November 13th, 2018 at 9:51 AM ^
The title literally says it all
November 13th, 2018 at 9:56 AM ^
Great example of a great title
November 13th, 2018 at 10:16 AM ^
Agreed.
November 13th, 2018 at 10:45 AM ^
Jo Don Baker as Kit Carson, always a classic.
November 13th, 2018 at 12:21 PM ^
Second only to his performance in Mitchell
November 13th, 2018 at 10:35 AM ^
That body, though???
November 13th, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
Look how exasperated the dude behind him is.
Like, "yeah we are totally screwed."
November 13th, 2018 at 4:16 PM ^
Wishing he was hanging out in Italy with his brother Cristiano Ronaldo.
November 13th, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
I've never quite understand the fixation with Hoke clapping. All coaches do it to encourage their team, including when things are going bad. I get that we reached a point with Hoke where we hated everything about him but this isn't something particular to him.
November 13th, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
It is all he was doing at the end. He was clapping in the 4th quarter of ND 2014 and the 3rd quarter of Minnesota 2014.
You don't clap then.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:39 PM ^
Our 30-year non-shutout streak ended at the hands of Brian VanGorder, and Hoke didn't even try to score -- yet left Gardner and Funchess in to get thrown around like rag dolls late in the 4th quarter -- all the while looking bewildered and slapping his hands like a trained seal.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:47 PM ^
How did Hoke "not try to score"? I'm not saying his gameplan was good or anything but that's a silly assertion to make.
November 13th, 2018 at 3:12 PM ^
Showed no urgency on late 3rd quarter and 4th quarter drives, running the ball, with the occasional short throw, and eating up the playclock like he had the lead. Yet keeping his best skill players in the game to get eaten alive? Could have at least kicked a field goal to keep the streak alive since we weren't going to win anyway. I don't know what he was trying to do.
Also, it's "silly" to take me literally. Of course he was probably trying to score. But he was so inept, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^
If he only had a headset.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:26 PM ^
I'm just here for the GIF's.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:04 AM ^
We laugh now, but when Zach Smith starts his day drinking this is all going to go to hell pretty quickly...
November 13th, 2018 at 11:31 AM ^
I have a feeling that his Twitter rant the other day may have stemmed from this. Assuming it got back to Smith that this story was going to be published.
November 13th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
As I understand it, journalists usually contact their subjects ahead of time and often let them read the whole story so that they can fix any mistakes and whatnot or "have this/no comment" or whatever. By that point, the thing is pretty much finished, so the timing would be right...
November 13th, 2018 at 11:27 AM ^
I think you guys are missing the bigger picture. McMurphy is insinuating that Ohio State is complicit in creating a backstory that allowed Grimes to play at Florida without having to sit out a year for transferring. In exchange, Grimes would not make his allegations public.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^
From a different perspective: OSU supported Grimes in transferring to be nearer to his mother (Screw OSU and all, but McMurphy's whole article sounds sketch so not ready to crucify OSU on this one)
November 13th, 2018 at 9:52 AM ^
Urban=scumfuck
November 13th, 2018 at 9:53 AM ^
My key take away: The father of the former OSU player is named LeBron
November 13th, 2018 at 9:58 AM ^
My key takeaway: McMurphy smells blood in the water re: Urban.
Also, why does he seem to concentrate his reporting on Urban Meyer's programs? Everything I've seen from him this year is Meyer-related?
November 13th, 2018 at 10:02 AM ^
I don't know, but I like it.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:01 AM ^
Eh,
Tom Herman gave him info on Zach Smith last time.
I think Herman has had some recent incentive to drop more news to McMurphy.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:09 AM ^
Who else wants to see OSU play Texas in a bowl game? TMZ will be reporting from the sidelines.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:38 AM ^
Okay cool. Hook 'em
November 13th, 2018 at 12:31 PM ^
This. Made me literally lol.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:25 AM ^
I have a tough time thinking that McMurphy doesn't have more than this.......I think he is trying to make Urbz and Smith suffer a bit. Which seems like an awesome idea to me!
November 13th, 2018 at 10:06 AM ^
Because he's a freelance journalist and urban is what he's decided to work on and investigate.
November 13th, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
Right - but its almost a Michael Avenatti type obsession.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:37 AM ^
Except, Urban blatantly lied to McMurphy. And felt justified in lying to him because it was none of this lowly journalist's business.
Avenatti is just some scum sucking lawyer trying to gain fame and power.
November 13th, 2018 at 10:10 AM ^
He probably either has a score to settle or a really good source. I would assume the latter. Sometimes you chase the story, other times you let it come to you.
