percentage is significantly better than Moeller and in a more difficult era.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:55 PM ^
I would argue that this era is not exactly a more difficult one. Plus, my point was to compare Moeller to Hoke, not Meyer.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:03 PM ^
Quick point of contention - Michigan was 9-0-3 in 1992, not 9-3. His overall record was 44-13-3. Not sure that really changes your point, though.
August 24th, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
An uncomfortable assessment. One hopes for objectivity from the press, but unfortunately writers, editors, publishers, advertisers, etc., are no more free of personal loyalties than the rest of society. We tend to excuse friends and allies, condemn enemies and rivals. In other words we allow emotion to over-rule reason.
Surprised?
But we keep on fighting to make things better. And we don't lose hope. Go Blue!
August 24th, 2018 at 3:22 PM ^
Zach coached at Temple in 2011, and at Marshall in 2010. At neither school, was he flagged by a background check. Nor did administrative procedures block Smith's hiring. Head Coach Steve Addazio at Temple, who had been on the Florida staff with Zach in 2009 said he had been aware of an issue between Zach and Courtney but it did not affect his hiring decision.
The local media in Philadelphia and in Huntington did not write up the 2009 story.
August 24th, 2018 at 3:37 PM ^
btw; Lest anybody think that I am somehow protecting the press in this (lol); I made my case that ElevenWarriors and Ramzy Nasrallah have an awful lot to answer for after they tried to excoriate Michigan for the Brendan Gibbons story, and are now doing none of that in relation to Zach Smith and Urban Meyer.
But... Zach Smith was never charged or convicted of anything! Right; just like Brendan Gibbons.
But... Michigan did nothing about Gibbons' case for four years! That's absolutely untrue, and a gross misunderstanding. But have you heard about Zach Smith at OSU in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017?
But...Michigan can't claim that they didn't know about Gibbons! We didn't. The police investigation ended, there were no charges, and Gibbons' accuser never made any further claim. No additional criminal complaints, no civil lawsuit, no Title IX claim, no OSCR complaint. Nothing; nothing until some guy who hates Michigan football started a new claim. Meanwhile Ramzy's take on Smith: "Literally everybody knew. I knew. I wrote around it for six years."
August 24th, 2018 at 3:59 PM ^
perhaps the background check missing 2009 in florida is excusable but that leaves a shit-ton of other red flags that people missed or ignored. And did Addazio know of "an" issue, or did he know that Urban's goons talked Courtney out of pressing charges and all the rest of the sordid details like Urban knew when he brought Zach on in Cbus (and didn't bring up to OSU)?
August 24th, 2018 at 4:16 PM ^
Addazio (now at BC) did an interview on it. Check it out. I do recall that he did not want to comment on anything OSU-specific for the understandable reason that he did not wish to offer commentary on another program.
But again, we're not so much debating what Addazio did (although that might be a perfectly good thing to debate); we are debating some alleged complicity on the part of the Columbus/OSU press.
Personally, I think that the Lantern does some pretty amazing stuff like the Daily does (sometimes, with some ugly exceptions), and further that the Dispatch has two of the best CFB writers in the Midwest, in Tim May and Doug Lesmerises.
August 24th, 2018 at 4:36 PM ^
No one in that God forsaken town will go out and fight against the masses or they'll be blackballed forever. They all want to protect their families and their reputations. They want to be able to live and work there. They're not willing to ask the tough questions or make the tough calls in a close game. They will be mercilessly labeled traitors and bashed publicly.
August 25th, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
You hit it on the head, there's something different in the water there. If you even dare to question the mighty monolithic OSU you get excommunicated from society. Fandom has become a cult, in some senses, with all the negatives that that will bring. I hope we never fall so low, but I do like to think (perhaps foolishly) that we are better than that.
August 24th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
More, with particular regard to Ramzy Nasrallah, who is now taking the nuanced position that he is Mr. Nuance in this entire story and that many people just can't understand the nuance involved in his nuanced position that he knew that Zach Smith was a very bad hire all along but he "wrote around it" in a nuanced way for six years because he didn't really have all of the information that would cause him to write that Zach Smith should be fired, in a non-nuanced way.
Here is Ramzy in a recent 11W roundtable:
RAMZY: I resent how so many journalists, starting with Brett McMurphy - who had no scruples or journalistic integrity throughout any of this - to Ohio's credentialed fanboys and the national pearl-clutching columnists in the media who simplified what was happening into easily digestible and marginally-accurate hot takes. A whipped-up daily trash frenzy for three straight weeks, while an investigation that was immediately initiated was still in-process. Your clear good guy/bad guy statement is on point, Johnny.
