Urban Meyer to, um, clean up Ohio State program?

Pointed this out on the Penn State thread, but how many arrests would a place like Penn State have had if JoePa wasn't squashing them or taking care of business in house? The fact that UF had the arrests while Penn State (or Ohio State) did not doesn't mean that there are much better citizens at those schools. It means there was no one protecting the school and the athletes from the cops.

 

If you think nobody was protecting the UF program during Meyer's tenure you are naive as hell.

 

Tressel was shady at lower levels, too . . . always just a step ahead (just like Holtzie!) . . . until now.

 

I'm like you when it comes to coaches trying to claim ignorance. Of course, my cynicism dates back to Eddie Sutton claiming to not know what was going on at Kentucky when he was the head coach there. Even now, however many years after that happened, it's still a hot-button issue with me.

 

People who wear sweater vests and ties give an appearance of being more straight arrow. Its that whole "perception is reality" thing.

 

Well-said.

 

For whatever it's worth, Bill Greene from the tOSU Scout site is Tweeting, and stating in an interview on Cleveland's 92.3 The Fan, "done deal".

https://twitter.com/#!/BillBankGreene/status/139079149758316545

 

Rainey was charged with felony but plead guilty to misdemeanor. His court approved punishment was ten hours of community service.

 

I wish college football would stop ripping Urban Meyer away from his children he clearly loves spending so much time with.

 

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/Urban-Meyer-Ohio-State-Buckeyes-contract-report-112211

7 years; 40 million

 

I'd like to see it compared to Saban's. Saban has some crazy contract where he collects every cent if he's fired, which if you know how most college contracts are set up, is pretty amazing.

Usually the base is guaranteed, but the shoe contract, the radio and TV and appearance contracts are not, so a guy might make $2.5 million, but only $1 million is guaranteed.

I think Weis and Saban are the two notable coaches who are getting almost everything guaranteed. I think it's a safe bet Meyer's deal is probably similar.