Urban getting his message out
This post has been posted by 2 different users on bucknuts, a poster on Penn state 247, and a poster on the rivals main board almost simultaneously. It has been in tweets and retweeted by a Columbus dispatch writer. It is coordinated, and likely his only chance at staying:
I was forwarded this text by a buddy who got this text from a clued-in source... TIFWIW, like how the text starts, but if true, yes please...
***Not sure if this is all 100% accurate but...
From a coworker who is osu alumni and connected there still
Our friend is a personal friend of Urban, this information supposedly came from Urban. Thought you would like to know.
*Urban is looking at a 3-4 game suspension, mostly because the #MeToo movement and the appearance the university must give.
*Many members of the University have known about both her and him for quite some time.
*They never acted on information because there was never any proof of guilt one way or the other.
*Photos are from 2010 and there is no proof the harm was caused by him.
*He and she are both drunks and they are both crazy. She is REALLY crazy.
*She called 911 (66) times in 90 days.
*She got pulled over 3 times for DUI. On each time they let her off and escorted her home.
*Each time she began crying and stated Zach was chasing her and she was afraid. Each time Zach was at practice.
*911 actually stopped sending squads because they stopped finding her credible. They came numerous times with 911 verifying Zach was engaged in Ohio State activities.
*In Zach's and her court hearing the Powell police are testifying on his behalf.
*She has come to OSU practices numerous times drunk, chasing after Zach, threatened to blow people up and other various threats.
*She never worked and when divorced lived off of Zach's child support.
*When Zach was fired she realized she would lose income and freaked out. She reached out to anyone. She was asking 6-figures for her story.
Anything can still happen, but they decided to suspend Urban with pay to separate the media frenzy from the practices. Apparently there is no proof of anything. Just two crazy people who should have never been together.
This is entirely fake.
That's the rabid fan base talking and I doubt he gets a 3 game suspension. There's a more coordinated response taking place in conjunction (I speculate) with soon to be released statements. A poster first brought it up here from a Yahoo news article today. That being said if the university does try to attack her like this they will get so owned.
I'm betting a slew of mgolawyers would take issue with the below spin from some unnamed "legal" sources, but as we know Urban has already denied knowledge. So if Urban subsequently changes his mind at a minimum he's lying. If he's willing to lie to begin with, why would he stop now when it hurts him deeply? The unknown was always what his wife was going to do... fall on the sword, etc? Now we have the spin that says essentially she didn't have to tell anyone. Watch for it to leak she didn't tell Urban or any authority. Maybe citing her own marriage problems with Urban, and for him to reaffirm what he's already said that he didn't know.
From a legal standpoint, the Title IX expert said that Shelley Meyer’s role at the university doesn’t make her a mandatory reporter. “This one is interesting,” the lawyer said. “It doesn’t appear she has supervisory duties. That’s a key point under the policy. They have different reporting requirements for different categories of employees.”
According to a legal health care expert in Ohio, Shelley Meyer’s status as a registered nurse does not obligate her to report domestic violence allegations to police. If Courtney Smith was her patient, she could not legally report the allegations to police. Since she was not her patient, there’s neither a prohibition or obligation to report.
More to the point, a ruling was issued last month in federal court regarding a lawsuit against Colorado University, in which Pamela Fine accused head coach Mike MacIntyre, athletic director Rick George, chancellor Phil DiStefano and President Bruce Benson of failing to properly handle the accusations of domestic violence against former Buffs assistant coach Joe Tumpkin. That lawsuit was thrown out, because, in the words of U.S. District Judge William J. Martinez, "as someone with no affiliation with or connection to the university, she was not within the group of individuals that the policies were designed to protect".
Certainly, neither is Courtney Smith included in the group of individuals to which Title IX applies. So all this talk about Title IX violations is unfounded.
https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/07/20/mike-macintyre-lawsuit-colorado-dismissed-judge
This is a screenshot of some guy from Columbus commenting on one of ESPN's facebook posts claiming to be her cousin:
Yeah, there’s no f^*%ing way that’s her cousin. This is going off the rails.
Are you implying that someone from THAT fanbase would pretend to be someone they're not so that they could throw a domestic abuse victim under the base in order to save their head coach who enabled a woman abuser?
It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
Goodyear?
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
The worst.
August 3rd, 2018 at 10:19 AM ^
I thought it was boy falls in love with a girl that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist, only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island, who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.
Yes! That was the quote I was looking for. Top Secret and Naked Gun. All time classics.
no idea if it’s her cousin, but based on that spelling the ohio part checks out.
Well played sir...you beat me to it!
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:06 PM ^
Cardale Jones with a cryptic tweet no one's mentioned yet...
