OSU fan here:
Let me start out by saying that I expected worse when I signed on to the board.
I do not know what Urban was expected to do when the supposed victim herself declined to press charges. She now says that she did not press charges because she feared for her husband's job Besides the normal grain or 2 of salt that a comment like should be taken with when it comes almost 3 years after the fact, even taken at face value she is saying that she put her comfortable upper middle class lifestyle ahead of her own safety and the safety of her own kids.
On another but now related issue I never understood the vile hatred on this board for Urban Meyer. I am hard pressed to think of any coach outside of the program that was more supportive of Joe Paterno at the end. He and Luke Fickel were at the funeral and if I remember correctly one of the very few other coaches that were there. Yes he used the situation to poach PSU recruits but is there a PSU fan on this board that can look at their key board with a straight face and say that James Franklin would have not done the exact same thing if the situation were reversed? Probably more so.
I always believed that he was destined to become Paterno's successor if the scandals( both Tat gate and Sandusky) did not happen.
Based on comments from many of your fans, it is an open secret that Meyer and OSU operate outside NCAA laws with respect to recruiting. Many worried about Smith blowing the whistle, “where the bodies are buried”, the “handshake” deals, etc. Meyer is unethical. That is very clear. Great football coach, but eventually that kind of behavior will catch up to you. If it wasn’t the Smith situation this time it would have been something else. See Florida.
Hell, a year ago when the issue of all of the Alabama players on Instagram showing off their super expensive new cars, many OSU fans posted that you had players driving outlandish vehicles and hoped the NCAA didn't look at you guys.
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