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Topic: RE: What’s up with Smith?

Topic: RE: What’s up with Smith?

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Doc Bobcat

RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 4:56:00 PM

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 4:59:28 PM

Rumors ruin lives. Let’s wait until there is something with facts released.

Last Edited: 12/4/2025 6:49:45 PM by Mike Coleman

Doc Bobcat

RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 5:02:57 PM

This Message was Deleted at 12/4/2025 7:37:30 PM

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RE: What’s up with Smith? (NT)

Posted: 12/4/2025 5:28:25 PM

Last Edited: 12/4/2025 6:50:45 PM by Mike Coleman

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RE: What’s up with Smith? (NT)

Posted: 12/4/2025 5:34:12 PM

Last Edited: 12/4/2025 6:51:08 PM by Mike Coleman

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 5:42:44 PM

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Doc Bobcat
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RE: What’s up with Smith? (NT)

Posted: 12/4/2025 5:49:57 PM

Last Edited: 12/4/2025 6:51:41 PM by Mike Coleman

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 6:40:44 PM

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.

Last Edited: 12/4/2025 6:53:51 PM by Mike Coleman

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 6:47:56 PM

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.

Last Edited: 12/4/2025 6:54:21 PM by Mike Coleman

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RE: What’s up with Smith? (NT)

Posted: 12/4/2025 6:50:10 PM

Last Edited: 12/4/2025 6:53:01 PM by Mike Coleman

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 6:55:30 PM

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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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 7:13:27 PM

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck.

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 7:22:10 PM

Doc Bobcat wrote:

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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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/4/2025 9:12:23 PM

Mike Coleman wrote:

Doc Bobcat wrote:

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck.

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.

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 8:24:38 AM

Perhaps today will be a "newsy" day. Fridays often are, especially when the news is not good.

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 8:47:29 AM

Mike Coleman wrote:

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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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 9:41:36 AM

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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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 10:07:06 AM

Bobcat1998 wrote:

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.

Last Edited: 12/5/2025 1:58:39 PM by KC Bobcat

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 10:22:50 AM

KC Bobcat wrote:

Especially when the team has been insulted from said individual.

????

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 10:24:44 AM

Doc Bobcat wrote:

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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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 10:43:32 AM

spongeBOB CATpants wrote:

Mike Coleman wrote:

I get it we are all frustrated with the lack of information. Not gonna lie though people, these things often take months.

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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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 11:11:57 AM

cc-cat wrote:

KC Bobcat wrote:

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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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 11:49:04 AM

cc-cat wrote:

KC Bobcat wrote:

Especially when the team has been insulted from said individual.

????

I believe he probably meant "insulated".

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 1:57:34 PM

L.C. wrote:

cc-cat wrote:

KC Bobcat wrote:

Especially when the team has been insulted from said individual.

????

I believe he probably meant "insulated".

Yes I did.

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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/5/2025 2:31:04 PM

Mike Coleman wrote:

spongeBOB CATpants wrote:

Mike Coleman wrote:

I get it we are all frustrated with the lack of information. Not gonna lie though people, these things often take months.

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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