SIAP: Meyer broke the law in deleting text messages
"Fred Gittes, a veteran open records lawyer in Columbus, said any elimination of texts on Meyer’s university-issued phone related to his coaching responsibility would break Ohio’s open records law."
The article also goes on to say that if the NCAA ever needs to evaluate a recruiting issue, he is likely to be in trouble with them as well. NOT that I am holding my breath that either someone in the state of Ohio or the NCAA will ever make this an issue for him or OSU.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:35 PM ^
Lock him up!
August 26th, 2018 at 7:38 PM ^
Yeah, in a Federal “pound you in the ass” prison!!!
August 26th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
He’s a very....bad person!
August 26th, 2018 at 8:01 PM ^
Urban, the trick is kick someone's ass the first day, or become somebody's bitch.
August 26th, 2018 at 8:10 PM ^
He’d have to store his heart medicine in the old “prison wallet”
August 26th, 2018 at 10:00 PM ^
Urban...very bad man
August 26th, 2018 at 9:49 PM ^
There are several Big Ten emails of communications and football directors in this link if you would like to have your voice heard.
August 26th, 2018 at 9:20 PM ^
Do you know from experience?
August 26th, 2018 at 9:24 PM ^
No I’ve only been to State “toss my salad, new fish” prison
August 26th, 2018 at 10:47 PM ^
Seriously..waste your time doing literally anything else besides posting on a rival team’s fan message board
August 27th, 2018 at 9:39 AM ^
Is that a crime? You can post on 11 Warriors.
August 27th, 2018 at 12:01 PM ^
Nope...not enough soap and water on earth to wash off that filth.
August 27th, 2018 at 8:35 PM ^
Isn't a toilet usually dirty? Don't you sit in that toilet bowl to watch games?
August 26th, 2018 at 11:00 PM ^
You're out of your element.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:38 PM ^
I expect the Ohio legislature to immediately pass a retroactive bill eliminating this law.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:44 PM ^
and apologize to him for not removing it sooner...
August 26th, 2018 at 8:06 PM ^
That lawyer who uncovered this will never get another case in Ohio. He may want to take the bar in Tennessee just in case.
August 26th, 2018 at 8:11 PM ^
The fact that this didn’t come up sooner speaks volumes to the underlying issue: media and law in Ohio enabling this to begin with.
August 26th, 2018 at 11:10 PM ^
Why would it take the media to figure this out? Wouldn’t you think a law firm, say the one who did the investigation and wrote the report, would have looked into something like...the law!
I would also think the board of trustees and president would have consulted the schools legal department over the course of say...10 hours of deliberation.
And maybe, maybe that institution has professors who teach things like law on staff. Maybe they would have been aware of such a thing.
Just sayin.
August 26th, 2018 at 9:53 PM ^
Nah, Tennessee Jeff would out him there too.
Better to move to Michigan, and not the sparty part. They have a LOT of solidarity with their bucknut bros...
August 26th, 2018 at 11:28 PM ^
Come on; if you guys were serious about this discussion, you might want to know who Fred Gittes is.
He runs a small boutique employment and civil rights law firm in downtown Columbus. He's making a living in part by suing Ohio State.
Like in this recent case.
So it is literally Fred Gittes' job; taking positions like this. I've had some contact with Gittes' firm. He's a serious guy, and a referral attorney for these kinds of cases and he really has had a lot of experience with the Ohio Public Records Law. I was told that in the recent settlement this summer, Gittes found "smoking gun"-type emails that proved his case. I expect that Fred may hove gotten them through a public records request, or he may have gotten them through regular discovery when in litigation. The settlement was modest because they mostly all are when OSU is the defendant. Damages are limited.
What would the damages be in a civil action over Meyer's phone? What are Courtney Smith's damages?
About 90% of the posts I see here are trashtalking jokes; aren't there any Michigan-grad Ohio lawyers who can speak to this?