But beyond this story, we're now in an era where a sizable portion of the country dismisses information that doesn't comfort them out of hand. There were a number of people - McMurphy front and center - who gave those people ammunition to reinforce the toxic delusion that whatever news upsets them must have been fabricated, and I resent the hell out him for doing that.
And here is what Ramzy wrote to yours truly when I attempted to make the point that his calling Brendan Gibbons a "rapist" (his word, used repeatedly, for a student-athlete who had fully cooperated with police and who had never been arrested, charged, tried or convicted):
Ramzy Nasrallah Staff 10 Oct 2014, 11:03 pm
You're a commenter here. I'm not. Not warning you again - the next time you get pouty about any of the content here and start pulling this bullshit in other threads, you're done.
Brendan Gibbons is trash. Michigan is trash. If you don't like reading that, get the fuck out.
And then this:
M Man status
February 28, 2015 at 3:39pm
TL; DR - he's suspended | update: permanently.
We are all snowflakes with differing opinions on things, which is why we allow people with eternally douchey handles like "M Man" to even register here. Everyone is welcome. Follow the rules and remember where you are.
M Man, whose half-inch penis is likely fully erect seeing his douchey handle in multiple subject lines on this site currently, has made dozens of contributions to this site. He's absolutely nailed the smarmy opposing fan who uses the word "classy" without cringing. He is that guy. Some of you enjoy that; some of us don't. Snowflakes. That's all fine.
What's gotten him suspended again is based on an incident where he clung to two of his favorites causes: One, defending Dave Brandon - the worst athletic director in collegiate history and one of the worst executives in American history with the numbers to prove it, and two - playing the "gotta hear both sides" card for rapist Brendan Gibbons - the Michigan punter placekicker and best friend of Taylor Lewan, who threatened to rape the victim's friends if they pursued justice.
Sure, there are two sides. This isn't the site to give Michigan kickers-slash-rapists a fair shake and I told him that. We're not into giving defenders of raping Michigan football players a forum here. He continued. He then continued in a buckshot about Florida State, which was off-topic.
Then he made posts about me without naming me on this site, of which I am an owner - not a mod, not a freelance - an owner. Today he made a snarky comment about being "the only member to have gotten probation for going off-topic." It wasn't the first time.
He has consistently been passive-aggressive toward me and toward you, and I'm done with him sliding little jabs at his suspension and at me into his posts that give him the satisfaction of "last word" or whatever petulant fuckbats like him do to get off. He's been banned from MGoBlog. Stop and read that sentence again. Try to conceive what you would have to do to be removed from that site as a Michigan fan. They hate him.
All he had to do was behave. He could continue being smarmy as fuck as many of you inexplicably enjoy that and he'd be fine. There are no rules against being smarmy and wrong, otherwise he would have been gone a long time ago.
So he's in jail again. Not sure how long. Maybe a week, maybe forever maybe he can go find a Northwestern forum and piss them off. This is a great site because of the community. There have to be better Michigan fans posting here than him, and we probably won't agree with everything they have to say either, just as some of you might not agree with this suspension. Snowflakes.
There's Mr. Nuance for you. Let's be clear about what Ramzy Nasrallah is; he's the proprietor of the site that is now attempting to be the Thinking Man's Guide to Defending Ohio State. The really funny thing is that Ramzy might actually stand a chance to do something like that, but for his own personal history. Ramzy wants so bad to be the guy who stands on the moral high ground about sexual assault in the 21st century and #MeToo and #MeThree. To be a guy writing literate, nuanced shit about the history of the Buckeyes going back to when Ramzy was an undergraduate at Indiana.
But that's not really Ramzy. Ramzy can write that stuff when it is convenient, like when a Michigan placekicker is involved. But when it is Urban Meyer? Whoah. Ramzy, you see, has a "community" to run. Ramzy saves his "gotta hear both sides" nuance for Urban, because, well, that is what his Fanboyz want. His "community."
Based on my personal history with him, the absolute worst, most shameless douchebag (his word), hypocrite (my word) is Ramzy Nasrallah, thanks to Zach Smith/Urban Meyer.
August 24th, 2018 at 5:51 PM ^
You're letting Ramzy take up way too much space in your head. He's not worth it.
Also, I don't care too much what the Ohio beat writers choose to print, when the national media took over the narrative as completely as they did.
