Ohio State Trustee Resigns, Saying Urban Meyer Punishment Was Too Soft

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NY TIMES

By Marc Tracy

An Ohio State trustee has resigned, saying the punishment of the football coach Urban Meyer, a three-game suspension, should have been “more profound” after a report concluded he had mishandled domestic violence accusations against an assistant coach and had tolerated the assistant’s misbehavior for years.

The trustee, Jeffrey Wadsworth, said in an interview on Thursday that he had stepped down from the board shortly after the university announced Mr. Meyer’s punishment last week.

“I didn’t feel that I’d seen high-integrity behavior,” Mr. Wadsworth said of Mr. Meyer.

He said he was the “lone voice” of dissent in advocating a harsher punishment but declined to specify what he had proposed or to speak in great detail about the closed-door negotiations, saying he wanted to respect the confidential words of board members.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/sports/ohio-state-trustee-resigns-urban-meyer.html

[LiberalFighter]

1. Is Ohio State known for integrity?

[DinahMoeHum]

2. Sportswriter Dave Zirin (The Nation) has a podcast out. . .

. . .with USA Today sports columnist Dan Wolken regarding Ohio State and Urban Meyer. Definitely worth checking out.

Link to tweet

[erpowers]

3. Too Soft

It really was too soft. Urban Meyer should have been fired. He knew the guy was an abuser and he still hired him.

[rpannier]

4. My guess is, and I'm not the first to think it,

Meyer has like a guaranteed contract that would force the university to pay him 50 million dollars (probably more) and they don't want to pay that
Meyer has not been found guilty of any crime, so they'd be stuck with his salary and those of his assistant coaches if they were not retained by the new coach

[ouija]

5. Not True

Most information out there is based on fraudulent reporting from a “journalist” who uses ethical standards that make Fox look like PBS.

[lark]

6. 145 kids have reported sexual abuse, that's not just one 1 bad journalist, not even close.

Meyer has zero ethics, he knew Hernandez and Nelson killed someone while they were on the team and he coverd it up. Harvin beat up a coach and sent him to the hospital and stayed on the team. Meyer doesn't care if people are killed or abused, as long as he wins - that's all he's ever cared about. He should have been fired, and those are the facts.

[maxrandb]

8. Is that you Jim Harbough?

Wow, you seem to really have the "goods" on Urban Myer.

You should take your evidence of Myer's knowledge of murder to the authorities.

If you can get him on accessory to murder, Meeeechigan may finally be able to beat the Buckeyes!

[lark]

10. Nope, not a MI fan, not even close, really can't stand them!

Funny to me that you would just automatically assume that, when it's 100% wrong, lol. I had first hand experience with Meyer when he was at FL, so yeah. And yes FL will probably stink this year too. My beef with Crying Meyer is far bigger than which school he's working for.

[maxrandb]

14. Almost as funny as accusing someone

of accessory to murder with zero evidence.

Did he run up the score on your favorite team?

[lark]

15. Nope, not accusing him of being an accessory.

Just saying he knew something about it and said nothing, did nothing, same as he did at OSU. You can't report what you don't "know" and he makes it his business not to know. It's his pattern.

Running up the score is just football trash talk and has been accused of both teams. FL has beaten OSU for national titles at least 3 times, and many OSU fans were mad with him for running up the score. .

[maxrandb]

16. You're not Jim Harbough, you're Donald Trump

Just three posts above this you wrote; "he knew Hernandez and Nelson killed someone and covered it up"

Then you post "not accusing him of being an accessory"?

Dude, if you know someone was murdered and you "cover it up"... you're an accessory.

If I want to hear someone lying, and then two sentences later, lying about the lie they told, I'd go to a Donnie Short Fingers rally.

[erpowers]

21. Hernandez Killed Someone In College?

Wait, did Hernandez kill someone while in college? So, he may have killed four people. Do you have any details?

[lark]

22. Yes and no.

When the 2 were sophomores, they were known bad-asses. The story goes that a few team members went to a bar and got into it with some "gang" and absolutely tore up the bar in a huge brawl. Most everyone left ahead of the cops, but Hernandez and Nelson decided they weren't done and followed one of the other guys trucks home and shot them. I do know they were "persons of interest" but there were no witnesses and the guns weren't found in their rooms or vehicles so they were not convicted. Meyer supposedly was told about this and never told the cops. Hernandez and Nelson were just kept out of a 1? game for the fight with the others that were there for that part of the story. This was told to me by an AM Sports radio DJ who is a FL grad, covers them professionally and has close friends working for the program. I knew about the fight and the suspension, that part is 100% verified and was in the news, the rest came from him.

[Blue_Tires]

7. college sports are becoming cancer

[ouija]

9. You

Are on the wrong thread, this was about Urban Meyer harboring a DV abuser, which is not true. Your talking about a former team doctor in wrestling and other sports, which is true so get your facts straight before piping off about something you know little about. So Sara Sanders get your “facts” straight or go to Fox where someone might believe you.

[lark]

11. "Harboring an abuser"????

Nope, that word was not even mentioned and it's not even close at all. He hid his knowledge that the guy was abusing students, that is the charge and supposedly it's true. One wrestler told Meyers about it and he had a witness who confirms the conversation - those are the true facts.

[Crabby Appleton]

17. You have your story's mixed up

Meyer has no involvement with the wrestling incidents, those occurred in the 70s and 80s before Meyer coached at OSU, and involved asst. wrestling coach Jim Jordan, not Meyer the football coach years later.

[LisaL]

20. As already has been pointed out, you are confusing two different stories.

Meyers isn't involved in the wrestling scandal.

[Bradical79]

23. Urban Meyer had nothing to do with the wrestling sex abuse case -nt

[Blue_Tires]

12. Excuse me??

And don't I know you from somewhere? You sound oddly familiar...

[ouija]

13. What

Are you talking about Kellyann? This thing that Urban Meyer knew about the wrestling program is a lie, that was Jim Jordan. Jesus, do you work for the Trump Administration?

[LanternWaste]

18. You seem pretty bent out of shape.

I guess I'd be too if my favorite college football program were shown to be less than ethical.

[ouija]

19. Just

Speaking truth