Ohio ATW: looks like we posted at the same time. Agreed emailing from Jimmy H's account to recruits would probably be something they would try to sweep under the rug and tell him to find another job ASAP or fire him but give a broad reason for it. Specifically saying he broke into Harbaugh's email looks like Jimmy might not have complete control over the program.

But sending highly offensive dick pics to a University employee and then break into her email to erase it? Wow. That's about as a fireable offense as there is. TTUN probably waited a few weeks to fire him just to allow the police to gather evidence and confirm the dick pics and breaking into her email via an internet forensics audit.

It's a real shit storm in A2 right now.  

Dick pics would explain a lot. 

Men are dumb. Just flat out dumb. Throw away a +1.0 million/year job----he could have had pretty much any girl he wanted but he had to send her dick pics? Pussy galore claims another victim.

When are guys going to realize that women are not visual creatures like we are. They don't get as fired up about nude images. Sending her a picture of his big house or a romantic table at his favorite Anne Arbor restaurant would have been a lot more effective.

Edit: I don't think sending emails from Jimmy H's account would necessarily be criminal bringing in the campus cops. A fireable offense? Sure but it wouldn't bring in the cops.

The new OC makes his first grand appearance. Must see TV!

Oh yea, drugs/alcohol/addiction speed up 1,000x dumb things guys do for sex and money/power/influence.

The whole "computer access" thing talked about in the police report is what's generating a lot of questions from the peanut gallery. What does it exactly mean? I'm interpreting it as he hacked into other people's email accounts but maybe that's wrong? Bottom line, is he did something criminal in nature or I don't think it ever goes public.

You'd think just logging in to check someone's emails would get swept under the rug with such a high profile and successful coach like Weis. He must have done something  more edgier once he got in there or had really bad intentions which became criminal in nature. What kinds of things can't get swept under the rug? Harassment comes to mind.....anything that might lead to the university getting sued if they don't report it. 

It's a real life NCIS.

I secretly admire old school Browns' fans. Some of them loved that team more than their own families pre-Baltimore. The appliance delivery guys, the steel workers, the Ford guys at the plant.....it was a bad ass fan base. Obnoxious as hell if you weren't a Browns fan.....but effing hard core.

I still have PTSD 40 years later.   Cleve was so insulated back in the 80's....many Browns' fans had never met a non-Browns fan. They met me and were like WTF is a Bengals fan doing up here and let me have it. 

I'm close to hitting the panic button, I think OSU is a lot more deep in IOL but in desperate need of elite OT's. Here's to hoping an impact OT is forthcoming later this spring.

It looks like I'm back to the days of just wanting Burrow to survive the game without blowing out a knee.

The question you have to ask is what would drive a powerful guy like Weis to break into other TSUN email addresses? Men do dumb things usually for just a few reasons: (i) women and the promise of sex, (ii) money and influence/power and (iii) food. I think we can safely rule out #3 so that leaves #1 and #2.

 #1: women have taken down many, many good men and it's why I asked up thread if Weis was married. Not that married guys don't cat around but I think a non-married coach might be more apt to do wreckless things for sex. Are there scenarios where a guy would want to hack a woman's email? Heck yes. I can think of many reasons such as wanting to see what other guys she's been emailing or what she's said about him to others. Online stalking kind of stuff.

#2: Money and influence/power: He could have been motivated to see what other coaches, administrators, etc. have been saying about him. Weis made over $1.0 million last year, and he's got a very wealthy father, so he's not hurting for cash, but maybe he's doing GoT things and trying to sabotage other coach(es)? 

It feels like there's going to be a very simple, but very stupid, reason to  explain it. This is a guy who literally had the world by the balls. Mid-thirties, millionaire, wealthy parents, high profile job.......and threw it all away. I'm guessing a young lady is involved.

Everything I said is true whether you care to admit it. There were even Browns fans on 11W who were talking playoffs just three months ago...seriously!!!! It's hard to believe now after watching the Browns take another late season swoon, but there really were Browns fans who thought Jacoby Brissett was a playoff caliber QB.

I guarantee these same guys who are nowhere to be found right now, will be out in full force this summer talking about the new DC and Watson. Every year there's some kind of new change that gives these fans in a tizzy that the Browns are going to make a move. And I'm talking about 40 years of these guys talking the same shit whether it's Romeo Crennel bringing the Patriots' winning ways to Cleveland or Eric Mangini being a boy genius. It's the same damn thing ---- these fans will be saying the same thing about the Browns' new DC this summer. It's effing hilarious to watch as an outsider.....but it's wash and repeat with the Browns.....I've been a Browns' hater since the days of the Cardiac Kids and their fans (my best friends) tortured me unmercifullesslyv (sp).  

Correction: Ohio is a massive state with a lot of blue blood and S&P 2000 money. It's the 7th most populous state and 10th most densely-populated. There's S&P 2000 HQ'd companies in nearly every corner of the state including S&P 100 companies like Marathon Petroleum HQ'd in Findlay.  

Despite how big and wealthy we are as a state, Columbus would struggle supporting an NFL team. Too many fans throw a lot of money supporting the Buckeyes thru season tickets, donations, NIL collectives, tailgating, and hosting game parties. There's not enough energy, time & money to do it for an NFL team, too.

The split allegiances would pose a big problem for an NFL team. Any Browns / Bengals / Stealers fan over 20 years old living in Columbus is firmly supporting their team. I don't see them suddenly throwing all that fandom out the window just because there's a new team in Columbus.

You can set your watch to when Browns fans start talking playoffs EVERY year in July/August before the season begins. They hear a Browns guy on the radio talk about the promise of that year's draft picks and a couple "key" free agent signings and the fans repeat it enough that they work themselves up into a frenzy.

