Meyer banned from OSU property, cannot contact players
There are some new reports out covering some of the deals of Meyer's administrative leave. In particular, he's not allowed to contact players, he has no access to his university email account or communication devices, and he can't be on OSU property.
Here's a link to the story.
Sounds like he's getting what he should have given Smith the first time. Minus the not actually fired part of course.
Also sounds like S.O.P. for a person on administrative leave (and under investigation).
Nothing to see here IMO.
Agreed
Hey Troll, first off your source is worthless. Second, the report is Zach Smith's mom, not Courtney's. Third, go away.
give the guy a break - he obviously went to osu so reading is really hard for him
Police reports, pics etc
Get help fast! Guess what in 2009 Zach’s wife punched herself as it was reported by Zach’s mom! Later redacted though by Urban Liar himself. They were a young couple!
Are they leather bound books?
August 9th, 2018 at 10:17 PM ^
I know it sucks, in general, to be surrounded by Ohio State fans, because they can't get past the football program. But it must reeeeeally suck if your own mother is so far gone that she would betray you for nothing more than saving some face for the program.
That is cold, if true. Of course it's probably made up or extremely stretched.
Things I am not shocked by:
- Zach Smith's mother thinks Zach Smith is innocent
- Ohio State troll can't read
August 10th, 2018 at 12:34 AM ^
Get off our lawn, BLOsu troll woodynutjob!
August 10th, 2018 at 12:35 AM ^
Get off our lawn, BLOsu troll woodynutjob!
If nothing else you at least provide some comic relief there bucknut! Get the gun Martha, the herd needs a thinning!
From a dickwad here trying to sway a fan base of the innocence of a known enabler. The ignorance and irony is think with this one.
and luckily there are no other ways for him to communicate w/ the team either
He's just going to stand on his roof and hold up those giant pictographs that teams use to signal plays, isn't he? It's going to be a picture of an eye, then a field goal going wide right, then a female sheep.
A black eye
Clever. Hopefully no one mistakes the sentiment as an endorsement of bestiality.
Ewe know it
Bestiality is legal in Ohio
Encouraged, even.
Not surprising, have you seen the women there? The only way to tell the difference between the women in O-lie-O and the cattle is the cattle have their ears tagged.
Or domestic violence...
Mick Jagger: Hey, you, get off of my cloud
McJager: Hey, McCloud, get off of my ewe
I'll see myself out...
My last name is MacLeod and still this joke made me laugh out loud at a meeting.
Erm, I dunno. That would likely be misunderstood as "I miss you" when what it really means is "I'll shank you (if you rat me out)". Too risky.
Hey Blueinsconsin ... you forgot the /s
Go Blue!
He gone.....
Lol no chance
How you have not been banned yet is beyond my understanding.
Whats wrong? Can't handle a different opinion?
When you trivialize domestic violence and - remarkably, in this context - call people who disagree with you "pussies" and "bitches" . . . that's not really the kind of different opinion we want around here.
No point in responding to dctobe's dickweedian posts.
Urban Meyer, and fans like you, give the BIG 10 a bad image. If Urban Meyer is not fired, and the front office of the BIG 10 does not pressure Ohio St to remove him, then maybe the BIG 10 deserves the bad reputation you so mindlessly give it.
I can. It’s the blatant trolling that is annoying. I get it, though. You hate your life so much that you have to take your frustration out on Michigan fans. You are a pathetic piece of shit OSU fan.
He ought to be banned for using LOL in 90% of his posts.
If he isn't fired (or doesn't resign), the President of OSU is an idiot because he will eventually end up losing "HIS" job over this. I think Urban eventually resigns with a buyout...just maybe, his best case scenario is a year suspension without pay. OSU will still get some backlash, but not as much. Moreover, a $7M fine (his annual salary) and no interaction with the program/recruits is more than a slap on the wrist. But even that is a gamble for OSU's President. If something else comes out, he and Urban are both dead men walking.
EDIT: I'll also add that when the two week investigation was announced, most thought that meant, "Urban will get off." However, you can easily make the argument that its a smart move by the President because not only does it appease the OSU fans screaming about "let the facts play out," but the President also plays the "due process" angle for people who wanted him fired immediately. He just has to say, "We needed to due a investigation to make sure."