August 26th, 2018 at 8:49 PM ^
They must have forgotten it was a law. It’s not their fault
August 26th, 2018 at 7:38 PM ^
I mean, if ZS was sending me dick pics, I'd delete them too.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
Lmao
August 26th, 2018 at 7:49 PM ^
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August 26th, 2018 at 8:05 PM ^
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August 26th, 2018 at 7:38 PM ^
Fuck Urban Meyer and fuck Ohio State.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:42 PM ^
Additionally:
Fuck MSU and PSU too!
August 26th, 2018 at 9:21 PM ^
After the MSU and OSU debacles, I’ve actually gained a bit of respect for PSU. They stood up to the deranged mob and cleaned house. The other two wouldn’t dare do likewise.
August 27th, 2018 at 7:23 AM ^
The penn state fan base is still rabidly certain nobody did anything wrong there.
August 27th, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^
Pretty much.
August 27th, 2018 at 1:01 PM ^
Yeah, but it seems that every big program has a mob of idiots within its fanbase. The question is how the institution itself responds.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:39 PM ^
The state of Ohio government officials are too busy changing Zach Smith's files to show that he was no longer arrested to care about Meyer breaking other laws. Additionally, the NCAA doesn't like to hurt the super-elites.
Meyer is safe. He could openly break more laws, flaunt it, and be fine.
Besides, all he has to do is say that he didn't intentionally delete the texts and OSU would buy it.
August 26th, 2018 at 8:32 PM ^
It’s almost like he could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone and still be the coach…
August 26th, 2018 at 8:50 PM ^
You do know that everyone murders.
August 27th, 2018 at 12:09 AM ^
I've heard of him, but haven't met him personally...
August 26th, 2018 at 9:20 PM ^
Ohio State fans would just find a way to spin it that he was just "shopping at Saks".
August 26th, 2018 at 11:59 PM ^
Why do so many people feel the need to inject political commentary on this blog?
(For those who don't know, the quote is a paraphrase of something our current president said during his campaign; something along the lines of "I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue and my supporters would still support me.")
The poster that I am responding to is comparing the blind loyalty that the state of Ohio has to Urban to that of Trump's supporters to the president. Whether or not you support the current president, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE to make these comments. TAKE THOSE JOKES TO FOXNEWS, MSNBC, politico, Drudge Report, CNN or one of the countless other political web page comment sections that like to discuss this crap. Please leave mgoblog politics free.
August 27th, 2018 at 12:13 AM ^
everything’s political, maaan
August 27th, 2018 at 6:23 AM ^
There was a time when making fun of politics in general was allowed on the internet. That year was 1996. Al Gore had just invented it, and it was free, wild and innocent.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:39 PM ^
I think people suspect that he may not have had any texts relevant to the investigation, but was worried proof of other kinds of wrongdoing would be seen.
August 26th, 2018 at 9:49 PM ^
I think both. There's not a shred of doubt in my mind that he deleted the texts that proved he knew all about Smith's shit, and then some. I also believe there was probably some other non-ZS stuff on it that would have looked bad. He's a shitty person that is shitty. He has shit stuck all over him.
August 26th, 2018 at 10:00 PM ^
Shit.
August 26th, 2018 at 10:06 PM ^
Double secret shit.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:40 PM ^
OhioAtty14 will find a way to conclude that Urban Meyer deserves a public apology and $50 million in civil suit compensation
August 26th, 2018 at 7:44 PM ^
It's an Ohio law. They legal processes are malleable when it comes to OSU footballl
August 26th, 2018 at 7:44 PM ^
Duh. His phone is property of the "university" and is subject to FOIA requests.
August 26th, 2018 at 7:45 PM ^
It's an Ohio law. They legal processes are malleable when it comes to OSU footballl. It is more likely for a vehicle with Michigan plates to get an unfair speeding ticket in ohio than an Ohio State Football employee to break Ohio law.
August 27th, 2018 at 9:25 AM ^
I'll bet his wife's cell phone is as well.