OT: Article about Charles Waugh (guy who made Anzalone decommit)

Submitted by Lionsfan on
Link: http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/05/27/his-osu-devotion-… So the Columbus Dispatch just did an article about Charles Waugh, the sex offender who contacted recruits via Twitter, telling his side of the story. It's nothing really earth-shaking, but presents why he did it. The reason?
“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

Victor Hale II

May 27th, 2012 at 10:21 AM ^

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.

Benoit Balls

May 27th, 2012 at 10:24 AM ^

“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.

turd ferguson

May 27th, 2012 at 11:06 AM ^

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.

Cope

May 27th, 2012 at 11:55 AM ^

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.

Owl

May 27th, 2012 at 12:40 PM ^

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.

2plankr

May 27th, 2012 at 2:17 PM ^

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"?

htownwolverine

May 27th, 2012 at 11:02 AM ^

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.

1464

May 27th, 2012 at 12:30 PM ^

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.

htownwolverine

May 27th, 2012 at 12:39 PM ^

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.

guthrie

May 27th, 2012 at 7:43 PM ^

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.

LSAClassOf2000

May 27th, 2012 at 11:02 AM ^

“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. 

 

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

May 27th, 2012 at 11:15 AM ^

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.

BiSB

May 27th, 2012 at 11:59 AM ^

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

coldnjl

May 27th, 2012 at 12:32 PM ^

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

RakeFight

May 27th, 2012 at 12:07 PM ^

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.