Yesterday was unprecedented. Every major and minor news outlet outside Ohio was outraged. After Jim Rome devoted most of his show to blasting OSU, I was curious what was going to happen on the Huge show. Huge used to be a big Spartan supporter until the Nassar story broke last year, then he commenced an almost daily verbal flogging of MSU admin, fueled anew by developments as they occurred. Huge has never, as far as I could discern, liked Urban Meyer. So I tuned in at 6 pm and sure enough, Huge took no prisoners and made no effort to conceal his intense scorn of the scarlet and gray. Like Nassar, this won't be a one day story.
We all expected Michigan radio to be in this vein, but Jim Rome took me by surprise, especially after he opened his show today with another eloquent and impassioned evisceration of Meyer, and of OSU athletic administration in general. He brought up related events I had forgotten about.
I have to start following Jim Rome on Twitter now...
August 25th, 2018 at 10:03 AM ^
I think Ramzy needs to hear that post. He is a major hypocrite and contributed to a sick culture. If he has any redeeming qualities he will recognize that it is true.
I didn't hear much of the Huge Show, but I thought he said that Urban should get a true 2 game suspension - including no practice until after the 2nd game...that doesn't seem like a "take no prisoners" position. If he said Urban was a liar and destroyed evidence that is merely established fact to anyone who doesn't put winning over domestic violence.
August 24th, 2018 at 9:38 PM ^
I actually defended Ramzy Nasrallah when he initially pointed out that he had kept silent about the toxic Zach Smith situation because he feared for his real career. That was a mistake. Ramzy has proven himself an first-class douche canoe and I apologize for ever giving him the cover of misplaced sympathy.
He has to live with the knowledge that he failed OSU, failed OSU fans, and failed battered women everywhere with his agreement to participate in the conspiracy of silence. Fuck him. He's no better than Zach Smith or Urban Meyer.
August 25th, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
The shocking thing about Ramzy Nasrallah (after the fact that he went to IU, and not OSU) is that he's now griping about members of the press who cant appreciate the nuance(s) in the Smith/Smith/Meyer/Smith storyline.
Ramzy is upset that people are taking one-dimensional and simplistic moralistic approaches in which they have made Urban Meyer and OSU villains as pure extensions of Zach Smith's alleged villainy.
But that is e-x-a-c-t-l-y what he did in the case I described, in which I supplied the better, more detailed, more nuanced facts on the Gibbons case at Michigan.
Ramzy went "full blog" on that one. To the devoted and near-unanimous cheers of his 11W membership. (Although I assure you, his treatment of me was questioned by some of his 11W colleagues.)
Never go "full blog."
August 25th, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
An open letter to my stalker, Section 1.8.
It’s been four years since your shitposting privileges were revoked from a rival school’s web site. A healthy person would have forgotten about that in, at most, a day. It should have been a blip moment in life’s rich pageant.
However, you have spent those four years on MGoBoard regularly shitposting about your ban and about me, as if anyone here gives a solitary shit about Eleven Warriors, me, or you.
Here’s the reality, which you’re clearly detached from - no one here cares that you were banned from Eleven Warriors. No matter how many times you copy and paste that exchange from 2014 on MGoBoard seeking some sort of retribution or comfort, it’s never going to come. You’re better off leaving it behind.
It’s been four years, man. It’s not even your feelings that were hurt - it’s your pretend online pseudonym’s feelings. Nobody knows who you are. Let it go.
Apologize for interrupting the discussion - carry on.
August 25th, 2018 at 9:42 PM ^
Fuck Ohio.
August 25th, 2018 at 9:42 PM ^
Funny, Ramzy, how you want all the nuance and careful parsing of the story when it comes to your beloved Urban Meyer. You wish us to read about the "mother of an OSU commit" and how SHE loves Urban and how we should to. But you are guilty of creating the same feeding frenzy you now claim to detest. You just did it four years ago when an accusation (not arrest) was on your rival team's player.
Did Gibbons do something awful? Likely.
Did Urban do something awful in facilitating a domestic abuser? Likely. Yet now, Ramzy, you want all the nuance.
GTFO.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:25 AM ^
Everyone here relax. Let’s stick to football. I think most of us are over all this fake outrage about domestic violence. Deep down we primarily care about football which is why we waste our time on these boards in the first place.
August 28th, 2018 at 10:50 AM ^
Enjoy being banned yet again.
August 26th, 2018 at 10:31 AM ^
Let's be clear; I had a good reputation and a pile of "helmet stickers" at 11W before Ramzy's freakout. I didn't have any terrible fights there with anybody. The joke among some members was that I was getting too many upvotes as a sort of sympathy vote.