November 13th, 2018 at 10:18 AM ^
He's OSU's Ronan Farrow. Enjoy it.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
I'm definitely enjoying it. I just worry that the OSU narrative of "this guy just has a vendetta out for Urban" dilutes impact of the story.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:11 AM ^
Nobody thinks that except OSU slappies. You think anyone outside of Columbus doesn't know what an absolute scumbag urban is?
November 13th, 2018 at 12:23 PM ^
Is that what the nation thought of Michigan, in the early fall of 2009? That Michigan was a rogue program, abusing football players and wildly violating practice time limits?
Was it the case that "only Michigan slappies" doubted the Detroit Free Press' reporting?
November 13th, 2018 at 1:18 PM ^
No. Players at OSU and MSU were literally laughing at the Freep's "revelations" that college FB players work hard.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:28 PM ^
Well the "revelations" were not just that "college FB players work hard." The revelations were of NCAA major violations. (Almost completely debunked, as we know.)
I don't recall players from other programs laughing; I do recall Jim Tressel going public with (appropriate) questions about whether the story was actually looking at the right rules and procedures and wondering what it was all about.
November 13th, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^
As you know, everything that isn't listed as "minor" is a "major" violation. Those alleged violations included excessive time spent stretching and working out during the summer (the question was whether it was voluntary). Reporters asked players at rival schools about it and they laughed.
November 13th, 2018 at 2:08 PM ^
Can you link this or source it? I'm just curious.
And I'm not quite sure what you are arguing, or what your point is. Because players from opposing teams were laughing, the lack of journalistic integrity was excusable? What are you saying?
November 13th, 2018 at 6:42 PM ^
Section 1.8 asked: "Was it the case that 'only Michigan slappies' doubted the Detroit Free Press' reporting?"
I replied no, lots of people doubted the Freep. I'm going off of my memory.
November 13th, 2018 at 10:19 AM ^
If you read the article the Grime’s came to him. He has a reputation that he will give them a platform to tell their story and not bury it because he or his employer require access to the program. That’s the way it works often in journalism, if you have the reputation the sources seek you out.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:11 AM ^
You get a story based on your sourcing for it. And the reason why some other Buckeye family wanted to come forward to talk about another Zach Smith tale covered up by Urban is not surprising, so much as, why the hell did Urban cover for so long for Zach Smith?
I mean the preseason sham of an investigation which only underplayed the results of that third party probe never did seem to scratch the actual reason why Smith was retained and promoted by Meyer amid a whole bevy of uniquely fireable offenses for anyone else.
So, this may be McMurphy's real motive in continuing with this storyline. Why did Urban Meyer go overboard in protecting Smith during his incredible time on Buckeye staff? I mean it's not to protect the image of a now-deceased former Ohio State head coach who was Smith's grandfather. It was not because he wanted to keep Smith's ruinous marriage together, it certainly wasn't because he was unaware of the details of Smith's ongoing behavior, which now seem loony. So what was it?
November 13th, 2018 at 11:35 AM ^
I agree 100%. What if Zach Smith knows where Urban’s bodies are buried?
If true, this would explain why Urban helped cover Smith’s 2009 arrest, why Smith followed from Florida to OSU, and why Urban protected him through a myriad of issues at OSU.
Given what we know today those decisions don’t make sense. McMurphy is not a fool - he is trying to figure out why Urban protected Smith.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:37 AM ^
Disinterest.
Smith was part of a coaching staff that was providing excellent on field results. Smith's antics were probably "irritants" to Meyer and nothing more. I doubt very much that Meyer approved or approves of Smith, his antics, his behavior, etc., but Smith was delivering good performance from his position group and that was the end of Meyer's consideration of the matter.
If Smith had been convicted of domestic violence he would have been fired, not as a meaningful rebuke to his character of conduct but because the "side effects" of his employment would have become too distracting. In other words, a conviction would have been "irritating enough" to Meyer that he would have fired him. Everything else was just background noise.
I don't think anybody is going to find an intentional, deliberate "cover up" of any kind with regard to any of this Urban/OSU staff, or a "Nevin Shapiro" type deal with juicy details and tidbits. I don't think they gave it that much thought. I think they are just going to find that anything that did not directly impact on field performance was simply not that important and was consequently brushed aside.
November 13th, 2018 at 11:43 AM ^
Smith was pretty widely considered to be a bad WR coach. Good recruiter, but it's not like recruiting at Ohio State is difficult.
November 13th, 2018 at 12:12 PM ^
Smith was a weak recruiter and easily the worst position coach at OSU. Urban could have picked a P5 WR coach at random and gotten someone better than Smith. OSU thrived in spite of Smith, not because of him.