OT - Mt. Rushmore of OSU Scumbags

Submitted by Blue_In_Texas on August 12th, 2022 at 11:13 AM

I learned today that the guy who was killed in the FBI standoff yesterday is from Columbus.

(Please don't make this political, think we can all agree someone who tries to kill law enforcement is a bad guy)

As such, I thought about the Mt. Rushmore of OSU Scumbags/Bad People. There are a lot to choose from, so thought I'd get your thoughts. 

1. Lex Wexner - Huge OSU benefactor who the OSU medical school (and tons of other stuff at OSU) is named after. This guy was Epstein's benefactor and is the subject of a Hulu doc on Victoria's Secret, and is an alleged sex pest. 

2. Casey Anthony - No explanation needed. 

3. Jeffrey Dahmer - Attended OSU. Most likely would be an 11Warriors poster if still alive. 

4. Urban Meyer? FBI shooter guy? 

 

(This post is supposed to be in jest. Please don't get serious about this). 

Amazinblu

August 12th, 2022 at 11:30 AM ^

We can limit this to sports - and, my thought is… you’ll need a pretty big mountain.

What I find “appropriate” for that school in Columbus - is - how their fan / alumni base embrace and glorify coaches who have lied and grossly misrepresented themselves.  Oh, but they won games - and that seems to excuse their actions, or inactions.

One example I believe is representative - Tressel “rigging” random raffle drawings for kids who attended camps, so the most highly targeted prospects would “win” the swag.  That’s character.

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Perkis-Size Me

August 12th, 2022 at 1:21 PM ^

Bo Ryan would be the freaking headliner on that Mount Rushmore. 

I have no indication that he's actually a bad guy or did bad things, but I absolutely hated his innate ability to field teams that would beat Michigan in the most gut-wrenching fashions. Its not like they were stockpiled with NBA talent. They were usually a bunch of tall, awkward, gangly-looking, un-athletic kids who knew they couldn't beat you straight up but they knew exactly how to take you out of your element and make you play the game on their terms. Which is probably worse.

Also hated his brand of basketball. Completely slowed the game down to a grinding halt, making each possession an absolute premium and frustrating the hell out of teams that thrived on going faster, like Michigan did under Beilein. 

As Brian so eloquently put it once upon a time, Bo Ryan ruins basketball. 

 

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Ihatebux

August 12th, 2022 at 11:48 AM ^

Hate to say it because he gave $300MM to UM, but I'm guessing OSU fans and a lot of other people think Stephen Ross is kind of a jerk.

Also, I guess UM has the Unibomber and ....Madonna.

Also, don't know the story, but is the FBI killer guy an O$U grad or just from Columbus?  The two aren't the same. 

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WindyCityBlue

August 12th, 2022 at 1:13 PM ^

Ok.  I honestly don't know, so please let me know what makes Ross a shit person all around.  I understand he's super rich and that he's not perfect, but a trash human all around is pretty extreme

If you provide enough evidence to convince me, I'll gladly rip up my degree from the Ross School of Business, stop being an ambassador to the school, and actively work to tell people not to go to a school named after a trash human.

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ak47

August 12th, 2022 at 2:55 PM ^

Nobody is asking you to do that and that is a pretty weird reaction. But just one clear example is that he uses his donations to Michigan as a tax scheme. His "donations" to the university are also a big tax boon to himself and he got charged with tax fraud for vastly overstating the value of his real estate donations to claim a $33 million tax cut on a donation that ultimately netted the University under $4 million, and based on filings was partnering with the university to engage in tax fraud in which the university got a cut, not so much a charitable donation. 

The being a trash human part is also influenced by his hosting of a fundraiser for Trump, partnership with the Saudi sovereign fund, desire to pursue Deshaun Watson after nearly 30 allegations of sexual misconduct, and any other number of small examples that add up to a person with limited morals when it comes to winning and making money. Which like I said, is kind of a prerequisite for someone to become that rich.

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tasnyder01

August 12th, 2022 at 4:15 PM ^

I think it's kinda weird to go off on him for the whole Watson thing, when Ross is just following the rules. I can't remember if it's every 5 years, or every 7, but I'm pretty sure that NFL execs can't keep their ownership if they don't enable some form of sex abuser. It's a bylaw or something.

Now, Robert Kraft is the real scumbag. He just skirts the rule by doing the abuse himself. Total disregard for the rule of law.

/s

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WindyCityBlue

August 12th, 2022 at 4:46 PM ^

Correct.  Nobody is asking me to do those things.  I do that to myself because, personally, I don't want to be associated with human pieces of trash.  But you have enlightened me.  I will no longer associated myself with the Ross School of Business and will steer people clear of going to Ross (that is unless those people have no conscious and are themselves pieces of trash).

Buuuut, then again, I see the tremendous philanthropic efforts Ross has done, including (but not limited to):

  1. Being the Director of the Jackie Robinson Foundation (https://jackierobinson.org/people/stephenmross/)
  2. Donating $60m for sustainable cities (https://www.philanthropy.com/article/billionaire-stephen-ross-gives-63-…)
  3. Donating to end help end racism through sports (https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/stephen-ross-pledges-13-million…

So I guess I'm conflicted.  Is he a piece of trash or an angel (or something in between)?

 

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ak47

August 13th, 2022 at 8:32 AM ^

Philanthropic donations (for which, as we’ve discussed he gets a tax break) are a meaningless measure for him or anyone with that amount of wealth. And it’s for two reasons. The first is the idea that you can buy being a good person is a deeply disgusting idea. You can’t counter bad deeds with money and have it balance out just like putting lettuce on a burger doesn’t make it healthy. 

The second is that even if you somehow believe you can buy being a good person it would still be better to look at donations as a percentage of wealth rather than in absolute numbers. As a guy with a net worth of nearly 10 billion a 100 million dollar donation is 1%. For a person with a net worth of 100k that is the equivalent of donating a thousand dollars. I donated more than a thousand dollars last year, would you consider me a good person automatically because of that?

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Sam1863

August 12th, 2022 at 12:01 PM ^

Yeah, let's use the attempted murder of federal and state law enforcement officers as a way to trash talk against OSU. It'll be hilarious, and not classless at all.

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kehnonymous

August 12th, 2022 at 12:15 PM ^

I've posted about this before and don't feel like rehashing in detail, but I strongly suspect that while Wexner is NOT a great guy, he's also not really a sex pest in the way you think and that ironically is at the root of why he got entangled with Epstein.

Also, this post is eyerollingly bad even by OT Friday standards.

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East Quad

August 12th, 2022 at 12:34 PM ^

PS: I'm in Cadillac eating lunch at the Blue Heron Cafe. Headed to TC and then to the UP. Enjoying the cool weather.

Family reunion in Saginaw/Spring Lake/Bay City/Midland first for a week and now taking my Southern wife up north.

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