The playoff talk gets a little more muted and later in the summer every year as the fan base gets increasingly more beaten down, but I promise you their fans will start talking about how "Watson knocked the rust off in 2022 and is ready to fulfill his potential" and the brand new one will be "the new DC is going to bring an attacking style of defense to the Browns which is going to take the NFL by storm."

Then either two things will happen: (i) the Browns start weak (fans' knives are out) but finish with a couple surprise wins to get the fans' hopes up or (ii) Browns start strong (fans are talking a deep run in the playoffs) but collapse at the end with the fans trashing whatever QB they drafted or signed too high, ownership or the crappy defense.

When the Bengals were too bad to follow, I would follow the Browns very closely to fill the void. I know this fan base better than they know themselves. They have provided me a hell of a lot of amusement over the last 40 years. So many different QB's, owners, GM's have collapsed for myriad reasons.....and a lot of stuff you couldn't make up if you tried. The Fumble, the move to Baltimore, drafting Johnny Football, signing a serial sexual assaulter for an obscene amount of money....etc, etc. etc.

Are you saying an entity called "Old Pro" bought his house? I'm not saying this is what happened, but a lot of high profile people purchase their homes using a newly created LLC to try to prevent folks from finding them on the auditor's page. Zac Taylor did this in Cinti.....it took me a little while but I was able to find him....it's under an LLC. Nothing nefarious.....I was just curious where he lived when he said he dropped a playoff football at his neighborhood bar last year.

The NFC North is probably the one untouchable division. Maybe they could add a team to it someday but they could never separate those 4 teams.

When I lived in NEO, folks' allegiances were 75% with the Browns and maybe 25% with the Buckeyes (and it was probably much lower than that----this was in the days of OSU football not being on TV every week). And I say this with respect. Old school Browns' fans were hard core to the bone ---- I tip my hat to that kind of allegiance. 

As a Bengals fan, I've thought about bringing Indy into the AFCN and kicking Baltimore out......but Cleveland and Pitts probably don't feel the same way. The Colts are in a weird spot that they have no real rivals.....if I was a fan I would find it disappointing.

It's fun having the Rat Birds in the AFCN just because it's fun to root against their thuggish players and Cleve has an obvious reason to dislike them and Pitts has really developed a good rivalry, but it's not easy for fans of those three teams to road trip to Baltimore.

If I was commish, I would move Baltimore to the NFC East with the Giants, Redskins & Eagles....put Indy in the AFCN and move around other divisions so the three Florida teams are in the same division and lump together the two Texas teams.  

You're definitely not speaking for this Bengals fan. I was in NEO when the Browns were good (yes, I'm old) and they are 100x more obnoxious than Stealer fans (when the Browns are good). Getting up in your face and barking....they're annoying "here we go Brownies chants" and just ugly orange & brown fan gear. Ugh.

I will forever consider the Clowns rival #1.

That was the first thing I thought when I saw "computer access" that he was logging in under another person's name & PW at another university (maybe a former employer?) to get  info about a recruit, NIL money, game plans, etc.

It's interesting how one of the articles I read said Weis was recently out recruiting which leads me to believe it might not be really nefarious. Is he married? I could see how he was trying to log-into a woman's account (maybe a TTUN student or professor)? This would bring in the university police.  

Either way, it's negative publicity and it's funny......so far!

It was a bad look. The worst part being throwing his helmet twice which is a big no-no in football circles. I suspect he said something pretty bad to ref as he was walking past them which caused the ref to run after him. The ref sounds pro-TTUN this I think this saga will continue into next season and years past.

Garret Wilson's subsequent tweet after Bosa's blow-up seems to suggest he suspects the ref has anti-OSU sentiments. The ref apparently said something to Wilson during a game that he "isn't at Ohio State" anymore when he didn't get a call that he thought he should.

You have to believe fellow OSU guys in the NFL will be watching this ref very closely next year.

Is that the Sigma Chi house in those pictures? IU's greek system is very strong. One of the best in the country. 

Like you said, you're not a parent. It's hard to fully appreciate the plusses and minuses of parenthood until you've lived it.

I noticed that too. I think they (Vonn Bell) must have been watching himself on the jumbotron because there's other reason why he wouldn't just step in front of Andrews to slow him down. The refs didn't call the obvious block in the back (thank goodness).

The NCAA can make it a requirement that if you want to be a NCAA student athlete that you'll have to work thru the school's NIL department. These departments wouldn't place any limits on the NIL contracts. Rather they would act as the middle man and check basic things like the legality of the businesses (no strip clubs, gambling houses, AML laws, etc.) and the contracts themselves.

The NIL clearinghouse can require monies be placed in escrow. If done correctly it would protect the athletes while reigning in the abuses we're starting to see with the UF kid. 

I think the only way to get control over NIL is to have all opportunities flow thru the schools. The companies and the athletes still work deals between themselves but the universities will be the middle men. If Bob Smith Chevrolet or Nike want to sponsor an athlete they tell the NIL department at the school that will then contact the athletes. Each NIL company has to be approved by the NCAA who will check their legal backgrounds and legitimacy.

All signed agreements are registered with the school. Any arrangements outside the schools' NIL administrators (including any payments to high school athletes) will be against NCAA rules.

The wild wild west days have to end. I suspect a lot of kids have already been burned by NIL but we don't hear about it. 

The NIL stream of big money is going to fizzle over time as boosters see minimal results from their investments. I don't care how rich you are, you not going to give hundred's of thousands of dollars EVERY year to your NIL collective just to watch the kid(s) underperform which at least half of 5/4 stars always do.

It might take a couple more years for the initial glow of NIL to wear off though. Until then, OSU fans are going to have to accept a few recruiting losses.