I woke up at about ten in the morning yesterday, to roughly 800 notifications on my phone. From Slack messages, to group DMs on Twitter, I was flooded with the latest article that Stadium’s Brett McMurphy had posted. As I’m sure most Buckeye fans are now aware, that story, a massive, sparsely edited report stated that former Ohio State wide receiver coach Zach Smith had a “racially charged” altercation with former Buckeye receiver Trevon Grimes, among about a million other things that ranged from completely useless to intriguing but unfounded.
The report was pretty immediately met with a mountain of former and current players disputing the racial aspect of the altercation, and seemingly discredited by a number of Ohio State officials, including Gene Smith, Michael Drake, and Urban Meyer.