What exactly does that mean? Buddy, if you don’t think I’m being sincere when I say I root for the kids, you can fuck off. They are the labor. They put their bodies on the line to help enrich these assholes. My solidarity is with them and only them.

Yeah. I don’t use this as pushback when people want to rag on my affiliation with OSU given this issue, but I know it’s true: Almost any coach in the country would have handled the situation the same way. If you don’t believe it, you’re lying to yourself. This isn’t to absolve Urban. It’s just the truth.

God Dammit. As an OSU alum and diehard fan, times like this I need to remember that I root for the kids. Not the coaches. It’s the players who make College Football so brilliant and entertaining. Not the coaches who uphold the structurally rotten status quo behind the sport.

As someone who is a.) a massive college football fan, b.) has cursory knowledge of what the RPO is, and c.) has read Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto... I still have no clue what he’s talking about.

Shut the fuck up.

[Paralegal for Kaep’s collusion case sees tweet]

I have absolutely no care in the world for any of this, but it kinda seems like they did an ok job at the decision the board decided upon?

This was a topsy-turvy clusterfuck from everyone involved. Urban Meyer handled it poorly. As did Gene Smith and the OSU administration. The Columbus police seemed like they didn’t do much. Even the reporting on the story, spearheaded by Brett McMurphy, had its share of red flags (the heavily edited Facebook post,…

I’m curious as to how much Chapo you’ve consumed beyond that Twitter clip? That’s pretty garden variety for Felix’s deeply ironic edgelord humor. Literally listen to any episode and you’ll hear him talk about wanting Michael Flynn to “hit [his] back walls” or say that a brutal dictator is a “fucking pimp.”

Ugggh why does this surprise you? Why wouldn’t they? I can think of at least three Splinter writers who have been guests on the podcast and another 1-2+ across the Gizmodo platform. 

Ugh, why is Splinter hosting Chapo shit?

Some monarchies are just not built to last.

Should be noted that Jacob Stallings is Pittsburgh sports royalty. He is the son of recently former Pitt hoops coach, Kevin Stallings, architect of Pitt’s remarkable 0-18 in conference play 2018 season.

They'll use whatever excuse they have whenever it's their team. Tbf while most of these people probably are Trump supporters, I don't think this is 100% about politics, if it was Harbaugh in this situation, they'd be all over him

It has been crystallizing to see this all manifest in the age of Trump. I’m an OSU alum and I occasionally use my cousins 247sports login to check on recruiting news. It is, regrettably, a deep flaw of mine that I care so much about it.

Yeah, this also looms large. I’ve always maintained that if he just said “I can’t comment on that at this time” this story has a much quicker news cycle. What’s extremely naive that I see a lot of takes on is that people think this is the reason he will be fired. Frankly, from a legal standpoint, him lying to…

There has been a lot to unpack today, but here are my thoughts:

After stories of Jim Harbaugh not eating chicken because it makes people soft or Tony Sporano symbolically burying a football or Pete Carroll being a truther, I think football greats (be it coaches or players) are basically only good at football and absolutely nothing else.

While that axiom certainly rings true and has for a long time, it clearly doesn’t have the outcome it once did. Lying about everything isn’t some bulletproof plan for these guys anymore. This is, of course, a very good thing. A development long overdue which I fully support. I’m just not sure if coaches can keep…

I mean, sorry, but it clearly is not. It wasn’t Meyer who beat his spouse. If Urban Meyer would have simply made a statement of this nature during B1G media day, I highly doubt his demise is occurring right now: “We fired Zack Smith and it’s something that I should have done a while ago and I take responsibility for…