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Could Urban be FIRED?

michchamp said:
is this rumor being spread by bucknuts?
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Some random buckeye on twitter. Turned into a post on some website I never heard of.

https://www.12up.com/posts/6123390-...-leaked-news-of-zach-smith-s-court-appearance

Not putting any stock in that rumor, but I think considering their past connection is worth something.

I was googling because someone on reddit speculated that since Smith was under Herman and Warinner, people may ask questions elsewhere. I don't think they had a great relationship though. At least, when Warinner went to Michigan, Smith posted a shot Warinner took at Michigan as a Buckeye.
 
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michchamp said:
what's the vibe like on 11 Retards and the other ohio state university boards like right now?

I can't even imagine
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who knows...I have never ventured over to those sites. Nothing worse than a bunch of homers with blinders on.
 
I was listening to The Player and the Fan this morning and Chris Howard mentioned that Warriner is the rumored coach that turned Smith in and eventually led to his firing. Obviously the process of firing him took until their hand was forced this year, but Warriner could have reported him much earlier.

Maybe that's why schools new Warriner was available even though OSU said they had not fired him. Seems exactly like something Urban would do for reporting his mentoring project.
 
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wait so when did Warriner say something?

a timeline would be helpful.

Did he speak up when he was still at OSU, and then Urban fired him?

or he did this after he was fired? Just now?
 
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michchamp said:
wait so when did Warriner say something?

a timeline would be helpful.

Did he speak up when he was still at OSU, and then Urban fired him?

or he did this after he was fired? Just now?
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They didn't provide a lot of details because it's just a rumor. Obviously, take it with a grain of salt.

They did make it sound like Warinner was the only who did the right thing if the rumor is true.
 
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tomdalton22 said:
who knows...I have never ventured over to those sites. Nothing worse than a bunch of homers with blinders on.
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Of course they want to believe the best, but a lot of them are saying that if he knew and swept it under the run, he needs to go.
 
Gulo Blue said:
Of course they want to believe the best, but a lot of them are saying that if he knew and swept it under the run, he needs to go.
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Wow... what is going on here?

buckeye fans were like the most rancid, degenerate homers on the old espn boards. Sounds like they've collectively matured a lot.


and I have the same thoughts about OSU's administration... this is the same school where the former University president publicly joked that he hoped the football coach wouldn't fire him. Did they actually clean house after that? I always assumed not, since Gene Smith kept his job, then they hired Urban Meyer who has never really had a great reputation for honesty or integrity.

didn't they also honor Tressel after he was fired?
 
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a friend of mine pointed out that Shelley Meyer is also a registered nurse and clinical professor at OSU's nursing school.

I'm not sure if that meant she had a duty to report this herself.

the more that comes out about this, the worse and worse it looks.
 
michchamp said:
a friend of mine pointed out that Shelley Meyer is also a registered nurse and clinical professor at OSU's nursing school.

I'm not sure if that meant she had a duty to report this herself.

the more that comes out about this, the worse and worse it looks.
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I thought all staff members were required to report any Title IX issue of which they are aware.

I could be wrong, but I thought that was the standard.
 
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michchamp said:
Wow... what is going on here?

buckeye fans were like the most rancid, degenerate homers on the old espn boards. Sounds like they've collectively matured a lot.
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11Warriors is roughly as reasonable as MGoBlog. If you focus on the dumbest things people say, it's terrible, but if you act like an Olympic judge and throw out the best and the worst, it's about what you'd expect from biased but sane people.
 
michchamp said:
LOL! Probably!

I could see him start clutching his chest as Gene Smith delivers the news.
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So... wow. I've gone from expecting Meyer to get a slap on the wrist to now expecting him to be fired. just read the McMurphy post on FB.

The whole thing is even uglier than I thought. Even if you want to argue that some of it was embellished or that we don't know "Zach Smith's side"... with this story out in the public, it's tough to see how OSU can continue to keep Meyer on the sideline without also adopting Darth Vader as their mascot and changing their name to "The WifeBeaters."
 
colleague of mine who went to OSU (for law school only) just said "Is there a single OSU coach who hasn't left under a cloud?"

he thought you'd need to go back to the 50's.

I guess Fickell only performed poorly on the field. Not sure if he counts.

I thought Cooper, but he said Cooper had plenty of skeletons in his closet and there were a ton of rumors that Earle Bruce had a gambling problem.

And of course Woody punched an opposing player in the throat.

Woody was hired because of the SnowBowl game. I guess that guy (Wes Fensler) was only
fired for losing to Michigan... so in any normal place that doesn't count as "a cloud" although in Columbus that's long been the worst sin of all.
 
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thewolverines24 said:
MGoBlog makes a great point here https://mgoblog.com/content/it's-your-job-know
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I think MGoBrian goes too far. Penn State and MSU were designed to let the Sandusky and Nasser abuses go on unchecked? Come on. The problem is that in the absence of a system/staff education put in place to catch these thing and make it clear cut what everyone's responsibilities are, individuals will cover stuff up way more often than a lot of us might have expected a few decades ago. The systems weren't designed to let this happen. We just had more faith in each other than we should have and didn't realize just how much people can rationalize away.


It's true that at this point, universities are on notice and they need to be reworking their education and reporting requirements and it's negligent not to. But nobody designed a university so that it would allow monsters to operate unchecked.
 
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