It was Ramzy, and Ramzy alone, who I offended. And certainly not by breaking any moderation-rules. There were 11W moderators who thought that I had done nothing wrong, and that I was being punished for a mere disagreement with Ramzy. I made Ramzy mad, by pointing out how Ramzy had been wrong about Gibbons.
The rich thing is that what Ramzy is now doing, with regard to critics of OSU and Urban Meyer, is PRECISELY what Ramzy himself did with regard to Gibbons. Ramzy says that the wider press world is unreliable and misleading because of its engagement in the usual one-note, black-and-white moralizing screeds about how a college football program isn't protecting women. Exactly what Ramzy did with Gibbons. Except that Ramzy did it in a grossly incompetent way (flatly calling Gibbons a "rapist") that no ordinary news outlet -- even a crappy one -- would tolerate from any professional journalist.
The really funny thing to me, Ramzy, is that some of your current writing borders on the sensible. Let's face it; you are probably right, to urge that all sportswriters everywhere be careful about the allegations made in domestic relations and between couples. Your problem, Ramzy, is that when I did it in Gibbons' case, you completely blew up in an insane rage.
We both know you're not a reporter, and not even a real journalist. You're a blogger, writing one-note fan propaganda for an audience of fans. Fans who will overlook your rank hypocrisies.
And we both know why you banned me. I had the temerity to challenge you. I spoiled your personal show, as the 11W know-it-all. I didn't show you the usual adoration that you get among the Buckeyes.
I can see why you might have some kindred spirits with blog owners elsewhere. Each of you cater to the passions of one team's group of fans, and the point is not to report information or to maintain platforms for debate, but to create "communities." I was "M Man" at 11W precisely because I wanted to set myself apart from the rest of the community so that my viewpoint was transparently understandable as such. I don't want to be part of any community that is based on mere fandom without being challenged by reality. And that goes for MGoBlog as well as your blog.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:52 PM ^
To Ramzy: I reported Section 1 to our mods and got him banned the first time. I can’t stand that guy. That said, you failed. Writing around something this troubling for six years? How do you sleep at night? Fuck you, Ramzy. Fuck. You.
P.S. The irony of you replying to Section-boy and calling him a stalker is not lost on me. Pot meet kettle.
I also appreciate the fact that I got Section-boy banned for saying exactly what I said to you.
August 26th, 2018 at 1:10 PM ^
I remember exactly what I got banned for the first time on MGoBlog. Another MGoBoard member went off in a rant about Taylor Lewan, spouting "Fuck Taylor Lewan!" in (I am not kidding) a couple of hundred repeated, identical posts. I had just finished calling him out, for HIS (not mine) violation of MGoBoard posting rules which was generally to refrain from making personal attacks on current Michigan student-athletes.
The moderators banned that guy (Nocse te Ipsum), and for reasons completely unkown to me, they banned me too.
Is that what you reported me for? Do tell.
August 26th, 2018 at 2:08 PM ^
It was one of many ad hominem attacks you made against another commenter here. If I had to guess, I would say you were drunk at the time. I don’t care for your style of debate or the bizarre hills you choose to die on. I think you need professional help for your antisocial personality disorder. Maybe you and His Dudeness could go into group therapy together and get a discount.
August 26th, 2018 at 2:37 PM ^
I don't think an argument is "choosing a hill to die on."
And I honestly have no idea what you are talking about, regarding my making an ad hominem attack on anybody. There's no member whom I can think of, who's been the subject of more ad hominem attacks on the MGoBoard, than yours truly.
August 26th, 2018 at 2:41 PM ^
Your denial of your culpability speaks to your sociopathy. Seek help.
August 26th, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
No, what I was referring to was old, one-sided and unprovoked ad hominem attacks on me, from fanboyz like you, LIKE THIS ONE...
August 26th, 2018 at 4:38 PM ^
OMG! Sick burn! Wow, you really got me. Let it go, man. Move forward.
Remembering every offense and being able to refer back to them like this is also a sign that you have a personality disorder. I am being serious, you need help.
August 26th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
I honestly had no recollection of you at all. So I Googled "mgoblog"+"st3"+"Section 1" and that link was like the third hit, and the second one I clicked on. I found it in less than a minute.
So the point being, you're ragging on me for making personal attacks. I have no idea what you are talking about, and you haven't pointed me to a single specific thing.
Meanwhile, there you are, back years ago, making a personal attack on me in a post where I didn't even participate.
