Brett ain’t done, peeps.
Corch probably doesn’t remember that.
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
Get The Picture 
The backside winds of Hurricane Brett are starting to batter Columbus. TOSU is looking worse and worse by the hour. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch.
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They don’t care what anybody else thinks. Northern Auburn U.
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So we have our answer. He had only fired 5 shots.
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Post of the day! Well played, sir.
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You just have to ask yourself one question. “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do you punk?!!
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Man, if I have options as a recruit, I am exploring them as we speak. No way this blows over and returns to where things were. No way I want to spend my college career with this sort of drama hanging over me.
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Ohio State is gonna need to hire some more staff just to handle the FOI requests. Zach’s expense reports ought to fertile ground for a couple of stories or maybe someone can show when Irvin started deleting old texts from other staff’s phone records or ….
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If I had a coach who I thought had a significant enough problem that he needed to go to rehab and he blew it off after 4 days, he’d be gone then. Why was he not gone then, Corch? Did you think 4 days was enough to ensure he wouldn’t beat on Courtney anymore? Oh, wait, you didn’t know about that.
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Same here on the 4 days. Finish the 10 or you are finished here.
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McMurphy’s decision to wait until after the investigation concluded was strong. The punishment given is now the baseline, and it could easily get ratcheted up. Every successive revelation makes Corch look like he didn’t cooperate, and it’s cover up that always gets them in the end.
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In my opinion McMurphy should have gone with the rehab fiasco first and saved the Amazon deliveries and penis photo disclosures until after the report came out. Really can’t go wrong with either strategy though.
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No, always lead with the penis photos. That’s a proven strategy.
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That did NOT work in John Wayne Bobbit’s case.
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LOL! I still laugh at his unfortunate name.
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Brett Favre approves this comment.
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It’s hard to believe that OSU didn’t ask McMurphy what else he had before they closed the investigation. It’s clear Corch was not honest with the administration about all of the antics of Zach Smith (I think that’s the reason Drake wanted to fire him). The trustees wanted this to go away so Corch could go back to his corching responsibilities.
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Zach Smith needs a lot of help.
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While this looks bad. The person who gave that info to Brett violate HIPPA so they look bad too. Urban should have fired him. He needed to hit rock bottom to turn his life around. Urban is definetly an enabler.
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Not necessarily a hippa violation. We don’t know who provided the info or how.
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I’m betting the former Mrs. Smith provided Hurricane Brett this information.
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If he did not provide it wouldn’t it still be a HIPPA violation? I guess he could sue her.
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HIPAA only covers health care professionals and their business associates.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html
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If Brett’s source was the rehab facility, that’s the HIPAA violation. Does not apply to private citizens.
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Exactly right.
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If I am your husband and I know you left to go to rehab on August 1st and you returned August 5th, I am not revealing your medical information to say “Debbie left home and returned 4 days later.”
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As ugly as all of this is, I do hope the man can get help and put things together..hate to see anyone crash and burn..
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tOSU didn’t ask what else McMurphy knew because they didn’t want to know. They knew when this affair started they weren’t going to fire Meyer. They couldn’t risk learning anything else that might force them to reconsider that decision so they weren’t going to go looking for any more information.
Zach Smith got fired, Meyer doesn’t get to stand on the sideline for three games but he still gets to coach in practice and do everything else he normally does and tOSU gets to close the book on this whole affair. Unless a video comes out showing Meyer hitting Smith’s wife or watching Smith beat her up, this matter is closed.
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You don’t seriously think this is over do you? The decision may, or may not be closed, but the autopsy and discussion will linger for many years, perhaps decades. Corch’s statue need not be ordered…that is how “closed” it is.
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The autopsy and discussion may linger for many years among people like you and me who have, you know, morals and higher brain function and whatnot, but what we think is academic. The only people who can really impact Corch’s career are the tOSU administration (and, to a lesser extent, the fan base operate), and among them, any autopsy and discussion will only last until the Buckeyes’ next Big Ten title.