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:24 PM ^
Pro writing tip:
If you have to say "Beating women isn't right by any means. BUT..."
You should just stop.
Not sure I've ever seen so many spelling errors in my life, and I have a 6 year old kid.
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:16 PM ^
The phone she used to take the pictures wasn't released in 2010.
As an aside, I will say that Reddit has suddenly turned surprisingly hostile to logic regarding this situation. Posts remotely critical of Meyer or OSU's handling of the situation are getting downvoted and hit with fake troll accounts. It reeks of a disinformation campaign to me.
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:26 PM ^
"Reddit has suddenly turned surprisingly hostile to logic..."
First time on Reddit, I take it?
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:29 PM ^
r/cfb tends to be even handed, as it's a neutral board. Yesterday it was 95% OSU flairs saying Meyer should go.
Today, there are brigades of new accounts down voting anything critical of OSU and throwing in troll posts to offset the narrative.
It's an obvious maneuver.
This strikes me as victim blaming. How convenient this character defamation is after the fact.
If somehow this was true... he fucked up by firing Zach. If it’s true, he wrongfully terminated him. By firing him, it’s evidence that Urban knew he was in the wrong. So much BS...
It's part of a two pronged defense.
Meyer knew nothing. His wife, assistants, support staff all kept him in the dark.
Meyer knew everything. Far more about the police actions than any civilian should.
I'm convinced. How about you?
It could be fabrication and defamation. Or it could be true. Or it could be partly true. The reality here is that no one here actually knows. Once people make up their minds they don't like to change them, especially rival fans, but Urban's investigation should be allowed to happen without predetermined outcomes in either direction.
This sounds like some grade-A bullshit.
August 2nd, 2018 at 11:43 PM ^
Or possibly another side of the truth. No one here has ever seen a situation with a wife that is totally nuts acting like this? There's a reason these things are tried in court instead of on message boards... We don't have anything close to the information necessary to draw a legitimate conclusion one way or the other. Let's just reserve judgement until we see what pans out. (Though I am rooting for tire fire)
August 3rd, 2018 at 12:21 AM ^
If this was true, it would've been talked about much sooner, whether that be Urban not lying at B1G Media Day or in the firing process
Pretty easy to verify: ask McMurphy how much he paid for the story.
that and ask the police department of it’s normal to catch a drunk driver and let her off.
It is in Ohio if your husband is an asst coach at OSU.
and he's chasing you
Yeah that would go over well! "No, really, we just let her drive around drunk all the time. She's a big liar, it's all her fault."
The link doesn’t work. Also how in the sam hell would all of this get leaked somehow?
Here's the link to the Bucknuts post: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-state/Board/120/Contents/This-Is-Somewhat-Refreshing-120324826/
You may want to have a trash can or a plastic bag on hand for vomit.
Quite a story. I could believe it I guess. Hopefully the unfiltered will eventually come out.
I live in central Ohio (town next to Powell) and summarized some of this story in another post. Some of these rumors were out almost immediately. Maybe she is crazy (maybe not) but I don’t think it changes much. Urban still allowed it to be around the team and bold face lied. In my conversations most osu fans accepted urban was gone until this. There is so much national coverage. Local cops saying they Escorted her home drunk multiple times probably won’t help National perception.
either way damage is done to a university that’s wiggled out of way too much.
this seems pretty irresponsible to post
hi zach
Urbz smearing the victim? Shocking.
My reaction to reading this post
Victim blaming 100%
AND even if it’s the case than why was Zach fired then? Also, Urban still lied at B1G media day
“This information supposedly came from Urban”. Good lord this is pathetic.
OP here: ya I think its 100% fake. It's just bizarre that it popped up on a bunch of different platforms at the same time. It is coordinated. He will not go down without an incredible fight--putting him on leave gives him time to mount things like this. We all know who he is--everyone does.
It could have very easily been the work of one person with multiple accounts.
I haven't heard anything about the reputation of the posters. That would seem to be important. We know it would be here.
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:58 PM ^
Posted by RDT?
In Ann Arbor, the media make stuff up to try and bomb the Michigan football program.
In Columbus the media make stuff up to try and save the OSU program.
I read somewhere that certain players were escorted back to their dorms by AA Police after extended stretching activities under Rich Rod...
Obviously some made up bs from a delusional OSU fan who is desperate to keep Urban.
He's so gone.
*you're hoping he is gone
A 3-4 game suspension sounds about right. Meyer will keep his job. You can Raback it.
A 3-4 game suspension makes no sense. Either he's guilty and he's fired or he's innocent and nothing happens.
That seems worse than nothing in a way.