OT: Article about Charles Waugh (guy who made Anzalone decommit)
“I thought to myself, ‘Ohio State has got a lot of fans who do crazy things,’ ” Waugh said. “‘What can I do to make myself stand out? Something encouraging and positive.’”Well he definitely stands out now
Just so happens I'm near Columbus this morning and saw that article in The Dispatch. I'm surprised they'd go interview this guy and put his mug in there, but whatever gets readers is all good I guess.
Why? It's a newspaper and he's basically the most newsworthy thing to happen to the program in the last few weeks.
“The first thing you think about is safety of the university"
not any consideration at all for the the safety of the players you may potentially use to try to win another MNC? Was the end of that quote, "Just make sure there's no more sanctions coming, because if we take another bowl ban, I'm fixin' to pull the eject handle"?
also- that moron didn't know Twitter was a social medium? Puh-leeze. Either he did know and should be in jail or he didn't know and belongs in jail anyhow because his stupidity poses a risk to everyone else.
That's a horrible line from Meyer. I'm don't think I'm saying this just because I'm a Michigan fan, but if I were a father who had just sent my high school son to spend a couple of days under Meyer's care seeing his program, that line would completely infuriate me.
Also, not to get holier than thou, but there's no way that Hoke believes that or would ever say anything like it.
That's all assuming that the line wasn't taken badly out of context.
I think that he meant to say "university community' or something along those lines.
If kids are the first thing on a person's mind, he'll say "safety of the kids." I don't think there's a way it pops out "safety of the university," even if it includes the kids in some context, if the kids are all that matters to him. And when it comes to something like this, and in comparison, kids should be all that matter in this.
He could have easily meant the safety of the University, meaning how safe the University is for the students. Everyone is subject to media slip ups. Yes, he could have meant it either way. With that in mind though, it’s pretty cynical of you to automatically assume the douchy version.
possibility I considered where he wouldn't seem like a total creep...I thought about giving him the benefit of the doubt, but where's the fun in that?
Also, I'm a Browns fan, cynicism flows through me like the dark side of the force
I fail to see a connection between campus safety and a man with a penchant for child porn. I am sure Urban can clear this up???
Automatically? There's a precedent here. This is a guy who claims that "respect for women" is one of his 3(4?) basic tenets, then brings his star player back almost immediately after threatening to kill his girlfriend because they were losing games. Do you think he would have kept Rainey on the team if it had been HIS daughter he had threatened? Or is that whole situation just a "media slip up"?
That's definitely possible. You'd think the Dispatch would follow up on something ambiguous like that.
This freak stil has no accountability. He says: "I lost my freedom because I supported Ohio State..."
No you ahole, you lost your freedom because you're a pedo. Put the guy in central pop. Enough.
I can't believe I'm going to quasi defend a pedophile, but here goes.
The difference between a guy looking at child porn and a guy molesting a child is as big a chasm as a married guy looking at normal porn or going to bang a stripper. All four are wrong, but to varying levels. I have a young son, so I definitely wouldn't hire this guy as a babysitter, but reserve your more potent venom for a degenerate like Sandusky. He is the one that needs to be an appetizer in a pound me in the ass federal pen.
I hope you don't teach morals/ethics. Looking at child porn means you have approved the violation of the child which is not even close to looking at regular porn (which is between consenting adults). You should be ashamed to have posted this statement. I have three sons myself and I can venom all I want about someone looking at pictures of a child who has been violated.
Right. And banging a stripper is not even close to molesting a child. Thats how the analogy works.
Exactly. Talk about missing the real issue. If you are seeking out child pornography, you are making a decision that you approve of the abuse which caused that pornography to be made in the first place. You are, in effect, the consumer to which it is marketed. The real harm done to a child in order to make the video you are enjoying can not be compared in any way to what consenting adults decide to do.
I hate to say it but the courts apparently agree with bwgrudt, otherwise Waugh wouldn't have been let off with probation.
not the courts. The judge follows precedent. I'm sure the vast majority of them would love to punish those who possess child porn much worse than the "fullest extent of the law" allows.
I'll bet they would, but fortunately, "the courts" and "the law" are synonymous. I'd hate to live in a world where a judge could say "forget what the law says, I'll punish you according to my own beliefs."
Wow!!! Can't believe you said this bwgrudt.
“I was just trying to be kind and be a friend and offer a kind word,” he said. “People say Buckeye Nation is like a big family. I was just trying to be part of that family and be encouraging.”
Obviously, there is no better way to be part of a family and encourage others than to violate your own probation stemming from possessing child pornography and be creepy to teenagers on social media. That's being part of a psychologically healthy family, right?
Also, this:
"Waugh, who is single and lives with his parents, ..."
That doesn't shock me at all, for some reason.
I wonder why his parents are in jail.
I'd say that represents at least half of all buckeye fans.
Don't hate on basement dwellers! /Brian
I LIVE IN A HOUSE ON-CAMPUS DAMMIT!
your parents live with you in student housing?
This guy can spin it all he wants, and he's really just lying to himself. The look on his face in those pictures says it all. He's smug and overly self-assured. He doesn't seem to have much of a social life, so he gets his self-worth from buying high school athletes dinner at BW3. The part about "doing something encouraging and positive" is a lie; the part about "what can I do to make myself stand out" is true. He wanted to feel like Mr. Big Shot, and the pictures let him do it. For a little while, anyway.
Anyone else notice that his head is tilted in the Dispatch photo?
I wonder if at this point he could put his head straight up and down if he had to. At some point the muscles have to atrophy, right?
I lost my freedom for being supportive of Ohio State.
I read this as:
I was in the Audiovisual Club, too. But they kicked me out because of my views on Vietnam. Also I was stealing projectors. ~Homer Simpson
They must have misquoted him, because I think he actually said
"I lost my freedom for being supportive of THE Ohio State University"...
just not enough arrogance in the original quote to truly be from an OSU fan
Consider giving Anzalone a little credit and re-phrasing the thread title. Last time I checked, Anzalone decommited of his own free will. And by all accounts, he was on his way to decommiting when this happened. It may bave been the straw that broke the camel's back, but I'm pretty sure Waugh did not make Anzalone decommit.
I see what you're saying, I was trying to let people know who he was, without having to put "That Buckeye Pedophile" in a thread title. I dunno, just seemed a little weird to me
How about this for a title: "OT: Article about Charles Waugh ( the guy some say may have been the straw that broke the camel's back for Anzalone as he was probably already heading out the door to de-commit from Ohio)." That solves the problem nicely.
Urban does care about the safety of the school and it's students. Just look at all the thugs he had arresteted while he coached at Florida.