I truly thought the media and Twitter would crucify him, a la #metoo, and he'd be out of a job. I guess I underestimated the power of college football $bucks$. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯What did you expect? I am surprised it was more than 1 game. It is O$U
What did you expect? I am surprised it was more than 1 game. It is O$U
Time served would've been laughable. I agree I was mildly surprised it was a three game suspension, but anything less would've looked worse than it already does. I guess with suspending the AD, they get away with shifting the blame onto multiple people. Whether he should've been fired, I don't know.I actually thought they'd get him back faster by giving him credit for the time he's already been off. OSU had a good story IMO since all they really want is plausible deniability and mitigating circumstances.
In the end, OSU played this absolutely perfectly. They keep all their important pieces and look like they laying a medium sized hammer down on the athletic dept.
Not surprised by 3 games and never thought he would be fired.
My question:. Haven't read the announcement, probably never will. Is he totally separated from team until after game 3 or does he do everything else but coach game day or is this something else? Hanging up for the answer.
Thanks. Sort of odd to me, I mean why not now? But whatever, they did what most of us expected and as mentioned by others, did it PR effectively.The way I thought I heard it to be was that he was suspended for 3 games but would be able to return to his day to day coaching job (minus the games) on September 1st.
What a ! I am going to go out on a limb here and state that they may look back on this event and think they should have gotten rid of him.
Agree. They acted quickly, but took long enough to let it die down in the headlines. They spread the damage around while communicating a reasonable story for their actions. And while they didn't do anything drastic, they threw the mob a bone with some meaningful punishments.
I would suggest this is a good case study for any PR firm. I don't think it would work if the facts were more outrageous, but I think this one will be mostly swept under the rug despite the hot-button issues involved. I suspect cigars have been passed out and champagne corks popped in Columbus on how they've managed this episode.
I'll just leave this here. All i'll say is that this doesn't look like it's going to go away anytime soon...
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...s-assistant-zach-smith-breaks-silence-twitter
https://twitter.com/CoachZachSmith