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Posted: 12/4/2025 4:59 PM
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Rumors ruin lives. Let’s wait until there is something with facts released.
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Posted: 12/4/2025 5:28 PM
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Posted: 12/4/2025 5:49 PM
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I feel your pain, Doc, as I fell for an X post that was a parody post. It was actually clearly labeled as such, but I didn't examine it closely enough. From what I've heard on the grapevine I'll be pleasantly surprised if Brian ever coaches again at Ohio. That would mean that the grapevine is as dead wrong as FB and that parody post. All in the realm of possibility.
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Posted: 12/4/2025 6:47 PM
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People can post rumors on Facebook if they want, but it's against board rules to do so here. So I'm editing the posts.
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Posted: 12/4/2025 6:50 PM
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Posted: 12/4/2025 6:55 PM
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I get it we are all frustrated with the lack of information. Not gonna lie though people, these things often take months.
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Posted: 12/4/2025 7:13 PM
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck.
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Posted: 12/4/2025 7:22 PM
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Doc Bobcat wrote:expand_more
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck.
Sometimes. But just within the last few years we had a player go through a similar process. He disappeared without explanation, then was back one day without explanation. I heard the rumors...ended up being not true apparently. Glad it wasn't slung around here.
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Posted: 12/4/2025 9:12 PM
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Mike Coleman wrote:expand_more
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck.
Sometimes. But just within the last few years we had a player go through a similar process. He disappeared without explanation, then was back one day without explanation. I heard the rumors...ended up being not true apparently. Glad it wasn't slung around here.

Everyone wants to know, but rumors will not help anything. You're doing a good job of keeping the discussion to facts and conjectures, and avoiding rumors.
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Posted: 12/5/2025 8:24 AM
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Perhaps today will be a "newsy" day. Fridays often are, especially when the news is not good.
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Posted: 12/5/2025 8:47 AM
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Mike Coleman wrote:expand_more
I get it we are all frustrated with the lack of information. Not gonna lie though people, these things often take months.
That's the thing though. If the university thought this would take months, why issue the statement and ask him to leave now? Days before signing day with literally no details and keeping him out of the bowl (potentially).
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Posted: 12/5/2025 9:41 AM
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Big question in the immediate future is: do we accept a Bowl bid with this disarray? Do OUr guys stick around for it? I certainly hope so. Keeping our recruits was a HUGE show of loyalty and the fact that the coaching staff is really solid and united.
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Posted: 12/5/2025 10:07 AM
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Bobcat1998 wrote:expand_more
Big question in the immediate future is: do we accept a Bowl bid with this disarray? Do OUr guys stick around for it? I certainly hope so. Keeping our recruits was a HUGE show of loyalty and the fact that the coaching staff is really solid and united.
Absolutely. Don’t punish the players and staff for something that in all likelihood is an individual personal issue. Especially when the team has been insulated from said individual.
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Posted: 12/5/2025 10:22 AM
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Especially when the team has been insulted from said individual.
????
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Posted: 12/5/2025 10:24 AM
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Doc Bobcat wrote:expand_more
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck.
But with AI today do you know if it is a real duck? Until we know first hand....
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Posted: 12/5/2025 10:43 AM
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spongeBOB CATpants wrote:expand_more
I get it we are all frustrated with the lack of information. Not gonna lie though people, these things often take months.
That's the thing though. If the university thought this would take months, why issue the statement and ask him to leave now? Days before signing day with literally no details and keeping him out of the bowl (potentially).
Perhaps the Athletic Department doesn't know the details of the allegations either.

IF --emphasis on if -- it's in Title IX or ECRC, I don't believe any of it is, or will be, public record. They operate within federal guidelines. It's not exactly red robe stuff, but it's far from the sunshine of a court of law.
Last Edited: 12/5/2025 10:49:51 AM by Mike Coleman
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Posted: 12/5/2025 11:11 AM
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Especially when the team has been insulted from said individual.
????
Smith was placed on leave of absence and is not currently coaching the team.
Last Edited: 12/5/2025 1:59:40 PM by KC Bobcat
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Posted: 12/5/2025 11:49 AM
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Especially when the team has been insulted from said individual.
????

I believe he probably meant "insulated".
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L.C. wrote:expand_more
Especially when the team has been insulted from said individual.
????

I believe he probably meant "insulated".
Yes I did.
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I get it we are all frustrated with the lack of information. Not gonna lie though people, these things often take months.
That's the thing though. If the university thought this would take months, why issue the statement and ask him to leave now? Days before signing day with literally no details and keeping him out of the bowl (potentially).
Perhaps the Athletic Department doesn't know the details of the allegations either.

IF --emphasis on if -- it's in Title IX or ECRC, I don't believe any of it is, or will be, public record. They operate within federal guidelines. It's not exactly red robe stuff, but it's far from the sunshine of a court of law.
This is something that's been bouncing around in my brain all week...if it's not a legal issue (no police charges or investigations) then it's probably a NCAA or school rule issue. I don't know enough about NCAA rules or Title IX, but if it's something like that then there wouldn't be a police paper trail.

Something not against the law but against the rules?
And is the university protecting itself by removing him from his job until it knows the scope of the problem?
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