A year's suspension without pay does not sound like a penalty Meyer would accept. He'd be better off negotiating his resignation and so would OSU.
He is not getting fired. She claimed abuse. Zach denied. She called 911 many times, multiple different police officers investigated, and never arrested Zach. In Ohio (probably everywhere) it is very unusual for a woman to call 911 for domestic abuse and the man not leave in cuffs. Urban concluded that if the police cannot find evidence of abuse, there was no grounds to fire Zach.
Unless, perhaps, he was given preferential treatment by the police.
That would never happen, would it? /s
Do you not think that Police in major college towns might side with the local university, especially a school like osu. I can see the Police showing up and seeing it involves a osu coach and "decide" that theres not enough evidence, for say, some tixs to a game or two.
If Urban filed the Title IX report, then there was an investigation. If the investigation found Zach in violation of Title IX, he was gone no matter what Urban thought about police reports. If they investigated and found that the preponderance of evidence was against a Title IX violation, then Urban is in the clear.
If there was no report, Urban is gone.
If there was a report and investigation that cleared Zach, though, that leaves two questions:
1. Why fire Zach? All you have to do when questions come up is show the investigation's conclusions, and
2. Why would Urban lie at media day? There's no chance he misunderstood the question or didn't remember a Title IX investigation.
Whether Zach committed DV, or whether his mommy thinks he did, or didn't, or whatever, is not relevant. What is relevant is: did Urban Meyer follow the law and OSU regulations and his contract and report suspected DV to the OSU Title IX coordinator?
August 9th, 2018 at 10:29 PM ^
Warning: long post below.
I think you have accurately described the legal situation facing the school and Urban, but I still have a problem with it (the situation, not your description). Urban is resorting to strict legalese to try and absolve himself of responsibility for having harbored an accused domestic abuser (for almost 10 years). But Urban has near total control over who is on staff. If Urban wanted to fire the kid at any time, he’d be gone. Let's say Urban did follow proper reporting protocols. If Gene Smith wanted to keep the kid but Urban didn’t, does anyone think the kid wouldn’t have been gone in a second? The alternative is if Gene said to fire the kid and Urban said no, but that’s not what Urban is asserting happened here because he would then be admitting liability. Yes, there is an investigation going on now to determine which alternative actually happened, or if nothing at all happened (either because Urban never reported it like he claimed he did, or because the school/Gene did nothing once Urban reported it), but the fact remains it was still up to Urban to keep the kid on staff or not. The information so far points to Urban keeping a person with a history of domestic abuse allegations on staff for almost a decade. He’s fired people for far less—eg, not calling plays as well as expected (Warriner) or for having violated a protective order (our boy Zack Smith). Bottom line: Urban wanted the kid on staff so he remained on staff. The legal issues, while important, are beside the point, IMO. Regardless of whether he followed proper reporting protocols he should be fired.
Also, I keep hearing Bucknuts saying Urban may have lied, but it was only to the press, and that he told the truth when it mattered by reporting Zach Smith through proper channels. Well, see above for how I feel about Urban trying to get out of jail by using the Nuremberg defense. The bigger issue for me is that his lies confirm what we’ve all known or suspected about Urban—that he’s a fraud. If he hadn’t lied at media days and simply said he imprudently kept a POS on staff—because of loyalty to Earl Bruce or whatever—and that he realized too late that Zack Smith should have been let go sooner, he would only be guilty this one time of failing to live up to the ideals he espoused—a big mistake, but a far more defensible one, especially if he offered some contrition too. Instead his lies indicate he had no ideals in the first place, that his sanctimony and righteousness was all a façade, a bait and switch to lure recruits. Everyone except Bucknuts already know this, but his most recent lies are further proof. He’s a horrible human being.
If she was making calls when he was not there, as documented, then he's not leaving in cuffs.
Why in the name of G-d has this POS f-ckeye troll DCToBe not been banned from this site?
....until week 3.
I think that if they want to truly represent the character of THE Ohio State University, they'll suspend him for the first half of the opener against Oregon State.
So he can have a hero's welcome coming out of the tunnel after halftime...
He'll only miss the band intro when they change the dotting of the i to a new tradition of blackening the i.
He'll be on the field at the time of course, pretend not to see it, then start the game.
If Meyers did indeed inform OSU of Smith and the school didn't do anything too, and Urbz gets canned, I think he tears down the university.