September 15th, 2018 at 9:03 AM ^
And shit in their coolers.
September 15th, 2018 at 9:11 AM ^
Lot's of anti-Urban signs. Really bland ones though. They must have taken the good ones away.
September 15th, 2018 at 9:17 AM ^
He got them covered up.
September 15th, 2018 at 9:22 AM ^
Just seen one of particularly bad taste: Urban let Smith dot the eye.
September 15th, 2018 at 10:07 AM ^
You just seen that?
September 15th, 2018 at 10:38 AM ^
saw, not seen ffs
September 15th, 2018 at 11:15 AM ^
** shakes head**. We could have been fine with Wichitan’s response but you just had to bust in and ruin it.
September 16th, 2018 at 2:07 AM ^
But Copactic's was better. I did seen'tit.
September 16th, 2018 at 1:59 AM ^
For fuck's sake, I fucked that one up!
Oh well, back to the ditch digging.
September 15th, 2018 at 9:24 AM ^
It shocks me that the only articles written about this were a month ago. It’s gone from the media. He got away with it without major backlash, not enough to pressure any change, anyway.
September 15th, 2018 at 9:37 AM ^
There will be an uptick next week when he's off suspension, but as a general rule we as a society, especially in sports, don't care all that much about domestic abuse or sexual assaults. We have decades of evidence that if you are still good at the sport, you'll get another chance as long as you didn't cheat within a very precise set of rules. Honestly, the only offense that seems to stick is, apparently, protesting systemic violence against minorities.
September 15th, 2018 at 9:48 AM ^
Do you think the public outrage is greater thereby forcing action? Or there’s more sensitivity toward that issue by decision makers because it’s a more culturally recognized issue in academic spheres?
It shocks me that OSU could lower their institution from the image of principle and morality that universities try to uphold to protecting a coach they found complicit for football wins.
September 15th, 2018 at 10:21 AM ^
Is it really shocking ?
I know an MD from OSU and tbh , while I am obviously critical, even he as an OSU grad is embarrassed that OSU chose football over academic standards here. Sad.
Moeller left for public intoxication. At M I am sure the coach would he gone.
OSU cares about football not academics. This proved it.
September 15th, 2018 at 11:02 AM ^
Deeper than that even. They care about football and not ETHICS.
September 15th, 2018 at 10:41 AM ^
except they didn't lower the institution. it’s priorities are exactly where they’ve always been - winning at football and beatinf michigan. as long as those things happen, the vast majority of fans, alumni and administration couldn’t care less.
September 15th, 2018 at 2:49 PM ^
Complicit? That's a big stretch.
September 15th, 2018 at 10:03 AM ^
That and excessive stretching of course.
September 15th, 2018 at 11:09 AM ^
I am surprised the “George Perles-covers-up-rape” issue was mostly a one-day story. Maybe that will be talked about again when/if it gets to trial. That story seems worse than the Nasser story itself because it is basically Nasser plus a multi-institutional cover-up of Nasser. But it barely moved the needle nationally.
George got lucky there was a major hurricane this week to occupy the media.
September 15th, 2018 at 11:33 AM ^
I checked RCMB on that but didn’t spend too much time. There were a few threads about “fire all of the BOT” but later in the thread I think they cited sources from ESPN (the enemy) bashing the Freep — that this was a BS story - Nassar wasn’t even on staff at the time this was claimed...
Not sure if that is true but it would explain why the coverage disappeared so quickly...
September 15th, 2018 at 10:23 AM ^
This is exactly what OSU was counting on when they glossed over whatever that 'investigation' was supposed to be. Honestly, I don't understand how people are so surprised about it - the news cycle forgot about it by Friday afternoon, not two days after they released the 'punishment '. With nobody telling us what to think about, we moved on. It's pretty sad, really. We care about whatever the talking points are for the day, then leave it behind when the points change.
September 15th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
Sad but true. Stall and delay and obfuscate until the media gets bored and moves on is an effective strategy.
Well (and cynically) played, OSU.
September 15th, 2018 at 11:54 AM ^
The news cycle always moves on until it doesn't like a slow-moving hurricane hammering your credibility and character as the highest-paid representative of a major public institution.
And, of course, for The Ohio State, the bottom line is playing to win. And that means retaining your coach no matter what. So, winning with character now becomes the issue for the school as a whole.
Urban faces one more major challenge, a stickler of an interview as he returns from suspension to the sideline this week. And he will be challenged. The change in his status will be the story itself and that will then morph into how he handles himself the rest of the season, clearly with a big target on his back whenever his team plays away from Columbus.
But he's had plenty of time to focus on any issue he's asked about, and we'll see whether he attacks the scandal head-on or tries to deflect in a way that all coaches know how to with the media.
September 15th, 2018 at 10:16 AM ^
I can’t read it, but I like the one stylized as the Colin Kaepernick meme.
September 15th, 2018 at 11:20 AM ^
"Believe in something. Even if you can't cover it up."
September 15th, 2018 at 9:14 AM ^
Looks like Sparty needed a week off after getting beat up by the mighty programs of Utah State and Arizona State.
September 15th, 2018 at 9:37 AM ^
Maybe they'll find their running game underneath a burned couch.
September 15th, 2018 at 10:16 AM ^
Weird they have a bye week already. That would suck, especially after losing a game. Losing a game and then having a bye week is so bad.
September 15th, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
Who the hell is flying a Michigan flag together with an OSU flag?
September 15th, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^
I liked the sign that said AN Ohio State University.
Simple and to the point.
September 15th, 2018 at 11:18 AM ^
Agreed. So few words, yet so anger-inducing. Perfetto.
September 15th, 2018 at 1:12 PM ^
Back a few years when University of Dayton beat Ohio State in the opening round of the NCAA tourney, the Dayton Daily News ran huge headline with THE University of Dayton! It was great.
September 15th, 2018 at 11:20 AM ^
In case you ever wondered what a buckeye was....
September 15th, 2018 at 1:13 PM ^
Nebraska trailing Troy 0-17 at home
September 15th, 2018 at 3:03 PM ^
Former commit Rashad Weaver killing us (GaTech) today. Like...All American level performance.
September 15th, 2018 at 3:20 PM ^
Troy just out hit Nebraska! ...aaaand out scored them!