OT: Urban Meyer has tweeted out another apology

He's selling past the close.

There is a 0.0% chance he wrote this, or even knows what it says.

As Andrew Luck once said

I can't hear what you're saying because your actions are so loud.

 He later tweeted,  What media day, I don't recall that.

In the State of Ohio, football matters above all else.

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Urban just isn't as good of a con man as Jim Tressel.  The Sweater Vest has never been reprimanded for any of the dirt that surrounds any program he is part of.  Not even when YSU got the dreaded "lack of institutional control."  People in Ohio are content to throw players under the bus rather than blame a coach who wins games; they are also content to overlook any and all crimes.  Note the weird posters who spend their time trolling this board, purposely not typing the "M" in Michigan as though that's somehow clever.

Now there have been a few halfhearted "well what did you expect Urban to do" comments floated; such a lame defense they shouldn't bother.  

Urban Meyer: tragic hero.

Welp, I guess everything is all right now. The emperor has apologized for wearing no clothes and finally bearing responsibility for the events that led to his incredibly short time off from coaching his team. For the record, the tonal quality and completeness of the umpteenth apology attributed to him, doesn't really sound like Urban actually wrote it.

Don't care whether he has recommitted himself to his core values. They've already been categorically violated by his actions.

You judge someone not by their written or stated future intentions but by their actions. Yeah, I don't believe you really care about women or honesty, whether written on a wall or not, except when it suits your purpose.

The fact that his wife didn't share vital information with him about what she knew was happening in real time about his coach's behavior in what they knew was a troubled marriage is beyond belief. What would prevent her from not sharing commentary about it, if not the actual email communication she shared with Courtney Smith herself, and not discuss it at any intervening point until well after Zach Smith was eventually fired? 

Even now, he claims he doesn't know what prompted her not to share her conversation with Courtney Smith. Really. Seriously, you have never even discussed that part of it?

And yet, Meyer claimed that he and his wife were key advisors to Zach and Courtney during their time in Florida together and now insists he doesn't really know what his mindset at the time he rehired him to work at OSU. Again, these two claims don't add up.

And why? Because he has already been forced to acknowledge that he didn't share any information with folks at The Ohio State about Zach Smith's prior marital problems during their time in Gainesville before rehiring him and then continuing to reward him with large raises in spite of ongoing fireable behavior. Does this sound like honesty renewed or actually showing interest in the welfare of women, by himself or his wife, who apparently works as a nurse?

This sounds more like covering all bases to avoid responsibility. There are lots of indicators of that.

Report disclosure that evidence was allegedly destroyed, and requests for the confiscation of Meyer and Gene Smith's school funded phones were ignored without repercussion or consequence of any kind, says all we need to know about the comprehensiveness of OSU's actual investigation and punishment of Meyer's bad leadership, a given on any factual or common sense terms you want to consider. 

So, let's be clear The Ohio State did not want to find Meyer guilty of anything. They were simply going through the motions. This latest Meyer missive is simply more public excuse-making to salve local and distant audiences. Those that know the case and Meyer's character for what it is, aren't persuaded.

I think Urban watched osu play the last 3 weeks and was surprised they played better without him.  

He never wrote and probably did even read that.   That had to come straight from the legal dept.

Why won't he just shut up?

First and foremost, I want to apologize to Buckeye Nation.  

I am also supposed to apologize to some other people as well, I guess. 

What a disengenuous dick. 

His answers (lies) from this press conference are infuriating.

First, he just flat out refuses to use the word 'lie'. Instead, he didn't 'intend to mislead' at B1G Media Days. What the absolute f. He was asked the same question 10(!!) times and each time he lied. And to make it worse, he doubled down and attacked McMurphy in front of 100 of his peers stating 'I don't even know whom would make up a story like that."

But it doesn't matter, because Ohio State fans don't care and he wins.

Guy is a complete scumbag. 

If you didn't have any opinions of OSU before all of this crap then you certainly should have one now. Apparently OSU is fine with having an employee that knew one of his staff was repeatedly beating his wife and did nothing about it.

Just disgusting all around. Way to set a garbage level baseline standard at AN Ohio State University. Well done. Alumni should be disgusted. This is sickening. Hope you win all your football games forever. Priorities. 

I wonder if Ohio State University can get their millions back from that law firm that put out their report with so many inaccuracies? During his press conference today, Urban mentions that multiple facts stated in the report are incorrect.  

Will no one at Ohio State tell this man to stfu and stick to coaching. 

JFC, the guy was banned from 3 Saturdays, and he's already acting like a martyr.  I hope they keep hammering him on this for the rest of the season.  

bullllshhhhhiiiiiitttttt!!!!!!

Why doesn't OSU order him to stop speaking out like this? He's making it worse on himself and the school by releasing these things. "My time away from the program in August gave me a chance to reflect and it gave me a chance to learn a great deal from these events." Did he learn about how to fight back against VERY lenient punishment or how to further lie about not knowing of the situation? 

Saying that he will "never will condone domestic abuse" just shows that he doesn't get it.

What's the over/under on the classy folks at Ohio Stadium giving this guy a 10 minute standing ovation on Saturday?

Does anybody else picture this Urban apology like Ryan Leaf's apology where he gets done (half ass) reading the statement and then just throws the piece of paper behind the podium? 

If you really mean it when you apologize, you don’t have to go back three or four more times trying to clarify what you meant the first time.

Do you mean something like this?

He feels lucky to still have a job, but his conscience is troubling him as he gets ready to move forward. The problem is that Meyer's conscience is simply the collective opinion of the world, rather than something internal to himself. So in order to salve his conscience, he must do all he can to recuperate himself in the public eye, and we see evidence of it here. 

This is the curse of the semi-moral personality. They can't by fully upstanding and they can't fully commit to being sinister, and the waffling that goes on in the meanwhile seems far worse than either extreme. 

This is the point that I keep coming back too. His whole reasoning for not firing him is that he was trying to help the family, but your wife get's this info and we are to believe she never shared it with him. 

This was tweeted by Peter Burns of ESPN: To believe Urban is 100% truthful, he is asking you to believe that him and his wife took a couple under their wing after a violent domestic dispute in 2009 in order to help them, but in 2015 when other issues arose, Urban’s wife never even mentioned it to him once.

Far be it from me, a layperson, to say that Urban Meyer is a classic psycopath, but I daresay that his depth of knowledge on spread offense concepts and power run schemes rival's Patrick Bateman's insight on Huey Lewis and the News' music as a bellwether of late 80's zeitgeist

Unfortunately there is another Urban interview on ESPN that's about 30mins.

Sorry, but what a dickhead...

I don't believe it...

All I can say is Urban Meyer better be fucking ready for the onslaught of scandal questions after the Tulane post-game, and in subsequent days following.

but didn't everyone down in Ohio say there was no domestic violence? Why is Urban now apologizing for not doing more then? Ah, good ol' sand in the eyes for everyone to enjoy

Time for us to move on.  If he genuinely did NOT know about it then we really dragged an innocent man through the ringer... If he did know about it, then obviously he is a scum bag and shouldn't coach another day of college football.

Meyer has a bot set up to periodically generate sincere apologies..

Reportedly, he once said "Always be sincere.  Even if you don't really mean it."

I've kind of dismissed this guy as a human at this point. He may win 10 NC, but no way I'd want this guy as our coach. He's going to sit at hell's coaching table with JoePa someday ...

I think an often overlooked facet of this whole thing is when OSU had to put their HC on leave, they couldn't promote their top two assistants because they both had their own scandals.  But, sure, ya, you betcha, honesty and character and what not. 

"Discharging." Accurate.