Jim Rome tears Meyer and OSU apart

Wow... I usually try to catch Rome once in a while but wasn’t able today. Sorry I missed this one!

He also had Brett McMurphy on during the first hour of the program (good interview), and spent most of the first 2 hours trashing OSU and Meyer.  He's had a couple OSU fans call in, all of whom are firmly in the "Meyer should have been fired camp." 

That's a fairly decent summary

"Big winner on the field, colossal loser in life. A complete and utter failure as a human being."

Seems fair.  

Wow... well, he's not wrong, not in the slightest.

Btw, reading it to myself in my head, in Jim Rome's voice really made it come alive!

Ouch

Wow that is quite a "de-pants-ing".

Wow.  I agree completely with Jim Rome.

All the focus on the details of the investigation are just window-dressing.  Urban lied about domestic violence, violating his two core values, and cared far more about protecting himself and Zach Smith than actually being honest and treating women with respect.

Pathetic.

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=24453580

Stephen A. on urban and osu's response

I've never been a big fan of Rome (Can't stand his voice. And his cadence. Oh, and yea, this stupid way of making points. Scratch that - great points!), but I love the shredding he gives Urban and the shitty side (~80%) of the OSU fanbase. 

I never watch ESPN, unless its a game, but I caught Stephen A Smith today. He RIPPED Meyer. Said before yesterday's press conference, he didn't think Urban should be fired, but now he is totally flipped on the issue. Also, went to town on Urban acting like the victim during the press conference. He was brutal on him.

Should also add, he had Christine Brennan on, who trashed him, but said as a journalist, it's her duty to now call the NCAA and ask if they are going to get involved. And if not, why?

yea wow, f osu!!!!!!!

His follow-up to this is also scathing: LINK

Good stuff, exactly how I felt watching that presser yesterday.

Urban definitely displayed some sociopathic behavior yesterday.  Absolutely remorseless about the whole thing.  And the worst part is that OSU is the biggest enabler in all of this.  They enable all of Meyer's bullshit, which allowed Meyer to enable Smith's abusive behavior.  I'm still flabbergasted about the information that was released yesterday from the investigative report, and that that information resulted in merely a 3 game suspension (which is in reality a 1 game suspension considering he can work with the team starting Sept. 2nd, and which their president had to fight really hard to get any sort of punishment at all).  OSU simply doesn't give a shit, and that is both frightening and disturbing.

Not sure where else to put this so here goes, (from ESPN.com, emphasis added by me):

• After Courtney and Zach Smith were formally divorced on Sept. 2, 2016, Zach Smith's "job performance suffered, and he was regularly late to practice and workouts," according to the report. Smith also failed to appear at scheduled recruiting visits at various high schools, despite reporting that he had.

"Zach Smith recalls that Meyer warned him that if he continued to be late and otherwise unreliable, he would be fired," the report said.

Gene Smith recommended replacing Zach Smith at the time, but Meyer decided not to do so, the report said. Smith received only a 3 percent raise in February 2016, by far the smallest he had received for any year he was on staff and the smallest for any full-time assistant coach that year.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24450632/ohio-state-summary-findings-casts-doubt-coach-urban-meyer

So, performance suffered, late to practice and workouts, failed to make recruiting visits, LIED ABOUT IT... and got a 3% pay raise. I can see why Urban is so upset. He probably feels like he deserves a raise for not deliberately lying. You know, unintentional lies merit raises at osu.

Can't argue with Jim on this one. Urban is a sleaze.

Turned on ESPN for the first time since last football season.

Greeny and Jay Bilis  we're hammering Osu.

Got home and Stephen A was hammering them.

Some guy named Will Cain is hammering them.

Its beautiful, may this last forever.

You know, this guy is starting to grow on me. 

We have to beat them soundly over the next decade. I want Michigan to put him in an early grave. 

Gonna have to agree with just about everything...

That was the sorriest press conference of all time. Three people stood up on the podium and took credit for defending the price of whatever was debated behind closed doors for hours. And then, thought they could come out and acting contritely, bullshit their way through 20 minutes of questioning by reporters who were originally lied to, leading to this circus.

Urban Meyer lied about every aspect of his role in his supervision of Zach Smith or lack thereof. We don't need an interpretation of those facts, the record of his lack of supervision on any ground you want to raise is plainly evident. We have the facts before us in a summary of investigation, which under any normal employee evaluation, would damn the boss to purgatory.

But let's be clear, not only was Meyer remorseless about the circumstances that led to his discomforting leave of absence, which I am certain he felt was entirely inappropriate, he lied about his actions in the dismissal of Smith, just as he lied about knowing or not knowing just about anything going on in Smith's life whether at Ohio State football headquarters or not.

The fact that he took responsibility at the press conference for things he either knowingly chose not to remember, medically claimed he was excused from recalling or that he deliberately decided to expunge from recollection by erasing the record of it, makes his specious claim of lack of knowledge about anything -worthless.

Let's be clear, Meyer lied to the media in Chicago about what he knew about the Smith dismissal. Then days later he lied about his full knowledge of what he knew and actually reported. That was intriguingly confirmed Wedesday night by AD Gene Smith, who claimed that he rather than Meyer, who insisted he reported Smith to university authorities about an alleged domestic violence incident, whether real or not, then contacted Meyer about it.

This little detail is troubling because it wasn't vetted before the press conference, and because Smith himself took special care to point out that he indeed was the one to report it, and then call ZS in from the road on a recruiting trip to answer questions before notifying his direct superior of what was happening.

This isn't what Meyer claimed in his own written statement defending himself. And yet, this bullshit was allowed to stand without the record being corrected.

Rome is definitely not a very good writer. He writes in the exact same sophomoric style that he talks, which makes him seem even dumber than he really is.

He hit every point possible and hit it hard. Will Cain on Espn is just hammering Meyer as well. How can OSU not go out and find some more dirt on this guy so they can fire him and jut move on. Well frankly because the school is just as bad as Meyer and they are a perfect match for each other. Very disgusting, Jim Rome Sir! Give yourself a TONGUE for that rant! Awesome 

It's both moral and right to pass justice on the rich as you would the poor, and vice versa. Ohio State didn't do that. They gave Urban and his winning percentage preferential treatment. Being a part of the B1G makes me sick.