uscbucsfan wrote:DreadNaught wrote:Just caught up on the OSU presser and reading up on the notes from the investigation from last night. What a sham and disgrace. Meyer and OSU certainly found some good lawyers and damage control experts to craft the charade I just saw.
"He didn't know he was lying"
"Has selective memory loss"
Just say you know he's guilty, he's a liar, he intentionally tried to cover it up, but since he's a great football coach that has gone 73-8 since arriving at Ohio State we feel winning is more important.
Had this been any other coach not named Saban they'd be fired over this.
NCAA athletes get 6 games suspensions for selling their own autograph, yet Meyer can hide domestic abuse, then cover up his lies after the fact and gets 3 games?
It's against NCAA rules to sell autographs. Whether or not he "hid domestic abuse" is debatable, but the point is he didn't really break any NCAA rules. It was pointed out from the beginning that this wasn't a Title IX case and there were never any arrest. The 3 games was for how poorly he handled it and public reaction.
edit: It seems you have more invested in this than normal, Dread. I can't remember, are you a Florida fan?
I am a Gator (although mdb calls me an FSU homer) and have bias here for sure.
Your defense of Meyer is eerily similar to the PSU homers defense of JoePa (not calling you an OSU homer btw). It's a issue of morality and judgement in both cases. JoePa reported Sandusky and didn't "break any NCAA rules". But JoePa was negligent in his responsibility and immoral in his decisions and (lack of) actions, just like Meyer. Obviously Sandusky's crimes are worse in scale, but I'm not comparing Sandusky to Zach Smith other than both had relationships that went beyond football with the powerful HC and both had a documented history of alleged criminal behavior where they should've been FIRED long before media and public pressure forced it. I blame Meyer for repeatedly turning a blind eye regarding Smith, lying about it multiple times, then covering it up. The guy is a fraud.
My point is that Meyer is getting different treatment b/c of how successful he is as a football coach. Had this been virtually any other coach they'd get alot more than 3 games. But Meyer is a HoF CFB coach and cash cow for that program so he gets protected.
The whole thing stinks from Meyer lying repeatedly and then covering up those lies after the fact, to the pathetic explanation by OSU that he "sometimes forgets" and "didn't intentionally lie". Who is buying that BS that isn't holding scarlet and grey pom-poms?
It's just alot of dishonesty they are shoveling out where the truth is secondary to the preferred outcome, but what else would anyone expect from Urban. He'll win a ton a football games and be a complete fraud in the process.
Let me ask this, do people think OSU's handling of this set a good precedence for the next time a similar situation occurs at another program?