pretty much what was expected. Severe enough to satisfy most detractors and not severe enough to negatively effect their football season.

What I want to know is the dirt Gene Smith has on the osu Board of Trustees. There is no excuse for his continued employment.

I’m just glad our coaches have never been in any trouble.

I'm amazed posters still don't pick up on BTC's sarcasm.

God dangit.....(facepalms self)

I apologize to all of BA for my lack of sarcasm reading. I volunteer to go for a swim in Siberia and when I am done taking laps with my pet tigers in Siberia I will return to the land of the living.

I had predicted a 3-game suspension, so yea for me.

Having just read the report, I strongly believe Meyer should have been fired. I'm guessing Drake and a few board members wanted to do just that, but were ultimately outnumbered by sycophants.

I'm still having a hard time understanding a logical reason for firing. Can someone advocating for that provide their thoughts on why they feel so strongly about it?

I am searching high and low, but I'm having a hard time finding the f***s I give about this story.

And that's exactly why. osu loves the attention regardless of the reason. They're like trump. it's just another reason to get their blind supporters to dig in deeper. They don't actually care how it looks, they just feed on the attention.

Well, the new defense in all cases will be-“I didn’t deliberately lie”. Well done,The Ohio State.

How about that this whole matter involves employees of a state university and that some of the more disgusting things occurred at the state university? Using state property for lewd pictures and to receive sex toys implicates state ethics laws and may be a criminal violation.

How about the fact that between July 24 and Aug 2 Meyer deleted text messages that were more than a year old, even though he likely knew that they could be relevant to any investigation regarding Zach Smith's firing? There was already a news story about why Zach Smith was fired, so there would likely be more internal or external interest. It at least looks like a cover-up and could be a violation of state ethics laws.

How about the fact that Zach Smith apparently had behavior issues dating back to 2009 but Meyer and Gene Smith didn't put anything in writing or follow reporting protocols until a month ago? Here's a guy who had daily contact with the kids they were responsible for, and the only thing they did was advise him to get some help. Granted, his worst behavior allegedly was targeted toward his ex-wife. But he displayed some pretty erratic behavior in other areas. They should have done more to address his issues and protect the players.

And of course this incident raises the question: what else may be going on that's been successfully pushed under the rug so far?

Just because you delete a text doesn't mean it can't be recovered.

I took a class on cyber security last year.

The instructor asked for someone in the room to give him an email address.

Within a few minutes he had 5 years of deleted emails and texts.

There are ways to make recovery harder.

But I don't know if Meyer is savvy enough to use them.

Come on. Nobody was seriously looking to uncover any real truth here. This was a dog and pony show with the emphasis on putting a media savvy spin on everything, so that the Buckeye Football program could get back to pursuing victories. Personally, I don't think this is over yet, and I think that some determined reporters combined with some who have been thrown to the side of the road over the years by the clearly self-serving Meyer are going to uncover even bigger problems before the season is over.

Ohio State had a chance to cut their losses and move on, but I think that there are deeper/darker secrets in the Meyer camp to be exposed. I see some of the same sort of institutional arrogance here that was present before the NCAA came down hard on USC after the Pete Carroll years. Is Ohio State sure that all of the skeletons in the closet have, indeed, been discovered?