Ohio State findings: Urban Meyer seems to have deleted his old text messages before handing over phone
The news of Urban Meyer’s three-game suspension sent shockwaves around college football Wednesday night.
Meyer was slapped with a suspension due to his handling of the domestic allegations brought against his former assistant Zach Smith in 2015. Following Ohio State’s press conference, the university released the summary of findings. You can find the entire report here, and we encourage you to read it.
There were a few big things that left us scratching our heads, and among them, Meyer looks to have deleted his old text messages before handing over his phone to investigators. If you look below at c-ii, it says, “Upon seeing this report (Brett McMurphy’s initial report) when it first came out (at about 10:17 a.m.), Brian Voltolini, who was on the practice field with coach Meyer went to speak with him, commenting that this was ‘a bad article.’ The two discussed at that time whether the media could get access to Coach Meyer’s phone so that text messages older than one year would be deleted.”
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And wouldn’t you know it, when investigators reviewed Meyer’s phone, they found no text messages older than one year, just as the two coaches had discussed. Coincidence? So, Meyer’s first move upon hearing the initial report was to delete his old text messages. That feels like a guilty conscience.
You can read that section of the report below:
It was a sham investigation that was hell bent on letting Urban off the hook. The investigation itself found that Urban lied, but they somehow called it “not deliberate.” Whatever, lol. Right before he went up to the podium for media days where this all started, he apparently got a text from his AD saying to be open about his knowledge of the 2009 and 2015 Zach Smith incidents. When asked, he claimed that the 2015 incident was “made up” and that he didn’t know. This is all a sham. Anyone without scarlet and silver-tinted glasses sees that.
There needs to be an investigation into the investigation
He should talk to some other powerful people who have experience deleting things.
Just like Hillary! Hilarious…
The Russians have a copy
Even more alarming, it’s 2018 and Urban Meyer had to have a discussion with someone else to delete some old text messages off his phone… let that settle in for a moment… and now consider that the same person that doesn’t even know how to delete old texts is the head football coach of a P5 school.
Lol I had the same thought
Also, can’t old texts still be provided by a service provider? Just because they are deleted from the phone doesn’t mean they’re completely gone.
Ya they can but you need a warrant. This was an “independent” review board, not a legal investigation
Though if this is a phone owned by Ohio State as it would almost certainly be, shouldn’t they have access? This whole “investigation” is such a sham
You don’t need a warrant. The owner of the phone could simply agree for that info to be released. If it’s Meyer, then he just needs to sign off on it. If it’s OSU, they just need to request it.
He was probably specifically looking to only delete ones over one year. He probably figured that he wouldn’t be in much trouble if he didn’t delete them all. Its a public phone owned by the school. He’s not supposed to delete any of them but I guess the older than a year only to cause gave OSU the excuse they needed not to care.