Gene Smith may have violated state law by deleting texts
Love that this soap opera will not die. Can only hope that Drake regrets everyday the mistake he made by retaining these clowns.
September 19th, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^
If you do not have a WSJ subscription, I believe you can get around the paywall by first looking at the tweet and then clicking the link from the tweet.
September 19th, 2018 at 4:19 PM ^
If you do a google search for the exact title (or just get the story as a google search result) you can read the whole story. I think WSJ allows three a month or something like that. They do it that way so they don't get dinged in SEO.
September 19th, 2018 at 1:37 PM ^
Between this, the Tressel mess and the huge wrestling scandal . . . how is Smith still employed?
September 19th, 2018 at 1:39 PM ^
You already know the answer...his football team wins and wins big.
September 19th, 2018 at 1:51 PM ^
I'm so relieved you did not go in the direction I thought you were going.
September 19th, 2018 at 2:26 PM ^
I don't think that has anything to do with it. Gene has nothing to do with the success of the team on the field. Sure, he was able to get Meyer to come to OSU as the coach, but that was never a difficult task. Other than that, what has Gene done to yield positive on the field results?
There has to be another reason why that ass clown is still the athletic director.
September 19th, 2018 at 2:49 PM ^
It's because he's respected among his peers, has been on numerous committees, and raises absurd amounts of money for the university. He also hired a couch that beat Michigan for over a decade and brought in the hottest coaching name at the time.
September 19th, 2018 at 3:02 PM ^
He also hired a couch that beat Michigan
So wins and money (and hiring winning furniture, apparently) trumps ethics? I guess that's the case at OSU, given the Meyer situation, but it's sobering.
September 19th, 2018 at 3:44 PM ^
Are you just now coming to the realization that winning and money trumps ethics at OSU? That's been the case forever. None of this is at all surprising.
September 19th, 2018 at 4:29 PM ^
Well, they did fire Tressel. They have done the right thing sometimes. And as their school profile has been raised (OSU is now a pretty strong school academically) I thought they wouldn’t want to be stuck with the tarnish of Meyer. I do think U-M would have fired him. OSU putting its head in the sand for Meyer legitimately surprises me.
September 19th, 2018 at 4:47 PM ^
Actually, they didn't fire Tressel. Gene Smith is on the record as stating Tressel would NOT lose his job.
However, when the NCAA sent a notice of allegations that Tressel had committed major violations and THAT is what forced their hand. However, they STILL didn't want to fire Tressel, so they asked him to resign. They were trying to blunt the impact from the NCAA and it kinda worked. They ended up with a whole 3 years of probation, vacated wins in 2010, and a 2012 postseason ban. No loss of scholarships, however, so big whoop.
September 19th, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^
The couch thing may be why they sometimes get torched by msu?
September 19th, 2018 at 5:03 PM ^
He also hired a couch that beat Michigan...
Can we take that couch to East Lansing and burn it?
September 19th, 2018 at 5:55 PM ^
Well, mathematically speaking, trumps ethics = 0.
So [anything] > trumps ethics.
(Attempt at funnies. Mods please delete if too sensitive)
September 19th, 2018 at 6:39 PM ^
We need to send some STAEE folks down there to burn that couch!!
September 20th, 2018 at 5:07 AM ^
Hey...No politics :)
September 19th, 2018 at 3:04 PM ^
It’s not what has Gene done, it’s what he hasn’t done and that’s get in Urban’s way.
September 19th, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^
I thought he watched film with the team and urbz, I assumed all B1G ADs did that???
September 19th, 2018 at 9:46 PM ^
It’s OSU.
September 19th, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
Gene Smith is literally bullet-proof.
The Russians could drop 1000 nuclear bombs on the entirety of the state of Ohio. The only 2 survivors would be Gene Smith and Marvin Lewis (still coaching the Bengals).
September 19th, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
*figuratively
September 19th, 2018 at 3:16 PM ^
Figuratively bullet-proof, but literally immune to nuclear fallout?
Gene Smith = Cockroach
September 19th, 2018 at 5:16 PM ^
Hue Jackson would survive
September 21st, 2018 at 11:31 AM ^
Now that the Browns have won a game for the first time in two years I see not reason not to five a lifetime guaranteed contract to Hue.
Doesn't everyone get to keep their job when when succeed one day every two years???????
