Storm Klein Reinstated
According to reporter Tim May for the Columbus Dispatch, Storm Klein has been reinstated by Urban Meyer and will be with the team this year.
The Dispatch has learned that, barring a late complication, Storm Klein has been reinstated to the Ohio State football team.
August 23rd, 2012 at 8:52 PM ^
Color me shocked...jk. If I were an OSU fan I would be giddy, fortunately I am not. In all seriousness he's a good player that will undoubtedly strengthen their D.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:29 PM ^
He isn't going to start, and I doubt he is the first linebacker off the bench.
August 23rd, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
My mistake, I suppose depth never hurt anybody for sure, but I overestimated his impact I guess.
August 23rd, 2012 at 8:54 PM ^
Really just builds depth. He was behind Curtis Grant as of the spring, and he's already behind in fall camp workouts. Typical Meyer is EVVIIILLLL stuff though.
August 23rd, 2012 at 10:26 PM ^
Might be pertinent to include that the charges of domestic assault he was facing were dropped. He pled guilty to disorderly conduct, got probation, is back on the team, but is now suspended.
August 23rd, 2012 at 8:56 PM ^
Screw it, play Touissant. Alabama wouldn't hesitate to do likewise. ND slaps the wrist of a cop assaulter. OSU pulls this while on probation. The entire SEC conference does worse on most weekends.
Integrity is gone. May as well put our best guys out on the field too...
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:11 PM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:17 PM ^
College football is no longer an extra-curricular activity. It is a business. The only way that gets reigned in is if the NCAA grows a pair and starts enforcing penalties for everything. Even that would be disingenuous, as the NCAA culture pushes teams so hard to succeed and then puts a lot of arbitrary rules in place that indirectly prevent that success.
The student athlete system is now a joke. Those that use it as scripture are the butt of that joke...
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:30 PM ^
Pretty much can't agree with you more. I don't know if you initially meant this more tongue-in-cheek, but there's much truth to what you're writing, regardless. I've been saying all along that I think Fitz will play the majority of the game (based on nothing but personal speculation). I understand Hoke is a great leader and mentor to these young men but part of me thinks he knows this game/sport is essentially a business. His job in said business: to win games. This may all get taken the wrong way by some of you, I'm sure of it. I don't think these players should be given free passes. They deserve punishment for their negative and deleterious actions. But it's out of our control (as fans) as to what the punishment for these collegiate athletes is. Coaches dole it out and we sit back and watch (and "critique").
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:49 PM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:52 PM ^
Everyone else in the world is worse than you, Michigan. You're the last bastion of purity. Commissar Hoke would never do something so base like to reinstate a player charged with breaking and entering before his legal status was resolved.
Keep defending all that's good and holy, and the rest of us will bask in your radiance.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:58 PM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 10:18 PM ^
To decry a lack of integrity or morals or some diabolical motive in everyone else's actions while ignoring one's own unprincipled actions is myopic and self-serving. This isn't really about the school, it's about fans trying to posture as though the school is somehow above the fray, that to play Touissant would sully the school's name.
There's quite enough of this gamesmanship as it is, and more colorful metaphors to describe this kind of "contest". But this kind of grandstanding is dumb and should stop.
August 24th, 2012 at 12:11 AM ^
They sure have stepped up their english classes at MSU...
August 24th, 2012 at 1:12 AM ^
Not MSU. Akron State.
August 23rd, 2012 at 8:56 PM ^
What a fucking joke.
Beat up women, get to play football. That's the ohio way for ya. Hope Fitz or Rawls trucks his ass 11/24.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:28 PM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
I always like my team's coach to react really harshly for show and then relent when it turns out he overreacted.
If Urban Meyer is still the coach at OSU by the time the next summer Olympics are played, I'll be shocked.
August 24th, 2012 at 11:04 AM ^
Might as well practice your "shocked" face. Meyer ain't going anywhere that soon.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:00 PM ^
Mark Emmert was behind getting the charges dropped. Hmmm...
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:08 PM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:10 PM ^
You mean those three really tough home games to start the season?
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:31 PM ^
Actually OSU's third game of the season is against Cal, which is, like, almost a real opponent.
