There’s potentially an ugly scandal brewing at Ohio State. Urban Meyer may have known about domestic violence committed by a former assistant coach. Meyer has already been put on administrative leave by Ohio State.
BREAKING #OhioState announces that Urban Meyer will be on administrative leave. OC Ryan Day will serve as acting head coach.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) August 1, 2018
If the story ends up implicating Meyer, then as @DanWolken wrote for USA Today – Ohio State must fire Urban Meyer if he was protecting serial abuser. Period…
@Brett_McMurphy broke the story.
My updated story on Urban Meyer & if there are Title IX issues and violations of Ohio State’s sexual misconduct policy for employees https://t.co/MTMPgpqK3D
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) August 1, 2018
That’s McMurphy’s facebook page. Brett McMurphy had to post arguably the biggest most important story of the year on his facebook page, because he was laid off last year by ESPN. We told you last year that ESPN was killing it’s journalistic credibility with layoffs that included McMurphy.
Brett McMurphy – During the realignment era, he was the voice of reason. With all the rumors that ran around at that time, if McMurphy didn’t verify it, then it wasn’t true. He was as good a college football insider as ESPN had.
That’s seems rather accurate now doesn’t it? Here’s hoping McMurphy finds a home at some major media outlet soon. He’s too good to be posting stories like this one his facebook page.
In the normal world, ESPN would ask a CFB writer who broke a HUGE story to appear on College Football Live or “Outside The Lines,” and that writer would be thrilled. I think @Brett_McMurphy has better ways to spend his time, though.
— Medium Happy (@jdubs88) August 1, 2018
Pretty true.. huh? While ESPN, FOX, and various other media outlets are working on the lowest common denominator of opinionated loud talking heads, and paying them sometimes millions – guys like Brett McMurphy struggle while doing real journalistic work.
Hat’s off to McMurphy for breaking this story, and here is to hoping Urban Meyer somehow did not cover up the actions of a serial abuser. If he did, his coaching career is done.
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Hokie Mark says:
August 2, 2018 at 12:30 pm (UTC -5)
I don’t know the whole story, but from what I do know it seems like letting go of Brett was one of the dumbest moves ESPN has ever made. JMO.