Sick burn is right!
August 26th, 2018 at 6:46 PM ^
I compared you to a cartoon character. Are you a cartoon character? No? Then let it go. Having a persecution complex/paranoia and an inability to laugh at oneself is part of your sickness.
P.S. Fanboyz? Really? I think you can do better than that.
August 26th, 2018 at 6:50 PM ^
I compared you to a cartoon character. Are you a cartoon character? No? Then let it go. Having a persecution complex/paranoia and an inability to laugh at oneself is part of your sickness.
You were banned at 11W and you have been banned ~7 times here, based on your username. I really don’t think I have to go back in history to point out your indiscretions. Your record speaks for itself.
P.S. Fanboyz? Really? I think you can do better than that.
August 26th, 2018 at 11:00 PM ^
You just keep making up your own fantasy shit about me.
I chose "Section 1.8" because it is 2018. There never were any Section 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 or 1.6.
There was a Section 1.7. In 2017.
You can see why I was banned at 11W; I questioned Ramzy on a subject that I undoubtedly knew much more about than he did. (He originally referred to Gibbons as a punter in one post.)
As for why I have had past accounts banned here, I don't really know for sure because nobody ever explains much. I don't think that I have departed from customary rules in any significant way.
August 29th, 2018 at 11:40 AM ^
Your "third hit" was my 15th. Interesting. Tell me more about your 11W helmet stickers, Fanboyz.
This is why you got banned: https://mgoblog.com/comment/2475011#comment-2475011
You wrote
"Oh go fuck yourself you stupid whining asshole," and, "And fuck yourself again, for good measure."
August 28th, 2018 at 10:51 AM ^
You are a human being with zero worth.
August 24th, 2018 at 8:56 PM ^
Funny that someone plagiarized this diary and reposted it as their own thought over on 11w. The similarities in certain phrases and sentence structure are too close for it to be a coincidence.
As expected their collective response is basically the same as Meyer’s and OSU’s. Not our job to know, outside our scope, we heard stuff but didn’t have the hard evidence dropped in our lap so we were helpless to do anything in print, coaches’ personal lives are off limits, I only cover football, blah blah blah. Dumb. I’m talking about moral compasses and good citizenship and speaking truth to power. It’s everyone’s job dammit.
August 24th, 2018 at 9:12 PM ^
Plagiarism, definitely not cool
August 24th, 2018 at 9:23 PM ^
I was wondering what the point of this "diary" is. Finally, at the end I discover it's to let Brian know that he is on notice.
August 24th, 2018 at 10:26 PM ^
That was an afterthought actually. The point was in the title. The OSU beat ignored the fiasco going on even though they knew about it, and failed in their professional duty to hold OSU accountable. I thought it was a little different perspective than most of what has been covered.
I actually wonder what’s the point of asking people what’s the point of things they post on the internet. It’s a blog post. The way it works is: people have a thought in their head, they post it on the internet. They want to say what’s on their mind. That is always the point. Why ask somebody that ?
August 25th, 2018 at 12:01 AM ^
We have approximately 178 threads on the Zach Smith/Urban Meyer story yet guys think it's necessary to start another one to share their hot take. It's really getting tiresome. Would you prefer that I asked why you couldn't have offered this in one of the other threads?
August 25th, 2018 at 8:10 AM ^
The only thing worse than too many threads on the same subject is all the people griping about having too many threads on the same subject. Does it feel ironic to lecture others on saying things better left unsaid?
Insert two spider men pointing at each other meme here
August 25th, 2018 at 1:16 PM ^
No, it's the too many threads. Without that you wouldn't have the other.
August 25th, 2018 at 4:45 PM ^
Can you write an impassioned post about how OSU’s administration failed to take the proper actions against Meyer?
August 26th, 2018 at 1:18 AM ^
Just bring on football and let the douchebags twist. I’m sick of hearing about this shit.
August 24th, 2018 at 10:39 PM ^
The Press are supposed to be the discoverers and guardians of truth, courageous in their pursuit of it and scrupulously honest in their reports. It certainly looks like the OSU beat writers fell down on the job, and in a world-class irony, their failure to report honestly about the failings of an assistant coach led pretty directly to the head coach's problems. If there had been some heat back in 2015, Smith probably would've been fired then, and Meyer wouldn't now be suspended.
August 25th, 2018 at 7:47 AM ^
Just further proof that winning football games and beating Michigan every year are what matters most in Columbus.
They all saw it, and many probably brushed it to the side and saw it as a means to an end with their football team.
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