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I have to agree. When all this is playing out in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, it sort of tells you where OSU’s priorities are.
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Maybe, but new information could also cause them to re-visit the issue. It would only take a little cash (to them) to send him packing if the heat is applied by the negative PR. They are getting killed nationally on talk radio today. Fat Lady hasn’t sung yet, imo. Think they have misjudged the damage by being so close to Buckeye Nation.
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The 24 hour news cycle will be over tomorrow, talk radio will move on to the next great outrage or sports story, depending on the station format. I think they know exactly what the damage is/was and they knew it all along. If the damage was going to be severe they would have fired Urban. They knew it wouldn’t be so they gave him a slap on the wrist suspension and went back to counting the money.
As many have said, if he wins the B1G championship and gets in the CFP this year, no one will care one bit about Zach Smith and his domestic issues and whether or not Urban knew about it. If they have a disappointing season, the tOSU fans will blame the media for “distracting” Meyer.
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You’re one of the people who said this three weeks ago.
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You might keep talking about it and some other people who hate Meyer will, but this is over. The last time you will hear anything in the media about this will be the fourth game of tOSU’s season when the talking heads will blather on about “Urban Meyer’s first game back from suspension”. After that, this will never be talked about again in the media. If Urban wins the B1G a few more times and wins another “national championship”, the statue will be put right outside the stadium when he retires.
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Maybe, but I will bet a double of fine single malt scotch, or bourbon (your choice), this will not die that quickly. The voices of buckeyes got drowned by an almost unanimous outcry today. I know we are a move quickly society of shallow folks, but the stain is on them now and will not fade away. It actually might have not been so bad but Urbie’s attitude during his comments last night swung a lot of folks away. His arrogance and gun-to-my-head attitude, combined with more information (how do I delete old texts from my phone?) enraged some that were on the fence. He is wired so tight and craving of respect may tip him. His legacy is toast, will not go down easily. We will see.
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I tend to agree with you, MAC. Meyer has exhausted the “good will cushion” he had with OSU. From this point forward a couple of seasons without a conference champion or a couple of losses in a row could lead to a dismissal.
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The Ohio State University was looking to exonerate Corch all along. Read the report. It’s one excuse after another. The point of the exercise was to figure out how to absolve Meyer. Period. That won’t change now. Unless the NCAA comes up with something that will adversely affect the entire school, three games is it. They don’t care about public opinion.
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“They don’t care about public opinion.”
They will care about a blue chip recruit’s parents’ opinion. If coaches use this whole sordid affair to drag the football program through the mud, the impact on the field could be felt rather quickly.
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I don’t think it will affect recruiting at all. Nothing about the whole affair involved any players and a good season will erase all memory of this.
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We’ll see, but if I were a coach pursuing a player considering tOSU, I would be reminding Momma about all of this.
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Well, Smith won’t be recruiting for them and I doubt Momma is gonna care as long as tOSU is telling her and her baby about how great they are going to be an how highly they will be drafted in three years. I could be wrong but I don’t see it having any effect on recruiting. Again, none of this involved a player in any way and Smith was a position coach no one really knew and he’s gone.
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This is all the media’s fault. — Corch
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If this season goes down the toilet and Corch has another personal meltdown like he had at Florida, then maybe recruits and their families will care. If not, all they will care about is “when can I (my son) play?”
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Sadly, that’s probably true.
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Yes, let’s all clap our hands about Brett McMurphy reporting on a person seeking treatment for addiction.
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He doesn’t appear to have sought treatment too hard.
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Is that what this is about though? Reveling in human failure is grotesque.
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Is that what you think this is about?
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It’s clearly about a pattern of covering for a guy with a very long pattern of “human failure.” You’ll also forgive me if I don’t feel bad for the wife beater who has shown no remorse.
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No one should celebrate human failure. But human failure carries consequences, and when it doesn’t the likelihood of continued failure increases.
What is truly grotesque is putting winning football seasons ahead of addressing the obvious empowerment of human failure.
