More bad news for Ohio State; Failure to report potential sexual assaults
How does Ohio State find these people? It's like it is one big giant Mafia family in Columbus.
Nothing will happen
And we're surprised why?
Shithole.
As long as Ohio makes the NCAA millions they are untouchable.
Just curious....did you happen to read the attached article?
Neither the football or basketball team are mentioned or implicated in any way. The failure to report problem that led to the department closing had nothing overtly to do with athletics unless you want to make the leap that all the accused non-reports (none of whom were named) were football players.
That's a bridge WAY to far for me. I think the department fucked up and failed OSU students in general but in sure doesnt read like anything specific to athletics or the football team at all.
Details...details
That's just the way they wanted it. Make it sound like it's not the AD.
(/s, I haven't read the article yet so I have no judgement. Initial reaction is that it involved the athletic dept. because that's how all of these seem to go.)
I actually was going to say the same thing. By the way the article was written, it seems to me like it was handled the right way. The department was open 3 years and shut down when they weren't doing their job.
You can jump to conclusions that it was to protect athletes, but if that were actually the case, wouldn't it still be open?
I wonder if any Title IX actions were taken against any of the perpetrators, potential felonies or not.
I'm far too cynical to believe that this situation had nothing to do with OSU athletes. Covering up sexual assaults by athletes goes on all over the country, from Montana to Baylor to FSU to MSU to LSU and God knows how many other institutions.
Most people don’t read nowadays. They read headlines and jump to conclusions based on that.
Tell me about. I know so many people that get their news and form opinions from twitter headlines, and it's so painfully obvious that don't read into stuff.
Sad people are that lazy. I read the headlines, then the comments, and only then jump to conclusions. Occasionally I'll even read the article.
You read, John!? (Shoutout to Rich Vos)
But it does speak to the culture that is THE Ohio State University. Deplorable.
Excellent assessment of the situation. Refreshing to hear this take on the matter without jumping the gun and playing judge, jury and hangman in one take on the matter.
So in other news, it's Tuesday in Columbus.
Otherwise known as Hell on Earth.
Yeah but Harbaugh slept over a recruit’s house!
How did he manage to sleep over the house?
on the roof with a blanket like any normal person...
Heh. Good one dad.
oh you can’t levitate? Sorry to hear.
Clearly it must not have been an A-frame
David Blaine could do it.
Yeah, what's next? I bet you're going to say Paul Finebaum will contradict what he said two months ago, which contradicted what he said two months before that, which contradicted what he said two months before that..............
Uh, no.
I forgot about him completely until now. It is the time of the year for him to shine. /s
People who run institutes like the sexual assault center should be required to take ethics courses, like the one taught by Urban Meyer. Then these missteps won't occur. (wink wink nod nod)
Then these missteps won't get caught. FTFY
As long as you are given a 24 hour notice to delete any text messages that may or may not contain evidence of said missteps.
Fuck 'em.
Edit: This is the first one up I give you WW.
Comment: no idea how my previous drool-laden comment came to be. It was along the lines of "this ne slurp gobble flip flab what up playa WW."
Wut?
You work at a massage parlor?
I'm in Bangkok right now. No comment.
before anything happens to spartans, buckeyes can just sit back and relax ...
Columbus = East Lansing = State College
Just win, fuck everyone and everything else mentality.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the B1G East is just as bad, if not worse, than the SEC.
It is much, much worse.
I dont think there’s much argument that it’s much worse. The extent of the SEC being bad seems fairly limited to on-the-field issues like paying players. There isn’t much in the way of PSU/MSU/OSU scandals
If your school has STATE in the name and you are in the B1G, just assume your school is covering up copious amounts of nefarious shit at this point
The State University of New Jersey has been covering up Jimmy Hoffa for decades.
The police searched for Hoffa's body across the street from my grandparents' house. They found the victim of another Mafia hit instead.
I assume there's parts of the country where you could dig just about anywhere and find the same. This country was wild back in the day.
Posting this article here and relating it to sports is dumb. It's unclear from the article what actually happened there. It sounds like the center reported everything for statistics but didn't force survivors to press charges. Survivors shouldn't be required to press charges because it deters people from reporting or seeking help. All sorts of stuff happens in the world and not all of it relates to sports. Mods should delete this post.
Exactly right. What's amazing is I posted the same thing up near the top of this thread and yet new comments keep getting posted where the poster is making the connection between the center being closed and the university somehow protecting the football team.
Here is what happening IMO
1. Reader sees title of post and immediately assumes it must have something to do with the football team
2. Reader doesnt bother to read article (candidly I honestly wonder if the OP did), sees other comments that imply the article has something to do with the football team and chimes in with a comment about OSU, the B1G or even the NCAA protecting the football team.
3. Rinse, repeat with virtually every new poster to the thread.
But everyone knows 2+2=5 down there in Columbus. The non-reporting and self-shutdown was cleverly designed by Gene Smith, endorsed by Jim Delany and approved by those NCAA transfer portal folks ... all to hide heinous sex crimes committed by over half of the football team.
OT would be proper in the thread title. Since the potential felonies were not reported, it is unclear whether athletes were involved in the assaults.
"It sounds like the center reported everything for statistics"
Are you trying to assert that the center did everything it was supposed to be doing?
"Ohio State’s now-shuttered Sexual Civility and Empowerment center failed to report nearly 60 potential felonies as required by state law during its three-year existence."
"but didn't force survivors to press charges."
You make it sound like the center was being considerate of the victims.
"Documents obtained by The Dispatch when Ohio State closed the center last year detailed a variety of complaints about SCE and its leadership. The records indicated some survivors were subjected to victim-blaming, told they were delusional or lying, or advised that they needed to embellish their stories because “their real experience wasn’t’ serious enough” to receive justice or legal protection."