But not to worry, Storm's suspension sounds like it will only be 2 games, not 3...so look for him against Cal.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:44 PM ^
OSU's 2nd game is against UCF, who are predicted by Phil Steele to end the season ranked #15 overall. They're also the favorite to win C-USA, and I believe have been given better odds at an upset than Cal. They definitely aren't a top-tier team, but they shouldn't be scrubs either.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:11 PM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:44 PM ^
Except now everyone in this thread is doing the exact thing your brother in law was just doing... Strange reactions in this thread considering we have guys suspended currently whose status is still up in the air, and considering Klein's charges have been dropped. Why would he be suspended for the year if there's no more case? This thread is making us look pretty foolish.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:58 PM ^
to disorderly conduct, the domestic violence charges were dropped when his baby mama refused to testify.
August 23rd, 2012 at 10:11 PM ^
Still dropped. Did he probably do it? Yes. But that doesn't really matter if she's too afraid of the lunatic Buckeye fans to do anything about it, which I suspect is part of the issue. Such is life down here in Ohio. I don't know of any coach who's going to suspend a guy for something he's not convicted of. This isn't the NFL.
August 23rd, 2012 at 11:09 PM ^
Dez Wells was just expelled from Xavier for something he wasn't convicted of and apparently isn't even going to be charged with. And, needless to say, he was removed from the basketball team about a millisecond after he was kicked out of the school.
Every case is different, of course, but it isn't true that there always has to be a conviction before there are any long-term consequences.
August 23rd, 2012 at 11:26 PM ^
Don't you have to be off the team if you're kicked out of school?
August 23rd, 2012 at 11:47 PM ^
Didn't think that one needed a /s.
But it's still an example of an athlete that's out even though the (alleged) victim (allegedly) declines to testify against him. I don't mean to suggest this is what should have happened to Klein--from the rumors out there, there's a world of difference between the two incidents--but not getting convicted isn't, and shouldn't be, the end of the story in every case.
August 23rd, 2012 at 11:22 PM ^
Most OSU fans were fine with him being booted, actually. We try to limit our juror/witness intimidation to cases where the defendant is a starter. This isn't East Lansing, forgodssake.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:07 PM ^
Reinstate a non-John Simon guy on the same defense that faced us last year? I'll take it.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:44 PM ^
“The charges that would have violated our core values have been totally dismissed."
So, disorderly conduct is within the new core values at Ohio. Good for other star players to know where the line has been drawn.
August 24th, 2012 at 11:18 AM ^
Although I disagree with the decision to let him come back, Ohio's disorderly conduct statute is a catchall that includes everything from noise complaints, to giving someone the bird, to loitering, to, in some areas, spitting on the sidewalk.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:09 PM ^
Is anyone surprised?
August 24th, 2012 at 12:40 PM ^
Why is Jerry Sandusky your avi?
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:14 PM ^
Good thing you left all of the information out. All charges but disorderly conduct dropped, and he will be suspended at least two weeks for that.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:28 PM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:44 PM ^
A player gets suspended for three games for disorderly conduct and people make fun of Urban Meyer.
DERP
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:57 PM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 10:20 PM ^
I can't fault him for this specific exchange, but the man is a total scumbag. Read the ESPN article on his situation. The guy regularly disregards his family and has his head up his own ass so he can walk around smelling his own shit. If my son ever ends up being some football super recruit, I wouldn't let him play for Urban even if he was the coach of Michigan. His priorities are out of whack, and even though ESPN tries to paint him as a victim, he still comes off sounding like a complete dick.
I would poke fun at Hoke if he was the OSU coach, but I wouldn't despise him simply for coaching our rivals. I know that emotional reactions are unpopular on this blog, but the dude seriously rubs me the wrong way.
August 23rd, 2012 at 10:34 PM ^
I'm kind of in the same boat in regards to Urban and find this whole Storm Klein situation to be "meh."
But on the other hand, I figure if this raises some eyebrows to folks or media members who see this at only face value, and they question the "core values" of OSU and Urban's ethics, I will have absolutely no problem with that.
August 23rd, 2012 at 10:22 PM ^
August 24th, 2012 at 1:17 AM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:26 PM ^
Welcome Storm, you are now part of "The Circle of Trust".
Urban.
August 23rd, 2012 at 9:30 PM ^
Do you honestly think a classy individual from ohio with a name like Storm Klein and a Slingblade like face would beat a woman?
Taco neck.. Derp
August 23rd, 2012 at 10:07 PM ^
August 23rd, 2012 at 10:51 PM ^
Carl. Mmm-hmmm.