I'm still laughing. I went to 11 Warriors to check out their "reasoned" reaction to this shit show. They've got a poll running. 56% said Urbz "punishment" was too severe, with another 26% saying it was "just right"!

Explains the cooler pooping thing...

Worst state ever.

I said this before, and will repeat it. Get ready Urban apologists. The national media is coming to Columbus to start digging. 

Pass the popcorn.

Wow.  It’s always darkest before the dawn my friend.  I’m convinced there will be a week later this year where Urban Meyer gets fired, Trump resigns and Dick Cheney dies.  All the children of the world will rejoice in the elimination of pure evil from power/existence.

I hope there is a demonstration at every OSU road game this season.  They are counting on this to all blow over.  But if it catches enough momentum, OSU will be a poster child for domestic abuse.

In their attempt to cover everything up, they may be creating more awareness.  I'm sure the irony would escape them...

This is not an NCAA issue. This is an issue with men in this country. Every time you laugh, smile, even look the other way, or just stay silent toward abusive or misogynistic behavior you are complicit. You think it's funny or acceptable when your buddy makes comments like "tapping that"? Do you talk that way? Then start changing yourself to change this.

Every ongoing behavior is, by definition, acceptable. Even if it's you or your buddies.

Period.

Yeah I have season tickets to Michigan. I drive 6 hours one-way for every home game in the fall. It was difficult last season. It's going to be even more difficult this season due to yet another wart on the sport. When the stadiums finally stop filling up and the house of cards falls maybe we can look back on the warts to explain why. This is just disgusting. 

"Meyer's first action after the Brett McMurphy report that set this chain of events in motion was to delete all text messages older than a year off his phone"

It is possible a civil case can be brought on this, as was done with OJ?

I really do wonder if at some point in the future, the state of collegiate athletics will be so toxic that Michigan will be asking itself whether to go the way of the Ivies and UC, and just de-emphasize it’s athletic programs. Or continue raking in money and hope it doesn’t get caught up in some god awful scandal that de-stabilizes the entire university.

Some of you may laugh at the concept, but it’s an honest and fair question. The state of college athletics and what scandals transpire has gotten worse and worse over the last 10-15 years. When do schools like Michigan say it’s academic reputation and respect as a global institution has too much to lose to get caught up in a scandal like that? Because we’d be be absolute fools to think this sort of thing couldn’t happen here.

This isn't a breaking point for me by any means, but the more this happens the more it wears away at my love for college football. I don't watch nearly as many non-Michigan games as I used to. Getting older and working more often/having a family adds in to it somewhat as well. As has the whole change in attitude over the last 20 years or so as NCAA becomes bigger and bigger (i.e. win now at all costs, if a player isn't a star when he steps on campus he is a bust, if a coach can't win it all in his first year he is underperforming, etc). 

I don't know that I will ever get back into it like I was 10-15 years ago, but maybe that is a good thing. Who knows. I keep wondering if something is gonna come out like this that involves Michigan. We like to say it never would, but you never actually know. Within the last year half of our division has had to deal with this. And PSU wasn't too long ago. Hell even Indiana football had their own problem not too many years ago. And Rutgers has to be Rutgers

It's all converged. Mega business, gamblng and insanely-profitable management of student-athletes. There's no way forward except to end college sports for several generations. We're at a juncture when we must realize the wrong folks were rewarded and the strivers got screwed for the most part. End it.

Brian is exactly right, and this is why we should leave the NCAA. We should start paying players. Other schools will join. We're the leaders and the best - time to start leading.

The lack of anyone at these schools caring about doing what is right, and living in denial or even lying to themselves about wrong being right, when people are being harmed as bad as can be done, is appalling. Taken to the extreme, you have what went on in Germany during the Holocaust. People who lived in towns next to death camps insisted they knew nothing about what was going on, yet liberating Allied soldiers could smell the camps miles away. What's worse here is the overseeing authorities don't care either. That's like if nobody had war crimes trials in the wake of the Holocaust.

But stretching for too long is, of course, criminal.

I don’t know why the situation with Meyer became the last straw for me, but it was. The blatant hypocrisy pisses me off at work and pisses me off with college football.  I wish I was a morally bankrupt asshole so I could become an ultra successful wealthy individual 

...aw fuckit dude, let’s go bowling.

...aw fuckit dude, let’s go bowling.

I don’t think we lose this November in Ohio. Call it a hunch. 

Really don't care anymore whatever happens at OSU and MSU. Let's just beat those fuckers this year.

I can’t help but agree with the sentiment expressed by some here that we are only TRULY angry at the lack of shame and any semblance of true accountability because this is about Ohio State and Urban Meyer. The last couple of weeks have seen the publication of probably no fewer than 50 threads on this topic. The Nassar scandal probably had as many or more. Penn State - possibly hundreds. And we could, no doubt, recite from memory the incident involving the death of a student involving Brian Kelly.

But Baylor and Ole Miss had far less than half the interest or coverage here. And I would be willing to bet a round of drinks that most of us could not recall the specifics of what happened in those two programs without help from Google. Even the Maryland case involving Durkin is barely registering a mention here by comparison to OSU, MSU, and PSU. 

I’m as guilty of the hypocrisy that is begotten by tribalism as anyone. And I might be more angry with myself for my own lack of indignation were it not for the fact that I’m totally numb to it as a result of the social media and 24/7 news cycle barrages that each provide more examples every single fucking day.

This is why I still visit this site. Obviously I have my differences with the Ann Arbor politics posts, the left leaning opinions of the writers and other issues, but this is what makes Brian Cook's site the best. Probably your best written article in some time, and it couldn't have been at a better time. Thank you.