Sports Illustrated Daily Cover Story: Why Aren't More People Talking About the Ohio State Sex Abuse Scandal?

An extremely good read, and a good point

Because Ohio State fans are trash.

Isn't this an invitation for the NCAA to walk in and investigate?  PED's by the athletic department? 

Just what every sexual criminal wants: A bunch of their victims jacked-up on steroids while dealing with emotional trauma. 

First it happened to men, not women or children.  Doesn't make it any better, just less moral outrage so people don't care as much.

Second, isn't the doctor deceased?  If you can't parade him in front of a tv camera, people aren't going to take an interest.

I've known about this story for a year or two, so it's not exactly a coverup.  Just not a lot of people care so it doesn't get much press.

If you are going to have a major scandal now is the time.  There is just too much going on for many news stories to get the attention they deserve. Once Covid fades (and national politics get less crazy…maybe?) there will be a few years of investigative reporting to be done on all the things that have been missed.  At this point if you are an investigative journalist with information on a major scandal not Covid or national politics related do you even publish?  How concerned are you that it will fall off the front page in hours and the majority of the public is too exhausted to pay attention?  

In a letter to David Williams II, OSU’s vice president for student affairs, Strauss denied inappropriate behavior, writing: “It is unfortunate that the patient ejaculated in my office, but that’s his problem, not mine.”

Just wow man.

Besides the reasons listed in the article I also think there is scandal fatigue these days, unless it is something really extreme the general public won't latch onto the story.

Just my humble opinion and someone can tell me I'm wrong, but the current media news cycle moves at the speed of light. Something that happened 12 hours ago, 95% of the time, is old news and few people care anymore. We have so much information at our fingertips now and we can learn about something happening on the other side of the world within seconds of it happening that its almost too much to keep up with everything that may have happened immediately before it. 

No one talks about the OSU story, in part, because its old news. People already know about it, and are moving on to the next scandal. Also, as someone pointed out on the thread already, the perpetrator is dead, and I believe he's been dead for a long time. There is no face for the media to parade around on the nightly news like there was with Larry Nassar. 

This is typical of Ohio State and everything they represent...I hope this creep is rotting in hell and that their University leaders have learned a lesson (highly doubtful!).

Yeah, it felt like OSU hasn't received the media heat that UM has received for Anderson.  Maybe that's because every article on Anderson was front-and-center on this board so I'm just more aware of that coverage (which we deserve, by the way).

Sexual assault in any form is sexual assault, full stop.  But the accounts from some Strauss victims are another level of depraved as he would incapacitate and then sodomize his victims.

At this point, I'll be surprised if there's a large midwestern school that hasn't covered up some kind of sex scandal in the past. What a disgrace

Its what we have grown to expect over the past years. The saggy State School wins enough for every one to look away.

More of the same.  Especially the PED situation is going to get squelched.  The entire state of Ohio will not let their sacred institution (O$U athletics)  be bothered by this inconvenience.  

Isn't the Brett McMurphy at the bottom of Lake Erie now? 

You do know that we had an eerily similar scandal.  
 

I imagine their scandal is getting as much press in Columbus as ours is getting here.