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Urban is the one dragging Zach through this. He’s retreated from one set of lies to another, and his and Zach’s only defense has been using Snook to attack the wife and the reporter.
The truth would have ended this a long time ago. None of the Zach info would have been relevant. Zach made it relevant. Urban made it relevant. Snook made it relevant.
Don’t want something, don’t start something.
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Right! I wonder if they are second guessing the importance of wins after navigating the tangled web they weaved. Nah, never mind. Wins = money and money trumps everything. Turn a blind eye to the atrocities in effort to preserve potential wins…you deserve the harassment.
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I really didn’t think we’d find a non-tOSU person who’d agree with Corch’s assessment that they’re all victims of the lying fake news media…but I guess there’s always one. Amazing, truly.
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Is it different if they failed?
Nobody wants their name associated with successful treatment. Ask anyone at the Betty Ford Clinic.
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Wow, that is one bizarre deflection from the base issues discussed for the past few weeks. That is Urbie-worthy level BS man. ohio and the guy writing these statements could use talent like you. Golf clap. (Unless you meant that to be humor.)
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A person seeking treatment for addiction has my sympathy.
A person who makes a show of seeking treatment, but bails after only a few days so that he can go back to stalking and threatening his ex-wife, gets nothing from me but a heartfelt “go fuck yourself.”
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Raleigh, I don’t think we’re clapping about Zach Smith’s rehab. We’re clapping, and laughing, and mocking, about Corch’s selective memory of Zach Smith’s foibles.
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Auburn’s a bunch of pikers compared to Big Integer programs.
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It’s just kept down home cuz.
They will always be the worst of the worst.
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In our hearts, sure. But, even I’d be surprised if they enabled pedophilia and other types of sexual abuse for decades.
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That’s because they have goats and sheep…
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LMAO!!
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NAMBLA: North Alabama Man-Barnyard Love Association
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Tronan, AU is currently in trouble because of a sexual misconduct scandal courtesy of the softball coach.
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My bad. Well, actually his bad, but that story was off my radar. So, Derek, I won’t quibble again when you castigate AU. In retrospect, considering we were talking about the Barn, I was foolish to do so in the first place.
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The advertisement banners I am getting on here today are funny. I got “Move to Ohio” banner and a Mike Hostilo ad. I get the Ohio one based on what I am reading this morning…but wtf did I do to get an injury lawyer?
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Get hit by your husband?
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Funny, but that must be the apparent connection. I am reading sports articles that mention domestic violence. I think the funniest thing I ever saw on here was the guy who was asking the Senator why he was getting funeral home banners not knowing how this stuff works. I guess his wife had plans.
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I grew up in the Southeast and now live in Southern California. After 40 years of enjoying those places, I’d sooner have Edward Scissorhands perform my next prostate exam than voluntarily move to Ohio.
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So, that was just season 1 that wrapped up yesterday? I’m looking forward to season 2. First episode is off to a good start.
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Didn’t really buy-in to Pacino playing JoePa. Wonder who will play Corch in the movie? With make-up, I’m thinking Christopher Walken for that disassociated, crazy kind of character portrayal.
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Good choice, that blonde headed guy from justified works too.
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Neal McDonough. I see what you mean, but he did a nice job on quite a different character in Band of Brothers.
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Paul Rubens aka Pee Wee Herman as the Corch
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May I never get on Brett’s bad side….
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He’s playing 3 dimensional chess while everyone else is playing checkers.
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Agree on that and OSU folks must have really pissed him off.
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I can just see Meyer and the OSU “brain” trust yucking it up yesterday: “Thank god they didn’t find out about Smith leaving rehab early “. Then today: “oh shit”.
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…and Urban didn’t even need O.J’s legal team to get out of this one.
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When UM was asked, “What message do you have for Courtney Smith:”, he replies, “My message to everyone involved in this is, I’m sorry we’re in this situation”.
I guess Zach beat on Urban too…
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Corch is the Bill Clinton of college football. Has he now entered sociopathic territory?
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