September 19th, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
Their wrestling scandal predated Smith's tenure.
So basically the question is why haven't they fired Smith for how the football program has done under his watch?
September 19th, 2018 at 2:42 PM ^
Because he hired Urban Meyer and his football team wins. You think OSU cares about anything else?
September 19th, 2018 at 3:41 PM ^
He must have dirt on everyone
September 19th, 2018 at 10:14 PM ^
Because you touch yourself at night.
September 19th, 2018 at 1:37 PM ^
The time is 3 and 0 in Columbus, so there's nothing to see here.
September 19th, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
yep, anything to keep getting wins. It doesn't seem to matter to ohio.
September 19th, 2018 at 1:40 PM ^
Relatedly, as it says in the article link, OSU's investigation didn't even attempt to recover deleted texts. What an "investigation".
September 19th, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
The same "investigation" that claimed he lied but it's ok because he really didn't mean to.
September 19th, 2018 at 5:56 PM ^
We knew it was a sham when they announced at the outset that they would investigate for 2 weeks. That's not how (legitimate) investigations work. They take the time they take...
September 19th, 2018 at 1:50 PM ^
Louis Freeh, former FBI director who lead the Penn State investigation, referrIng to a forensic analysis of Meyer and Smith’s phones to try and recover deleted texts, is quoted:
”You can’t really do a thorough, credible job without doing that.”
I would imagine that was the idea...
September 19th, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
I believe that BOTH Meyer and Gene Smith broke the law, but only Smith admitted it:
The day Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer was placed on administrative leave over his handling of abuse allegations against a longtime assistant, he asked a colleague how to delete old text messages from his university mobile phone, outside investigators hired by the university said in a report released last month.
Yet the legal team investigating Mr. Meyer’s conduct, led by former Securities and Exchange Commission chairwoman Mary Jo White, decided not to send Mr. Meyer’s phone to a forensics lab to determine if he actually destroyed evidence, according to two people familiar with the matter.
These people said that investigators also did not seek to extract deleted text messages from the phone of Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, who handed over a device that contained no texts. The AD’s explanation was that he routinely deletes all texts after sending or receiving them, these people said. Such a practice may violate both Ohio open records law and the school’s records-retention policy, experts say.
September 19th, 2018 at 1:54 PM ^
Did Zach Smith send him dick pics too?
September 19th, 2018 at 2:28 PM ^
He sent me some. Now I know why he drinks
September 19th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
He plays Mario Kart?
September 19th, 2018 at 1:55 PM ^
urban denied deleting texts? after turning over a phone that had no texts past 1 year? after having a conversation about how to delete texts older than 1 year?
September 19th, 2018 at 2:00 PM ^
He also originally denied ever even owning a phone, but then he remembered he actually did, and apologized for accidentally not forgetting he had a phone but that he didn't have a data plan so he actually wasn't capable of texting to begin with. See, don't you feel like a dick now
September 19th, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^
oh man, yeah. not sure what i was thinking. do i have to issue an apology to him now?
September 19th, 2018 at 2:17 PM ^
it appears that the best course of action here is to apologize every third day or so until people really understand how truly sorry you are about tarnishing your image
September 19th, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
For your sins, you must apologize, have an insincere press conference, apologize for said press conference, have an insincere interview, and then apologize one more time. Save this post in case you forget.
September 19th, 2018 at 5:17 PM ^
And don’t forget to have your PR people write and post an apology that actually sounds like an apology.
September 19th, 2018 at 3:52 PM ^
Ballsy, right? Urbz no care what you think.
September 19th, 2018 at 1:59 PM ^
OSU had one shot to get this right and fire Meyer right away and they blew it. Now the storm is going to keep on coming. Over and over.
September 19th, 2018 at 2:15 PM ^
No it won't. Ohio State is like the mafia. Hell it took 6 years to finally get Tressell out after the first incident with Maurice Clarrett. It was obvious then, they looked away and looked away and looked away until they couldn't anymore because someone broke the code and spoke out.
September 19th, 2018 at 2:55 PM ^
Maybe we can help them out by beating OSU 2 years in a row.
September 19th, 2018 at 4:47 PM ^
Arb Lover = Mineral King, Dillon, Its Always Marcia lol. 3 Genie's in a bottle. Hello girls.
September 19th, 2018 at 4:05 PM ^
Looked away? Hell they were glad to be a part of it. . . .